•Social Studies

-Describe the relationship between locations of resources and patterns of population distribution in the Western Hemisphere.

-Identify geographic links of land regions, river systems, and interstate highways between Alabama and other states. 

-Locate major natural resources and deposits throughout Alabama, the United States, and the Western Hemisphere 

-Identify significant historical sites in Alabama, including locations of civil rights activities. 

 

•Social Studies

-Describe the relationship of the five geographic regions of Alabama to the movement of Alabama settlers during the early nineteenth century.

-Identify cultural, economic, and political aspects of the lifestyles of early nineteenth-century farmers, plantation owners, slaves, and townspeople.

 

 

•Social Studies

-Describe the Westward Expansion and its technological, economic, and social influence on the people of the United States prior to World War I.

-Describe changing social conditions during the Progressive Period.

-Identify cultural and economic developments in the society of the United States from 1877 through the 1930s.

-Identify cultural and economic changes throughout the United States from 1960 to the present.

 

•Social Studies

-Describe how people organize economic systems for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services to address the basic economic questions of which goods and services will be produced, how they will be produced, and who will consume -them.

-Describe the relationship between the consumer and the marketplace in the economy of the United States regarding scarcity, opportunity cost, trade-off decision making, -characteristics of a market economy, and supply and demand.

-Describe changes in social and economic conditions in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

-Analyze regional characteristics for factors that contribute to change and for their relative importance.

-Describe processes that shape the physical environment, including long-range effects of extreme weather phenomena and human activity.

-Describe positive and negative environmental effects of human actions on the four basic components of Earth’s physical systems: atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere.

-Analyze environmental consequences of major technological changes in human history for both intended and unintended outcomes.

-Describe problems involved in balancing the impact of human habitation on the environment and the need for natural resources essential for sustaining human life.