II. Geographic Perspective

Content Standard 1: Later Elementary
All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of places, cultures, and settlements. (People, Places and Cultures)

Benchmarks
1. Locate and describe cultures and compare the similarities and differences among the roles of women, men, and families.

2. Locate and describe diverse kinds of communities and
explain the reasons for their characteristics and locations.

3. Locate and describe the major places, cultures, and communities of the nation and compare their characteristics.

Content Standard 3: Later Elementary
All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of economic activities, trade, political activities, migration, information flow, and the interrelationships
among them. (Location, Movement and Connections)

3. Describe some of the major movements of goods, people, jobs and information within Michigan and the United States and
explain the reasons for the movements.

Content Standard 4: Later Elementary
All students will describe and compare characteristics of ecosystems, states, regions, countries, major world regions, and patterns and explain the processes that created them.
(Regions, Patterns and Processes)

Benchmarks
2. Describe places, cultures, and communities in the United States and compare them with those in other regions and
countries.