Tennessee

Part of

• The 50 States

Standards alignment

Common Core State Standards

• D2.Geo.6.K-2 — Individually and with others, students… Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.
• D2.Geo.2.3-5 — Individually and with others, students… Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.
• D2.Geo.3.K-2 — Individually and with others, students… Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.
• D2.Geo.3.3-5 — Individually and with others, students… Use maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics.

Alaska

• 1 — know that places have distinctive geographic characteristics;
• 1 — use maps and globes to locate places and regions;
• 7 — understand that a region is a distinct area defined by one or more cultural or physical features; and
• 5 — describe and demonstrate how places and regions serve as cultural symbols, such as the Statue of Liberty;

Arizona

• 2.G1.1 — Use and construct maps, graphs, and other geographic representations of familiar and unfamiliar places in the world; and locate physical and human features. • Key physical features include but are not limited to seven continents, oceans, lakes, rivers, mountain ranges, coasts, seas, and deserts • Key human features include but are not limited to equator, hemispheres, North and South Pole, cities, states, countries, regions, and landmarks
• 2.G2.1 — Explain how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people’s lives in a place or region being studied.
• 2.G4.1 — Identify different physical and cultural regions in the world.
• 2.H1.1 — Explain how individuals can make contributions to a civilization and/or culture in place or region studied.
• 2.C2.1 — Describe roles and responsibilities of people in authority within our country and world.

Arkansas

• G.1.K.2 — Identify and describe the physical characteristics of a place such as rivers, mountains, and forests using maps, globes, and photographs.
• G.1.2.2 — Describe the physical and human characteristics of a place using geographic tools such as maps, globes, and charts.
• H.1.K.4 — Recognize historic figures and other people who have made an impact on history.
• G.1.2.6 — Explain the influence of weather, climate, and physical characteristics on people’s daily lives in a place or region.

California

• 3 — Students use a variety of maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to explain the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and the growth of economic systems.
• 1.2.1 — Locate on maps and globes their local community, California, the United States, the seven continents, and the four oceans.

Colorado

• SS.1.4.2 — Identify and explain how the significance of notable people, places, holidays, and civic symbols reflect the origins and values of the government and its citizens.
• SS.2.2.1 — Use geographic terms and tools to locate and describe spatial patterns and places.
• SS.5.2.1 — Use geographic tools and sources to research and answer questions about United States geography.
• SS.2.4.2 — Explain the roles and characteristics of people who govern different communities.

Connecticut

• GEO 2.6 — Identify cultural and environmental characteristics of a place/region.
• GEO 2.2 — Use geographic representations to describe places and interactions that shape them.
• GEO 3.2 — Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.

Delaware

• K-3a — Students will use the concepts of place and region to explain simple patterns of connections between and among places across the country and the world. Grade 3
• G.1.K-3a — Students will understand the nature and uses of maps, globes, and other geo-graphics. Grade K and Grade 3
• G.2.K-3a — Students will distinguish different types of climate and landforms and explain why they occur. Grade 2
• G.3.K-3a — Students will identify types of human settlement, connections between settlements, and the types of activities found in each. Grade 3
• H.4.K-3b — Students will develop an awareness of major events and people in United States and Delaware history. • Who lives here and how did they get here? (immigrants, demographics, ethnic and religious groups) • Important people in our past • Different kinds of communities in Delaware and the United States

Florida

• SS.3.G.2.5 — Identify natural and man-made landmarks in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
• SS.5.G.1.6 — Locate and identify states, capitals, and United States Territories on a map.
• SS.3.G.2.2 — Identify the five regions of the United States.

Hawaii

• SS.1.2.14.3 — Investigate cultural and environmental characteristics of your community
• SS.2.1.18.3 — Describe how significant people and events have shaped communities and
• SS.2.3.13.4 — Describe major geographic features of places using maps, photos, and other geographic representations
• SS.2.1.6.1 — Investigate school, community, and national leaders and their responsibilities

Idaho

• 2.SS.2.1.4 — Illustrate that boundary lines separate states.
• 5.SS.2.1.4 — Name and locate the 50 States and their Capitals, and U.S. Territories.

Illinois

• SS.2.G.1 — With guidance and support, use print and digital maps, globes and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.
• SS.3.G.1 — Use print and digital maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify topographic and other graphic representations of both familiar and unfamiliar locations.
• SS.K.G.3 — With guidance and support, identify characteristics of print and digital maps, graphs, and other cultural representations of familiar places.

Indiana

• 5.G.2 — Use maps and globes to locate states, capitals, major cities, major rivers, the Great Lakes, and mountain ranges in the United States. (E)
• 5.G.4 — Use maps to describe the characteristics of climate regions of the United States.

Iowa

• SS.K.14. — Compare environmental characteristics in Iowa with other places.
• Evaluate Human Environment Interaction

Kansas

• There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water.
• Maps show where things are located. One can map the shapes and kinds of land and water in any area.
• Benchmark 3.3.1 — The student will recognize and evaluate how societies are shaped by the identities, beliefs, and practices of individuals and groups.

Kentucky

• 2.G.GR.1 — Examine geographic features of places in North America, using a variety of geographic data, including maps, photos and other geographic tools.
• K.G.KGE.1 — Identify physical and environmental characteristics of communities.

Louisiana

• 2.21 — Describe geographic features and physical characteristics of places in the United States and the world, including mountains, hills, plains, deserts, coasts, islands, peninsulas, lakes, oceans, and rivers.
• 3.20 — Describe the geographic features of places in the United States.
• 3.6 — Identify and describe national historical figures, celebrations, and symbols. a. Describe the achievements of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Susan B. Anthony, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, Theodore Roosevelt, the Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride, Katherine Johnson, and Mae Jemison. b. Describe the significance of state and nationally designated holidays, including New Year’s Day, the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inauguration Day, Washington’s Birthday, Mardi Gras, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day. c. Describe the history of American symbols, including the Liberty Bell, U.S. flag (etiquette, customs pertaining to the display and use of the flag), bald eagle, national anthem, Uncle Sam, Statue of Liberty, The Pledge of Allegiance, and the national motto “In God We Trust.” d. Identify and describe man-made American monuments and landmarks including the Gateway Arch, the Golden Gate Bridge, Jefferson Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C, Lincoln Memorial, Mount Rushmore, Pearl Harbor Museum, September 11 Memorial and Museum, Statue of liberty, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, U.S. Capitol, Washington Monument, and the White House. e. Identify and describe natural American landmarks, including the Grand Canyon, Mississippi River, Monument Valley, Niagara Falls, Rocky Mountains, Smoky Mountains, and Yellowstone National Park.

Maine

• SL.3.K.a — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

Massachusetts

• 4.T4b.1 — On a political map of the United States, locate the states and the national capital city in the Southeast, and the U.S. territories in the Caribbean; add to the timeline the admission dates for states in the Southeast (listed alphabetically: Alabama-1819, Arkansas-1836, Delaware-1787, Florida-1845, Georgia-1788, Kentucky-1792, Louisiana-1812, Maryland-1788, Mississippi-1817, North Carolina-1789, South Carolina-1788, Tennessee-1796, Virginia-1788, West Virginia-1863); territories Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.

Michigan

• 4–G1.0.3 — Use geographic tools and technologies, stories, songs, and pictures to answer geographic questions about the United States.
• 4–G2.0.2 — Locate and describe human and physical characteristics of major U.S. regions and compare them to the Great Lakes region.
• 4–G1.0.1 — Identify questions geographers ask in examining the United States.

Minnesota

• 4.3.2.3.1 — Locate and identify the physical and human characteristics of places in the United States, and also Canada or Mexico. For example: Physical characteristics—landforms (Rocky Mountains), ecosystems (forest), bodies of water (Mississippi River, Hudson Bay), soil, vegetation, weather and climate. Human characteristics— structures (Statue of Liberty), bridges (Golden Gate Bridge), canals (Erie Canal), cities, political boundaries, population distribution, settlement patterns, language, ethnicity, nationality, religious beliefs.
• 4.3.2.4.1 — Name and locate states and territories, major cities and state capitals in the United States.
• 2.3.1.1.3 — Use maps, photos or other geographic tools to identify and locate major landmarks or major physical features of the United States. For example: Physical features—the Atlantic Coast, Rocky Mountains, Mississippi River, Lake Superior. Landmarks—Statue of Liberty, Angel Island, Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial.
• 3. — Places have physical characteristics (such as climate, topography vegetation) and human characteristics (such as culture, population, political and economic systems).

Mississippi

• 1.H.1.2 — Examine the significant contributions of historical figures to the local community, state, and United States.
• 5.10.2 — Identify and label each of the 50 states on a map.
• K.H.1.2 — Identify school, community, state, and national symbols.

Missouri

• 4.EG.5.B.a — Name and locate specific regions, states, capitals, river systems and mountain ranges in the United States based on historical or current topics.
• 4.EG.5.C.a — Identify and compare physical characteristics of specific regions within the nation.
• 5.EG.5.B.a — Name and locate specific regions, states, capitals, river systems and mountain ranges in the United States based on historical or current topics.
• 4.EG.5.F.a — Identify different regions in the United States and analyze how their characteristics affect people who live there.

Montana

• SS.G.3.3 — identify landforms and other physical characteristics of the Americas.
• SS.G.5.1 — identify and label US regions, territories, states and their capitals/major cities;
• SS.G.2.2 — describe how geography and human activities impact each other.

Nebraska

• SS 3.3.1.d — Locate specific places on maps and globes.
• SS 5.3.1.a — Use maps and atlases to locate major human and physical features in the United States.
• SS 5.3.2.b — Identify and classify regions and places within the United States using physical and human features.
• SS 1.3.2 — Explore places and regions.

Nevada

• SS.2.11 — Identify how individuals have made a difference in the communities in which they live.
• SS.2.21 — Identify major national landmarks associated with historical events.

New Hampshire

• SS.GE.2.1.3 — Identify major physical and human features in the United States and on Earth, e.g., cities, oceans, or continents. (Themes: C: People, Places and Environment, G: Science, Technology, and Society)
• SS.GE.2.2.1 — Explore the physical and human characteristics of place, e.g., roads, schools or mountains. (Themes: C: People, Places and Environment, E: Cultural Development, Interaction, and Change, G: Science, Technology, and Society)
• SS.HI.2.3.1 — Identify individuals and/or groups who have profoundly affected life in the United States, e.g., Abraham Lincoln, or Pilgrims. (Themes: H: Individualism, Equality and Authority, I: Patterns of Social and Political Interaction, J: Human Expression and Communication)
• SS.GE.2.2.2 — Recognize that areas of the Earth's surface share unifying geographic characteristics, e.g., towns, deserts or woodlands. (Themes: C: People, Places and Environment)
• SS.GE.2.3.2 — Explore the components and distribution of ecosystems, e.g., desert or rain forest. (Themes: C: People, Places and Environment)

New Jersey

• 6.1.2.Geo.SV.1 — Use maps to identify physical features (e.g., continents, oceans, rivers, lakes, mountains).
• 6.1.5.GeoPP.1 — Compare and contrast characteristics of regions in the United States based on culture, economics, and physical characteristics to understand the concept of regionalism.
• 6.1.5.CivicsPI.5 — Explain how government functions at the local, county, and state level.

New Mexico

• 1.18 — Use a variety of maps to locate specific places and identify major landforms, bodies of water, and other places of significance around the United States.
• 5.27 — Using a map, identify and locate the 50 states in the United States and know the capitals of each state along with the surrounding U.S. territories.
• K.10 — Identify the local, state, and national symbols (e.g., flag, bird, song).
• 5.25 — Demonstrate how the states are organized, including time zones and the regions of the United States.

New York

• 1.5b — Maps are used to locate important places in the community, state, and nation, such as capitals, monuments, hospitals, museums, schools, and cultural centers. * According to the Dignity for All Students Act, “others” includes, but is not limited to, people of different races, weights, national origins, ethnic groups, religions, religious practices, mental or physical abilities, sexual orientations, gender identity, and sexes.
• 3.1 — Geographic regions have unifying characteristics and can be studied using a variety of tools.
• 3.4 — Each community or culture has a unique history, including heroic figures, traditions, and holidays.
• 3.4b — Arts, music, dance, and literature develop through a community’s history.

North Carolina

• 1.G.1.1 — Use maps, globes, and/or digital representations to identify various types of landforms of places around the world.
• K.G.1.1 — Use maps, globes, and/or digital representations to locate places in the classroom, school, community, and around the world.
• K.G.1.2 — Identify physical features of places using maps, globes, and/or digital representations.
• 1.G.2.1 — Explain the various ways the physical environment impacts people in different regions around the world.

North Dakota

• 5.C.6 — Engage in a range of discussions using active listening skills, posing and responding to specific questions to clarify information.

Ohio

• 1.5 — Places are distinctive because of their physical characteristics (land forms and bodies of water) and human characteristics (structures built by people).
• K.LS.2 — Living things have physical traits and behaviors, which influence their survival.

Oklahoma

• 4.2.2 — Identify major physical features in the United States and analyze how physical processes shape places. A. Identify and describe the physical characteristics of places, including the major landforms, bodies of water, vegetation and climates in the United States. B. Describe the location and characteristics of the major ecosystems in the United States.
• 4.2.5 — Identify and locate on a political map the fifty states and the United States capitol.
• 4.2.3 — Explain how people create regions using common geographic characteristics. A. Identify and describe the major physical, cultural, and economic regions of the United States, comparing one’s own region to the other regions. B. Explain how and why regions change over time by comparing regions in the past with life in the same regions in the present.
• 4.3.2 — Examine the characteristics of culture, including the distribution and complexity of the regions of the United States. A. Identify the characteristics of culture (language, customs, beliefs, food, clothing, shelter) and compare the cultural characteristics of different regions of the United States. B. Explain how the characteristics of culture affect the ways in which people live.

Oregon

• 2.12 — Identify relative location of school and community in the state, nation and the world.
• 2.14 — Use and apply cardinal directions to locate and identify features on maps (such as oceans, cities, continents).

Pennsylvania

• 7.1.3.B — Identify and locate places and regions.
• 7.2.3.A — Identify the physical characteristics of places and regions.
• 3.3.3.B — Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
• 7.3.3.E — Identify the human characteristics of places and regions by their political activities.
• 8.3.3.A. — Identify contributions of individuals and groups to United States history.

Rhode Island

• SS3.3.1 — Geography and environment in the Southeast Explain the geography and environment in the Southeastern region of the United States
• SS3.3.2 — States and territories in the Southeast Explain the states and territories that make up the Southeastern region including their admittance or incorporation to the United States and their identities
• SS3.1.3 — States and territories Explain what states and territories are and their locations within the United States
• SS3.3.4 — The Southeastern region today Argue how the geography and environment of the Southeastern region contributed to its social, cultural, and economic development

South Carolina

• 3.1.3.PR — Identify the spatial hierarchy of political and physical geographic features. This indicator prompts students to inquire about spatial hierarchies (i.e. scale) to understand connections between Earth's systems. Political features include cities, states, and countries. Physical features include forests, mountains, oceans, and rivers.
• 3.2.2.ER — Identify and analyze the ways people interact with the physical environment in different regions of the state, the country, and the world.This indicator prompts students to inquire about a variety of geographic landforms, water bodies, and climate patterns around the world and how humans interact with them, including population distribution and settlement patterns.
• K.G.2 — Utilize sources of geographic information (e.g., digital sources, maps, or photographs/images) to define and identify cultural and/or natural features.This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into natural features, such as mountains, oceans, and rivers and cultural features, such as buildings, restaurants, roads, and stores.
• 3.2.1.ER — Recognize and explain how physical features are distributed around the world. This indicator prompts students to inquire about the distribution of landforms, climates, and biomes around the world.

South Dakota

• 3.G.1.2 — Locate the seven continents, four oceans, and major physical features and regions of the United States on a map or globe
• 3.H.2.2 — Explain the importance of famous American figures including but not limited to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson
• 4.G.1.1 — Locate major political and physical features of South Dakota and the United States on a map or globe
• K.G.1.1 — Recognize that maps and globes represent places

Tennessee

• 1.11 — Locate Tennessee, Nashville, and Washington, D.C. on a U.S. map.
• 1.21 — Identify Tennessee symbols, including: state flag, state tree, state flower, state bird, state animal, and the significance of the state nickname.
• 3.12 — Locate the following cities and physical features in Tennessee: • Cities—Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville • Rivers—Cumberland, Mississippi, Tennessee • Mountain Range—Great Smoky Mountains

Texas

• 1.5A — identify and describe the physical characteristics of place such as landforms, bodies of water, Earth's resources, and weather; and
• 1.4B — locate and explore the community, Texas, and the United States on maps and globes.
• 2.11D — identify symbols such as state and national birds and flowers and Uncle Sam; and
• 2.1B — identify and explain the significance of various community, state, and national landmarks such as monuments and government buildings.
• 5.6B — describe regions in the United States based on physical characteristics such as landform, climate, and vegetation;

Utah

• 2.3 — Standard 3: Students will use geographic tools and skills to locate and describe places on earth.
• K.2.3.b — Recognize state and national symbols (e.g., state and national flags, bald eagle, seagull, Statue of Liberty).

Vermont

• D2.Geo.6.K-2 — Individually and with others, students… Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.
• D2.Geo.2.3-5 — Individually and with others, students… Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.
• D2.Geo.3.K-2 — Individually and with others, students… Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.
• D2.Civ.1.3-5 — Individually and with others, students… Distinguish the responsibilities and powers of government officials at various levels and branches of government and in different times and places.

Virginia

• 2.11.b — The student will apply history and social science skills to develop geographic mapping skills using world maps and globes by identifying major rivers, mountain ranges, lakes, and other physical features in the United States.
• 2.12.c — The student will apply history and social science skills to connect geography to landmarks and historic events including, but not limited to Yellowstone National Park.
• Skill.2.b — The student will apply history and social science skills to the content by applying geographic skills to identify and understand geographic features and connections.
• USI.1.c — The student will apply history and social science skills to understand the geography of North America by locating the 50 states.

Washington

• G1.3.2 — Investigate the physical, political, and cultural characteristics of places, regions, and people in North America, including the location of the fifty states within the regions of the United States.
• G1.3.1 — Examine and use maps and globes to understand the regions of North America in the past and present.
• G2.2.1 — Identify some common and unique cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.

Washington, D.C.

• 1.19 — Locate and explain physical features on maps.
• K.20 — Explain the concept of relative location using directional words.
• K.21 — Identify geographic characteristics of the local community (e.g., climate, population, landforms, vegetation, culture, industry), and explain how these characteristics shape our interactions with our environment and communities.

West Virginia

• SS.3.19 — Compare and contrast regions of the United States in regard to plant and animal life, landforms, climate and human interactions with the environment.
• SS.3.13 — Distinguish between a continent, country, state and capital.
• SS.5.17 — Compare and contrast the various regions of the United States; locate each of the fifty United States and correlate them with their regions.
• Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.

Wisconsin

• SS.Geog1.c.4-5 — Create and label a map (paper or digital) of the local community, state, tribal lands, and country, including both physical (e.g., oceans and continents) and human (e.g., roads, buildings) characteristics. Identify and construct regions (digital or paper) in Wisconsin and the United States.
• SS.PS1.a.K-1 — Describe symbols, songs, and traditions that identify our state and country. Assess the importance of rules and laws at home, in school, and in the community.
• SS.Geog2.d.4-5 — Summarize positive and negative factors of cities. Identify the location and patterns of cities within our state and country.

Wyoming

• SS2.5.1 — Spatial Use a map, globe, and mental mapping to identify familiar areas and simple patterns and create maps using various media. 2-ESS2-2
• SS2.5.2 — Physical Place and Region Identify, describe, and use local physical and human characteristics to discuss the similarities and differences between parts of the community (e.g., neighborhoods, schools, towns, and reservation communities). RL.1.2, RL.2.3 RI.1.3, Rl.2.2, RI.2.10 W.K.2, W.K.7 W.1.1, W.1.7 W.2.1, W.2.7 SL.K.4, SL.1.4, SL.2.2
• SS2.5.3 — Human Place and Movement Use the human features of a community to describe what makes that community unique (e.g., cultural, language, religion, food, clothing, political, economic, population, and types of jobs in an area) and why others move to or from that place. RL.1.2, RL.2.3 RI.1.3, Rl.2.2, RI.2.10 W.K.2, W.K.7 W.1.1, W.1.7 W.2.1 W.2.7 SL.K.4, SL.1.4, SL.2.2 K-2-ETS1-1
• SS5.5.2 — Physical Place and Region Explain how physical features, patterns, and systems impact different regions and how these features may help us generalize and compare areas within the reservation, state, nation, or world. RL.3.2, RL.4.7, RL.4.9 RI.3.3, RI.4.3, RI.5.3 W.3.2, W.3.7, W.4.2.b W.5.2.b W.5.7 SL.3.4