North Carolina

North Carolina

Ages 5–11 · 13 minutes · Geography

Home of the first successful flight!

From misty mountain trails to sunny sandy shores, this state is wild with horses, flowering trees and a pickle festival. With rich history, famous athletes and plenty of “firsts", North Carolina has enough fun to keep explorers smiling from the Mountains to the Outer Banks!

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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.K-2 — Individually and with others, students… Use maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations to describe places and the relationships and interactions that shape them.
  • 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.4.K-2 — Individually and with others, students… Explain how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people’s lives in a place or region.

Alabama

  • SS10.7G.1 — Describe the world in spatial terms using maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies.
  • SS10.7G.2 — Determine how regions are used to describe the organization of Earth's surface.
  • SS10.7G.2.1 — Identifying physical and human features used as criteria for mapping formal, functional, and perceptual regions

Alaska

  • 2 — understand the people and the political, geographic, economic, cultural, social, and environmental events that have shaped the history of the state, the United States, and the world;

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
  • 1.H4.2 — Draw upon fictional stories, biographies, and non-fiction/informational text to identify historical figures in your community, state, and nation and explain their significance in history and in the present day.
  • 2.G1.2 — Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify and explain cultural and environmental characteristics of places in the world based on stories shared. Arizona History and Social Science Standards modified 8/23/19 Page 19
  • 2.G4.1 — Identify different physical and cultural regions in the world.
  • 5.G1.1 — Use and construct maps and graphs to represent changes in the United States. • Key concepts include but are not limited to physical and human features of the United States, the regions of the United States and their characteristics, geographic location of major events, the growth of the United States through territorial expansion, demographic changes, and the states and their capitals

Arkansas

  • G.1.1.2 — Describe the physical and human characteristics of a place including roads, buildings, and borders using maps, globes, and photographs.
  • 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.1.3.5 — Investigate the cultural characteristics of various places and regions from around the world.
  • H.1.K.4 — Recognize historic figures and other people who have made an impact on history.

Colorado

  • SS.3.2.2 — Define the concept of region through an examination of similarities and differences in places and communities.
  • SS.2.2.1 — Use geographic terms and tools to locate and describe spatial patterns and places.
  • SS.3.2.1 — Use geographic tools to develop spatial thinking skills.
  • SS.4.2.2 — Examine the relationship between the physical environment and its effect on human activity.
  • SS.5.2.1 — Use geographic tools and sources to research and answer questions about United States geography.

Connecticut

  • GEO 2.6 — Identify cultural and environmental characteristics of a place/region.
  • GEO 2.3 — Use geographic representations to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of place.
  • GEO 2.4 — Explain how the environment affects people’s lives.
  • 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

  • G.2.K-3a — Students will distinguish different types of climate and landforms and explain why they occur. Grade 2
  • G.1.4-5a — Students will demonstrate development of mental maps of Delaware and of the United States which include the relative location and characteristics of major physical features, political divisions, and human settlements. Grade 4
  • 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
  • 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

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.2.3 — Label the states in each of the five regions of the United States.
  • SS.5.G.1.3 — Identify major United States physical features on a map of North America.

Georgia

  • SS5G1.a — Locate important man-made places; include the Chisholm Trail; Pittsburgh, PA; Kitty Hawk, NC; Pearl Harbor, HI; Montgomery, AL.; and Chicago, IL.
  • SS5H1.b — Describe the impact on American life of the Wright brothers (flight), George Washington Carver (science), Alexander Graham Bell (communication), and Thomas Edison (electricity).
  • SS3G1.b — Locate major mountain ranges of the United States of America: Appalachian, Rocky.
  • SS1G3.c — Identify and describe landforms (mountains, deserts, valleys, and coasts).

Hawaii

  • 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
  • 3-ESS2-2 — Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
  • SS.1.3.17.1 — Investigate historically significant events, people, and observances in history
  • SS.K.3.13.3 — Examine physical characteristics on maps and globes using positional words

Idaho

  • 3.SS.2.1.3 — Locate on a map waterways, landforms, cities, states, and national boundaries, using standard map symbols.
  • 5.SS.2.1.4 — Name and locate the 50 States and their Capitals, and U.S. Territories.
  • 5.SS.2.1.2 — Identify the regions of the United States and their resources.

Illinois

  • 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.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.5.G.1 — Use print and digital maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics.
  • SS.K.G.1 — With guidance and support, explain how weather, climate and other environmental factors affect people's lives and cultural identities in our region.

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.
  • 3.ESS.1 — Obtain and combine information to determine seasonal weather patterns across the different regions of the United States.

Iowa

  • SS.1.17 — Describe how environmental characteristics and cultural characteristics impact each other in different regions of the U.S.
  • SS.K.14. — Compare environmental characteristics in Iowa with other places.

Kansas

  • Benchmark 4.5.1 — The student will recognize and evaluate dynamic relationships that impact lives in communities, states, and nations.
  • Benchmark 3.3.1 — The student will recognize and evaluate how societies are shaped by the identities, beliefs, and practices of individuals and groups.
  • Standard 4.5 — Relationships among people, places, ideas, and environments are dynamic.

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.
  • 2.H.CE.2 — Describe the events and innovations that had effects on North America.

Louisiana

  • 3.20 — Describe the geographic features of places in the United States.
  • 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.
  • 3.6 — 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.
  • 3.21 — Interpret geographic features of the United States using a variety of tools such as different types of maps and photos.

Maine

  • 3-ESS2-2 — Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
  • SL.2.3.b — Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and 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.
  • 4.T1.1 — On a physical map of North America, use cardinal directions, map scales, key/legend (symbols for mountains, rivers, deserts, lakes, cities), and title to locate and identify important physical features (e.g., Mississippi and Rio Grande Rivers, Great Lakes, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Gulf of Mexico, Hudson’s Bay, Appalachian Mountains, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Madre, the Great Basin, Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts, the Yucatan Peninsula, the Caribbean Sea).

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–G1.0.4 — Use maps to describe elevation, climate, and patterns of population density in 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.
  • 4. — People construct regions to identify, organize and interpret areas of the Earth’s surface, which simplifies the earth’s complexity.

Mississippi

  • 5.10.2 — Identify and label each of the 50 states on a map.
  • 6.5.1 — Describe the distinguishing physical and human characteristics of the United States and other countries.
  • 5.1.2 — Identify and locate the main mountain ranges, rivers, and other key bodies of water.

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.F.a — Identify different regions in the United States and analyze how their characteristics affect people who live there.
  • 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.

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.3.1 — examine maps and other representations to identify historical and contemporary political and cultural patterns in the Americas;
  • SS.G.2.2 — describe how geography and human activities impact each other.

Nebraska

  • SS 5.3.2.b — Identify and classify regions and places within the United States using physical and human features.
  • SS 5.3.1 — Explore where (spatial) and why people, places, and environments are organized in the United States.
  • SS 5.3.1.a — Use maps and atlases to locate major human and physical features in the United States.
  • SS 5.3.5.a — Explain the influences of physical and human geographic features on events in the United States.

Nevada

  • SS.2.10 — Explore significant events that have shaped national identity.
  • SS.2.21 — Identify major national landmarks associated with historical events.
  • SS.2.20 — Locate major historical events in national history on a map.

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.4.1.3 — Locate major physical and human features in the United States and on Earth, e.g., mountain ranges, principal parallels or meridians. (Themes: C: People, Places and Environment, 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.HI.4.4.2 — Explore the impact of important technological inventions, e.g., new forms of transportation or housing. (Themes: E: Cultural Development, Interaction, and Change, G: Science, Technology, and Society)

New Jersey

  • 6.1.2.Geo.HE.3 — Identify cultural and environmental characteristics of different regions in New Jersey and the United States.
  • 6.1.5.EconNE.4 — Explain how creativity and innovation resulted in scientific achievement and inventions in many cultures during different historical periods.
  • 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.GeoPP.2 — Describe how landforms, climate and weather, and availability of resources have impacted where and how people live and work in different regions of New Jersey and the United States.

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.
  • 2.23 — Generate a description for their region of the United States by identifying unique features.
  • K.10 — Identify the local, state, and national symbols (e.g., flag, bird, song).
  • 2.22 — Compare the human and physical characteristics of two regions in the United States.

New York

  • K.6b — Places and regions can be located on a map or globe, using geographic vocabulary.
  • K.7a — Climate, seasonal weather changes, and the physical features associated with the community and region all affect how people live.
  • E.1.3 — Study about the major social, political, economic, cultural, and religious developments in New York State and United States history involves learning about the important roles and contributions of individuals and groups.
  • K.7 — People and communities are affected by and adapt to their physical environment.

North Carolina

  • 4.G.1 — Understand the role geography has played in the development of North Carolina.

Ohio

  • 1.5 — Places are distinctive because of their physical characteristics (land forms and bodies of water) and human characteristics (structures built by people).
  • 4.9 — A map scale and cardinal and intermediate directions can be used to describe the relative location of physical and human characteristics of Ohio and the United States.
  • 5.6 — Regions can be determined using data related to various criteria including landform, climate, population, and cultural and economic characteristics.
  • 4.8 — Many technological innovations that originated in Ohio benefitted the United States.

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.
  • 4.2.3 — 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.
  • 4.2.4 — Describe how physical processes of the Earth’s surface impact humans and their environment. A. Identify and describe the different climates in the United States using maps, globes, and graphs. B. Explain how climate and natural processes including floods, wind, and storms impact how we live.
  • 4.2.5 — Identify and locate on a political map the fifty states and the United States capitol.
  • 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).
  • 5.9 — Use geographical tools (maps, satellite images, photographs, Google Earth, and other representations) to investigate and compare how areas in the United States can be divided in multiple ways.

Pennsylvania

  • 7.1.3.B — Identify and locate places and regions.
  • 7.2.3.A — Identify the physical characteristics of places and regions.
  • 8.3.3.A. — Identify contributions of individuals and groups to United States history.
  • 8.3.3.C. — Identify important changes in United States history (e.g., Belief Systems and Religions, Commerce and Industry, Innovations, Politics, Settlement Patterns and Expansion, Social Organization, Transportation, Women’s Movement).
  • 7.3.3.B — Identify the human characteristics of places and regions by their cultural characteristics.

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
  • SS3.3.4 — The Southeastern region today Argue how the geography and environment of the Southeastern region contributed to its social, cultural, and economic development

South Carolina

  • 2.G.2 — Describe and compare various landforms over time within the U.S. through the use of primary and secondary sources. This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into using historic images, maps, narratives, texts, or video, to investigate and compare different landforms around the U.S.
  • 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.

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
  • 4.G.1.1 — Locate major political and physical features of South Dakota and 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

Tennessee

  • 3.09 — Identify and locate the fifty states of the U.S.
  • 3.11 — Identify major physical features of the U.S., including: • Rivers—Colorado, Mississippi, Ohio, Rio Grande • Mountains—Alaska Range, Appalachian, Rockies • Bodies of Water—Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico • Desert— Great Basin • Landforms—Grand Canyon, Great Plains

Texas

  • 2.11D — identify symbols such as state and national birds and flowers and Uncle Sam; and
  • 5.22A — identify the accomplishments of notable individuals in the fields of science and technology such as Benjamin Franklin, Eli Whitney, John Deere, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, George Washington Carver, the Wright Brothers, and Neil Armstrong;
  • K.4A — identify the physical characteristics of place such as landforms, bodies of water, Earth's resources, and weather; and
  • 1.15C — identify the contributions of scientists and inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Garrett Morgan.
  • K.3C — identify and use geographic tools that aid in determining location, including maps and globes.

Utah

  • 1.3.1.d — Identify the United States on a variety of maps and on a globe.
  • 1.3.2.b — Locate physical features (i.e. continents, oceans, rivers, lakes), and man-made features (equator, North and South poles, countries) on a map and on a globe.

Vermont

  • D2.Geo.6.K-2 — Individually and with others, students… Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.
  • D2.Geo.2.K-2 — Individually and with others, students… Use maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations to describe places and the relationships and interactions that shape them.
  • 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.4.K-2 — Individually and with others, students… Explain how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people’s lives in a place or region.
  • D2.His.2.K-2 — Individually and with others, students… Compare life in the past to life today.

Virginia

  • 2.10.a — The student will describe the contributions and roles of changemakers in United States history including, but not limited to Scholars and Inventors: Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Banneker, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Steve Jobs, Jonas Salk, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Mary Jackson.
  • USI.1.b — The student will apply history and social science skills to understand the geography of North America by locating and describing major geographic regions and bodies of water of North America and their impact on the early history of the United States.
  • USI.1.c — The student will apply history and social science skills to understand the geography of North America by locating the 50 states.
  • Skill.1.b — The student will apply history and social science skills to the content by applying geographic skills to identify and understand geographic features.

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.
  • H2.5.1 — Analyze and explain how individuals have caused change in United States history.

Washington, D.C.

  • 1.19 — Locate and explain physical features on maps.
  • 2.5 — Identify and explain the different climate patterns in different global regions.
  • 1.17 — Identify key political features of each region on a map, to include, local neighborhoods, wards, Washington, DC, the United States and North America.

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.4.8 — Describe and locate examples of the major physical features ofthe United States (e.g., bodies of water, mountains, rivers, grasslands, oases, etc.) using references and technology (e.g., atlas, globe, geographic information system, etc.).
  • 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.
  • SS.3.18 — Recognize, define and illustrate world geographic features (e.g., peninsulas, islands, mountains, canyons, plateaus, mesas, harbors, gulfs, rivers, deserts, forests, valleys and plains).
  • SS.5.24 — Analyze the people and the factors that led to Industrialization in the late 19th century United States. • Examine how the Industrial Revolution was furthered by new inventions and technologies (e.g., light bulb, telegraph, automobile, assembly line, etc.). • Identify prominent inventors and scientists of the period and summarize their inventions or discoveries (e.g., Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford and Albert Einstein, etc.). • Explain the causes and effects of immigration and urbanization on the American economy during the Industrial Revolution (e.g., role of immigrants, the growth of cities, the shift to industrialization, the rise of big business and reform movements, etc.).

Wisconsin

  • SS.Geog1.b.1-2 — Identify physical and human characteristics of a place using maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations.
  • 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.
  • Climate describes patterns of typical weather conditions over different scales and variations. Historical weather patterns can be analyzed.

Wyoming

  • 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
  • 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
  • SS5.5.1 — Spatial Apply mental mapping skills and use different representations of the Earth to demonstrate an understanding of human and physical patterns and how local decisions may create global impacts.
  • SS5.4.2 — Describe how tools and technology make life easier; describe how one tool or technology evolves into another (e.g., telegraph to telephone to cell phone or travois to horsedrawn wagon to railroad to car); identify a tool or technology that impacted history (e.g., ships allowed for discovery of new lands, or boiling water prevented spread of disease, railroads and the industrial revolution led to devastation of bison population, and impact of mineral and oil development in the region). 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 3-5-ETS1-1 4-ESS3-2