FINAL+ENDURING+UNDERSTANDINGS

=DEPARTMENT LEVEL ENDURING UNDERSTANDING =


 * Standard I: Analyze how individuals, groups, and institutions create and change structures of power, authority, and governance **
 * People organize around common needs and interests
 * The human need for order leads to the evolution of authority and government.
 * There is a relationship between rights and responsibilities
 * There is a relationship between rights and responsibilities


 * Standard II Explore and apply geographic knowledge and skills **


 * Places have both human and physical characteristics
 * Resources have limitations.
 * There is a direct relationship between people and their environments


 * Standard III Recognize how time, continuity, and change affect perspectives and relationships **
 * Change is inevitable.
 * Decisions have consequences in the present and to the future
 * Our world is connected in a delicate balance (equilibrium and entropy).


 * Standard IV Applies economic concepts **
 * People have infinite wants but finite resources.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unequally available resources lead to exchange.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Standard V Examines cultural practices and human interactions **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">People exist simultaneously as an individual and as a member of a group
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">People are different.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All people have value
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our identity is shaped by external and internal factors