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Curricular Competency
Evaluate features or aspects of geographic phenomena or locations to explain what makes them worthy of attention or recognition (geographical importance)
Elaboration
- Key questions:
- What key features do cities have? Why are so many people moving to cities?
- Which farming methods are most sustainable?
- Why is English the main language of business, academia, and the Internet around the world?
- Why are so many human communities situated along coastlines?
- Sample activities:
- Explore a piece of music, a piece of art, or a story from somewhere else in the world, and describe the place it came from and the artist who created it. How does it reflect the place it came from?
- Research the significance of key cultural places (e.g., the Vatican, the Taj Mahal, Saint Basil’s Cathedral, the Great Wall of China). Why are they significant and to whom?
keywords
Evaluate features or aspects of geographic phenomena or locations to explain what makes them worthy of attention or recognition