American History, 5th Grade Social Studies
GEOGRAPHY: Physical and Cultural Systems
Standard: Students develop a spatial understanding of Earth’s surface and the processes that shape it, the connections between people and places, and the relationship between man and his environment.
Places and Regions
Benchmark: G-1B-M4 describing and explaining how personal interests, culture, and technology affect people’s perceptions and uses of places and regions; (1, 2, 3, 4)
GLE 9. Explain ways in which goals, cultures, interests, inventions, and technological advances affected perceptions and uses of places or regions in Colonial America (G-1B-M4)