Content Specification - SS.2.GEO.5.a.1:
Students will locate their communities on maps and/or globes.

Content Specification - SS.2.GEO.5.a.2:
Students will examine how land within a community is used and classify land use as “residential” (used for housing), “industrial” (used to make things), “commercial” (used to provide services), and “recreational” (where people play or do sports).

Content Specification - SS.2.GEO.5.a.3:
Students will create maps including maps that represent their classroom, school, or community, and maps that illustrate places in stories.

Content Specification - SS.2.GEO.5.b.1:
Students will compare how different communities in their state or nation have developed and explain how physical features of the community affect the people living there.

Content Specification - SS.2.GEO.5.c.1:
Students will explore how humans have positively and negatively impacted the environment of their community though such features as roads, highways, buildings, bridges, shopping malls, railroads, and parks.

Content Specification - SS.2.GEO.5.c.2:
Students will describe the means people create for moving people, goods, and ideas in their communities.

Content Specification - SS.2.GEO.5.d.1:
Students will use a compass rose to identify cardinal (North, South, East, West) and intermediate (Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest) directions on maps and in their community.

Content Specification - SS.2.GEO.5.d.2:
Students will locate the equator, northern and southern hemispheres, and poles on a globe.

Content Specification - SS.2.GEO.5.d.3:
Students will use maps and legends to identify major physical features such as mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans of the local community, New York, and the nation.