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Theme I: Culture

• Standard A - The student compares similarities and differences in the ways groups, societies, and cultures meet human needs and concerns.

Theme III: People, Places, and Environment

• Standard G- The student describes how people create places that reflect cultural values and ideals as they build neighborhoods, parks, shopping centers, and the like.

Theme IV: Individual Development and Identity

• Standard C - The student describes the ways family, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and institutional affiliations contribute to personal identity.
• Standard D - The student relates such factors as physical endowment and capabilities, learning, motivation, personality, perception, and behavior to individual development.

  Theme V: Individuals, Groups, and Institutions

• Standard B - The student analyzes groups and institutional influences on people, events, and elements of culture.
• Standard D - The student analyzes groups and institutional influences on people, events, and elements of culture.
• Standard F - The student describes the role of institutions in furthering both continuity and change.
• Standard G - The student applies knowledge of how groups and institutions work to meet individual needs and promote the common good.

Theme VI: Power, Authority, and Governance

• Standard D - The student describes the ways nations and organizations respond to forces of unity and diversity affecting order and security.

Theme IX: Global Connections

• Standard A - The student describes instances in which language, art, music, belief systems, and other cultural elements can facilitate global understanding or cause misunderstanding.
• Standard D - The student explores the causes, consequences, and possible solutions to persistent, contemporary, and emerging global issues, such as health, security, resource allocation, economic development, and environmental quality.
• Standard F - The student demonstrates understanding of concerns, standards, issues, and conflicts related to universal human rights.
• Standard G - The student identifies and describes the roles of international and multinational organizations.

Theme X: Civic Ideals, and Practices

• Standard E - The student explains and analyzes various forms of citizen action that influence public policy decisions.