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Global Tribe
Travel meets idealism at this companion site to the PBS series. This site examines world cultures, global issues, and people who are making a difference. Explore Mexico, South Africa, and the Philippines and meet an Aztec youth, look at the art of Apartheid, listen to Cape Town rap, or listen to a hudhud chant.
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Social Studies: Geography

  Curriculum Standard 11
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and human geographic features that define places and regions.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:

  • Analyze how language, tradition, and other cultural elements shape peoples' perceptions and opinions about places and regions.
  Curriculum Standard 13
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the impact of human systems on Earth's surface including the characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations; the nature and complexity of patterns of cultural diffusion; patterns and networks of economic interdependence; processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement; and the forces of cooperation and conflict that shape human geographic divisions.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:
  • Employ demographic and cultural characteristics, including age, gender, ethnicity, and language, to describe populations.


  • Define the major components of culture and write a description of their culture.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:

  • Analyze how various factors, including resources, boundaries, strategic locations, culture, and politics, contribute to cooperation and conflict within and between countries.