NCGE Standards for Students - Grades 9-12

STANDARD 1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information.

STANDARD 4: The physical and human characteristics of places.

STANDARD 5: That people create regions to interpret Earth  &nbsps complexity.

STANDARD 7: The physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth  &nbsps surface.

STANDARD 8: The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on Earth  &nbsps surface.

STANDARD 9: The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on Earth  &nbsps surface.

STANDARD 12: The process, patterns, and functions of human settlement.

STANDARD 14: How human actions modify the physical environment.

STANDARD 16: The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.

STANDARD 17: How to apply geography to interpret the past.

STANDARD 18: To apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future.

EdGCM Activities in Support of NCGE Standards:

• EdGCM provides students with the tools to create computer-generated maps of atmospheric and oceanic variables, plotted in a variety of projections and regions, which they analyze and interpret in order to draw conclusions regarding their research studies.
  
  
• During the course of their research, EdGCM student-participants are often required to compare and contrast numerous characteristics of the Earth's surface and its environment.
  
  
• Student research can also be required to draw conclusions regarding human actions, processes, population characteristics, patterns, and migrations as they relate to specific investigation topics and results.
  
  
•  During the course of numerous climate research studies, students will define the interactions between climate, continental distribution, and topography in the past and present.