Geography of North Carolina:
Learning Objectives:
4.G.1.1 Summarize changes that have occurred in North Carolina since statehood (population growth, transportation, communication, landscape).
4.G.1.1 Summarize changes that have occurred in North Carolina since statehood (population growth, transportation, communication, landscape).
- The student will understand: States experience political, social and economic change as they develop. Changes in a region’s population may correlate to changes in transportation, communication, and landscape over the course of time.
- The student will understand: When preventable measures are not taken, human activity may result in consequences for the environment and people of a region. For example: Rural areas have changed as trees have been cut down. The availability of natural resources may be dictated by human action.
- The student will understand: Historical events and issues have often been driven by interactions between people and their physical environment. Interactions between people, places, and cultures are often shaped by and shape the physical environment. Individuals and businesses often depend on and modify the physical environment to meet their needs.
- The student will understand: Technology may contribute to the social and economic growth and development of a state. Technological innovation and change transform economies, societies, and military systems. The pursuit of new innovations may result in economic and technological competition between regions.
- change, population, natural resources, transportation, communication, industrialists, suburban, sustainability, technology,