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Created by the EIU History Department to assist students of Eastern Illinois University in meeting the Illinois state standards for specialization in the social sciences.
Geography - Standard 14
The competent geography teacher understands how human actions modify the physical environment.
Knowledge Indicators - The competent geography teacher:
14A. understands the role of technology in the capacity of the physical environment to accomodate human modification.
14B. understands the significance of the global impacts of human modification of the physical environment.
14C.

understands how to apply appropriate models and information to understand environmental problems.

Performance Indicators - The competent geography teacher:
14D. evaluates the ways in which technology has expanded the human capability to modify the physical environment.
14E. analyzes and develops possible solutions to scenarios of environmental change induced by human modification of the physical environment.
14F. analyzes and evaluates the global impacts of human changes in the physical environment.
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