Locate places on a map or representation of a globe, for example:
—hemispheres
—continents
—the United States
—major landforms (for example, Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Mountains,
Grand Canyon)
—major bodies of water or waterways (for example, the four oceans, Gulf of
Mexico, Mississippi River, Great Lakes)
—Equator, North Pole, South Pole
 

-Identify or compare the distinguishing characteristics of various bodies of water (for example, lakes, oceans, seas, gulfs) and waterways/rivers.
-Describe or compare mountainous areas, hilly areas, plains, swamps, and deserts.
-Identify examples or compare the distinguishing characteristics of various landforms, for example:—continents—islands—plateaus, plains, hills, and mountains—deserts—swamps, marshes, and wetland
 

• Describe the characteristics and uses of various types of maps, for example:
—political, physical, elevation/topographic, population, population density, natural resource, precipitation, climate
• Use a map key/legend, symbols, distance scale, and boundaries to interpret a map.
• Use a compass rose and cardinal or intermediate directions to interpret a map.
• Identify all U.S. states by shape and position on a map.
 

 Louisiana Facts and Map

Identify the necessity or basic purposes of government in such terms as establishing
order, providing security, managing conflict, and providing services.
• Identify ways that government helps meet the basic needs of society, for example:
—providing education
—supplying social welfare
—building and maintaining roads
—providing and maintaining public facilities (post office, hospitals, schools,
libraries)
• Distinguish between limited government wherein powers of leading government officials
are limited (for example, by a constitution) and unlimited government wherein there is
little or no control over the ruler’s power (for example, as in a dictatorship).
• Identify major responsibilities of local, state, and national government (for example,
national defense, levying taxes, building roads or state highways).
• Identify the three branches of the federal government—legislative, executive,
judiciary—and describe their primary functions.

Economics

• Identify examples of goods and services and explain the differences between goods and
services.
• Explain how economic wants, or desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good or
service, affect individual or group decisions about allocating limited resources.
• Explain or analyze trade-offs, or getting a little more of something in exchange for a
little less of something else.
• Identify what is gained and what is given up in choosing one of several alternatives (for
example, skating with friends vs. bowling with parents).
• Weigh the factors involved in a choice or decision (for example, discuss the choices and
decisions involved in developing a personal budget).
• Identify examples of resources used to produce things, including natural resources (for
example, coal), human resources (for example, workers), and capital resources (for
example, machines).
• Identify various ways in which resources are used (for example, use of trees to produce
wood for building, wood products, and heat).
• Describe the particular combination of natural, human, and capital resources needed to
produce a given good or given service.