Use primary and secondary sources to explain how migration and immigration affected and continue to affect the growth of Michigan.

Use case studies or stories to describe the ideas and actions of individuals involved in the Underground Railroad in Michigan [...]

Describe how the relationship between the location of natural resources and the location of industries (after 1837) affected and continue [...]

Use visual data and informational text or primary accounts to compare a major Michigan economic activity today with that same [...]

Use a variety of primary and secondary sources to construct a historical narrative about the beginnings of the automobile industry [...]

Describe past and current threats to Michigan’s natural resources and describe how state government, tribal and local governments, schools, organizations, [...]

Identify questions geographers ask in examining the United States.

Identify and describe the characteristics and purposes of a variety of technological geographic tools.

Use geographic tools and technologies, stories, songs, and pictures to answer geographic questions about the United States.

Use maps to describe elevation, climate, and patterns of population density in the United States.

Use hemispheres, continents, oceans, and major lines of latitude to describe the relative location of the United States on a [...]

Describe ways in which the United States can be divided into different regions.

Locate and describe human and physical characteristics of major U.S. regions and compare them to the Great Lakes region.

Use a case study or story about migration within or to the United States to identify push and pull factors [...]

Analyze and collaborate how artists express ideas through the use of visual culture, global perspective, and symbols in works of [...]

Analyze and reflect on the uses of subject matter, symbols, and ideas to express and communicate meaning in artwork.

Discuss and debate how artists from various cultures convey ideas differently.

Incorporate the uses of different technologies to show artistic expression through an original artwork.

Reflect and discuss the visual structures and functions used in personal artwork.

Recognize that artwork may serve functional purposes, be purely decorative, or serve multiple purposes.

Compare how global and cultural diversity elicits differing responses.

Compare and contrast two pieces of personal work.

Analyze how art can be a reflection of society and a response to real world experiences.

Describe how artwork communicates facts and/or experiences of various cultures.

Compare and contrast the visual elements contained in the artwork of particular cultures.

Evaluate the interrelationship between design, trends, events, and the economics of a culture.

Analyze various uses of art globally, in media, business, technology, and industry.

Investigate and identify careers related to advertising.

Identify connections between technology and the arts.

Demonstrate cross-curricular connections through a culminating event.

Make artistic choices regarding character, environment, and situation that support the creation of a classroom dramatization.

Perform dialogue from a story to show different interpretations.

Create simple scenery, costumes, sound, and props in the dramatic process.

Analyze the characters and setting.

Outline standards that can be used to critique performances.

Compromise with peers in small group decision making about artistic design choices.

Unite random objects and situations to form a cohesive story.

Build skills to critique self and others in a respectful and constructive manner.

Analyze the character's wants and needs.

Predict emotions and thoughts evoked by performances.

Compare and contrast different presentations from the same time period or cultural context.

Discuss the similarities and differences between live and recorded theatrical events.

Compare and contrast performances in a variety of multimedia forms.

Create artistic projects that show how ideas and emotions are expressed in everyday life.

Use technologies to communicate ideas and experiences.

Demonstrate control and safe use of technologies with environmental awareness.

Analyze and reflect on the elements of art and design to communicate ideas.

Prepare, present, and collaboratively evaluate personal artwork.

Synthesize the use of a variety of materials, techniques, and processes to problem solve in the creation of art.

Synthesize knowledge of elements of art and principles of design to creatively communicate ideas.