Nevada Academic Content Standards
World Geography & Global Studies
Disciplinary Skills
Taking informed action
SS.6-8.WGGS.10. Draw on disciplinary concepts to explain the challenges people have faced, are facing, and opportunities they have created in addressing local, regional, and global problems.
Content Themes
People and Ideas (H)
SS.6-8.WGGS.17. Analyze the impact of technological developments on events, peoples, and cultures across the world.
International relations (H)
SS.6-8.WGGS.19. Analyze the use of conflict and/or diplomacy in global interactions.
Processes, rules, and laws (C)
SS.6-8.WGGS.26. Examine the origins, purposes, and impacts of laws, treaties, and international agreements.
Human population, movement, and patterns (G)
SS.6-8.WGGS.29. Explain how changes in transportation, communication, and technology influence the movement of people, goods, and ideas.