Standard 3.3: All Students Will Write In Clear, Concise, Organized Language That Varies In Content And Form For Different Audiences And Purposes.

*Write technical materials, such as instructions for playing a game, that
  include specific details.
*Write for a variety of purposes, such as to persuade, enjoy, entertain,
  learn, inform, record, respond to reading, and solve problems.
*Write collaboratively and independently.
*Write to synthesize information from multiple sources.
* Revise content, organization and other aspects of writing, using self,
   peer, and teacher collaborative feedback (the shared responses of
     others).
*Edit writing for developmentally appropriate syntax, spelling, grammar,
  usage, and punctuation.
*Publish writing in a variety of formats.

Standard 3.5 All Students Will View, Understand, And Use Nontextual Visual Information

*Demonstrate the ability to gain information from a variety of media.
*Articulate information conveyed by symbols such as those found in
  pictorial graphs, map keys, and icons on a computer screen.
*Use symbols, drawings, and illustrations to represent information that
  supports and/or enhances their writing.
*Use simple charts, graphs, and diagrams to report data.
*Take notes on visual information from films, presentations,
  observations, and other visual media, and report that information
  through speaking, writing, or their own visual representations.
*Integrate multiple forms of media into a finished product.
*Evaluate media for credibility.
 
 
 

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards
for Social Studies

Standard 6.7  All Students Will Acquire Geographical Understanding By Studying The World In Spatial Terms
 

*Use maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, and computer-based references
  and information systems to generate and interpret information.
*Use mental maps to identify the locations of the earth's continents and
  oceans in relation to each other and in relation to principal parallels and
  meridians.
*Demonstrate understanding of the spatial concepts of location,
  distance, direction, scale, region, and movement.
*Recognize the distinct characteristics of maps, globes, graphs, charts,
  diagrams, and other geographical representations, and evaluate the
  utility of each in solving geographical problems.
 

Standard 6.8:  All Students Will Acquire Geographical Understanding By Studying Human Systems In Geography

*Compare the physical characteristics of places and regions.
*Describe how changes in technology affect the location of human
  activities.
*Give reasons for global interdependence.

Standard 6.9:  All Students Will Acquire Geographical Understanding By Studying The Environment And Society

*Explain how people depend on the physical environment and how they
  modify the environment.
*Identify the consequences of natural environmental changes and crises
  and human modifications of the environment, and explain how an
  event in one location can have an impact upon another location.
*Explain and predict how the physical environment can accommodate,
  and be affected by human activity.