The National Geography Standards

The National Geography Standards for this program include standards 5, 6, 9, 11, and 16. You may read in-depth descriptions of specific standards by clicking on the links below. All of the standards are available here.

Standard 5: That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity.

Standard 6: How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions.

Standard 9: The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on Earth's surface.

Standard 11: The patterns and networks of economic interdependence on Earth's surface.

Standard 16: The changes that occur in meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.

Dagestan: Caucuses Disconnect? illustrates the struggles of a far-flung republic that is under the territorial rule of a large country, but is outside that country's traditional ethnic influences. The second case study, Bratsk: The Legacy of Central Planning, shows how an entire settlement system, including infrastructure and economic activity, was built by central government planning in one of the world's most inhospitable environments. Central planning, a legacy of Soviet rule, continues to exert a powerful though diminishing influence over Bratsk.