Geography Education Standards The Caves of Mars | Education Resources | Education Standards From the National Geography Standards The National Geography Standards were developed by the National Council for Geographic Education (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) in conjunction with the American Geographical Society, the Association of American Geographers, and the National Geographic Society.

Standard 1: Use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective. Standard 7: Understand the physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth's surface. (For the Caves of Mars -- the physical processes that shape the patterns of the surface of Mars.) Knowledge of these processes becomes a tool we can use to understand physical landscapes wherever we go. Standard 17: Apply geography to interpret the past. the geographic characteristics of Earth, its lands and peoples, can only be understood if we trace their evolution over time. Standard 18: Apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future. Geographic concepts help us think clearly about alternative futures and make us wise decision-makers.

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