1C Students study about different world cultures and civilizations focusing on their accomplishments, contributions, values, beliefs, and traditions. Students study about how people live, work, and utilize natural resources. 1B Students draw maps and diagrams that serve as representations of places, physical features, and objects. 1C Students locate places within the local community, State, and nation; locate the Earth's continents in relation to each other and to principal parallels and meridians. 1D Students identify and compare the physical, human, and cultural characteristics of different regions and people. 1E Students investigate how people depend on and modify the physical environment. � 1996 - 2002 Students gather and interpret information from children's reference books, magazines, textbooks, electronic bulletin boards, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, and from such forms as charts, graphs, maps and diagrams. 1B Students select information appropriate to the purpose of their investigation and relate ideas from one text to another. 1C Students select and use strategies they have been taught for note taking, organizing, and categorizing information. 1D Students ask specific questions to clarify and extend meaning. 1E Students make appropriate and effective use of strategies to construct meaning from print, such as prior knowledge about a subject, structural and context clues, and an understanding of letter-sound relationships to decode difficult words. 1F Students support inferences about information and ideas with reference to text features, such as vocabulary and organizational patterns.