This publication is designed to assist secondary level curriculum planners, teachers, and teacher educators in developing a social studies curriculum that includes geographic skills for students' development. The first section lists general student objectives in geography that are considered essential. The following six sections contain more in depth objectives. Written in terms of student expectations, geography objectives are listed for Texas history and geography (grade 7); U.S. history; world history; world geography; government; and economics. Within each section (with the exception of government and economics) the objectives are organized by the following categories: size and shape, direction and location; scale and distance, symbols; earth and sun relationships; and information, inferences, and generalizations. For the government and economics sections, objectives are listed for information, inferences, and generalizations only. (Author/RM)