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| Strand 1: Time Continuity and Change |
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Content Standard 1
The learner will be able to students will demonstrate an understanding of the chronology and concepts of history and explain historical relationships.
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Analyze Cause/Effect of Historical Event
The learner will be able to use chronological order to explain the cause and effect of events throughout history. Students wil lanalyze the effects of the rise and fall of ancient civilizations.
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Analyze Events in History
The learner will be able to analyze how past decisions and events affect subsequent decisions or events throughout the world. 1. Students will explain the impact on history of specific individuals, ideas, events and decisions.
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Mental Mapping
The learner will be able to use the process of mental mapping to understand spatial relationships and to locate places on maps. Students will use mental maps to explain where historical events have occured.
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Compare/Contrast Conflicts
The learner will be able to compare and contrast the causes and consequences of conflict within the state, the nation, and the world. Students wil demonstrate an understanding of the causes and consequences of conflict in history.
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Content Standard 2
The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how ideas, events, and conditions bring about change.
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Understand Continuity and Change
The learner will be able to demonstrate an undersanding of continuity and change in the state, nation, and world. Students will identify hwo time, continuity and change impact cultures.
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Investigate Cultural Effects on Society
The learner will be able to investigate how political events, technological changes, and cultural diffusion have affected and been affected by literature, language, and the arts. Students will show what impact language literature and the arts had on political events, technological changes and cultural diffusion.
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Understand Political Ideas
The learner will be able to understand how the foundations of government and United States political ideals as set forth in documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and others have brought about change throughout the world. STudents will discover how political documents in one nation affect other nations.
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Research/Present Oral Presentation
The learner will be able to use a variety of processes, such as thinking, reading, writing, listening, and speaking, to demonstrate continuity and change. Students will research and deliver and oral presentation demonstrating and understanding of continuity and change.
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| Strand 2: People, Places, Environments |
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Content Standard 1
The learner will be able to students will demonstrate an understanding that people,cultures, and systems are connected and that commonalities and diversities exist among them.
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| People, Places, Environments |
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Explore/Predict Human Interactions
The learner will be able to explore and predict the effects of human interactions with their environments and with technology. Students wil identify historical examples of human environmental interactions.
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Examine Influences of Ancient Cultures
The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding that one's identity is connected to ideas and traditions from the past and from other cultures. Students will examine the philosophy, literature, religion, and artwork of an ancient civilization andn look for persistent themes and influences on the modern world.
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Compare/Contrast Cultures
The learner will be able to compare commonalities and differences in the ways groups, societies, and cultures meet human needs and concerns. 1. Students will identify the major characteristics of early civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley. 2. Students will explain how people in a particular physical environment e.g. flooding of hte Nile River Valley.
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Examine Primary/Secondary Sources
The learner will be able to examine primary and secondary sources and experiences to understand historical and cultural perspectives. Students will examine primary and secondary sources to compare and contrast historical and cultural perspectives.
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Examine Cultural Interactions/Influences
The learner will be able to explore how language, literature, the arts, architecture, traditions, history, beliefs, values, and behavior contribute to the development, transmission, and diffusion of cultures and ideas. 1.Students willl describe the classical civilizations and will examine their interactions and influenc on later civilizations, including modern society.
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Analyze Historical Data
The learner will be able to use appropriate methods and tools, such as field studies, simulations, interactive technologies, maps, globes, literature and primary sources, to compare cultural perspectives. Students will use appropriate methods and tools to analyze historical data.
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Explain Conflict/Cooperation of Society
The learner will be able to illustrate the relationship between tolerance and cooperation. Students will explain conditions and motivations that contribute to conflict or cooperation within and among cultures.
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Analyze Cultural Perspectives
The learner will be able to demonstrate an awareness of cultural perspectives. Students will analyze cultural perspectives of various groups and will develop cultural empathy.
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Content Standard 2
The learner will be able to students will demonstrate an understanding of the significance of physical and cultural characteristics of places and world regions.
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Interpret Information/Describe Landforms
The learner will be able to locate and describe varying landforms and geographic features, such as mountains, plateaus, islands, rain forests, deserts, and oceans and explain their relationships within the ecosystems. Students will interpret informatin and describe landforms by looking at photos, Internet resources and world maps and globes.
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Identify Processes of Environments
The learner will be able to apply a knowledge of the major processes (e.g, weathering, vulcanism, etc.) shaping natural environments. Students will identify the major processes that shape the earth's surface.
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Evaluate Modifications of Environment
The learner will be able to analyze how humans have altered and been affected by physical environments in the world's sub-regions. 1. Students will explain how geography impacted the establishment of early civilizations. 2. Students will evaluate ways and reasons humans modify their natural environment to meet their wants and the consequences of the modifications.
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Analyze Cultural Patterns/Interactions
The learner will be able to identify and interpret physical and cultural patterns and their interactions, such as land use, settlement patterns, cultural diffusion, values, ideas, and ecosystem changes. 1. Students will recognize changes in population and distribution patterns. 2. Students will analyze the cultural development of various ancient civilizations.
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Analyze Cultural/Physical Patterns
The learner will be able to analyze cultural and physical patterns through the five themes of geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region. 1. Students will explain why towns and cities emerged from human settlement. 2. Students will identify ways in which location and physical features generally influence the development of life in a region e.g. climate and terrain of Ancient Greece, geography of Ancient Rome. 3. Students will explain how technology and modern innovations affect the use of places and regions e.g. wheel, use of bronze, glassmaking, sewer systems, use of brick, city planning, aqueducts.
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Utilize Mental Mapping
The learner will be able to develop and use a mental map (personal geographic reference). Students will create a mental map.
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Construct/Interpret Graphs, Charts, Maps
The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the uses of maps and geographic information systems(GIS). Students will construct and interpret graphs, charts, databases, and thematic maps of the world.
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Evaluate Effects of Science/Technology
The learner will be able to evaluate how science and technology change places, regions, movement patterns, and human-environment interaction. Students will explain how science and technology affected settlement patterns for ancient civilizations e.g. near water for irrigation and trade, mountains for protection, city states, and manors.
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| Strand 3:Production,Distrib.,Consumption |
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Content Stardard 1
The learner will be able to students will demonstrate an understanding that different economic systems and limited resources influence cooperation and conflict in decision making.
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| Production,Distribution,and Consumption |
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Describe Economic Systems
The learner will be able to describe the various institutions at local, state, and national levels that constitute economic systems, such as households, business firms, banks, government agencies, labor unions, and corporations. Students will trace the historical development of different economic/trade systems in various regions of the world.
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Explore/Explain Economic Activity
The learner will be able to explore and explain how changes in areas such as technology, transportation, and communication affect economic activity. 1. Students will compare the new inventions and technology advances in two or more countries or ancient civilizations. 2. Students wil explain how technology and modern innovations affect the use of places and regions.
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Analyze Scarcity in Societies
The learner will be able to analyze how individuals, governments, and socieites deal with scarcity. 1. Students will analyze how people and institutions experience scarcity and must make choices. 2. Students will identify adaptations man has made to overcome a scarcity of natural human, and capital resources e.g. nomadic life, irrigation, new farming techniques. 3. Students will explain reasons for trade between civilizations e.g. scarcity of essential resources, desire for nonessential resources/luxuries.
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Analyze Choice/Opportunity Cost
The learner will be able to anaylze the roles of choice and opportunity cost in decision making. Students will define and give examples of how people or individuals had choices and use opportunity cost in making decisions throughout history.
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Use Tools/Methods/Research Techniques
The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding of scarcity and choice by using appropriate methods, research techniques, and tools, such as field studies,simulations, interactive technologies, charts, maps, graphs, statistics, and primary sources. Students will use maps and charts and other appropriate tools and methosd to describe how relative prices are the basic measures of the relative scarcity of products when prices are set up by market forces; supply and demand.
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Analyze Effects of Resources on Trade
The learner will be able to demonstrate how limited resources necessitate decision-making. Students will analyze the natural resources of a region and the effect on trade.
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Analyze Economic Disparity
The learner will be able to analyze how disparities in power and economic status lead to conflict. 1. Students wil identify reasons and effects of a conquering nation. 2. Students will understand how economic disparity can lead to the subordination of a nation.
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Identify/Evaluate Current Events
The learner will be able to identify and evaluate critical current issues related to the use of resources. Students will select a national current event and determnie how national economic events impact local economy.
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| Strand 4:Power,Authority,and Governance |
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Content Standard 1
The learner will be able to students will demonstrate an understanding of the ideals, rights, and responsibilites of participating in a democratic society.
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Identify Characteristics of Citizens
The learner will be able to recognize and develop a concept of one's role as a particpant in a larger community. Students will identify the characteristics of historical figures that exemplify a model citizen.
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Create Citizenship Dramatization
The learner will be able to demonstrate responsible citizenship and function as a productive member of the local, state, and national communities. Students will create a dramatization exhibiting responsible citizenship.
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Create Statistical Graphs
The learner will be able to use statistics and other sources to understand equity issues based on race, gender, age, physical condition, religion, or socio-economic status. Students will gather data and create graphs about equity issues.
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Identify Conflict/Cooperation Contrib.
The learner will be able to examine the contribution of the arts, literature media, technology and languages in fostering cooperation and in perpetuating conflict. Students will read or view films, plays or stories etc. and identify examples of ideas that promote cooperation or conflict.
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Explain Impact of Public Policy
The learner will be able to explain the historical and current impact of United States public policy on the racial, religious, geographic, ethnic, economic and linguistic diversity of the United States. Students will demonstrate an understanding of how American public policy has been formed based on traditions begun in ancient civilizations.
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Simulate Citizenship Roles
The learner will be able to practice roles, rights, and responsibilities as a participating citizen of a deomcracy through simulations, such as voter registration, elections, jury duty, and congresses. Students will demonstrate and understanding of ways individuals participate in government.
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Develop Community Project
The learner will be able to develop a project to serve the school, community, state, or nation. Students will participate in a community service learning project.
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Evaluate Individual/Group Rights
The learner will be able to distinguish between the rights and responsibilities of the individual and the rights and responsibilities of the group. Students will evaluate and defend positions on current issues regarding individual rights.
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Analyze Ancient Democratic Life
The learner will be able to explore how language, media, literature, and the arts reflect life in a democratic society. Students will analyze artistic depictions of democratic life in ancient civilizations.
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Content Standard 2
The learner will be able to students will deomonstrate an understanding of the commonalities and differences of various systems of government.
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Analyze Continuity/Change
The learner will be able to analyze continuity and change in the concepts of individual rights and responsibilities. Students will compare present day laws with laws of other historical periods.
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Analyze Conflicts Through Simulations
The learner will be able to analyze conflict and methods of conflict resolution by using such activities as simulations and role play. 1. Students wil research and communicate what they infer about ancient methods of resolving conflict. 2. Students will identify issues of conflict in local government and discuss possible solutions.
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Compare Rights of Citizens
The learner will be able to compare the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in two or more nations. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the rigts and responsibilities of citizenship in two or more ancient civilizations.
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Compare Government Systems
The learner will be able to compare systems of government and their basis of power. Students will describe characteristics and development of varios types of government in the context of world history (e.g., democracy, monarchy, republic, etc.
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Investigate Levels of Government
The learner will be able to understand the organization, function, and operation of local, state, and national governments and simulate methods of influencing policy in a democratic government. Students will investigate the kinds of laws and regulations that local, state, and federal governments enact.
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