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Poyen School |
| 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 will summarize a sequence or imiportant historical events.
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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. Students will formulate and determine the cause and effect relationship among historical events, themes, and concepts in US and Arkansas history.
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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 draw or create a map of a geographic region using only their memory as a resource.
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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 will analyze the causes and results of conflicts.
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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 demonstrate through writing their understanding of continuity and change in the state, nation, and world.
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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 demonstrate how the arts and communication changes have affected and been affected by social and political changes.
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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 outline the major provisions of the US Constitution e.g. separation of powers, systems of checks and balances, Bill of Rights and other important documents.
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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 use technology to present an original work e.g. skit, documentary, poem, debate, etc. exhibiting an 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 will identify historical examples of human environmental interaction.
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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 research their own family's or an assigned person's genealogy for at least two generations.
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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. Students will explain how diverse cultures became one nation.
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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. 1. Students will explain the purpose, nature, and significance of a primary and/or secondary source. 2. Students will be able to identify ethnic and cultural perspectives missing in an historical account.
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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. Students will recognize and discuss how tradition, beliefs, values, language, literature, and the arts have contributed to the image of Arkansas and the United States.
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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 the appropriate methods and tools to assess the roles and contributions of ethnic and racial groups.
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Explain Conflict/Cooperation of Society
The learner will be able to illustrate the relationship between tolerance and cooperation. Students will identify examples of cooperation and conflict and explain ways societies interact to meet their needs e.g. trade/political treaties, revolutions, Cold War.
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Analyze Cultural Perspectives
The learner will be able to demonstrate an awareness of cultural perspectives. Students will examine and analyze various points of view relating to historical and current events.
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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 information and describe landforms by looking at photos, Internet resources, and US historical 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 explain the effects of a physical process or natural disaster e.g. migration of the Sahara, erosion of riverbanks, reshaping of shorelines, Pompeii.
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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. Students will analyze or compare and contrast the consequences of human/environment interaction.
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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 compare and contrast human characteristics associated with specific places in the United States e.g. migration, settlement patterns, population density, land use. 2. Students will identify physical features that influenced historical events and describe their effects e. g. Mississippi River and Vicksburg in the Civil War, geography related to Little Big Horn.
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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. Students will identify ways in which location and physical features generally influence the development of life in a region e.g. bodies of water and mountains from natural barriers.
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Utilize Mental Mapping
The learner will be able to develop and use a mental map (personal geographic reference). Students will develop a thematic mental map of regions of North America e.g. Colonial Louisiana and Gadsen Purchases, Mexican annexation, etc.
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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 use information from maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies.
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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 discuss and give examples of technological and cultural innovation and change as they relate to human environment interactions.
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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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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. 1. Students will explore the historic development of economic systems in the United States. 2. Studens will provide examples of how governmental systems and economic systems are interdependent and interact with each other.
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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 explain how new inventions changed productivity levels. 2. Students will explain how technological change is an advance in knowledge leading to new and improved goods and services and better ways of producing them. 3. Students will identify major inventors of hte Industrial Revolution and their impact on the industrial age of the United States.
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Analyze Scarcity in Societies
The learner will be able to analyze how individuals, governments, and socieites deal with scarcity. Students will identify and analyze critical relationships that exist between and among individuals, social groups and other key societal institutions as they approach the problem of economic scarcity.
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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. 1. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the concept of benefit/cost analysis 2. Students will explain how the choices individuals, groups, and governments make have both present and future consequences.
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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 appropriate tools to analyze situations involving scarcity to determine the need for choices or what is gained/lost by a decision e.g. tax on tea in Colonial America.
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Analyze Effects of Resources on Trade
The learner will be able to demonstrate how limited resources necessitate decision-making. 1. Students will compare and contrast prewar economies in the United States in the 18th century. 2. Students will compare the economies of two different time periods.
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Analyze Economic Disparity
The learner will be able to analyze how disparities in power and economic status lead to conflict. Students will create simulations showing how economy and power are interrelated and interdependent.
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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. 1. Students will draw inferences from a map showing national or regional distribution of natural resources. 2. Students will compare and contrast in writing multiple perspectives of current events regarding resourcs.
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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 compare the role of citizens of the early colonial period with the role of citizens of modern America.
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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 demonstrate and understanding of the voting/election process.
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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 use multiple print and nonprint resources to research and explain 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. 1. Students will critically analyze political cartoons, propaganda posters, videos, literature, art, and other primary and secondary sources. 2. Students will evalute the role of the media and public opinion in United States politics, including ways the government and media influence public opinion.
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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 the interpretation of early American policy as stated in the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, etc.
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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 identify civic ideals and practices and how they can be applied by citizens in a participatory democracy.
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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 analyze a landmark US decision involving basic 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 and evaluzte artistic depictions of democratic life throughout the US history.
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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 trace the evolution of laws and describe the continuity and change that occur in subsequent documents.
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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. Students will analyze processes used to institute change e.g. rallies, marches, strikes, sitins, boycotts, elections, impeachment, amendments, Supreme Court cases, recalls, petitions. |