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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 sequence events on a timeline.
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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 analyze the impact that specific individuals, ideas, events, and decisions had on the course of 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 demonstrate location by using a mental map.
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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 predict solutions for past, present, or future 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 an understanding of continuity as it relates to a changing society.
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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 wil explain how inventions and the arts affect daily life.
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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 identify key ideas in the Constitution that are the foundation of American government.
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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 prepare and present a project dealing with 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 explain how humans interact with their environment.
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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 identify how specific individuals and/or cultural grops have contributed to the cultural development within the United States.
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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 describe earliest American communities and compare them to modern communities.
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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 distinguish between primary materials (documents such as diaries, letters, drawings, and photographs created by people who witnessed or participated in events) and secondary sources (textbooks, encyclopedia articles, etc.).
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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 will identify specific Native American groups and describe their life styles before the arrival of the Europeans. 2. Students will describe the contributions of people, events, movements, and ideas that have been significant in the history of Arkansas.
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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 identify different points of view.
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Explain Conflict/Cooperation of Society
The learner will be able to illustrate the relationship between tolerance and cooperation. Students will explore the relationship between tolerance and cooperation.
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Analyze Cultural Perspectives
The learner will be able to demonstrate an awareness of cultural perspectives. Students will exhibit an awareness of cultural perspective through a skit, display, or daily actions, etc.
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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 locate specific landforms, counties, states and cities/places on 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 create maps that demonstrate the location of natural processes.
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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 explain how the earth's physical features influence human activity and adaptation within a community, region or country.
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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 identify explorers who visited the Americas and will describe their influences on early conlonization. 2. STudents will explain the relationship between the physical setting of a community and its ability to satisfy the wants and needs of its people.
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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 describe the early migration of people from Asia to North America. 2. Students will compare physical and cultural regions in North America 3. Students will demonstrate in various ways and understanding of the five themes of geography.
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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 based on fictional or nonfictional reading.
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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 describe the information using 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 research how technological advances have affected human and environmental interactions e.g. transportation, communication, etc.
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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. 1. Explain how people engage in basic economic activities of producing, exchanging, consuming, and saving. 2. Students will describe the roles of various economic institutions.
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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 describe how changes in transportation and communication technologies have affected trade over time. 2. Students will identify the major technological developments in the early 1800's e.g. transportation, industrial and farming machinery, etc.
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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 develop and understanding of scarcity of resources within society.
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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 define and give examples of how people or individuals have choice and use of opportunity cost to make decisions. 2. STudents will recognize where resources are located, who needs them, and how they are tranported over the earth's surface.
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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 chars and other appropriate tools and methods to interpret scarcity and choice.
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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 explain how economic decisions are made in a market economy by demonstrating the relationship among economic factors e.g. scarcity, choice, opportunity cost, money, goods and services, price and supply and demand.
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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 discuss how imperialism leads to conflict.
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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 explain how a current event affects the economy - local, state and/or national.
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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. 1. Students will interact in a cooperative manner with peers. 2. Students will explain the importance of civic participation as a citizen of Arkansas and the United States.
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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. 1. Students will interact in a cooperative manner with ppers. 2. Students will explain the importance of civic participation as a citizen of Arkansas and the United States.
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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 interpret charts and graphs to draw conclusions 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 itentify 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 and understanding of sectionalism in the original 13 colonies and describe how out of many the United States became one political body.
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Simulate Citizenship Roles
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