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Poyen School |
| Time, Continuity and Change |
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Content Standard 1
The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding of teh chronology and concepts of history and identify and explain historical relationships.
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Diverese perspectives
The learner will be able to analyze and evaluate diverse contemporary, historical, and geographical perspectives as they relate to important events, recurring dilemmas, and persistent issues.
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Connections change/continuity
The learner will be able to explain, analyze, and show connections among patterns of change and continuity by applying key historical concepts, such as time, chronology, causality, change, conflict, complexity, and movement.
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Turning points in history
The learner will be able to evaluate major turning points in history.
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Historical events by region
The learner will be able to link historical events region to region along timelines.
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Historical role of organizations
The learner will be able to describe and evaluate the historical role of international and multinational organizations.
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Persisting issues
The learner will be able to analyze and evaluate the history, causes, consequences, and possible solutions to persisting issues, such as health, security, resource allocation, economic development, and environmental quality.
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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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Cause/effect in history
The learner will be able to investigate cause and effect as a historical concept.
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Divergent historical perspectives
The learner will be able to compare and contrast divergent historical perspectives.
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Continuity and change
The learner will be able to investigate the role of ideals, traditions, processes, institutions, literature, languages, and the arts in continuity and change.
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Issues of Continuity and change
The learner will be able to compare and contrast issues of continuity and change by applying techniques, such as brainstorming, data analysis, simulations, and scenario writing.
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| People, Places, and Environments |
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Content Standard 1
The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding that people, cultures, and systems are connected and that commonalities and diversities exist among them.
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Connections and Interactions
The learner will be able to analyze and illustrate connections and interactions of individuals, groups, institutions, states and nations.
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Effects of Science & Technology
The learner will be able to evaluate the effects of science and technology on individuals, groups, and organizations.
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Cultural elements
The learner will be able to demonstrate how cultural elements such as language, the arts and belief systems can connect people or cause conflict.
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Interdependencies of nations
The learner will be able to probe the interdependencies of nations.
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Group characteristics
The learner will be able to assess the ways family, religion, gender, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, and other group characteristics contribute to the development of a sense of self.
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Scientific & technological capabilit
The learner will be able to predict how people(s) having different scientific and technological capabilities might respond in various situations based on their cultural perspectives.
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Cultural diversity and cohesion
The learner will be able to analyze and demonstrate the value of cultural diversity and cohesion within and across groups.
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Cultural Perspectives
The learner will be able to explore cultural perspectives by applying techniques such as brainstorming, data analysis, simulations, and scenario writing.
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Content Standard 2
The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding of teh significance of physical and cultural characteristics of places and world regions.
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Connections to environment
The learner will be able to formulate connections of individuals, groups, and organizations to the physical environment.
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Influence of events
The learner will be able to question and appraise how events in all cultures are influenced by physical and human geographic factors.
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Interrelationships
The learner will be able to generate both current and historical examples of the interrelationships of science, technology, and society.
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Five themes of geography
The learner will be able to extract commonalities and differences among cultures as they relate to the five themes of geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and region.
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Natural & man made enviroments
The learner will be able to investigate ways that natural and man-made environments interact with culture by using a variety of experiences, such as field studies, interactive technologies, works of literature, and the arts.
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Interpretation of data & experiences
The learner will be able to predict how data and experiences may be interpreted by people from diverse cultural perspectives.
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Underlying belief systems
The learner will be able to examine and explain belief systems underlying specific traditions and laws.
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| Production, Distribution, & Consumption |
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Content Standard 1
The learner will be able to demonstrate and understanding that different ecomomic systems and limited resources influence cooperation and conflict in decision making.
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Scarcity, choice, resource allocation
The learner will be able to demonstrate and understanding of scarcity, choice, and resource allocation.
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Market production & distribution
The learner will be able to describe the roles that location, supply and demand, prices and profits play in determining what is produced and distributed in a market system.
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Compare economic systems
The learner will be able to compare economic systems and how they answer economic questions as to what, how far, and for whom to produce goods and services.
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Present day choices
The learner will be able to identify present day choices and illustrate that these choiced have important future consequences.
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Economic concepts & reasoning
The learner will be able to apply economic concepts and economic reasoning to historical and contemporary social and political development.
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Domestic/international economic systems
The learner will be able to distinguish between domestic and international economic systems and explain how the two interact.
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Specialization
The learner will be able to analyze the role of specialization in the exchange of economic goods and services.
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Beliefs influence decisions
The learner will be able to compare how values and beliefs influence economic decisions in different societies.
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Resource allocation
The learner will be able to explore public issues related to resource allocation by applying techniques, such as brainstorming, data analysis, simulations, and/or scenario writing.
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| Power, Authority, and Governance |
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Content Standard 1
The learner will be able to demonstrate and understanding of the ideals, rights, and responsibilities of participating in a democratic society.
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Purpose of government
The learner will be able to explain the purpose of government and analyze how its powers are acquired, used and justified.
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Democratic Republican government
The learner will be able to explain the origins and continuing influence of key ideals of a democratic republican government, such as individual human dignity, liberty, justice, equality, and the rule of law.
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US political heritage
The learner will be able to synthesize the principles of United States political heritage through the examination of such documents as the Declaration of Independence, "Common Sense" (Thomas Paine), the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, "Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau), "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (Martin Luther King, Jr.), etc.
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Rights & responsibilities of citizen
The learner will be able to identify, analyze, interpret, and evaluate sources and examples of citizens' rights and responsibilities.
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Persistent issues
The learner will be able to examine persistent issues involving the rights, roles, and status of the individual in relation to the general welfare.
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Formulation of public policy
The learner will be able to analyze and evaluate the influence of citizen action and public opinion on the formulation of public policy.
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Content Standard 2
The learner will be able to demonstrate and understanding of the commonalities and differences of various systems of government.
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Political systems
The learner will be able to compare the ideologies, structures, institutions, and processes of different political systems.
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Impact of technology
The learner will be able to evaluate the impact of technology in communications, transportation, information processing, weapons development, etc., as they relate to domestic and foreign policies.
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Social issues
The learner will be able to research and debate selected social issues, such as--but not limited to--public health, public education, waste management, and pollution.
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| Social Science Processes and Skills |
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Content Standard 1
The learner will be able to demonstrate critical thinking skills through research, reading, writing, speaking, listening, and problem solving.
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Integrate skills
The learner will be able to integrate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills throughout the social sciences.
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Interpretive skills
The learner will be able to develop and enhance observation, questioning, and interpretive skills throughout the social sciences.
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Critical analysis skills
The learner will be able to develop and enhance critical analysis skills, such as cause and effect and inductive and deductive reasoning, throughout the social sciences.
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