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District
11 Diamond Units/Lessons Overview - includes information about the
purpose, goals and structure of these sample instructional units:
Enduring Understandings - important ideas that
students should carry with them years beyond the instruction received this
year.
Chronology organizes history and increases understanding of historical
relationships.
Cause and effect relationships explain connections among people and events.
Using data, events is history can be analyzed from multiple perspectives.
Societies are diverse and change over time.
Economic, scientific and technological developments impact human
interactions.
Human migration impacts cultural development of societies.
Political power has been used throughout history.
Religious and philosophical ideas have been powerful forces.
Physical and human characteristics define regions.
Maps are used to acquire information about people, places and environments.
Using data, events in history can be analyzed from multiple perspectives.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students
should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
How can events during Reconstruction be organized chronologically?
What were the causes and effects of the Reconstruction?
How can events during this period be analyzed from multiple perspectives?
How did cultures of the Native Americans and settlers lead to change over
time?
Which scientific/technological development had the greatest impact on human
interactions?
How did the United States implement imperialism throughout the world?
How did American imperialism impact changes in the meaning, use, location,
distribution, and importance of resources throughout the 19th and early 20th
centuries?
How did economic and technological advances affect the American Industrial
Age?
How did the migration of Europeans and Asians affect the development of
industrialism in the U.S.?
How were different groups of immigrants treated in America?
How did business practices in the economy impact society?
How and why did the Federal government begin regulating private businesses?
How and why did voter participation expand in the Progressive Era?
What series of events led to US participation in WWI?
How did America's foreign policies change during WWI?
How did American domestic policy impact American's lives during WWI?
What social changes were a part of the 1920's?
What were the major economic developments of the 1920's and the impact on
society?
What religious and philosophical ideas affected the 1920's?
What were the causes of the Great Depression?
How did the Great Depression change the role of the federal government?
How did physical and human characteristics define the Dust Bowl?
What events led to America's participation in WWII?
Why were Japanese-Americans confined to internment camps?
How was the war in the Pacific Theater influenced by geography? What role
did the U.S. military play in the outcome of the European Theater?
How did the U.S. war effort impact economy and society?
What was the sequence of events that perpetuated the Cold War?
How did the Cold War promote the development of nuclear weapons and space
technology, and impact society?
How and why were the systems of alliances formed after WWII? What U.S.
policies were established during the Cold War?
What characteristics defined the world political regions that developed
after WWII?
How did conflict influence division and control of Earth's surface?
What reasons were used as justification for U.S. involvement in Vietnam?
What was the impact of the counterculture and anti-war protests in American
culture?
What are the significant events of the Civil Rights movement?
How can events from the Civil Rights era be viewed from multiple
perspectives?
How were minority cultures integrated into U.S. society? What actions
occurred to facilitate change within society?
Standards and Benchmarks
Standard H1: Students understand the chronological organization of history
and know how to organize events and people into major ears to identify and
explain historical relationships.
Benchmark B: Students use chronology to organize historical events and
people.
Benchmark C: Students use chronology to examine and explain historical
relationships.
Standard H2: Students know how to use the processes and resources of
historical inquiry.
Benchmark A: Students know how to formulate questions and hypotheses
regarding what happened in the past and how to obtain and analyze historical
data to answer questions and test hypotheses.
Benchmark B: Students know how to interpret and evaluate primary and
secondary sources of historical information.
Benchmark C: Students apply knowledge of the past to analyze present day
issues and events from multiple, historically objective perspectives.
Standard H3: Students understand that societies are diverse and change over
time.
Benchmark A: Students know how various societies were affected by contracts
and exchanges among diverse peoples.
Benchmark B: Students understand the history of social organization in
various
societies.
Standard H4: Students understand how science, technology and economic
activity have developed, changed affected societies throughout history.
Benchmark A: Students understand the impact of scientific and technological
developments on individuals and societies.
Benchmark B: Students understand how economic factors influenced historical
events.
Standard H5: Students understand political institutions and theories that
developed and changed over time.
Benchmark A: Students understand how democratic ideas and institutions in
the United States have developed, changed, and/or maintained.
Benchmark C: Students know how political power has been acquired,
maintained, used, and/or lost throughout history.
Benchmark D: Students know the history of relationships among different
political powers and the development of international relations.
Standard H6: Students know that religious and philosophical ideas have been
powerful forces throughout history.
Benchmark B: Students know how societies have been affected by religions and
philosophies.
Benchmark C: Students know how various forms of expression reflect religious
beliefs and philosophical ideas.
Standard G1: Students know how to use and construct maps, globes, and other
geographic tools to locate and derive information about people, places, and
environments.
Benchmark A: Students know how to ups maps, globes, and other geographic
tools to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial
perspective.
Standard G2: Students know how the physical and human characteristics of
places, and use this knowledge to define and study regions and their
patterns of change.
Benchmark A: Students know the physical and human characteristics of places.
Standard G4: Students understand the economic, political, cultural, and
social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations,
interdependence, cooperation and conflict.
Benchmark D: Students know the process, patterns, and functions of human
settlements.
Benchmark E: Students know how cooperation and conflict among people
influence the division and control of earth's surface.
Standard G5: Students understand the effects of interactions between human
and physical systems and changes in meaning, use, distribution, and
importance of resource.
Benchmark B: Students know how physical systems affect human systems.
Benchmark C: Students know the changes that occur in the meaning, use,
location, distribution, and importance of resources.
D-11 Social Studies Indicators
History
Chronology/Cause & Effect: Determine cause and effect relationships based on
organizing major historical and/or current events chronologically.
Historical Inquiry: Utilizing multiple perspectives, analyze and question
historical data from primary and secondary sources during major historical
eras.
Diverse and Changing Societies: Evaluate the impact of interactions and
contributions of diverse peoples and cultures on past and current societies.
Science, Technology, and Economic Activity: Evaluate the impact of
economic, scientific and technological developments on human interactions.
Political Institutions and Theories: Analyze how political power has been
acquired, maintained, used and/or lost among various cultures throughout
history.
Religious and Philosophical Ideas: Determine how societies have been
affected by religious and philosophical ideas.
Geography
Use and Construction of Geographic Tools: Analyze maps, globes, charts,
graphs, and databases to acquire, process and report information about
people, places and environments. [G1]
Characteristics of Place and Region: Use physical and human characteristics
to define regions important in human history.[G2]
Patterns of Human Population and Interaction: Analyze the physical and
cultural impact of human migration.[G4]
Human and Physical Systems: Evaluate how human and physical systems interact
and impact one another.[G5]
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