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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.
- Political power has been used
throughout history.
- Religious and philosophical ideas
have been powerful forces.
Essential Questions - most
important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after
completing learning activities.
- 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 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?
District 11 curriculum is
designed to prepare and equip students to be successful in the 21st Century.
Curriculum resources and lessons included here have been aligned to the
Colorado Standards for each content area. In addition, the entire program
has been aligned with the knowledge, skills, and learner attributes the
Partnership for 21st Century Skills promotes as
necessary for success in the 21st Century. You will see the highlighted core
values embedded in these lessons and activities.
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]
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era:
The September 2008 issue of History
Now, from the Gilder Lehrman Institute, provides new
insights into the life of Theodore Roosevelt and the period of
the Progressive Era. Scholars examine Mr. Roosevelt’s
philosophy, political achievements, and his larger than life
personality. The quarterly online journal is available at
www.historynow.org.
The website for the Gilder Lehrman Institute is
gli@gilderlehrman.org. |
