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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.
Human migration impacts cultural development of societies.
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 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?
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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