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] |
