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Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
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People and events
are organized chronologically to increase understanding of historical
relationships.
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Societies are
diverse and change over time.
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Political
institutions and theories develop and changeover time.
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Physical processes shape the earth's surface.
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Physical and human
characteristics of places define regions.
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Migration and
immigration affect the location and distribution of human activity.
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Resources impact
interactions between human and their environment.
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Resources impact the
production and distribution of goods and services.
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Different forms of
government have been developed, practiced, and changed throughout
history.
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Decisions must be
made about the use of scarce resources.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions
students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
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How can the culture
of the people of Caribbean be compared to that of other cultures?
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What types of governments were developed on each
Caribbean island?
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What are the
physical and human characteristics of South America?
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How were the
different Caribbean islands formed?
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What are the
physical and human features of the different Caribbean islands?
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Why do the people
migrate from place to place?
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What are the social,
economic, and environmental issues associated with immigration and
migration?
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What are the
resources of Central America?
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What are the main
resources found on the various Caribbean islands?
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How, and for whom,
are the resources distributed?
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How have the
governments changed from early history to the present?
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What, how and for
whom are goods and services produced and distributed?
Standards and Benchmarks
History
1: Students understand the chronological organization of history and know
how to organize events and people into major eras to identify and explain
historical relationships.
Benchmark A: Students
know the general chronological order of events and people in history.
History
3: Students understand that societies are diverse and change over time.
Benchmark A: Students
know how various societies were affected by contacts and exchanges among
diverse people.
History
5: Students understand political institutions and theories that developed
and changed over time.
Benchmark B: Students
know how various systems of government have developed and functioned
throughout history.
Benchmark B: Students
understand that economic incentives influence the use of scarce human,
capital, and natural resources.
Geography 4:
Students understand how
economic, political, cultural and social processes interact to shape
patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation and conflict.
Benchmark A: Students
know the characteristics, location, distribution, and migration of human
populations.
Geography 5:
Students understand the
effects of interactions between human and physical systems and changes in
meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
Benchmark A: Students
know how human actions modify the physical environment.
STANDARD Economics 1:
Students understand that because of the condition of scarcity, decisions
must be made about the use of scarce resources.
Benchmark A: Students
know that economic choices are made because resources are scarce and that
the act of making economic choices imposes opportunity costs.
STANDARD Economics 3:
Students understand the results of trade, exchange, and interdependence
among individuals, households, business, governments, and societies.
Benchmark A: Students
understand that the exchange of goods and services creates economic
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