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Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
- People and events are organized chronologically to increase
understanding of historical relationships.
- Primary and secondary sources and processes of historical inquiry
allow for interpreting the past and analyzing present day issues.
- Societies are diverse and change over time.
- Technological developments have impacted individuals and societies
throughout history.
- Religious beliefs and philosophical ideas change societies.
- Different forms of government have been developed, practiced, and
changed throughout history.
- Geographic tools are used to locate and derive information about the
past.
- Physical and human characteristics of places define regions.
- Migration and immigration affect the
location and distribution of human activity.
- Knowledge of geography increases understanding of past and present.
- Trade specialization, and interdependence influence relationships
among individuals, groups and societies.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions
students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
- How does the chronology lead to the understanding of historical
relationships?
- How did the major events affect the development of a civilization?
- What is the difference between primary and secondary document? How
can we use them to interpret information about the past?
- Which civilization studied was the most advanced, and why?
- How did technological changes impact each civilization? Which
changes had the most impact and in which civilization?
- How were ancient civilizations governed?
- What major religious beliefs and
philosophical ideas developed? (Judaism, Christianity, mythology)? What impact did these religious
beliefs have on each civilization?
- How do physical and human
characteristics define and identify region and place?
- How did the physical characteristics of regions influence human
characteristics?
- How do migration and trade routes affect
location/distribution of human activity?
- How did trade and specialization result
in interdependence?
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
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 B: Students use chronology to organize historical events
and people.
History 2: 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 (e.g., letters, diaries,
literature, text, newspaper, art, music, technology, oral history,
interviews).
History 3: Students understand that societies are diverse and
change over time.
Benchmark B: Students understand the history of social organization
in various societies.
History 5: Students understand political institutions and theories
that developed and changed over time.
Benchmark A: Students understand political institutions and
theories that developed and changed over time.
History 6: Students know that religious and philosophical ideas
have been powerful forces throughout history.
Benchmark A: Students know the historical development of religions and
philosophies.
Benchmark B: Students know how societies have been affected
by religions and philosophies.
Geography1: 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 use maps, globes, and other
geographic tools to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial
perspective.
Geography S2: Students know the physical and human characteristics of
places, and use this knowledge to define and study regions and their
patterns of change.
Benchmark 2 A: Students know the physical and human characteristics of
places.
Benchmark B: Students know how and why people define regions.
Benchmark C: Students know how culture and experience influence
people's perceptions of places and regions.
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 6: Students apply knowledge of people, places, and
environments to understand the past and present, and to plan for the future.
Benchmark A: Students know how to apply geography to understand
the past.
Civics 4: Students understand how citizens exercise the
roles, rights, and responsibilities of participation in civic life at all
levels.
Benchmark A: Students know what citizenship is.
Benchmark D: Students know how citizens can participate in civic
life.
Economics
2: Students understand how different economic systems employ different means
to produce, distribute, and exchange goods and services.
Benchmark B: Students understand how a country's monetary system facilitates
the exchange of resources.
Economics 3: Students understand the results of trade, exchange, and
interdependence among individuals, households, businesses, governments, and
societies.
Benchmark A: Students understand that the exchange of goods and services
creates economic interdependence and change.
Middle School D-11 Social
Studies Indicators
History
1. Chronological
Organization: Organize events and people in
chronological order and use this data to determine cause/effect
relationships.
2. Historical
Inquiry: Identify, interpret, compare, and
evaluate primary and secondary sources, including documents, eyewitness
accounts, letters and diaries, literature, and newspapers.
3. Diverse
and Changing Societies: Describe basic cultural
elements (traditions, customs, religion, language, government), compare and
contrast societies, and explain how they changed over time.
4. Science,
Technology, and Economic Activity: Identify and
explain changes in technology and evaluate their impact on historical
events.
5. Political
Institutions and Theories: Describe forms of
government, then give examples of societies that practiced and changed them
over time (democracy, monarchy, oligarchy, clan/tribal, and autocracy).
6. Religious
and Philosophical Ideas: Describe religious
beliefs and philosophical ideas, and how they changed societies.
Geography
1. Use and Construction of
Geographic Tools: Interpret maps, globes, charts, and geographic
databases.
2. Characteristics
of Place and Region: Define and identify regions
by describing physical and human characteristics of places.
3. Physical
Processes Shape the Earth’s Surface: Describe
physical processes that shape the earth’s surface.
4. Patterns
of Human Population and Interaction: Explain how
migration and immigration affect the location and distribution of human
activity.
5. Human
and Physical Systems: Explain how humans modify
the environment and how the environment influences human activity.
6. Apply
Knowledge of Geography: Describe how
characteristics of places and environments influence events in the
past and present.
Civics
1. Purpose of Government and US
Constitutional Principles: Explain the purposes of government and identify the principles stated in the
Constitution.
2. Structure
and Function of Government: Describe the structures and functions of
national, state, and local governments.
3. Political
Relationships: Define foreign policy and describe
ways nations interact (ed) diplomatically in the past and present.
4. Citizenship
Participation: Explain roles, rights, and
responsibilities of citizens (including students as citizens).
Economics
1. Scarcity and Decision
Making: Identify and give examples of economic resources and make
decisions involving opportunity costs.
2. Resources
and Production of Goods and Services: Describe the
roles of supply, demand, and price in the production and distribution of goods and services.
3. Trade,
Exchange, and Economic Interdependence: Describe
how trade, specialization, and interdependence influence relationships
among individuals, groups, and societies.
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