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American West, Quarter 1
Course Number: SS.AMWEST
Overview
The American West traces the history of the
trans-Mississippi region from its exploration by the Spanish and the
French through the 1900s. Climate, geography, natural resources, land
use, and the contributions of various groups entering and living in the
area will be studied.
Prerequisite: None
Course Length: 2 Period Length: 1 Grade Level: 9-12
Credit per Semester: 1
Additional Credit Information: Credits per Semester:1.0 (Social Studies,
Humanities or Elective)
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Standards
Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
- Geographic tools are used to locate and
derive information about the past.
- People and events are organized
chronologically to increase understanding of historical relationships.
- Technological developments have impacted
individuals and societies throughout history.
- Primary and secondary sources and
processes of historical inquiry allow for interpreting the past and
analyzing present day issues.
- Physical and human characteristics of
places define regions.
- Knowledge of geography increases
understanding of past and present.
- Maps, globes, and other geographic tools
are used to acquire, process and report information about the past and
present.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions
students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
- How can we use geographic and historical
tools to interpret information about the past? How do physical and human
characteristics define and identify region and place?
- How did technological developments
change lifestyles?
- How did the physical characteristics of
regions influence human characteristics?
- How did human characteristics help to
shape a region?
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.
- H1 Benchmark B: Students use chronology to organize historical
events and people.
- History Standard 2: Students know how to
use the processes and resources of historical inquiry.
- History Benchmark 2B: 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.
- History Benchmark 3 B: Students understand the history of social
organization in various societies.
- History 4: Students understand how science, technology, and economic
activity have developed, changed, and affected societies throughout
history.
- History Benchmark 4 A: Students understand the impact of scientific
and technological developments on individuals and societies.
- History Standard 5: Students understand political institutions and
theories that developed and changed over time.
- History Benchmark 5 C: Students know how political power has been
acquired, maintained, used and/or lost throughout history.
- History Standard 6: Students know that
religious and philosophical ideas have been powerful forces throughout
history.
- History Benchmark 6 C: Students know how
various forms of expression reflect religious beliefs and philosophical
ideas.
- Geography Standard 1: Students know how
to use and construct maps, globes, and other geographic tools to locate
and derive information about people, places, and environments.
- Geography benchmark 1 A: Students know
how to use maps, globes, and other geographic tools to acquire, process
and report information from a spatial perspective.
- Geography 5: Students understand the effects of interactions between
human and physical systems and changes in meaning, use, distribution,
and importance of resources
- Geography Benchmark 5 B: Students know how physical systems affect
human systems.
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