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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