Standards
Enduring Understandings -
important ideas
that students should carry with them years beyond the instruction received
this year.
- Chronology organizes history and
increases understanding of historical relationships.
- Cause and effect relationships explain
connections among people and events.
- Using data, events is history can be
analyzed from multiple perspectives.
- Societies are diverse and change over
time.
- Economic, scientific and technological
developments impact human interactions.
- Human migration impacts cultural
development of societies.
- Political power has been used throughout
history.
- Religious and philosophical ideas have
been powerful forces.
- Physical and human characteristics
define regions.
- Maps are used to acquire information
about people, places and environments.
- Using data, events in history can be
analyzed from multiple perspectives.
Essential Questions
- most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer
after completing learning activities.
- How can events during Reconstruction be
organized chronologically?
- What were the causes and effects of the
Reconstruction?
- How can events during this period be
analyzed from multiple perspectives?
- How did cultures of the Native Americans
and settlers lead to change over time?
- Which scientific/technological
development had the greatest impact on human interactions?
- How did the United States implement
imperialism throughout the world?
- How did American imperialism impact
changes in the meaning, use, location, distribution, and importance of
resources throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries?
- How did economic and technological
advances affect the American Industrial Age?
- How did the migration of Europeans and
Asians affect the development of industrialism in the U.S.?
- How were different groups of immigrants
treated in America?
- How did business practices in the
economy impact society?
- How and why did the Federal government
begin regulating private businesses? How and why did voter participation
expand in the Progressive Era?
- What series of events led to US
participation in WWI?
- How did America's foreign policies
change during WWI?
How did American domestic policy impact American's lives during WWI?
- What social changes were a part of the
1920's?
- What were the major economic
developments of the 1920's and the impact on society?
- What religious and philosophical ideas
affected the 1920's?
- What were the causes of the Great
Depression?
- How did the Great Depression change the
role of the federal government?
- How did physical and human
characteristics define the Dust Bowl?
- What events led to America's
participation in WWII?
- Why were Japanese-Americans confined to
internment camps?
- How was the war in the Pacific Theater
influenced by geography? What role did the U.S. military play in the
outcome of the European Theater?
- How did the U.S. war effort impact
economy and society?
- What was the sequence of events that
perpetuated the Cold War?
- How did the Cold War promote the
development of nuclear weapons and space technology, and impact society?
- How and why were the systems of
alliances formed after WWII? What U.S. policies were established during
the Cold War?
- What characteristics defined the world
political regions that developed after WWII?
- How did conflict influence division and
control of Earth's surface?
- What reasons were used as justification
for U.S. involvement in Vietnam? What was the impact of the
counterculture and anti-war protests in American culture?
- What are the significant events of the
Civil Rights movement?
- How can events from the Civil Rights era
be viewed from multiple perspectives?
- How were minority cultures integrated
into U.S. society? What actions occurred to facilitate change within
society?
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] |
