D11-DOI-Social Studies-10th Grade, Yearly Overview

District 11 Educational Support Services
Social Studies

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Pikes Peak Community College

U.S. History Reconstruction to Present: The West 1860 - 1900

Course Number: SS.USHST3

Overview
View the Video Introduction. After the Civil War, completion of the railroads to the West provided opportunities for white settlers from the East, African America settlers from the South, Chinese railroad workers and others to migrate across the country. Vast areas of the region were opened to settlement and economic development at the expense of Native Americans. This period in American history marked major changes not only in land ownership, but also in family, jobs, the economy, and society as a whole.

Career Connection: This course introduces students to the types of work performed by Sociologists and Historians.

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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.

Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.

Does history repeat itself?
Must the prosperity and growth of one group of people always come at the expense of another group of people?
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?

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.

A	Academic Preparedness: the foundation required for either higher education, or high-wage, high skills jobs
C	Cultural Competence: the ability to understand and interpret political and cultural events from multiple perspectives in a global society, a core competency in 21st Century Skills
H	High-Functioning Team Member Skills: collaboration is a core competency in 21st Century Skills
I	Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving Skills: a core competency for 21st Century Skills
E	Effective Use of Information Technology: a core competency for 21st Century Skills
V	Vital Participation in Civic Responsibility: "share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society" Standards for the 21st-Century Learner from American Library Assoc.
E	Effective Communication Skills: a core competency for 21st Century Skills

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 2ormation (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 4: Students understand how science, technology, and economic activity have developed, changed, and affected societies throughout history.
Benchmark A: Students understand the impact of scientific and technological developments on individuals and societies.
History 5: Students understand political institutions and theories that developed and changed over time.
Benchmark C: Students know how political power has been acquired, maintained, used and/or lost throughout history.
History 6: Students know that religious and philosophical ideas have been powerful forces throughout history.
Benchmark C: Students know how various forms of expression reflect religious beliefs and philosophical ideas.
Geography 1: 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 2: Students know the physical and human characteristics of places, and used knowledge to
Benchmark B: Students know how and why people define regions.
Geography 4: Students understand how economic, political cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation and conflict.
Benchmark E: Students know how cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of the earth's surface.
Geography 5: Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and changes in meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
Benchmark B: Students know how physical systems affect human systems.

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]

The West 1860-1900 Resources	The West 1860-1900 Video Clips
PBS on the West Encarta on Western Migration Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 Santa Fe Trail Tall Tales About the West Chief Black Kettle PBS Chief Black Kettle Genocide of the Buffalo and Native Americans Sand Creek, and Other Massacres Native Americans Native American Web Search Engine Cumberland County AVA Native American Websites The Great American Gold Strikes Pikes Peak Gold Rush	Frontier Life Cowboys General Custer Gone West Horses and Native Americans Indian Treaties Apache Indians Native American Conflict 1 Native American Conflict 3 Native American Conflict 2 Native American Buffalo Hunting Sand Creek Massacre Settlement of the Midwest Homestead Act Transcontinental Railroad Gold Discovered in Colorado 1859 Mining South Dakota Mining Sutters Mill Geography of Hope Video - includes primary source narratives from former slaves during the Reconstruction.
The West 1860-1900 Webquests	The West 1860-1900 PowerPoints
America Moves West Reimagining the American West America's Louisiana Purchase Back to the Wild, Wild West Santa Fe Trail The Santa Fe Trail Tall Tales Webquest Mountain Man Legend The Dakota Conflict The Way West 2 The Way West Webquest The Westward Movement U.S. History From 1877 Westward Expansion and Reform Westward Expansion Westward Ho! Go West Webquest Buffalo Bill Cody Cowboy Songs Cowboy Webquest Gaucho Webquest Ghosts of the Wild West Outlaws of the Wild West Gold Rush Webquest Webquest on the Gold Rush Mining the West Webquest Join a Cattle Drive Horsing Around Webquest Museum of Native American Cultures Native American Webquest 1 Native American Webquest 2 Native American Webquest 3 Native American Webquest ESL 4 Native Americans Native Americans Webquest 5 Chief Joseph Famous Speeches by Chief Joseph Indian Removal to Oklahoma Sand Creek Massacre PBS - The West: Crazy Horse Wyoming Indian Wars	Westward Expansion A Frontier Society in Transition Closing the Western Frontier Expansion and Reform Growth of the West Plains Indians The American West Battle of Little Big Horn The History of Transportation California Gold Rush The Oregon Trail The Way West Game Cowboy West

Sample Units

District 11 Diamond Units/Lessons Overview - includes information about the purpose, goals and structure of these sample instructional units:

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