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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?
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 interacted diplomatically in the past and interact in the 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.
Grade 7 Conceptual
Vocabulary
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Visual Thesaurus - use
the approved District 11 login and password to the right.
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Login:
ms68@d11.org
Password: d112009 |
Research confirms that students must have at least 6
opportunities through varied means to experience the same vocabulary before
it can be applied. Here are 6 sample methods for teaching the vocabulary for
this unit:
These examples are endorsed by the
Mid-Continental Research in Education Laboratory (MCREL) Six Step Strategy
to Improving Vocabulary. Instead of looking at a dictionary first, follow
the 6 steps to insure students have a full understanding. Read more about
Research on Teaching
Vocabulary.
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Step 1: Teacher provides
a description, explanation, or example of the term
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Step 2: Student
restates the description, explanation, or example in his/her own words
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Step 3: Student designs a
visual representation
Use the suggested
Vocabulary
Activities for Steps 4-6.
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Step 4: Student
completes activities that provide practice for using terms in writing
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Step 5: Students review and
discuss word meanings
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Step 6: Students practice
words with games
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