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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 S3: 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. Geography 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.
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