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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.
- Societies are diverse and change over
time.
- Technological developments have impacted
individuals and societies throughout history.
- Knowledge of government and its purposes
builds understanding of citizenship.
- Physical and human characteristics of places define regions.
- Resources impact interactions between humans and their environment.
- 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.
- What were the physical and human characteristics of the North, South
and West in the first half of the 19th century?
- How did Northern and Southern states interpret the purpose of
government?
- How did sectional differences in trade, exchange, and ideas about
interdependence influence relationships among society, groups, and
individuals?
- How did places and environments influence the battles of the war?
- Which change in science, technology, or economic activity had the
greatest impact on the war?
- How did cultural elements change from pre- to post Civil War?
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 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 H4A: Students understand the impact of scientific and
technological developments of individuals and 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.
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 2: Students know 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.
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 5: Students understand the effects of interactions
between human and physical systems and changes in meaning, use, distribution
and importance of resources.
Benchmark
5B: Students know how physical systems affect
human systems.
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.
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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