Standards
Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
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Chronology organizes history and increases understanding of historical
relationships.
- Using historical data, events in history
can be analyzed from multiple perspectives.
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Economic, scientific
and technological developments impact human interactions.
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Political power has been acquired,
maintained, used and/or lost among various cultures throughout history
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Religious and
philosophical ideas have been powerful societal forces.
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Physical and human
characteristics define regions.
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Human migration
impacts cultural development of societies.
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Human and physical
systems interact and impact one another.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions
students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
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Where did the
Industrial Revolution begin? Why there? What were its regional and
worldwide effects?
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What were the social
and economic effects of the Industrial Revolution?
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How did economic
philosophies develop and impact the Industrial Revolution? How did
philosophical perspectives differ?
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What human
characteristics led to the rise of nationalism and unification?
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How is political
power used to advance the interest of specific nations?
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What was the
reaction of native populations to imperialism?
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How did the
countries involved view events that sparked the war? What do primary
and secondary sources reveal about the causes of WWI?
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How do maps increase
understanding of the events of WWI?
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What was the impact
of technology on the war?
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What were the major
results of the war?
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How was political
power used and lost as a result of WWI?
Why did the Russian revolution occur?
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How did the economic
developments of the 1920's impact world societies?
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 A:
Students know the general chronological order of events and people in
history.
Benchmark B:
Determine cause and effect relationships based on organizing major
historical and/or current events chronologically.
Benchmark C:
Students use chronology to examine and explain historical relationships.
History 2:
Students know how to
use the processes and resources of historical inquiry.
Benchmark B:
Students know how to interpret and evaluate primary and secondary
sources of historical information.
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.
Benchmark B:
Students understand how economic factors influenced historical events
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
B:
Students know how societies have been affected by religions and
philosophies.
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.
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 I meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
Benchmark A:
Students know how human actions modify the physical environment.
Benchmark C:
Students know the changes that occur in the meaning, use, location,
distribution, and importance of resources.
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