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SOCIAL STUDIES PROCESS AND SKILLS STANDARDS: GRADES 6-8
SOCIAL STUDIES PROCESS AND SKILLS STANDARDS: GRADES 6-8
P1. READING AND COMMUNICATION – READ AND COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY
P1.1. Use appropriate strategies to read and interpret basic social science tables, graphs, graphics, maps, and texts.
P1.3. Express social science ideas clearly in written, spoken, and graphic forms, including tables, line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, maps, and images.
C4. RELATIONSHIP OF UNITED STATES TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS, WORLD ISSUES, AND WORLD GOVERNING ORGANIZATIONS
C4.3. Conflict and Cooperation Between and Among Nations – Explain the various ways that governments interact both positively and negatively.
6 – C4.3.1. Explain how governments address national and international issues and form policies, and how the policies may not be consistent with those of other nation-states.
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6 – C4.3.2. Explain the challenges to governments to address global issues, and the international cooperation needed to do so.
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6 – C4.3.3. Analyze the impact of treaties, agreements, and international organizations on global issues.
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ECONOMICS
E3. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY
E3.1. Economic Systems – Describe how societies organize to allocate resources to produce and distribute goods and services.
6 – E3.1.1. Explain and compare how economic systems (traditional, command, market) answer the three basic economic questions: What goods and services will be produced? How will they be produced? For whom will they be produced? Also, who will receive the benefits or
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E3.3. Economic Interdependence – Describe patterns and networks of economic interdependence, including trade.
6 – E3.3.1. Use charts and graphs to compare imports and exports of different countries in the world and propose generalizations about patterns of economic interdependence.
G1. THE WORLD IN SPATIAL TERMS: GEOGRAPHICAL HABITS OF MIND
G1.1. Spatial Thinking – Use maps and other geographic tools to acquire and process information from a spatial perspective.
6 – G1.1.1. Use a variety of geographic tools (maps, globes, and web-based geography technology) to analyze the world at global, regional, and local scales.
G1.2. Geographical Inquiry and Analysis – Use skills of geographic inquiry and analysis to answer important questions about relationships between people, their cultures, and their environments, in their communities and within the larger world context. Students
6 – G1.2.1. Apply the skills of geographic inquiry (asking geographic questions, acquiring geographic information, organizing geographic information, analyzing geographic information, and answering geographic questions) to analyze a geographic problem or issue.
6 – G1.2.3. Use, interpret, and create maps and graphs representing population characteristics, natural features, and land use of the region under study.
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6 – G1.2.4. Use images as the basis for answering geographic questions about the human and physical characteristics of places and major world regions.
6 – G1.2.5. Locate and use information from GIS and satellite remote sensing to answer geographic questions.
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6 – G1.2.6. Create or interpret a map of the population distribution of a region and generalize about the factors influencing the distribution of the population.
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G1.3. Geographical Understanding – The purpose of middle school geography curriculum is to develop content, themes, skills, and perspectives that can help students understand a diverse and interconnected world.
6 – G1.3.1. Use the fundamental themes of geography (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, region) to describe regions or places on earth.
G4.1. Cultural Mosaic – Describe the characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth’s cultural mosaic.
6 – G4.1.1. Define culture and describe examples of cultural change through diffusion, including what has diffused, why and where it has spread, and positive and negative consequences of the change.
G4.2. Technology Patterns and Networks – Describe how technology creates patterns and networks that connect people, resources, products, and ideas.
6 – G4.2.1. Identify and describe the advantages, disadvantages, and impacts of different technologies used to transport people and products, and spread ideas throughout the world.
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G4.3. Patterns of Human Settlement – Describe patterns, processes, and functions of human settlement.
6 – G4.3.1. Explain how people have modified the environment and used technology to make places more suitable for humans, as well as how modifications sometimes have negative/unintended consequences.
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6 – G4.3.3. Explain the patterns, causes, and consequences of major human migrations.
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G4.4. Forces of Cooperation and Conflict – Explain how forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division of the Earth’s surface and its resources.
6 – G4.4.1. Identify factors that contribute to cooperation and conflict between and among cultural groups (control/use of natural resources, power, wealth, and cultural diversity).
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6 – G4.4.2. Evaluate examples of cooperation and conflict within the region under study from different perspectives.
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G5. ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
G5.1. Humans and the Environment – Describe how humans use and modify the environment.
6 – G5.1.1. Describe examples of how humans have impacted and are continuing to impact the environment in different places as a consequence of population size, resource use, level of consumption, and technology.
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G5.2. Physical and Human Systems – Describe how physical and human systems shape patterns on the Earth’s surface.
6 – G5.2.1. Analyze the effects that a change in the physical environment could have on human activities and the actions people would be required to make (or would choose to make) in response to the change.
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