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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.
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Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideWorld War II
P1.3. Express social science ideas clearly in written, spoken, and graphic forms, including tables, line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, maps, and images.
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Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideWorld War I
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WORLD HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY: GRADE 7 – HISTORY
WORLD HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY: GRADE 7 – HISTORY
H1. THE WORLD IN TEMPORAL TERMS: HISTORICAL HABITS OF MIND
H1.1. Temporal Thinking – Use historical conceptual devices to organize and study the past.
7 – H1.1.1. Compare and contrast several different calendar systems used in the past and present and their cultural significance.
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H1.2. Historical Inquiry and Analysis – Use historical inquiry and analysis to study the past.
7 – H1.2.2. Read and comprehend a historical passage to identify basic factual knowledge and the literal meaning by indicating who was involved, what happened, where it happened, what events led to the development, and what consequences or outcomes followed.
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7 – H1.4.3. Use historical perspectives to analyze global issues faced by humans long ago and today.
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W2. WHG ERA 2 – EARLY CIVILIZATIONS AND CULTURES AND THE EMERGENCE OF PASTORAL PEOPLES, 4000 TO 1000 BCE AND WESTERN HEMISPHERE 4000 BCE to 1500 CE
W2.1. Early Civilizations and Major Empires – Analyze early civilizations and pastoral societies.
7 – W2.1.1. Describe the importance of the development of human communication (oral, visual, and written) and its relationship to the development of culture.
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7 – W2.1.3. Use historical and modern maps and other sources to locate, describe, and analyze major river systems and discuss the ways these physical settings supported permanent settlements and development of early civilizations.
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7 – W2.1.4. Examine early civilizations to describe their common features, including environment, economies, and social institutions.
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7 – W3.1.2. Using historic and modern maps, locate three major empires of this era, describe their geographic characteristics including physical features and climates, and propose a generalization about the relationship between geographic characteristics and the deve
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7 – W3.1.3. Compare and contrast the defining characteristics of a city-state, civilization, and empire.
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7 – W3.1.4. Assess the importance of Greek ideas about democracy and citizenship in the development of Western political thought and institutions.
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7 – W3.1.5. Describe major achievements from Indian, Chinese, Mediterranean, African, Southwest and Central Asian, Mesoamerican, and Andean civilizations.
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7 – W3.1.6. Use historic and modern maps to locate and describe trade networks linking empires in the classical era.
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7 – W3.1.7. Use a case study to describe how trade integrated cultures and influenced the economy within empires.
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7 – W3.1.8. Describe the role of state authority, military power, taxation systems, and institutions of coerced labor, including slavery, in building and maintaining empires.
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7 – W3.1.9. Describe the significance of legal codes, belief systems, written languages, and communications in the development of large regional empires.
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W3.2. Growth and Development of World Religions – Explain how world religions or belief systems of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Sikhism, and Islam grew and their significance (Sikhism and Islam are included here even though they came
7 – W3.2.1. Identify and describe the core beliefs of major world religions and belief systems, including Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Sikhism and Islam.
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7 – W3.2.2. Locate the geographical center of major religions and map the spread through 1500 CE.
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W4. WHG ERA 4 – BRIDGE TO ERA 4 – CASE STUDIES FROM THREE CONTINENTS
7 – W4.1. Case studies from Europe, Africa, and the Americas are intended to set the stage for Integrated U.S. History in Grade 8.
7 – W4.1.1. Crisis in the Classical World – analyze the environmental, economic, and political crises in the classical world that led to the collapse of classical empires and the consolidation of Byzantium.
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8 – W4.1. Case studies from Europe, Africa, and the Americas are intended to set the stage for Integrated U.S. History in Grade 8.
7 – W4.1.2. Africa to 1500 CE – use a case study to describe how trade integrated cultures and influenced the economy within early African empires.
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WORLD HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY: GRADE 7 – GEOGRAPHY
WORLD HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY: GRADE 7 – GEOGRAPHY
PUBLIC DISCOURSE, DECISION MAKING, AND CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT (P3, P4)
P3.1. Identifying and Analyzing Issues, Decision Making, Persuasive Communication about a Public Issue, and Citizen Involvement
7 – P3.1.1. Clearly state an issue as a question of public policy in contemporary or historical context, or as a contemporary/historical comparison. Trace the origins of an issue, analyze and synthesize various perspectives, and generate and evaluate alternative reso
7 – P3.1.1.1. identify public policy issues related to global topics and issues studied.
G1.2. Geographical Inquiry and Analysis – Use geographical inquiry and analysis to answer questions about relationships between peoples, cultures, and their environments, and interaction among places and cultures within the era under study.
7 – G1.2.1. Use a variety of geographical tools (maps, globes, geographic information systems [GIS], and web-based geography technology) to analyze what is happening at different times in different locations.
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7 – G1.2.2. 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.
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7 – 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 conflict and cooperation among people influence the division of the Earth’s surface and its resources.
7 – G4.4.1. Identify factors that contribute to conflict and cooperation between and among cultural groups.
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7 – G4.4.2. Describe examples of cooperation and conflict in the era being studied.
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G5. ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
G5.1. Explain how humans used, adapted to, and modified the environment in the era studied.
7 – G5.1.1. Describe examples of how humans modified the environment in the era being studied.