SS08 Essential Skills
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Social Science Essential Skills for Level 8
First Quarter:
Students will be able to:
- Identify and locate each of the fifty states in the U.S. Standard 1
- Locate places using latitude and longitude. Standard 1
- Identify a region by defining its distinguishing characteristics. Topic: Know the eight physical regions of the U.S. Standard 2
- Explain how and why countries trade goods and services. Topics: Columbian Exchange, French/Furs, Spain/Gold and England/tobacco trade items and their impacts on the New World. Standard 4
- Describe how places and environments have influenced events and conditions in the past. Topics: Dark Ages and the Age of Exploration, Columbian Exchange and global awareness. Standard 6
Second Quarter:
Students will be able to:
- Identify a region by defining its distinguishing characteristics. Topics: New England, Middle, and Southern colonies and their beliefs, economies, and immigrants. Standard 2
- Describe, locate, and compare different settlement patterns throughout the world. Topics: New England, Middle, and Southern colonies and their settlement patterns. Standard 4
- Explain how characteristics of different physical environments provide opportunities for or place constraints on human activities. Topics: New England with industry and Southern colonies with agriculture. Standard 5
- Explain how differing perceptions of places, people, and resources have affected events and conditions in the past. Topics: French and Indian War and Revolutionary War. Standard 6
Third Quarter:
Students will be able to:
- Describe various perspectives associated with places and regions. Topics: North v. South in Constitutional Convention. Standard 2
- Explain reasons for variation in population distribution and analyze the causes and types of human migration and its effect on places. Topics: Westward Expansion/Manifest Destiny. Standard 4
- Explain the role of technology in the human modification of the physical environment. Topics: Industrial Revolution and Westward Expansion/Manifest Destiny. Standard 5
- Describe how places and environments have influenced events and conditions in the past. Topics: Industrialization and Westward Expansion. Standard 6
Fourth Quarter:
Students will be able to:
- Analyze the influences and effects of regional labels and images. Describe various perspectives associated with places and regions. Topics: Slavery and Civil War Standard 2
- Describe how cooperation and conflict among people contribute to political, economic and social divisions of Earth’s surface. Topic: Civil War Standard 4
- Explain how characteristics of different physical environments provide opportunities for or place constraints on human activities. Topics: South/agricultural based v. North/industrial based. Standard 5
