SS08 Standards
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American History Rubrics
Come to the Colonies Poster Rubric
Constitutional Convention Rubric
Manifest Destiny/Industrialization PowerPoint Rubric
Native American Project Rubric
Colorado Model Content Standards: Social Science Level 8
History
History Standard 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.
1.1 Students know the general chronological order of events and people in history.ES
1.2 Students use chronology to organize historical events and people.ES
1.3 Students use chronology to examine and explain historical relationships.ES
History Standard 2 –
Students know how to use the processes and resources of historical inquiry.
2.2 Students know how to interpret and evaluate primary and secondary sources of historical information.ES
History Standard 3 –
Students understand that societies are diverse and have changed over time.
3.1 Students know how various societies were affected by contacts and exchanges among diverse peoples.ES
3.2 Students understand the history of social organization* in various societies.ES
History Standard 4 –
Students understand how science, technology, and economic activity have developed, changed, and affected societies throughout history.
4.2 Students understand how economic factors have influenced historical events. ES
History Standard 5 –
Students understand political institutions and theories that have developed and changed over time.
5.2 Students know how various systems of government have developed and functioned throughout history.ES
History Standard 6 –
Students know that religious and philosophical ideas have been powerful forces throughout history.
6.1 Students know the historical development of religions and philosophies.ES
6.2 Students know how societies have been affected by religions and philosophies.ES
6.3 Students know how various forms of expression reflect religious beliefs and philosophical ideas.
Geography
Geography Standard 1 –
Students know how to use and construct maps, globes, and other geographic tools* to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.
1.1 Students know how to use maps, globes, and other geographic tools to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
1.2 Students develop knowledge of Earth to locate people, places, and environments.ES
1.3 Students know how to analyze the dynamic spatial organization of people, places, and environments.
Geography Standard 2 –
Students know the physical* and human characteristics* of places, and use this knowledge to define and study regions* and their patterns of change.
2.1 Students know the physical and human characteristics of places.ES
2.2 Students know how and why people define regions.
2.3 Students know how culture* and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions.ES
Geography Standard 3 –
Students understand how physical processes* shape Earth’s* surface patterns* and systems*.
3.1 Students know the physical processes that shape Earth’s surface patterns.
3.2 Students know the characteristics and distributions of physical systems of land, air, water, plants, and animals.
Geography Standard 4 –
Students understand how economic, political, cultural, and social processes* interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence*, cooperation, and conflict.
4.1 Students know the characteristics, location, distribution, and migration of human populations.ES
4.2 Students know the nature and spatial distribution* of cultural patterns.ES
4.3 Students know the patterns and networks of economic interdependence.
4.4 Students know the processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement.
Geography Standard 5 –
Students understand the effects of interactions between human* and physical systems* and the changes in meaning, use, distribution*, and importance of resources*.
5.1 Students know how human actions modify the physical environment.
5.2 Students know how physical systems affect human systems.
Geography Standard 6 –
Students apply knowledge of people, places, and environments to understand the past and present and to plan for the future.
6.1 Students know how to apply geography to understand the past.
6.2 Students know how to apply geography to understand the present and plan for the future.
Civics
Civics Standard 1 –
Students understand the purposes of government, and the basic constitutional principles* of the United States republican form of government.
1.1 Students know and understand what government is and what purpose it serves.ES
1.2 Students know the essential characteristics of limited* and unlimited government*.ES
1.3 Students understand the principles* of the United States constitutional government*.ES
1.4 Students know the distinctive characteristics of the political culture* of the United States.ES
1.5 Students know the fundamental democratic principles* inherent in the United States concept of a constitutional democratic republic*.
Civics Standard 2 –
Students know the structure and function of local, state, and national government and how citizen involvement shapes public policy.
2.1 Students know the organization and functions of local, state, and national governments.ES
2.3 Students know and understand the place of law in the Colorado and United States constitutional systems.
2.4 Students know how public policy* is developed at the local, state, and national levels.
Civics Standard 3 –
Students know the political relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations and to world affairs.
3.1 Students know how and why governments and nongovernmental agencies around the world interact politically.
3.2 Students understand how the United States government develops foreign policy*.
3.3 Students understand the domestic and foreign policy influence the United States has on other nations and how the actions of other nations influence politics* and society of the United States.
Civics Standard 4 –
Students understand how citizens exercise the roles, rights and responsibilities of participation in civic life* at all levels - local, state and national.
4.1 Students know what citizenship is.ES
4.3 Students know how citizens can exercise their rights.
4.4 Students know how citizens can participate in civic life*.
