| Date: 6/20/2006 | ||
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Standard 1.0 Political Science
Topic
A. The Foundations and Function of Government
Indicator
- 1. Explain the role of individuals and groups in creating rules and laws to maintain order, protect citizens, and provide services
Objectives
- Identify local government leaders, such as the mayor, county council members or commissioners, and county executive and explain their role in protecting citizens and maintaining order
- Explain the consequences of violating rules and laws
- Describe the selection process and duties of local officials who make, apply, and enforce laws through government
Indicator
- 2. Explain how certain practices are connected with the democratic principles (skills, attitudes, and dispositions) of being a citizen
Objectives
- Identify and explain democratic principles, such as individual rights and responsibilities, patriotism, common good, justice and equality
- Describe practices such as voting, following rules, volunteering, and recognizing national holidays associated with democratic principles
Topic
B. Individual and Group Participation in the Political System
Indicator
- 1. Explain how people and events have contributed to the American political system
Objectives
- Describe the contributions of local government leaders such as county executives, county council, mayor and city council
- Describe the contributions of people who contributed to the common good of society
Indicator
- 2. Analyze the role of individual and group participation in creating a supportive community
Objectives
- Explain the decision making process used to accomplish a community goal or solve a community problem
- Explain the roles and responsibilities of effective citizens in a political process
- Describe the actions of people who have made a positive difference in their community, such as community and civic leaders, and organizations
Topic
C. Protecting Rights and Maintaining Order
Indicator
- 1. Explain the rights and responsibilities of being a member of the school and the community
Objectives
- Describe the responsibilities of being an effective citizen, such as cleaning up your neighborhood, being informed, obeying rules and laws, participating in class decisions, and volunteering
Standard 2.0 Peoples of the Nation and World
Topic
A. Elements of Culture
Indicator
- 1. Analyze and describe elements of a multicultural setting
Objectives
- Use fiction and non-fiction to compare the elements of several cultures and how they meet their human needs for clothing, food, shelter, recreation, education, stories, art, music, and language
- Explain how and why media such as the internet, television, radio, and newspaper provide an opportunity to understand various perspectives about cultures
Topic
B. Cultural Diffusion
Indicator
- 1. Identify and describe how individuals and groups share and borrow from other cultures
Objectives
- Use non-fiction texts to identify and discuss examples of how communities borrow and share from other cultures
Topic
C. Conflict and Compromise
Indicator
- 1. Analyze how groups of people interact
Objectives
- Identify and demonstrate appropriate social skills necessary for working in a cooperative groups such as using concern, compassion, and respect among group members
- Explain how different points of view in school and community situations may result in compromise or conflict
Standard 3.0 Geography
Topic
A. Using Geographic Tools
Indicator
- 1. Use geographic tools to locate and construct meaning about places on Earth
Objectives
- Describe the purposes of a variety of maps and atlases, such as transportation maps, physical maps, and political maps
- Identify the location of communities, major cities in Maryland, United States and the world using a globe, maps, and atlases
Topic
B. Geographic Characteristics of Places and Regions
Indicator
- 1. Compare places and regions around the world using geographic characteristics
Objectives
- Compare places and regions using geographic features
- Identify natural/physical and human-made features of places and regions
- Describe population distribution of places and regions such as rural and urban
- Describe how geographic characteristics of places and regions change over time and influence the way people live and work
Indicator
Objectives
- Explain how transportation and communication networks connect places, people, and ideas
Topic
D. Modifying and Adapting to the Environment
Indicator
- 1. Explain how people modify, protect and adapt to their environment
Objectives
- Describe how people in a community modify their environment to meet changing needs for transportation, shelter and making a living
- Describe why and how people make decisions about protecting the environment
- Compare ways that people adapt to the environment for food, clothing, and shelter
Standard 4.0 Economics
Topic
A. Scarcity and Economic Decision-making
Indicator
Objectives
- Explain why people must make economic choices
- Identify and apply the steps in the decision-making process
- Identify the opportunity cost of a choice or decision
Indicator
- 2. Examine the production process
Objectives
- Explain how producers make choices because of limited natural, human, and capital resources
- Give examples of when limited resources affect the decisions producers make
- Describe steps in the production process to produce a product
- Explain how specialized work results in increased production
Indicator
- 3. Examine how technology affects the way people live, work, and play
Objectives
- Describe how changes in technology have affected the lives of consumers, such as UPC bar codes, and online shopping
- Describe how changes in technology have affected lives of producers, such as robot-powered assembly lines
Topic
B. Economic Systems and the Role of Government in the Economy
Indicator
- 1. Describe different types of markets
Objectives
- Identify markets that are not face-to-face meetings, such as Internet shopping or catalog shopping
Objectives
Objectives
- Develop a budget indicating income and expenses
- Develop a plan that shows how money is obtained, such as selling things, getting a gift, and getting allowance
Standard 5.0 History
Topic
A. Individuals and Societies Change Over Time
Indicator
- 1. Examine differences between past and present time
Objectives
- Develop a timeline of events in the community
- Explain the relationship among events in a variety of timelines
Indicator
- 2. Investigate how people lived in the past using a variety of primary and secondary sources
Objectives
- Collect and examine information about people, places, or events of the past using pictures, photographs, maps, audio or visual tapes, and or documents
- Compare family life in the local community by considering jobs, communication, and transportation
Standard 6.0 Social Studies Skills and Processes
Topic
A. Read to Learn and Construct Meaning about Social Studies
Indicator
- 1. Use appropriate strategies and opportunities to increase understandings of social studies vocabulary
Objectives
- Acquire and apply new vocabulary through investigating, listening, independent reading and discussing a variety of print and non-print sources
- Identify and use new vocabulary acquired through study of relationships to prior knowledge and experiences
- Use context clues to understand new social studies vocabulary
- Use new vocabulary in speaking and writing to gain and extend content knowledge and clarify expression
Indicator
- 2. Use strategies to prepare for reading (before reading)
Objectives
- Identify the characteristics of informational texts, such as print features, graphic aids, informational aids, organizational aids, and online features
- Preview the text by examining features, such as the title, pictures, maps, illustrations, photographs, charts, timelines, graphs, and icons
- Set a purpose for reading the text
- Ask questions and make predictions about the text
- Make connections to the text using prior knowledge and experiences
Indicator
- 3. Use strategies to monitor understanding and derive meaning from text and portions of text (during reading)
Objectives
- Identify and use knowledge of organizational structures, such as chronological order, cause/effect, main ideas and details, description, similarities/differences, and problem/solution to gain meaning
- Reread slowly and carefully, restate, or read on and revisit difficult parts
- Use a graphic organizer or another note-taking technique to record important ideas or information
- Look back through the text to search for connections between and among ideas
- Make, confirm, or adjust predictions about the text
- Periodically summarize or paraphrase important ideas while reading
- Visualize what was read for deeper meaning
- Explain personal connections to the ideas or information in the text
Indicator
- 4. Use strategies to demonstrate understanding of the text (after reading)
Objectives
- Identify and explain what is directly stated in the text
- Identify, paraphrase, or summarize the main idea of the text
- Determine and explain the author's purpose
- Distinguish between facts and opinions
- Explain whether or not the author's opinion is presented fairly
- Explain what is not directly stated in the text by drawing inferences
- Confirm or refute predictions made about the text to form new ideas
- Connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experiences
- Draw conclusions and make generalizations based on the text, multiple texts, and/or prior knowledge
Topic
B. Write to Learn and Communicate Social Studies Understandings
Indicator
- 1. Use informal writing strategies, such as journal writing, note taking, quick writes, and graphic organizers to clarify, organize, remember and/or express new understandings
Objectives
- Identify key ideas
- Connect key ideas to prior knowledge (personal experience, text, and world)
Indicator
- 2. Use formal writing, such as multi-paragraph essays, historical investigations, research reports, letters and summaries to inform
Objectives
- Identify form, audience, topic, and purpose before writing
- Organize facts and/or data to support a topic
- Provide introduction, body, and conclusion
- Cite sources of information
Indicator
- 3. Use formal writing, such as multi-paragraph essays, historical investigations, editorials, and letters to persuade
Objectives
- Identify form audience, topic and purpose
- State a clear opinion or position
- Support the opinion or position with facts and/or data
Indicator
- 4. Use timed, on-demand writing to demonstrate understanding on assessments (Constructed Responses)
Objectives
- Address the topic
- Provide accurate information
- Support topic with appropriate details
- Incorporate social studies knowledge
Topic
C. Ask Social Studies Questions
Indicator
- 1. Identify a topic that requires further study
Objectives
- Identify prior knowledge about the topic
- Pose questions the about the topic
- Formulate research questions
- Develop a plan for how to answer questions about the topic
Indicator
- 2. Identify a problem/situation that requires further study
Objectives
- Define the problem/situation
- Identify prior knowledge about the problem/situation
- Pose questions about the problem/ situation from a variety of perspectives
- Pose questions that elicit higher order thinking responses
- Formulate simple research questions
- Develop a plan for how to answer questions about the problem/situation
Topic
D. Acquire Social Studies Information
Indicator
- 1. Identify primary and secondary sources of information that relate to the topic/situation/problem being studied
Objectives
- Gather and read appropriate print sources, such as textbooks, government documents, timelines, trade books, and web sites
- Read and obtain information from texts representing diversity in content, culture, authorship, and perspective
- Locate and gather data and information from appropriate non-print sources, such as music, artifacts, charts, maps, graphs, photographs, video clips, illustrations, paintings, political cartoons, interviews, and oral histories
Indicator
- 2. Engage in field work that relates to the topic/ situation/ problem being studied
Objectives
- Gather data
- Make and record observations
- Design and conduct surveys and oral histories
Topic
E. Organize Social Studies Information
Indicator
- 1. Organize information from non-print sources
Objectives
- Prioritize information gathered according to importance and relevance
- Distinguish factual from fictional information
- Find relationships between gathered information
- Display information on various types of graphic organizers, maps, and charts
- Categorize information obtained from surveys and field work
Indicator
- 2. Organize information from print sources
Objectives
- Prioritize information gathered according to importance and relevance
- Distinguish factual from fictional information
- Find relationships between gathered information
- Construct various types of graphic organizers, maps, and charts to display information
Topic
F. Analyze Social Studies Information
Indicator
- 1. Interpret information from primary and secondary sources
Objectives
- Interpret information in maps, charts and graphs
- Interpret information from field studies and surveys
- Analyze a document to determine point of view
- Analyze the perspective of the author
- Identify the bias and prejudice
Indicator
- 2. Evaluate information from a variety of sources
Objectives
- Compare information from a variety of sources
- Compare information to prior knowledge
- Determine the reliability of the document
Indicator
- 3. Synthesize information from a variety of sources
Objectives
- Recognize relationships in and among ideas or events, such as cause and effect, sequential order, main idea, and details
Topic
G. Answer Social Studies Questions
Indicator
- 1. Describe how the country has changed over time and how people have contributed to its change, drawing from maps, photographs, newspapers, and other sources
Objectives
- Present social studies information in a variety ways, such as mock trials, simulations, debates, and skits
- Engage in civic participation and public discourse
Indicator
- 2. Use historic contexts to answer questions
Objectives
- Use historically accurate resources to answer questions, make predictions, and support ideas
- Explain why historic interpretations vary and are subject to change
- Construct a sound historical interpretation
Indicator
- 3. Use current events/issues to answer questions
Objectives
- Summarize the main points of an issue explaining different viewpoints
- Make a decision based on the analysis of issues and evaluate the consequences of these decisions
- Identify and formulate a position on a course of action or an issue
- Propose and justify solutions to social studies problems
Date: 6/20/2006
