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Web Resources Supporting the Maryland Voluntary State Curriculum
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Social Studies - Grade 7
History | Geography | Economics | Political | Peoples of the Nations |
HISTORY
Standard 1.0 |
| Students will examine significant ideas, beliefs, and themes; organize patterns and events; and analyze how individuals and societies have changed over time in Maryland and the United States. Students will use historical thinking skills to understand how individuals and events have changed society over time. |
Topic
A. History |
Indicator
1. Analyze the major sources of tension, cooperation, and conflict in the world and the efforts that have been made to address them
Objectives
a. Evaluate the causes of conflict in the global community such as Apartheid, the acquisition of natural resources like oil or water, the decline of communism, ethnic persecution, weapons of mass destruction, and domestic, and international terrorism
b. Analyze and describe the efforts of world nations and groups to assist in the resolution of conflicts within and among regions, such as the United Nations, the International Red Cross, and other humanitarian organizations
c. Analyze and describe efforts by world nations to promote cooperation within and among those regions, such as the International Monetary Fund, United Nations, World Bank, and world-wide healthcare initiatives
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GEOGRAPHY
Standard 2.0 |
| Students will use geographic concepts and processes to examine the role of culture, technology, and the environment in the location and distribution of human activities and spatial connections throughout time. Students will use geographic concepts and processes to understand location and its relationship to human activities. |
Topic
A. Geography |
Indicator
1. Locate places and describe the human and physical characteristics of those places using geographic tools
Objectives
a. Describe the human and physical characteristics of modern world regions, such as distribution of natural resources and modifications to the environment, by constructing, interpreting, and using appropriate maps, graphs, charts, and data
b. Compare climate, land use, natural resources, population distribution, and density maps of a world region
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2. Explain interrelationships among physical and human characteristics that shape the identity of regions and places around the world
Objectives
a. Explain how the physical and human characteristics, such as vegetation, climate, minerals, population density, and religion, of a region affect its economic growth
b. Explain how the physical and human characteristics of regions, such as desert, savanna, tropical, urban and rural, affect the way people make a living
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3.Analyze and describe population growth, migration and settlement patterns
Objectives
a. Identify reasons why people migrate such as economic opportunity, climate, political reasons, and government policies
b. Analyze the patterns of migration and settlement within regions and throughout the world, such as urban to suburban, rural to urban, or immigration
c. Evaluate the consequences of migration and settlement to various regions of the world, such as employment, changes in population, and cultural diversity/conflict
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4. Analyze how and why humans modify their natural environment and the impact of those modifications
Objectives
a. Identify factors of economic opportunity and the various ways humans modify their environments to meet their needs, such as the use of natural resources, water use, the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and strip mining
b. Explain the consequences of modifying the natural environment, such as desertification, air pollution, and global warming
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ECONOMICS
Standard 3.0 |
| Students will develop economic reasoning to understand the historical development and current status of economic principles, institutions, and processes needed to be effective citizens, consumers, and workers participating in local communities, the nation, and the world. Students will identify the economic principles and processes that are helpful to producers and consumers when making good decisions. |
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Indicator
1. Analyze how scarcity of natural, human and capital resources affects economic choices producers and consumers make the in the world today
Objectives
a. Describe ways people use resources in economic activities in the local and global markets such as subsistence farming v. commercial farming and sustainable development
b. Compare the characteristics of traditional, command, and market decision making in contemporary mixed economies
c. Analyze opportunity costs and trade-offs made in the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
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6. Analyze the level of specialization and economic development in different parts of the modern world
Objective
a. Compare the standard of living to the quality of life in a world region using economic characteristics such as Gross National Product (GNP), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), per capital income, and the Human Development Index (HDI)
b. Identify factors that have influenced economic development in various regions such as: individuals, corporations, natural resources, technology, military power, population growth, international organizations, infrastructure and public health issues
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POLITICAL
Standard 4.0 |
| Students will understand the historical development and current status of the fundamental concepts and processes of authority, power, and influence, with particular emphasis on the democratic skills and attitudes necessary to become responsible citizens. Students will understand the historical development and current status of the democratic principles and the development of skills and attitudes necessary to become responsible citizens. |
Topic
A. Political Science |
Indicator
1. Compare the characteristics and structure of various systems of government
Objectives
a. Describe the pros and cons of limited governments, such as representative and parliamentary democracy
b. Describe the pros and cons of unlimited government, such as authoritarian and dictatorship
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3. Analyze the methods used by individuals and groups to shape governmental policy and actions
Objectives
a. Analyze the role of individuals in shaping governmental policy
b. Describe how political parties and special interest groups influence and change government policy, such as third parties, and non-governmental organizations
c. Analyze the role of media and public opinion in shaping government policy and action
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PEOPLES OF THE NATIONS AND THE WORLD
Standard 5.0 |
| Students will understand the diversity and commonality, human interdependence, and global cooperation of the people of Maryland, the United States and the World through a multicultural and historic perspective. Students will understand how people in Maryland, the United States and around the world are alike and different. |
Topic
A. Peoples of the Nations and the World
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Indicator
1. Describe characteristics that are used to organize people into cultures
Objectives
a. Analyze the elements of culture, such as art, music, religion, government, social structure, education, values, beliefs, and customs in modern world regions
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2. Analyze how diverse cultures shape a pluralistic society
Objectives
a. Identify cultural groups within a modern world region
b. Describe how migration contributes to the diversity of nations and regions around the world
c. Analyze how cultural diffusion is influenced by factors, such as trade, migration, immigration and conflict
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