GOAL 1: The learner will demonstrate the ability to understand the world in spatial terms.
- Demonstrate an understanding of location (6.5: A, B)
- Identify relative and absolute location
- Identify factors influencing location
- Demonstrate an understanding of place (6.5: A, B)
- Identify physical features
- Identify human or cultural features
- Demonstrate an understanding of human-environment interactions (6.5: B, C, D, E)
- Identify seasons and climate
- Identify land use and natural resources
- Identify effects of conservation and pollution
- Demonstrate an understanding of movement (6.5: D 1)
- Understand immigration, colonization, settlement patterns (people)
- Understand trade (products)
- Understand cultural borrowing and cultural diffusion (ideas)
- Demonstrate an understanding of regions (6.5: B)
- Identify physical regions
- Identify cultural regions
- Identify political regions
- Identify economic regions
GOAL 2: The learner will demonstrate historical understanding.
- Demonstrate an understanding of time patterns and relationships among Events (6.2: A)
- Identify sequence of events
- Identify chronology
- Identify cause and effect
- Identify and use historical evidence (6.2: A)
- Determine types of evidence
- Evaluate quality of evidence
- Understand the importance of individuals across time and place (6.3: B)
- Identify leaders and achievers
- Understand that all people make a difference
- Identify founders and first persons
- Recognize contributors to change
- Understand the importance of events across time and place (6.2, 6.3)
- Identify innovations and inventions
- Understand the times in which people lived (6.3: A 1-4)
- Appreciate historical empathy
- Understand origins, spread, and influence (6.3: A 1-4)
- Describe growth and expansion
- Understand the connection between past and present (6.2: 1, 2, 4)
- Make comparisons between past and present (6.2: 1; 6.3: A)
GOAL 3: The learner will demonstrate the ability to understand civic life, politics, and government.
- Understand patriotic identity (6.1: B 2)
- Identify flags, symbols, anthems, mottoes, and pledges
- Appreciate patriotic customs, celebrations, and traditions
- Understand civic values (6.1: A 2)
- Recognize and respect authority figures
- Accept and respect others
- Work for the common good
- Understand the democratic principles (6.1: A 6)
- Identify citizens as the source of government's authority
- Identify the principles of government by law
- Understand rights and freedoms of citizens (6.1: A 1, 3, 4)
- Identify voting rights, property rights, civil rights and human rights
- Recognize freedom of expression, worship, assembly, and movement
- Understand the responsibilities of citizens (6.1: A 3)
- Identify voluntary responsibilities (voting, keeping informed)
- Identify responsibilities under the law (obeying laws, paying taxes)
- Understand the purposes of government (6.1: A 1)
- Recognize that government promotes order and security
- Recognize that government promotes well being and common good
- Recognize that government provides for distribution of benefits and burdens of society.
- Recognize that government provides the means for peaceful conflict resolution
- Recognize that government protects rights and freedoms of individuals
- Understand democratic institutions (6.1: A 3)
- Identify levels of government
- Identify branches of government
- Identify government bodies
- Identify government services and activities
- Identify government documents
- Understand democratic processes (6.1: A 1, 2)
- Identify how rules and laws are made, amended, and removed
- Identify how laws are enforced
- Understand the voting and election process
GOAL 4: The learner will demonstrate the ability to understand economic literacy.
- Understand scarcity and economic choice (6.4: A 1-3, 5-9)
- Identify wants and basic needs
- Identify goods and services
- Identify production and consumption
- Identify trade-offs and opportunity cost
- Identify economic resources
- Identify spending and saving techniques
- Identify conservation techniques
- Understand interdependence and income (6.4: C 1)
- Identify transportation and communication links
- Identify mediums of exchange (barter and use of money)
- Describe trade
- Understand markets and prices (6.4: A 9; 6.4: B 4)
- Describe supply and demand
- Understanding productivity and economic growth (6.4: B 1)
- Describe kinds of work (jobs)
- Identify division of labor and specialization
- Describe production process
- Describe effects of technology
- Understanding economic systems and institutions (6.4: B 2)
- Identify public and private property
- Describe taxes
- Describe free enterprise and entrepreneurship
GOAL 5: The learner will demonstrate the ability to understand culture.
- Understanding ideas of shared humanity and unique identity (6.2)
- Describe culture and cultural identity
- Describe customs and traditions
- Describe cultural diversity and pluralism
- Identify multicultural societies
- Understanding social organizations and institutions (6.2)
- Appreciate the importance of belonging to groups
- Appreciate the importance of family and community
- Identify social class structures
- Describe roles (gender, age, occupation)
- Describe education
- Understanding means of thought and expression (6.2)
- Develop an appreciation for art, literature, music, dance, and architecture
- Identify and demonstrate appropriate behavior
- Describe language and communication
- Identify and describe recreation
- Understanding human relationships (6.2)
- Describe relationships between and among individuals
- Describe relationships within a culture or society
- Describe relationships between and among cultures or societies
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