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Social Studies
Physical Systems
Investigates challenges people face in an effort to develop natural and environmental resources in regions of the United States
- Identifies cause-effect relationships between geography and industrialization…
- Uses maps…and timelines
- Evaluates the economy…and distribution of goods and services
- Analyzes physical characteristics, transportation routes…
Scientific, Technological and Economic Change
- Describes advances in transportation…[and] communication
- Identifies the modes, advantages and disadvantages of transportation used to move people, products and ideas from place to place
- Explains the impact of new inventions and discoveries on…transportation and communication
Historical Inquiry and Analysis
- Gathers and organizes information from many sources in relationship to the past
- Demonstrates map skills…tracing routes
- Analyzes historical situations and events
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Social Studies
Standard 1: Social Studies Skills
- Find, interpret, and apply information from primary and secondary sources including pictures, graphics, maps…[and] artifacts
Standard 2: Geography
- Use geographic tools
- Analyze how transportation and communication networks facilitate the movement of goods, ideas and people
- Explain why people modify the natural environment and the impact of those modifications
Standard 3: Economics
- Explain how improvements in technology (transportation, communication) impact the way people live and work
United States History- Grade 8
Standard 1: Social Studies Skills
- Constant various timelines…and explain how major events are related to each other
- Find, evaluate and organize information specific to social studies disciplines by reading, asking question, investigating and observing
- Find, interpret, and apply information from primary and secondary sources including pictures, graphics, maps…[and] artifacts
- Identify and distinguish cause and effect and sequence and correlation in historic events
- Analyze changes in land and water transportation, including a network of roads, canals and railroads, and their impact on the economy and settlement patterns
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History and Social Studies
Geography
Skills
- VS.1a) Identify and interpret artifacts and primary source documents to understand events in history.
- VS.1b) Determine cause and effect relationships
- VS.1e) Make connections between past and present.
- VS.1i) Analyze and interpret maps to explain relationships among landforms, water features…and historical events
- USI.1a) Identify and interpret primary and secondary source documents to increase understanding of events and life in United States history.
- USI.8c) The student will demonstrate knowledge of westward expansion and reform in America from 1801 to 1862 by describing the impact of inventions…on life in America.
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