Social Studies Priority Standards

SIXTH GRADE
Geography

Map reading
1. Basic components of a map
2. Identify/answer basic questions
3. Mapping the Western hemisphere
4. Analysis questions
5. Create physical map
Human/Environment Relationships
1. Latitude/longitude
2. Climate zones/continents/oceans/mountains/rivers
3. Application of basic concepts in steps 1 & 2
4. Justify location settlement patterns
History (Ancient-1500 World History)

Sources
1. Identify primary/secondary sources
2. Analyze primary/secondary sources
3. Justification/role playing primary/secondary sources
Chronology
1. Location
1. Basic facts- political/economic/cultural/geographical/historical
2. Analyze interactions
3. Evaluate change over time- timelines
Economics

Supply & Demand

1. Definitions
2. Inflation
3. Cost/Benefit
4. Price
Resources
1. Natural resources (River civilizations unit)
2. Vocab
3. Analyze importance of resources on a region
4. Development of civilization
5. Agriculture
6. 7 characteristics of a civilization project- to CEC
Civics

Forms of government
1. Vocab
Agriculture
 Who gets the power (priests/kings and totalitarianism/early civ.,
kings/emperors/caliphs, democracy, republic, anarchy,
kings/monarchs)
2. Development (of terms above)
3. Simulations (of terms above)
Rights & responsibilities of citizens
1. Vocab (justice systems- Hammurabi, Justinians Code)
2. Citizenship as a student at CEC
3. Mock Bill of Rights, Mock Congress
4. Modern events (election, etc.)

SEVENTH GRADE
Geography

Map reading
1. Types of maps (projections/scale)
2. Identify/Answer questions from all different map types
3. Mapping the Eastern hemisphere
4. Deeper analysis questions
5. Create physical and political map
Human/Environment Relationships
1. Latitude/longitude reinforced (mapping the world- regions)
2. Change over time
3. Understand/apply of concepts in steps 1 & 2
4. Evaluate/justify choices
History (1500-1950s World History)

Sources
1. Identify primary/secondary sources
Analyze credibility/bias/point-of-view of primary/secondary
sources
Types of primary/secondary sources
2. Evaluate sources to defend historical questions/thesis
3. Bias/Point-of-view regarding sources
4. Create a valid/researched/bias aware argument
Chronology
1. Identifying basic facts/location
2. Analyze interactions
3. Evaluate trends over time
4. Relationships between eras
Economics

Supply & Demand

1. Read graphs
2. Types of economic systems
 3. Definitions
4. Read articles & infer how S/D work in real life
5. Current affairs
6. Independently apply concepts to modern situations
Resources
1. Dist. of resources
2. Vocab
3. Renewable vs. non-renewable
4. Renaissance, Columbian Exchange, Industrial Revolution (raw
materials)
5. Factors of production
6. Taxes
7. Apply terms to historical situations
8. Simulations (commodities exchange)
Civics

Forms of government
1. Why is government important
2. Different types of government
3. Analyze primary sources
4. Apply economic systems to government
Rights and responsibility of citizens
1. Roles of citizens in diff. forms of government
2. Apply/analyze situations (skits)
3. Apply to their lives (modern connections, predict change)

EIGHTH GRADE
Geography

Map reading
1. Types of map (projections/scale)
2. Identify/answer basic questions
3. World mapping
4. Analysis questions
5. Online mapping
Human/Environment Relationships
1. Population/H.D.I./D.T.M.
2. Historical map analysis
3. Applying human/environment geography to historical events eras
4. Investigate past to current historical/geographical connections
History

Sources
1. Multiple perspectives and understanding distortions
2. Analyze evidence and data
3. Create a historical hypothesis
4. Debate and defend multiple perspectives
 Chronology (Geo/US)
1. Identifying more complex facts/location
2. Analyze interactions
3. Interpret sources to evaluate significance of historical events
4. Historical connections to present-day
Economics

Supply & Demand

1. Free trade
2. Embargos
3. Influencing factors
4. Product value- raw materials vs. finished materials
5. Mock United Nations- simulations
Resources
1. Personal credit & debt
Creating a budget- education cost, housing, etc
2. Conflict & cooperation
Vocab
Demographic Transition Model
Why do countries expand?
3. Application to historical events and current ones
Westward Expansion
Civil Rights
Unions into Industrial Revolution
Simulations (Model UN)

Civics

Continuity and change in the US government system

1. Vocab (Constitution, Bill of Rights, branches, why it has changed)
2. Application to their life (micro civics)
3. Application to modern events/larger curriculum connections/predictions
Rights and responsibilities of citizens
1. Vocab (civil, criminal, case, Supreme court, various types of justice
systems)
2. Apply and analyze cases, identify types
3. Simulation (mock trial)

Writing Expectations
SIXTH

MLA
o Citations
o 3-5 sources
o Bibliography
Complete Sentences
2-3 pages
SEVENTH

MLA
o Citations
o 5-8 credible sources, at least 2 print & 2 digital
o Bibliography
Longer complete sentences with evidence
3-5 pages
B: I give outline, I: They create outline, A: Alone

EIGHTH
Introduce other styles
o 8-10 sources
o Credibility & bias/opinion analysis
o Print/digital
o Databases
Correctly punctuated sentences, complex sentences with evidence- zero
tolerance
8-10 pages
B: They create outline, I: Alone, A: Alone and higher analysis