Unit #1 Core Curriculum aligned with Learning Targets
1. You will know the vocabulary associated with this unit and how each word connects to the important ideas.
Essential Concept/Skill #8: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues.
Section #3: Understand facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision making about an action taking on public issues.
2. You will be able to define history and analyze how it is more than just facts
Essential Concept/Skill #8: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues.
Section #1: Understand processes such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims, checking credibility of sources, and searching for causality.
Section #2: Understand relationships between and among significant events
Section #3: Understand facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision making about an action taking on public issues.
Section #4: Understand the process of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.
Section #5: Understand multiple view points within and across cultures related to important events, recurring dilemmas, and issues
Section #6: Understand how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon perspectives of participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians.
3. You will be able to compare and contrast primary and secondary sources and make that distinction when presented with them.
Essential Concept/Skill #8: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues.
Section #1: Understand processes such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims, checking credibility of sources, and searching for causality.
Section #2: Understand relationships between and among significant events
Section #3: Understand facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision making about an action taking on public issues.
Section #4: Understand the process of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.
Section #5: Understand multiple view points within and across cultures related to important events, recurring dilemmas, and issues
Section #6: Understand how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon perspectives of participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians.
4. You will know the difference between fact and opinion and be able to distinguish between the two when present in readings.
Essential Concept/Skill #8: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues.
Section #1: Understand processes such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims, checking credibility of sources, and searching for causality.
Section #2: Understand relationships between and among significant events
Section #3: Understand facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision making about an action taking on public issues.
Section #4: Understand the process of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.
Section #5: Understand multiple view points within and across cultures related to important events, recurring dilemmas, and issues
Section #6: Understand how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon perspectives of participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians.
5. You will know the difference between a hypothesis and theory, how they relate to each other, and the impact they have on the study of history.
Essential Concept/Skill #8: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues.
Section #1: Understand processes such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims, checking credibility of sources, and searching for causality.
Section #2: Understand relationships between and among significant events
Section #3: Understand facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision making about an action taking on public issues.
Section #4: Understand the process of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.
Section #5: Understand multiple view points within and across cultures related to important events, recurring dilemmas, and issues
Section #6: Understand how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon perspectives of participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians.
6. You will be able to define pre-history and understand the difficulties faced when studying this period of time.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #1: Understand the ways groups, societies, and cultures have addressed human needs and concerns in the past.
7. You will know where scientists believe the first humans came from and evaluate some of the theories of human development and spread.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #1: Understand the ways groups, societies, and cultures have addressed human needs and concerns in the past.
8. You will describe the characteristics of pre-history by comparing and contrasting the Old and New Stone ages, providing examples of each, and be able to understand the progression from one to the other.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #1: Understand the ways groups, societies, and cultures have addressed human needs and concerns in the past.
9. You will know what the key factor is in the development of civilization? Why?
Essential Concept/Skill #1- Understand historical patterns, periods of time, and the relationships among these elements.
Section #2- Understand significant historical periods and patterns of change within and across cultures, such as the development of ancient cultures and civilizations, the rise of nation states, and social, economic, and political revolutions.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #1: Understand the ways groups, societies, and cultures have addressed human needs and concerns in the past.
Essential Concept/Skill #7: Understand the role of innovation on the development and interaction of societies.
Section #1: Understand significant changes caused by technology, industrialization, urbanization, and population growth and the effects of these changes.
10. You will know what the features of civilization are and which one is the central or key to this development. Are they still important today? Why?
Essential Concept/Skill #1- Understand historical patterns, periods of time, and the relationships among these elements.
Section #2- Understand significant historical periods and patterns of change within and across cultures, such as the development of ancient cultures and civilizations, the rise of nation states, and social, economic, and political revolutions.
Essential Concept/Skill #2- Understand how and why people create, maintain, or change systems of power, authority, and governments.
Section #1- Understand the purpose of government and how its powers have been aquired, used, and justified.
Section #2- Understand different political systems from historical periods.
11.You will know where the first civilizations developed and why?
Essential Concept/Skill #1- Understand historical patterns, periods of time, and the relationships among these elements.
Section #2- Understand significant historical periods and patterns of change within and across cultures, such as the development of ancient cultures and civilizations, the rise of nation states, and social, economic, and political revolutions.
Essential Concept/Skill #2- Understand how and why people create, maintain, or change systems of power, authority, and
governments.
Section #1- Understand the purpose of government and how its powers have been aquired, used, and justified.
Section #2- Understand different political systems from historical periods.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #1: Understand the ways groups, societies, and cultures have addressed human needs and concerns in the past.
Essential Concept/Skill #6: Undestand the effects of geographic factors on historical events.
Section #1: Understand ways that historical events have been influenced by, and have influenced, physical and human geographic factors in local, regional, national, and global settings.
12.You will know what some of the first civilizations were and analyze their distinct characteristics.
Essential Concept/Skill #1- Understand historical patterns, periods of time, and the relationships among these elements.
Section #2- Understand significant historical periods and patterns of change within and across cultures, such as the development of ancient cultures and civilizations, the rise of nation states, and social, economic, and political revolutions.
Essential Concept/Skill #2- Understand how and why people create, maintain, or change systems of power, authority, and
governments.
Section #1- Understand the purpose of government and how its powers have been aquired, used, and justified.
Section #2- Understand different political systems from historical periods.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #1: Understand the ways groups, societies, and cultures have addressed human needs and concerns in the past.
Essential Concept/Skill #4: Understand the role of individuals and groups within a society as promoters of change or the status quo.
Section #1: Understand the significance of important people, their work, and their ideas in the areas of political and intellectual leadership, inventions, discoveries, and the arts.
Section #2: Understand the role the values of specific people in history played in influencing history.
Section #4: Understand the effect of "chance events" on history.
Essential Concept/Skill #5: Understand the effect of economic needs and wants on individual and group decisions.
Section #2: Understand connections between the cultural achievements of early civilizations and the development of political and economic institutions.
Essential Concept/Skill #6: Undestand the effects of geographic factors on historical events.
Section #2: Understand reasons for changes in the world's political boundaries.
Section #3: Understand the historic reasons for conflicts within specific world regions.
Essential Concept/Skill #7: Understand the role of innovation on the development and interaction of societies.
Section #1: Understand significant changes caused by technology,industrialization, urbanization, and population growth and the effects of these changes
13.You will develop a list of the contributions these civilizations made to today.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #2: Understand societal patterns for preserving and transmitting culture while adapting to environmental or social change.
14.You will be able to identify on a map where the topics from the unit are located.
Essential Concept/Skill #8: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues.
Section #1: Understand processes such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence
for claims, checking credibility of sources, and searching for causality.
Section #2: Understand relationships between and among significant events
Section #3: Understand facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision making about an action taking on public issues.
Section #4: Understand the process of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.
Section #5: Understand multiple view points within and across cultures related to important events, recurring
dilemmas, and issues
Section #6: Understand how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon perspectives of
participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians.
Essential Concept/Skill #6: Undestand the effects of geographic factors on historical events.
Section #2: Understand reasons for changes in the world's political boundaries.
Section #3: Understand the historic reasons for conflicts within specific world regions
Essential Concept/Skill #8: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues.
Section #3: Understand facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision making about an action taking on public issues.
2. You will be able to define history and analyze how it is more than just facts
Essential Concept/Skill #8: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues.
Section #1: Understand processes such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims, checking credibility of sources, and searching for causality.
Section #2: Understand relationships between and among significant events
Section #3: Understand facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision making about an action taking on public issues.
Section #4: Understand the process of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.
Section #5: Understand multiple view points within and across cultures related to important events, recurring dilemmas, and issues
Section #6: Understand how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon perspectives of participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians.
3. You will be able to compare and contrast primary and secondary sources and make that distinction when presented with them.
Essential Concept/Skill #8: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues.
Section #1: Understand processes such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims, checking credibility of sources, and searching for causality.
Section #2: Understand relationships between and among significant events
Section #3: Understand facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision making about an action taking on public issues.
Section #4: Understand the process of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.
Section #5: Understand multiple view points within and across cultures related to important events, recurring dilemmas, and issues
Section #6: Understand how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon perspectives of participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians.
4. You will know the difference between fact and opinion and be able to distinguish between the two when present in readings.
Essential Concept/Skill #8: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues.
Section #1: Understand processes such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims, checking credibility of sources, and searching for causality.
Section #2: Understand relationships between and among significant events
Section #3: Understand facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision making about an action taking on public issues.
Section #4: Understand the process of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.
Section #5: Understand multiple view points within and across cultures related to important events, recurring dilemmas, and issues
Section #6: Understand how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon perspectives of participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians.
5. You will know the difference between a hypothesis and theory, how they relate to each other, and the impact they have on the study of history.
Essential Concept/Skill #8: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues.
Section #1: Understand processes such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims, checking credibility of sources, and searching for causality.
Section #2: Understand relationships between and among significant events
Section #3: Understand facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision making about an action taking on public issues.
Section #4: Understand the process of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.
Section #5: Understand multiple view points within and across cultures related to important events, recurring dilemmas, and issues
Section #6: Understand how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon perspectives of participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians.
6. You will be able to define pre-history and understand the difficulties faced when studying this period of time.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #1: Understand the ways groups, societies, and cultures have addressed human needs and concerns in the past.
7. You will know where scientists believe the first humans came from and evaluate some of the theories of human development and spread.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #1: Understand the ways groups, societies, and cultures have addressed human needs and concerns in the past.
8. You will describe the characteristics of pre-history by comparing and contrasting the Old and New Stone ages, providing examples of each, and be able to understand the progression from one to the other.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #1: Understand the ways groups, societies, and cultures have addressed human needs and concerns in the past.
9. You will know what the key factor is in the development of civilization? Why?
Essential Concept/Skill #1- Understand historical patterns, periods of time, and the relationships among these elements.
Section #2- Understand significant historical periods and patterns of change within and across cultures, such as the development of ancient cultures and civilizations, the rise of nation states, and social, economic, and political revolutions.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #1: Understand the ways groups, societies, and cultures have addressed human needs and concerns in the past.
Essential Concept/Skill #7: Understand the role of innovation on the development and interaction of societies.
Section #1: Understand significant changes caused by technology, industrialization, urbanization, and population growth and the effects of these changes.
10. You will know what the features of civilization are and which one is the central or key to this development. Are they still important today? Why?
Essential Concept/Skill #1- Understand historical patterns, periods of time, and the relationships among these elements.
Section #2- Understand significant historical periods and patterns of change within and across cultures, such as the development of ancient cultures and civilizations, the rise of nation states, and social, economic, and political revolutions.
Essential Concept/Skill #2- Understand how and why people create, maintain, or change systems of power, authority, and governments.
Section #1- Understand the purpose of government and how its powers have been aquired, used, and justified.
Section #2- Understand different political systems from historical periods.
11.You will know where the first civilizations developed and why?
Essential Concept/Skill #1- Understand historical patterns, periods of time, and the relationships among these elements.
Section #2- Understand significant historical periods and patterns of change within and across cultures, such as the development of ancient cultures and civilizations, the rise of nation states, and social, economic, and political revolutions.
Essential Concept/Skill #2- Understand how and why people create, maintain, or change systems of power, authority, and
governments.
Section #1- Understand the purpose of government and how its powers have been aquired, used, and justified.
Section #2- Understand different political systems from historical periods.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #1: Understand the ways groups, societies, and cultures have addressed human needs and concerns in the past.
Essential Concept/Skill #6: Undestand the effects of geographic factors on historical events.
Section #1: Understand ways that historical events have been influenced by, and have influenced, physical and human geographic factors in local, regional, national, and global settings.
12.You will know what some of the first civilizations were and analyze their distinct characteristics.
Essential Concept/Skill #1- Understand historical patterns, periods of time, and the relationships among these elements.
Section #2- Understand significant historical periods and patterns of change within and across cultures, such as the development of ancient cultures and civilizations, the rise of nation states, and social, economic, and political revolutions.
Essential Concept/Skill #2- Understand how and why people create, maintain, or change systems of power, authority, and
governments.
Section #1- Understand the purpose of government and how its powers have been aquired, used, and justified.
Section #2- Understand different political systems from historical periods.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #1: Understand the ways groups, societies, and cultures have addressed human needs and concerns in the past.
Essential Concept/Skill #4: Understand the role of individuals and groups within a society as promoters of change or the status quo.
Section #1: Understand the significance of important people, their work, and their ideas in the areas of political and intellectual leadership, inventions, discoveries, and the arts.
Section #2: Understand the role the values of specific people in history played in influencing history.
Section #4: Understand the effect of "chance events" on history.
Essential Concept/Skill #5: Understand the effect of economic needs and wants on individual and group decisions.
Section #2: Understand connections between the cultural achievements of early civilizations and the development of political and economic institutions.
Essential Concept/Skill #6: Undestand the effects of geographic factors on historical events.
Section #2: Understand reasons for changes in the world's political boundaries.
Section #3: Understand the historic reasons for conflicts within specific world regions.
Essential Concept/Skill #7: Understand the role of innovation on the development and interaction of societies.
Section #1: Understand significant changes caused by technology,industrialization, urbanization, and population growth and the effects of these changes
13.You will develop a list of the contributions these civilizations made to today.
Essential Concept/Skill #3: Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintainance of societies period.
Section #2: Understand societal patterns for preserving and transmitting culture while adapting to environmental or social change.
14.You will be able to identify on a map where the topics from the unit are located.
Essential Concept/Skill #8: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues.
Section #1: Understand processes such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence
for claims, checking credibility of sources, and searching for causality.
Section #2: Understand relationships between and among significant events
Section #3: Understand facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision making about an action taking on public issues.
Section #4: Understand the process of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.
Section #5: Understand multiple view points within and across cultures related to important events, recurring
dilemmas, and issues
Section #6: Understand how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon perspectives of
participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians.
Essential Concept/Skill #6: Undestand the effects of geographic factors on historical events.
Section #2: Understand reasons for changes in the world's political boundaries.
Section #3: Understand the historic reasons for conflicts within specific world regions