| K- 12 Social Studies Curriculum (Multicultural Relations) | ||||||||||||||
| topic | grade | |||||||||||||
| K | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Modern Civ | Civics/Gov | # of grades that include this | |
| Demonstrate an understanding that people, cultures, and systems are connected and that commonalities and diversities exist among them. | K | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||||
| Demonstrate an understanding of the significance of physical and cultural characteristics of places and world regions. | K | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||||
| Compare and contrast customs of families in communities around the world. | K | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Listen to stories from various cultures. | K | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Identify religious and secular symbols associated with famous people, holidays, and special days of diverse cultures. | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| State reason for observing special, religious, and secular holidays of diverse cultures. | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Discuss what it would be like to live in a different community. | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Explore how families express their cultures through celebrations, rituals, and traditions. | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Use resources from own family and other families to explore and appreciate the variety of traditions and celebrations in our community. | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Explain and illustrate that where people live and how they meet their basic needs affects their culture. | 1 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Compare nad contrast the differing perspectives shown in the traditions, patriotic symbols, and celebrations observed by different cultures within our community. | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Use personal experiences, biographies, or historical fiction about immigrants to explain how many individuals are affected by, can cope with , and can create change. | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Examine how people share elements of their culture with others. | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Domonstrate an understanding of how people, tools, and institutions have been influenced by our multicultural society. | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Explore the social and economic effects of immigration on the U.S. | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Use maps, globes, and research to compare homeland environments of immigrants to the U.S. environments in which they settled. | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Compare the similarities and differences of groups and communities. | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Know and show people's basic needs do not change despite their move from one homeland to another. | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Realize and analize the contributions of various cultural groups to our community, state, and nation. | 3 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Use resources from students, families, and communities to recognize, understand, and appreciate cultural differences. | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Identify and state how natural and human resources are used in different regions in the US, Canada, and Mexico. | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Use a variety of processes such as thinking, writing, and speaking to analyze the cultural perspectives of people in Canada nd Mexico. | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Understand basic cultural and geographic differences between the US and Canada. | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Understand basic cultural and geographic differences between the US and Mexico. | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Value and respect people of different cultures through the study of various cultural aspects such as food, language, arts, literature, religion, sports, etc. | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Explain settlement patterns in developing nations. | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Recognize cultural attributes of a region based on religious patterns. | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Recognize common factors among different cultures. | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Compare different cultural groups. | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Understand how art reflects the culture and values of a group of people. | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Demonstrate knowledge of economic characteristics of agricultural communities in different regions. | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Demonstrate knowledge of cultural characteristics of agricultural communities in different regions. | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Associate cultural diversity with immigration. | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Identify the physical characteristics of various regions. | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Associate culture with environment. | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Understand how American culture influences other countries. | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Make inferences about the characteristics of a culture from a reading passage. | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Describe how a region may be defined by cultural features. | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Identify waysin which the environment influences culture. | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Recognize cultural attributes of a region. | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Recognize cultural attributes of a region based on its economic and political system. | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Identify examples of how humans use culture to draw conclusions about a place. | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Explain how cultural changes afect perspectives of places and regions. | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Explain the cultural attributes of Latin America. | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Respect others' ideas and backgrounds. | 8 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Explain the causes of the "Red Scare" in the United States following WW I. | 10 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Describe the acts of aggresssion of Germany, Italy, and Japan during the 1930s and explain why these nations committed the acts of aggression. | 10 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Analyze why the US dropped the atomic bomb during WW II. | 10 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Evaluate the internment of Japanese American during WW II. | 10 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Understand the impact of the Holocaust on Jewish culture as revealed in personal stories of the victims. | 10 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Describe the results of significants Cold War crises, such as the Korean War. | 10 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Understand John F. Kennedy's response to the Cuban missile crisis. | 10 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Analyze the involvement of the US in the Vietnam War. | 10 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Describe the outcome of the Vietnam War. | 10 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Compare and contrast Italian secular and Christian Humanism. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Evaluate the effect of the Haitian Revolution on race relations and slavery in the French empire. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Examine the political and ideological objectives of the Latin American independence movement between 1808 and 1830. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Compare and contrast industrialization and its impact on society in countries such as Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japn, and/or the US. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Identify the role of Father Migues Hidalgo in the Mexican Revolution. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Understand the importance of the Crimean War's outcome to England. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Examine internal and external causes of the Meiji Restoration. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Evaluate the role of British colonialism in India. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Evaluate the role of European colonialism in east Asia. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Evaluate the effects of European imperialism in Africa. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Identify causes, personalities, and results of the Russian Revolution. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Explain how the Bolsheviks made adjustments to Marxism to suit specific conditions in Russia. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Describe Lenin's political ideology. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Compare and contrast both sides of the debate surrounding the use of the atomic bomb during WW II | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Evaluate the history of anti -Semitism and its role in the Holocaust. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Explain Benito Mussolini's rise to power. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Explain Francisco Franco's rise to power. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uxplain Adolf Hitler's rise to power. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Understand the ideas of Nazism presented in Hitler's autobiography, Main Kampf. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Comprehend how certain locations during the Cold War became hot spots. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Describe the Communist Party's rise to power in China between 1936 and 1949. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Identify reasons for the fall of Communism. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Describe how international circumstances led to the founding of Israel after WW II. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Examine reasons for ongoing conflict beween Israel and other neighboring states after WWII. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Examine reasons for the partition of India into two nations. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Examine the conditions of apartheid in Africa after WW II | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Examine how women's movements and social conditions have impacted the lives of women in various regions of the world. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Compare and contrast women's social equality in different countries. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Discuss the origins and doctrines of Islam and apply this knowledge to recent Middle Easter history. | Modern Civ | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Civics/Gov | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Differentiate between authoritarian and democratic governmental systems: monarch, dictatorship, democracy, and absolute bs limited monarchy. | Civics/Gov | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Classify states as first world, second world, and third world. | Civics/Gov | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Understand the need for continued international coordination and cooperations between states. | Civics/Gov | 1 | ||||||||||||
| # non-international topics: | 60 | 68 | 48 | 63 | 76 | 43 | 141 | 72 | 53 | 125 | 146 | 44 | 47 | |
| # total topics discussed in course: | 64 | 77 | 50 | 74 | 84 | 46 | 148 | 84 | 54 | 125 | 155 | 73 | 51 | |
| # international topics in course: | 4 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 29 | 4 | |
| % of topics discussed are international | 6.3 | 11.7 | 4.0 | 14.9 | 9.5 | 6.5 | 4.7 | 14.3 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 5.8 | 39.7 | 7.8 | |
| K | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Modern Civ | Civics/Gov | ||