Social Studies Competencies & Skills
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13 Knowledge of time, continuity, and change
(history)
Four stages of cognitive development (sensorimotor stage, preoperational
stage, concrete operational stage, formal observational stage) SS knowledge
results from analysis of cause-and-effect relationships; it is in formal
operations stage.
1. Identify major historical events that are related by cause and effect.
Beginnings of civilization to 1620
Colonization and settlement (1585-1763)
Revolution and the new nation (1754-1815)
Expansion and reform (1801-1861)
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Development of the industrial United States (1870-1900)
Emergence of modern America (1890-1930)
Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Contemporary United States (1968-present)
2. Evaluate examples of primary source documents for historical perspective.
The Library of Congress has on-line access to documents from
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to recordings
and photos of the Great Depression.
3. Identify cultural contributions and technological developments of Africa;
the Americas; Asia, including the Middle East; and Europe.
4. Relate physical and human geographic factors to major historical events
and movements.
5. Identify significant historical leaders and events that have influenced
Eastern and Western civilizations.
Prehistory divided into 3 periods;
Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age
Mesolithic , or Middle Stone Age
Neolithic, or New Stone Age
Writing develops between 4000 and 30000 BCE and marks end of
prehistoric period.
Ancient and Medieval Times
Mesopotamia (4,000-2,000)
Egypt (5,000-2685BCE)
Palestine and the Hebrews (1,700-539 BCE)
Greece (800-500 BCE)
The Classical Age (569-322 BCE)
Rome (753-44 BCE)
The Roman Empire (27-395 CE)
The Byzantine Empire (408-1453 CE)
Islamic Civilization in the Middle Ages (570-1258 CE)
Fuedalism in Japan (300 CE-1868)
Chinese and Indian Empires (1500-211 BCE)
Buddha
African Kingdoms and Cultures
Scholasticism
Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
The Black Death
Literature, Art, and Scholarship
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
The Reformation
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
John Calvin (1509-1564)
The Thirty year’s War (1618-1648)
Explorations and Conquests (1394-1460)
Revolution and the New World Order
The Scientific Revolution
John Locke (1632-1704)
The Enlightenment’s Effect on Society
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
The French Revolution (1793-1794)
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
The Era of Napoleon
Battle of Waterloo in 1815
The Industrial Revolution (1750-1848)
Socialism
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
The Communist Manifesto
Das Kapital
Marxism
6. Identify the causes and consequences of exploration, settlement, and
growth.
Beginnings of European Exploration
Leif Eriksson
Prince Henry the Navigator
Technological Innovations Aiding in Exploration
Compass from Chinese
Pole Star
Astrolabe
Main Elements of European Exploration
Ferdinand and Isabella
Christopher Columbus
European Contact with the Americans
Amerigo Vespucci
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Spanish Settlements in the New World
Effects of European-American Contact
7. Identify individuals and events that have influenced economic, social, and
political institutions in the United States.
European Settlement and Development in North America
John Cabot
Henry Hudson
Sir Walter Raleigh
Roanoke
Colonization: The Jamestown Settlement
Captain John Smith
Powhatan
Pocahontas
Thomas Gates
Thomas West
John Rolfe
Edwin Sandy
Growth of the Slave Trade
Salem Witch Trials
Religion in the Colonies and the Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
Scientific Revolution
Copernicus
Benjamin Franklin
Cotton Mather
The American Revolution
The Coming of the American Revolution
Sugar Act (1764)
Stamp Act (1765)
Tea Act (1773)
Thomas Hutchinson; Boston Tea Party
Coercive Acts (1774); First Congressional Congress (1774)
The War For Independence
Paul Revere
William Dawes
Minutemen
George Washing ton
King George III
Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
Washington crosses Delaware River and strikes at Trenton.
Washington defeats British at Princeton
The Creation of New Governments
The Federal Era
John Adams
Bill of Rights
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (1751-1836)
Alien Act and Sedition Act
The Jefferson Era
Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr
The War of 1812
James Madison
Mississippi Valley
The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
President James Monroe
The Marshall Court
John Marshall
Marbury vs. Madison (1803)
Gibbons vs. Ogden (1824)
The Missouri Compromise (1819)
Jacksonian Democracy (1767-1845)
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
Trial of Tears
The National Bank
The Antislavery Act (1833)
The Role of Minorities
Sectional Conflict and the Cause of the Civil War
The Crisis of 1850
David Wilmot and the Wilmot Proviso
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen A Douglas
The Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott, Missouri slave (1857)
The Election of 1860
The Secession Crisis
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)
Civil War and Reconstitution
Hostilities Begin
Major Robert Anderson
General P.G.T. Beauregard
Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
The Mexican War
James Polk and John Slidell (1795-1849)
The Homestead Act and the Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
The Emanicipation Proclamation
Northern Victory
Andrew Johnson
President Abraham Lincoln
General William Sherman
General Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
John Wilkes Booth
Reconstitution
Freedman’s Bureau
Civil Rights Act
President Andrew Johnson
The Fifteenth Amendment (1868)
Ulysses S. Grant for president
Industrialism, War, and the Progressive Era
The Great Depression and the New Deal
WWII
The New Frontier, Vietnam, and Social Upheaval’Watergate, Carter and
the New Conservatism
8. Identify immigration and settlement patterns that have shaped the history
of the United States.
The Alien Act and the Sedition Act (1700s)
The Indian Removal Act (1830)
Trial of Tears
National Advancement of Colored People (1909)
Industrial Workers of the World (1905-1924)
Literacy test for Immigrants and the Emergency Quota Act
William J. Simmons and the Ku Klux Klan
9. Identify how various cultures contributed to the unique social, cultural,
economic, and political features of Florida.
Florida’s History
Ponce de Leon
Hernando de Soto
Spanish exploration
Spanish and French fueds
James Moore
Osceola, Seminole war hero
Twenty-seventh state in 1845
Slavery
Henry Flagler and Henry Plant
Florida During the Great Depression
Postwar Immigration and Migration
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gateway
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hurricane
precipitation
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satellite (M)*
storm
technology
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migration
missile
origin (M)
prejudice
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tepee
terrorism
theory
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scientist (M)
science
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today (M)
tomorrow (M)
tools (M)
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literature
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millennium
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population
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slave (M)
14 Knowledge of people, places, and environment
(geography)
1. Identify the five themes of geography, including the specific terms for
each theme.
PLACE: names of continents, countries, cities, as well as field of political
science
LOCATION: absolute and relative
HUMAN-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION
MOVEMENT AND CONNECTIONS
REGIONS, PATTERNS, AND PROCESSES: identify, climatic, economic,
political and cultural patterns within regions
2. Interpret maps and other graphic representations and identify tools and
technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial
perspective.
Study: globe, equator, Antarctic Circle, Arctic Pole, Prime Meridian,
International Dateline, North Pole, South Pole, meridians, parallels, the
Great Circle Route, and time zones
3. Identify the factors that influence the selection of a location for a specific
activity.
Absolute location: longitude and latitude
Relative location: identify relationships between or among places and
people
4. Identify the relationship between natural physical processes and the
environment.
Physical geography: locating and describing according to physical features
5. Interpret statistics that show how places differ in their human and
physical characteristics.
Cultural geography: relationship between place and human/animal
relationships, deliberate or natural
6. Identify how conditions of the past, such as wealth and poverty, land
tenure, exploitation, colonialism, and independence, affect present human
characteristics of places.
Physical factors and cultural factors are related
Change is a constant
People modify the environment to suit their changing needs and wants
7. Identify ways in which people adapt to an environment through the
production and use of clothing, food, and shelter.
Environment can affect the way people live, but people can change the
environment to meet their wants and needs. Jobs have a profound effect
on the environment. Water and air pollution.
8. Identify how tools and technology affect the environment.
Techniques in each era that improved the lives of people: tools and
technology, shelters, means to create fire.
9. Identify physical, cultural, economic, and political reasons for the
movement of people in the world, nation, or state.
Economic reasons
Cultural reasons
Physical reasons
Political reasons
10. Identify how transportation and communication networks contribute to
the level of economic development in different regions.
Economics is study of society’s choices among a limited amount of
resources to attain the highest practical satisfaction. Allocation of scarce
resources among competing ends.
Advances in communication
Convenient transportation
11. Compare and contrast major regions of the world.
Equator divides Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
Land masses and continents
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city (M)
communication
community (M)
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country (M)
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broker
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land (M)
map *(M)
mountain (M)
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factory (M)
farm (M)
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compass rose
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class
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law (M)
lawmaker (M)
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world map
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mayor (M)
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president (M)
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resources
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school * (M)
seasons (M)
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rule (M)
shelter (M)
taxes (M)
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grid (M)
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location (M)
manor (M)
map (M)
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geography
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source
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symbol
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timeline
valley
15 Knowledge of government and the citizen
(government and civics)
1. Identify the structure, functions, and purposes of government.
Definitions
Government: agency for regulating the activity for people. Carries out
decisions of the political system or the decisions of the ruler.
Political system: organizations and processes that contribute to the
decision making process
Structure
Confederation
Federal
Unitary
Authoritarian
Parliamentary
Presidential
Functions
Political functions to maintain order within territories
Legal functions
Economic functions
Social functions including civil rights, religion, and education
Purposes: myriad ideologies and definitions; protect people’s rights and
preserve justice
Communism
Conservatism
Liberalism
Democracy
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the rights and responsibilities of a citizen in
the world, nation, state, and/or community.
Right to due process
Right to fair and speedy trial
Protection from unlawful search and seizure
Right to avoid self-incrimination
Values include life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
Rule of law
Separation of powers
Representative government
Checks and balances
Individual rights
Freedom of religion
Federalism
Limited government
Civilian control of the military
3. Identify major concepts of the U.S. Constitution and other historical
documents.
Historical Documents
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
Petition of Right
Bill of Rights
Crisis in Establishing the U.S. Constitution
Great Compromise
The U.S. Constitution
4. Identify how the legislative, executive, and judicial branches share powers
and responsibility.
The Legislative Branch
Economic powers
Judicial powers
War powers
General peace powers
The Executive Branch
The Judicial Branch
5. Demonstrate knowledge of the U.S. electoral system and the election
process. (see vocabulary)
6. Identify the structures and functions of U.S. federal, state, and local
governments.
Structures
Functions: powers reserved for the federal government
7. Identify the relationships between social, economic, and political rights
and the historical documents that secure these rights.
Bill of Rights
Amendments one through ten
Read over through twenty-seventh
8. Demonstrate knowledge of the processes of the U.S. legal system.
Supreme Court
Democratic society
U.S.Constitution
9. Identify the roles of the United States in international relations.
Military Alliances: NATO
No true global independence
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calendar
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apartment
citizen (M)
city * (M)
business (M)
citrus
conservation
allegiance (M)
amendment
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alliance (M)
amendment
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ally
armada
armistice
city * (M)
country *
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community
consumer (M)
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crop (M)
family * (M) factory (M)
anthem (M)
ballot
campaign (M)
armistice
civil rights
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arms-race
authority (M)
bureaucracy
day (M)
election
fairness
family * (M)
feelings
friendship *
helper
flag (M)
folk tale (M)
friend *
group *
hero
law *(M)
leader (M)
candidate (M)
citizenship
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civil war (M)
civilization
compromise
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civil war (M)
confederacy
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emancipation
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colony (M)
commonwealth
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goods (M)
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needs *(M)
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producer (M)
holiday (M)
law * (M)
leader* (M)
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safety
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weather (M)
week (M)
year (M)
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services (M)
trade (M)
transportation
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conquer
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council
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lord
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parliament (M)
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judge
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repeal
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16 Knowledge of production, distribution, and
consumption (economics)
1. Identify ways that limited resources affect the choices made by
governments and individuals. Wants unlimited vs. resources which are
limited
2. Compare and contrast the characteristics of different economic institutions
(e.g., banks, credit unions, stock markets, and the Federal Reserve).
Banks – serve general public – only investors vote
Credit Unions – owned by members
Federal Reserve – Central banking system of U.S.
Stock market – abstract - contains the mechanisms that enable trading of
Company stock. Stock exchange is the corporation in business that bring
together buyers and sellers.
3. Identify the role of markets from production, through distribution, to
consumption. Market interaction between potential buyers and sellers of
goods and services. Supply and demand dictates market. Economic
resources – land (natural) Human resources – physical & mental talents.
Traditional economy – rely on customers to determine production and
distribution. Capital economy produce resources owned by individual.
Social economy produce resources owned by collective society (govt)
4. Identify factors to consider when making consumer decisions.
Needs vs Wants.
Cost
Value
Durability
Self interest yields public interest.
5. Identify the economic interdependence among nations (e.g., trade,
finance, and movement of labor).
Microeconomics – focus on problems specific to a household, firm, or
industry.
Macroeconomics – study of economics as a whole (inflation, unemployment
and economic growth.
6. Identify human, natural, and capital resources and how these resources
are used in the production of goods and services.
Goods are tangible – services are intangible
Market is the interaction between potential buyers and sellers of goods and
services.
Supply – quantity of that good that produces an offer.
Demand – quantity that consumers are willing and able to purchase
Human Resources – people employed Natural Resources – materials found
in nature (water, trees, mineras) Capital – how much real and usable
money a person or company has.
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choice
boundary (M)
advertisement
advertising
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factory (M)
farm (M)
market (M)
money *
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needs (M)
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goods * (M)
job (M)
money *
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resource
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city (M)
compass rose
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desert (M)
direction (M)
distance (M)
equator (M)
geography (M)
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barter (M)
basic needs
competition (M)
consumer (M)
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worker (M)
post office
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industry
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debt (M)
depression
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17 Knowledge of instruction and assessment of the
social sciences
1. Identify appropriate resources for teaching social science concepts.
Systematic inquiry and acquired information from a variety of resources.
Process begins with designing and conducting investigation. Internet,
encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, govt. documents, artifacts, oral histories,
people and technology. Printed material/visuals, CD
2. Identify appropriate assessment methods in teaching social science
concepts.
Formative Assessment – during the process
Summative – end of a unit or project.
Teacher made test, paper/pencil, projects/partners, computer, authentic
assessment projects, observation, anecdotal, portfolios, self/peer
assessment.