Curriculum Map- 7th grade Social Studies/Southern & Eastern Asia
Unit Focus:
In this unit, students will examine the growth and development of Southern and Eastern Asia focusing
on China’s isolation and the major developments in Southern and Eastern Asia during the 20th century. Students will
identify important physical and human characteristics, while explaining the impact of these characteristics on various
countries in Southern and Eastern Asia. In addition, students will describe the diverse cultural characteristics of the
people in this region, as well as the impact of government policies and individual behaviors on Southern and Eastern
Asia’s environment. Students will analyze modern government and economic systems.
Connecting Enduring Understandings Across the Social Studies Curriculum:
1. Conflicts over land, wealth, power, and between cultures drive changes in history that continue over time.
2. Geographic principles influence how the history, economic and civic characteristics change over time.
3. Political systems develop from conflicts over wealth, power and the need for independence and economic
structure.
4. Economic systems change and develop over time due to fluctuations in wealth and trade and conflicts between
cultures and political systems.
GPS Strand
History
Geography
Civics
Economics
Unit Connecting Themes/Concepts
Conflict and Change
Environment and Society
Power and Authority
Wealth and Trade
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Standards:
SS7H7 – H9
Standards:
SS7G9 – G12
Standards:
SS7CG3
Standards:
SS7E8 – E10
Unit One focus:
Unit Two focus:
Unit Three focus:
Unit Four focus:
History
Geography
Civics
Economics
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- How did Southern and Eastern
- What are the important human
- What are some characteristics
- What are the basic types of
Asia grow and develop over
and physical characteristics of
of modern governments of
economic systems found in
time?
Southern and Eastern Asia?
Eastern Asia?
Southern and Eastern Asia?
- How do government policies
- What are the policies of China
and individual behaviors impact
- How does the structure of the
- How does voluntary trade
that led to isolation and how did
Southern and Eastern Asia’s
national governments of India,
benefit buyers and sellers in
the western countries react?
environment?
Indonesia, China, and Japan lead
Southern and Eastern Asia over
time?
- How do location, climate,
to the type of government, form
- What are some major
physical characteristics, natural
of leadership, type of legislature,
developments in the Eastern Asia
resources, and population size
and the role of the citizen?
during the 20th century?
impact Southern and Eastern
influence economic growth in
Asian countries?
Southern and Eastern Asia, and
- What are the cultural
how does their presence or
characteristics of the people who
absence affect these countries?
- What are the factors that
live in Southern and Eastern
Asia?
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