GVSD UBD Template Clarifications Documents
Course Title:
Unit 1: Behaviorals
Grade Level(s):
Time Frame: 15 Weeks
(Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology)
Stage 1: IDENTIFY DESIRED RESULTS
Pennsylvania Content Standards
CC.8.5: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to
informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and
between texts with focus on textual evidence.
CC.8.6: Writing: Students write for different purposes and audiences. Students write
clear and focused text to convey a well-defined perspective and appropriate content.
Standard Area - 7.1: Basic Geographic Literacy
7.1.7.A: Explain how common geographic tools are used to organize and interpret information about people, places,
and environment.
7.1.7.B: Explain and locate places and regions as defined by physical and human features.
Standard Area - 7.2: Physical Characteristics of Places and Regions
7.2.7.A: Explain the characteristics of places and regions.
7.2.7.B: Describe the physical processes that shape patterns on Earth’s surface.
Standard Area - 7.3: Human Characteristics of Places and Regions
7.3.7.A: Describe the human characteristics of places and regions using the following criteria:
Population
Culture
Settlement
Economic activities
Political activities
(updated 2015)
Major Learnings
Culture refers to the ideas, customs, values, norms, social institutions, music and art, technology, language, and
traditions of people.
Essential Questions
Why is it important to understand human behavior?
Why is it important to understand human behavior in
groups?
How do the (behaviors) thoughts and actions of people
define a culture?
Guiding Questions
How do Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology differ?
How does environment, heredity and adaptation impact
human behavior.
What are the different components of culture?
How does Culture change?
How does language and technology impact culture?
GVSD UBD Template Clarifications Documents
Knowledge/Skills
Students will know (knowledge):
Students will be able to (skills):
Culture is the entire way society lives and is organized
Acculturation is the blending of cultures
Ethnocentrism is the belief that your culture is superior.
Assimilation is the act or process of absorbing a culture.
The different components of culture include such things as
art, literature, social institutions, language, etc.
Invention is an advancement in technology
Innovation is an alteration in technology
Cultural diffusion is the dissemination of cultural
components.
Culture changes through invention, innovation, and
diffusion acculturation and war.
Verbal communication is spoken language.
Non-verbal communication is communication through
body language.
Dialect is a regional variation of language.
Language and technology dictate change in culture.
That a holistic approach is an approach that studies all
parts of a culture(language, institutions, arts, …)
Identify the major components of any culture (language,
technology, social institutions…)
Apply the Holistic approach to their “Developing a Culture”
activity.
Stage 2: DETERMINE ACCEPTABLE EVIDENCE
Summative Assessments:
Developing a culture activity where students will
analyze and create a culture using the Holistic
approach incorporating the Psychology,
Sociology and Anthropology Unit.
Formative Assessments:
Unit Test
Homework questions
Quiz(zes)
Learning Plan STAGE 3: DEVELOP LEARNING PLAN
Introduction to Psychology- reading and
activity
Heredity vs Environment
Personality- Id ,Ego, Superego
Defense Mechanisms
Conscious vs Unconscious Needs
Maslow’s Needs Pyramid
Experience Pattern
Trial And Error Learning- (station
activities- ie Star, Rubiks Cube, Simon
Game, Kenistic activity)
Learning Model / Classical vs Operant
Conflict and Learning
Notes throughout the unit
Resources
Moodle Site for additional readings,
activities, web sites and video clips.
Personality Test- http://www.psicologipsicoterapeuti.it/test/testpersonalita.html
All Psych- http://www.allpsych.com/
Online encyclopediahttp://www.encyclopedia.com/
Introduction to Sociology- reading and
activity
Why people live in groups4 types of Groups- Primary, Secondary ,
Community and Society- dynamics -group
think
Institutions- Family, Education, Religion,
Economics and Politics
Introduction to Anthropology-reading
and activity
What is Culture
5 Ways a Culture Changes
Language and Culture- verbal and nonverbal communication.
Holistic Approach
Notes throughout the unit
Notes throughout the unit
Resources
Moodle Site for additional readings,
activities, web sites and video clips.
Online encyclopediahttp://www.encyclopedia.com/
Resources
Moodle Site for additional readings,
activities, web sites and video clips.
Online encyclopediahttp://www.encyclopedia.com/
GVSD UBD Template Clarifications Documents
Psychology webhttp://www.scientificpsychic.com/graphics/
Current Events / Journal Activity /
Writing Activities throughout as
recommended activities
(web blogging)
Current Events / Journal Activity /
Writing Activities throughout as
recommended activities
(web blogging)
Current Events / Journal Activity /
Writing Activities throughout as
recommended activities
(web blogging)
Unit Vocabulary
Psychology
Heredity
Environment
Adaptation
Needs
Id
Ego
Superego
Conscious needs
Unconscious needs
Maslow’s needs pyramid (body,
safety, love and belonging, selfesteem, self-actualization)
Defense Mechanism(Projection,
repression, denial, …)
Learning
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Trial and Error
Conflict revolution
Sociology
Groups
Primary group
Secondary group
Community
Society
Institutions
Religion
Government
Economics
Education
Family
Nuclear
Extended
Blended
Single-parent
Status
Social-stratification
Anthropology
Linguistics
Culture
Acculturation
Enculturation
Ethnocentrism
Assimilation
Invention
Innovation
Cultural diffusion
Verbal communication
Non-verbal communication
Dialect
GVSD UBD Template Clarifications Documents