ELMS Curriculum Map for: 7th Grade Social Studies
Semester 1 – 2nd Nine Weeks
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Name: Southern & Eastern Asia
Name: Southern & Eastern Asia
Name: Southern & Eastern Asia
Name: Southern & Eastern Asia
Geography
Civics/Government
Economics
History
Time frame: 2 weeks
Time frame: 2 weeks
Time frame: 2 weeks
Time frame: 2 weeks
Standards/Elements: SS7G9,
SS7G10, SS7G11, SS7G12
Standards/Elements: SS7CG6,
SS7CG7
Standards/Elements: SS7E8,
SS7E9, SS7E10
Standards/Elements: SS7H3
KUDs
KUDs
KUDs
KUDs
Know:
*Selected features in Southern and
Eastern Asia.
*Selected countries in Southern
and Eastern Asia.
*Impact of location, climate, and
physical characteristics,
distribution of natural resources,
and population distribution on
Southern and Eastern Asia.
*Analyze the diverse cultures of
the people who live in Southern
and Eastern Asia.
*Types of religions found in the
region.
Know:
*Various forms of government
found in Southern and Eastern
Asia.
*The national governments in
Southern and Eastern Asia.
Government instability
Know:
*The different economic systems
found in Southern and Eastern
Asia.
*Factors that influence economic
growth.
*The basic questions of economics:
What to produce?
How much to produce?
For whom to produce?
*How voluntary trade benefits
buyers and sellers in Southern and
Eastern Asia.
*Different types of trade barriers.
*Relationship between investment
and human capital and gross
domestic product (GDP).
Know:
*How nationalism led to
independence in India and
Vietnam.
*The impact of Mohandas
Gandhi’s belief in non-violent
protest.
*The role of the United States in
the rebuilding of Japan after
WWII.
* Impact of communism in China.
*Reasons for foreign involvement
in Korea and Vietnam in terms of
containment of communism.
Understand
*That location affects a society’s
culture and development.
Understand:
*That as a society increases in
complexity and interacts with other
societies, the complexity of the
government also increases.
Understand:
*The production, distribution, and
consumption of goods/services
produced by the society are
affected by the location, customs,
beliefs, and laws of the society.
*That humans, their society, and
the environment affect each other.
Understand:
*That when there is conflict
between or within societies, change
is the result.
*How European partitioning and
colonialism, nationalist, and
independence movements
influenced the continent politically
and socially.
ELMS Curriculum Map for: 7th Grade Social Studies
Do:
Do:
*Describe how the mountain,
Compare and contrast the federal
desert, and water features of
republic of The Republic of India,
Southern and Eastern Asia have
the communist state of The
affected the population in terms of People’s Republic of China, and
where people live, the types of
the constitutional monarchy of
work they do, and how they travel. Japan.
*Describe the causes and effects of
pollution on the Yangtze and
Ganges Rivers.
*Describe the causes and effects of
air pollution and flooding in India
and China.
*Explain the difference between an
ethnic group and a religious group.
*Compare and contrast the
prominent religions in Southern
and Eastern Asia.
Vocabulary:
China, Indonesia, North Korea,
South Korea, Japan, India,
Vietnam, Ganges River, Indus
River, Yangtze River, Indian
Ocean, South China Sea, Gobi
Desert, Himalayan Mountains,
Huang He (Yellow River), Mekong
River, Bay of Bengal, Sea of Japan,
Yellow Sea, Taklimakan Desert,
Korean Peninsula, monsoon,
typhoons, season, brown clouds, air
pollution, ethnic group, religious
group, Hinduism, Vedas,
polytheistic, monotheistic, caste
system, Buddhism, Islam, Five
Vocabulary:
Communism, monarchy, People’s
Republic of China, unitary
government system, confederation
government system, federal
government system, prime
minister, Indian National Congress,
autocratic government, oligarchy,
democratic government system,
parliamentary form of democratic
government, presidential form of
democratic government,
congressional form of government,
cabinet, secular, premier, emperor
Do:
*Compare and contrast the
economic systems in China, India,
Japan, and North Korea.
*Explain the relationship between
investment in human capital and
gross domestic product.
*Describe the role of natural
resources in a country’s economy.
Do:
*Describe how nationalism led to
independence in India and
Vietnam.
*Describe the impact of Mohandas
Gandhi’s belief in non-violent
protest.
*Explain the role of the United
States in the rebuilding of Japan
after WWII.
*Describe the impact of
Communism in China in terms of
Mao Zedong, the Great Leap
Forward, the Cultural Revolution,
and Tiananmen Square.
*Explain the reasons for foreign
involvement in Korea and Vietnam
in terms of containment of
Communism.
Vocabulary:
Gross domestic product, human
capital, voluntary trade, trade
barriers, tariff, quota, protective
tariff, embargo, traditional
economy, command economy,
market economy, physical capital,
entrepreneurship, currency,
bartering, capitalism, free
enterprise, collective farms,
specialization, international trade,
Vocabulary:
Independence, nationalism,
Mohandas Gandhi, non-violent
protest, Mao Zedong, The Great
Leap Forward, Tiananmen Square,
Cultural Revolution, Green
Revolution, apartheid, Red Army,
Domino Theory, communist
ELMS Curriculum Map for: 7th Grade Social Studies
Pillars of Islam, Quran, Shintoism,
Muslims
Performance Task:
Label a blank map of Southern and
Eastern Asia
Performance Task:
Construction of graphic organizer
or foldable to explain the different
types of government systems
Performance Task:
Webquest and Essay on economic
systems, entrepreneurship, the
investment of human capital, and
the availability of natural resources
in China, India, Japan, or North
Korea (student will choose
country).
Performance Task:
RAFT – Role of a reporter
covering the protest of Tiananmen
Square
Notes: Use of graphic organizers
Notes: Use of graphic organizers
Notes:
Notes: