Social+Studies+Level+8+Essential+Learnings

EL1Students will interpret and will develop a body of knowledge around a variety of maps representing various historical periods.

 * 1) Students will locate and spell the 50 states and capitals correctly. Students will develop a body of knowledge around periodic and regional maps.
 * 2) Students will apply map scale correctly.
 * 3) Students will locate various political and physiographic features correctly.

EL 2. Students will evaluate how the condition of scarcity influences economic conditions.

 * 1) Students will understand the influences of supply and demand on consumer and large scale economies.
 * 2) Students will understand the factors that influence inflation and deflation.
 * 3) Students will analyze the link between resource base and economic development.

EL 3. Students identify and order the events that lead to conflict and/or change.

 * 1) Students will understand the order of events for a number of historical periods including: the Civil War, Reconstruction, Gilded Age, Westward Expansion, Progressive Era, WWI, Great Depression, WWII, Cold War Era.

EL 4. Students will analyze the reasons for and consequences of human migration.

 * 1) Students will identify push-pull factors that have influenced human migration.
 * 2) Students will recognize the interrelationships presented in Human-Environment-Interaction.
 * 3) Students will analyze issues of population density.
 * 4) Students will develop knowledge around the processes of acculturation and assimilation,

EL 5. Students will describe how changes in technology have influenced the economy and society.

 * 1) Students will describe the economic and social impacts to the development of various technologies such as: railroads, the Bessemer Steel Process, the electric generator, the assembly line, automobiles, modern warfare, nuclear weapons.

EL 6. Students will understand the basic functions of the federal government and their role as citizens.

 * 1) Students will understand the interrelationhsips of the three branches of government, the importance of checks and balances and separation of powers.
 * 2) Students will describe the legislative process and the amendment process.
 * 3) Students will recognize the empowering roles of referendum and initiative in a democracy.

EL 7. Students will analyze important precedents that have shaped historical events.

 * 1) Students will recognize the influence of important documents and decisions to human events. Some examples of those are: Compromise of 1850, Dredd Scott, Plessy, Schenck, Brown, Washington's Farewell Address, Monroe Doctrine, Wilson's April 1917 Address to Congress, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, CRA 1964, Bush Doctrine of Preemption.

EL 8. Students will describe how groups and individuals can be empowered.

 * 1) Students will describe how they can be empowered through participation in their democracy.
 * 2) Students will recognize methods of organization such as granges, alliances and unions as tools of empowerment.
 * 3) Students will analyze the protections granted to citizens in the BOR.
 * 4) Students will recognize the role voting plays in the functioning of a democracy.

9. Students will interpret and will develop a body of knowledge around a variety of graphs and tables and charts.

 * 1) Students will interpret bar, line, and pie graphs, tables and charts as tools of historical inquiry.