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toc 5-6th Year2 Quarter1

** Year 2 Quarter 1/Eastern Hemisphere ** Throughout time civilizations have changed depending on how environments vary. This has determined how its inhabitants interacted with the environment and each other. |||| **Essential Questions:** 1. How have ideas & events from the past shaped the Eastern Hemisphere today? 2. How do we know about the world today? 3. How does where you live influence how you live? || (1) Events can be arranged in order of occurrence using the conventions of B.C. and A.D. or B.C.E. and C.E.
 * ===Unit 1 Historical Thinking=== ||
 * **Big Idea:**
 * **Strands and Content Statements** ||||  **Student Expectations**  ||  **Key Concepts & Vocabulary**  ||
 * **History**

(3) Globes and other geographic tools can be used to gather, process and report information about people, places and environments. Cartographers decide which information to include and how it is displayed.
 * Geography**

(4) Latitude and Longitude can be used to identify absolute location

(5) Regions can be determined, classified and compared using various criteria (e.g. landform, climate, population, cultural, economic)

(6) Variations among physical environments within the Eastern Hemisphere influence human activities. Human activities also alter the physical environment. |||| **History** (1) Apply the conventions of B.C.E. and C.E. or B.C. and A.D. to arrange and analyze events in chronological order.

(3) Use appropriate maps, globes and geographic tools to gather, process and report information about people, places and environments.
 * Geography**

Understand that maps are created for specific purposes and represent the context in which they were created.

(4) Use latitude and longitude coordinates to identify absolute location

(5) Use various criteria to describe, classify and compare regions within the Eastern Hemisphere.

(6) Explain how variations among physical environments in the Eastern Hemisphere influence human activities.

Explain how human activities have altered environments of the Eastern Hemisphere. || Continents

Longitude and Latitude (revisit in all units)

Hemispheres

Oceans

__Types of Maps__ Political Physical Topographic Climate Resource Population

Parts of Map ||

Unit 2: Government
Governments may be organized in different ways and have limited or unlimited powers. |||| **Essential Question:** How does governmental authority affect citizens’ rights? || (10) Governments can be categorized as monarchies, theocracies, dictatorships or democracies, but categories may overlap and labels may not accurately represent how governments function. The extent of citizens’ liberties and responsibilities varies according to limits on government authority. |||| **Government** (10) Describe the relationship between those in power and individual citizens in a democracy, dictatorship, monarchy and theocracy.
 * ** Unit 2: Roles and Systems of Governments ** ||
 * **Big Idea:**
 * **Strands and Content Statements** ||||  **Student Expectations**  ||  **Key Concepts & Vocabulary**  ||
 * **Government**

Understand that the characteristics of governments often overlap and can misrepresent the actual relationship between those governing and those being governed. || 4 types of governments (democracy, dictatorship, monarchy and theocracy) and the differences between them

Citizen rights and responsibilities ||

The choices people make have both present and future consequences. |||| **Essential Questions:** 1. Why can’t people have everything they want?
 * **Unit 3: Economic Decision Making and Skills** ||
 * **Big Idea:**

2. How do we know what we know about the world today? || (12) The choices people make have both present and future consequences. The evaluation of choices is relative and may differ across individuals and societies.
 * **Strands and Content Statements** ||||  **Student Expectations**  ||  **Key Concepts & Vocabulary**  ||
 * **Economics**

(13) The fundamental questions of economics include what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce.

(14) When regions and/or countries specialize, global trade occurs.

(15) The interaction of supply and demand, influenced by competition, helps to determine price in a market. This interaction also determines the quantities of outputs produced and the quantities of inputs (human resources, natural resources and capital) used.

(16) When selecting items to buy, individuals can compare the price and quality of available goods and services. |||| **Economics** (12) Predict the present and future consequences of an economic decision and explain how individuals and societies may evaluate the choices differently.

(13) Explain how individuals and societies answer the fundamental questions of economics.

(14) Explain how specialization leads to global trade.

(15) Explain how supply, demand and competition interact to determine price. (15) Explain how supply, demand and competition interact to influence quantities of inputs and outputs.

(16) Explain how individuals compare prices and quality when selecting goods and services to buy. || Supply and Demand Competition Trade Specialization Import and Export Natural Resources Goods and Services

Developed vs. Developing Countries

Interdependence

Absolute advantage Opportunity Cost

Comparing sets of data to draw conclusions ||

Cultural practices especially involving religious beliefs from the past have influenced the world today. |||| **Essential Question:** How have ideas and events from the past shaped the Eastern Hemisphere today? || (8) Modern cultural practices and products show the influence of tradition and diffusion, including the impact of major world religions (Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism) |||| **Geography** (8) Explain how tradition and diffusion have influenced modern cultural practices and products in the Eastern Hemisphere (8) Describe the influence of religious diffusion in the modern world || Diffusion of cultural practices
 * **Unit 4: Religion** ||
 * **Big Idea:**
 * **Strands and Content Statements** ||||  **Student Expectations**  ||  **Key Concepts & Vocabulary**  ||
 * **Geography**

Traits

Monotheism Polytheism Buddhism Christianity Hinduism Islam Judaism ||

Understanding how past civilizations developed and changed helps us understand our world today. |||| **Essential Questions:** 1. How have ideas and events from the past shaped the Eastern Hemisphere today? 2. What role did geography play in the development of early civilizations? || (2) Early civilizations (Mesopotamia) with unique governments, economic systems, social structures, religions, technologies and agricultural practices and products flourished as a result of favorable geographic characteristics. The cultural practices and products of these early civilizations can be used to help understand the Eastern Hemisphere today.
 * **Unit 5: Mesopotamia and the Middle East Today** ||
 * **Big Idea:**
 * **Strands and Content Statements** ||||  **Student Expectations**  ||  **Key Concepts & Vocabulary**  ||
 * ** History **

(7)Political, environmental, social and economic factors cause people, products and ideas to move from place to place in the Eastern Hemisphere in the past and today.
 * Geography **

(8) Modern cultural practices and products show the influence of tradition and diffusion, including the impact of major world religions (Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism) |||| **History** (2) Describe the influence of geography on the development of unique civilizations in Mesopotamia.

Describe the governments, cultures, economic systems, technologies and agricultural practices and products of early civilizations and their enduring influence in the Eastern Hemisphere today.

(7) Explain political, environmental, social and economic factors that cause the movement of people, products and ideas in the Eastern Hemisphere.
 * Geography**

Describe the lasting impact of the movement of people, products and ideas in the Eastern Hemisphere.

(8) Explain how tradition and diffusion have influenced modern cultural practices and products in the Eastern Hemisphere. (8) Describe the influence of religious diffusion in the modern world. || Fertile Crescent River valleys Tigris and Euphrates City States-Sumer Hammurabi (code and laws) Ziggurats Cuneiform Social class Irrigation Polytheism Birth of agriculture Push and Pull factors Migration

Major accomplishment s of area (wheel, plow, circle -360 degrees, areas of rectangles and triangles)

Why did people settle where they did-geographical areas

Make connections between ancient civilizations and today’s world: economics, technologies, political, social, maps ||