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Unit 1: Geography
** Year 1 Quarter 1/Western Hemisphere ** Resources: 1. Throughout time civilizations have changed depending on how environments vary. 2. Variations in physical environments determine how inhabitants interact with the environment and each other. |||||| **Essential Questions:** 1. How have ideas and events from the past shaped the Western Hemisphere today? 2. How do we know about the world today? 3. How does where you live influence how you live? || (5.1)Multiple-tier timelines can be used to show relationships among events and places.
 * ** Unit 1: Basic Geography and Map Skills ** ||
 * **Big Idea:**
 * **Strands and Content Statements** ||||  **Student Expectations**  ||||  **Key Concepts & Vocabulary**  ||
 * **__History__**

(5.4) 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 in maps.
 * __Geography__**

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

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

(5.7) Variations among physical environments within the Eastern Hemisphere influence human activities. Human activities also alter the physical environment. |||| **__History__** (5.1)Construct a multiple-tier timeline and analyze the relationships among events.

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

(5.5)Use location to make generalizations about climate.

(5.6) Identify and describe regions within the Western Hemisphere using criteria related to landform, climate, population, culture and economics.

(5.7) Explain how variations among physical environments in the Western Hemisphere influence human activities.

Explain how human activities have altered the physical environments of the Western Hemisphere. || ** BENCHMARK **
 * VOCAB **


 * Continents**
 * Longitude**
 * Latitude**
 * Hemispheres**

__Types of Maps__ Parts of a map
 * Topographic**
 * Resource**
 * Population** || Oceans

__Types of Maps__ Political Physical Climate ||

GEO.68.2a Recognize that maps can change over time based on political, social and physical events.
 * Extended Standards: **
 * ** Early Civilizations ** ||
 * **Most Complex** ||  || **Least Complex** ||
 * HIS.35.6a Describe similarities and differences between life today and life in the past in Western Hemisphere civilizations (e.g., farming, government, use of language, recreation/games). || HIS.35.6b Identify similarities between life today and life in the past (e.g., farming, government, use of language, recreation/games). || HIS.35.6c Identify what you have in common with others in your home, class or community. ||
 * ** Spatial Thinking and Skills ** ||
 * **Most Complex** ||  || **Least Complex** ||
 * GEO.68.1a Use appropriate maps, globes and other geographic resources (e.g., Internet) to locate various sites or places).

GEO.68.3a Identify the absolute location (latitude and longitude) of major places and features on a globe (e.g., charting locations on a grid). || GEO.68.1b Use the appropriate map to locate various places or information.

GEO.68.2b Recognize that maps of the same location can look different depending on the purpose. GEO.68.3b Locate the major features and landforms on a globe in relation to the equator and prime meridian. || GEO.68.1c Identify a specific map for a specific purpose (e.g., weather, location, store locations, bus line). GEO.68.2c Identify a specific map for a specific purpose (e.g., weather, location, store locations).

GEO.68.3c Locate the equator on a globe. ||

Unit 2: Government
** Year 1 Quarter 1/Western Hemisphere ** Resources: Governments may be organized in different ways and have limited or unlimited powers. |||||| **Essential Questions:** How does governmental authority affect citizens’ rights? || (5.12) Democracies, dictatorships and monarchies are categories for understanding the relationship between those in power or authority and citizens. |||| **__ Government __** (5.12) Explain the relationship between those in power and individual citizens in a democracy, a dictatorship and a monarchy. || ** BENCHMARK **
 * ** Unit 2: Roles and Systems of Government ** ||
 * **Big Idea:**
 * **Strands and Content Statements** ||||  **Student Expectations**  ||||  **Key Concepts & Vocabulary**  ||
 * **__ Government __**
 * VOCAB **


 * Citizen **
 * Authority **

__ Types: __
 * Democracy **
 * Dictatorship **
 * Monarchy ** || rights & responsibilities ||

GVT.35.6a Describe the duties of people/groups representing the different branches of government.
 * Extended Standards: **
 * ** Roles and Systems of Government ** ||
 * **Most Complex** ||  || **Least Complex** ||
 * GVT.35.5a Explain the reasons why we have central authority figures and the limitations they have (e.g., principal is in charge of the school but not of the state, president is in charge of the military but he cannot make laws).

GVT.68.2a Compare and contrast the traits of monarchs and elected leaders. GVT.68.3a Explain ways the different people/groups in government can limit each other’s powers (i.e., checks and balances). || GVT.35.5b Identify the powers of central authority figures (e.g., principal is in charge of the school, president is in charge of the military).

GVT.35.6b Identify the person or group that represents the different branches of government (e.g., president/governor – executive; Congress – legislative; judges – judicial). GVT.68.2b Identify traits of monarchs and elected leaders where they would rule. GVT.68.3b Identify a power of each branch of government (e.g., Congress makes laws, courts interpret laws) || GVT.35.5c Identify central authority figures at the school, state or national levels (e.g., teacher, principal, governor, president).

GVT.35.6c Match the job responsibility to an authority figure (e.g., principal runs the school, mayor runs the town).

GVT.68.2c Identify the president and kings/queens as political leaders. GVT.68.3c Identify the three branches of government or the people who represent them. ||



Unit 3: Economic
** Year 1 Quarter 1/Western Hemisphere ** Resources: The choices people make have both present and future consequences. |||||| **Essential Questions:** 1. Why can’t people have everything they want? 2. How do we know what we know about the world today? || (5.13) Information displayed in circle graphs can be used to show relative proportions of segments of data to an entire body of data.
 * ** Unit 3: Economic Decision Making and Skills ** ||
 * **Big Idea:**
 * **Strands and Content Statements** ||||  **Student Expectations**  ||||  **Key Concepts & Vocabulary**  ||
 * **__Economics__**

(5.14) The choices people make have both present and future consequences.

(5.15)The availability of productive resources (ie .human resources, capital goods and natural resources) promotes specialization that leads to trade.

(5.16) The availability of productive resources and the division of labor impact productive capacity.

(5.17) Regions and countries become interdependent when they specialize in what they produce best and then trade with other regions to increase the amount and variety of goods and services available. |||| **__Economics__** (5.13) Construct a circle graph that displays information on part-to-whole relationships of data.

(5.14) Explain the present and future consequences of an economic decision.

(5.15) Explain how the availability of productive resources in a specific region promotes specialization and results in trade.

(5.16) Explain how the availability of productive resources and the division of labor influence productive capacity.

(5.17) Explain how specialization and trade lead to interdependency among countries of the Western Hemisphere. || ** BENCHMARK VOCAB **


 * __Economics__**
 * Supply** and **Demand**
 * Competition**

Specialization Natural Resources Goods and Services
 * Import** and **Export** || Trade

Developed vs. Developing Countries

Interdependence

Absolute advantage Opportunity Cost

Comparing sets of data to draw conclusions ||

ECON.68.3a Describe how the wants of people determine what goods and services are produced. || ECON.35.2b Identify what you gained as a result of a purchasing decision. ECON.68.3b Identify different methods of production for given goods. || ECON.35.2c Make a choice between two things you want. ECON.68.3c Identify who the intended consumer is for a given product. ||
 * Extended Standards: **
 * ** Scarcity ** ||
 * **Most Complex** ||  || **Least Complex** ||
 * ECON.35.2a Explain the “opportunity cost” – what you gave up to get what you wanted or needed.
 * ** Markets ** ||
 * **Most Complex** ||  || **Least Complex** ||
 * ECON.35.4a Explain why a particular market is the most practical place to buy a given product.

ECON.35.5a Explain why certain goods are produced in certain places (e.g., climate, available resources). ECON.68.5a Explain why some goods are easier to find than others and how this affects price. || ECON.35.4b Describe the different things you can do in a market (e.g. buy products, ask questions, look at different products, make returns). ECON.35.5b Identify items that are not produced in the local community.

ECON.68.5b Identify goods that are hard to find and not readily available in the local community. || ECON.35.4c Identify places to buy things (e.g., markets) in the community.

ECON.35.5c Identify items that are produced in the local community.

ECON.68.5c Identify goods that are readily available in your environment (e.g., milk in cafeteria, pencils in school store). ||

Unit 4: Religion
** Year 1 Quarter 1/Western Hemisphere ** Resources: Cultural practices especially involving religious beliefs from the past have influenced the world today. |||||| **Essential Questions:** How have ideas and events from the past shaped the Eastern Hemisphere today? || (5.8) 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; Polytheism, Pantheism). |||| **__Geography__** (5.8)Explain how tradition and diffusion have influenced modern cultural practices and products in the Western and/or Eastern Hemisphere.
 * ** Unit 4: Religion ** ||
 * **Big Idea:**
 * **Strands and Content Statements** ||||  **Student Expectations**  ||||  **Key Concepts & Vocabulary**  ||
 * **__Geography__**

Describe the influence of religious diffusion in the modern world. || ** BENCHMARK **
 * VOCAB **

Traits of: Buddhism Hinduism Islam Judaism ||
 * Geography**
 * Tradition**
 * Diffusion** || Diffusion of cultural practices
 * Extended Standards: **
 * ** Early Civilizations ** ||
 * **Most Complex** ||  || **Least Complex** ||
 * HIS.68.2a Compare the key physical and human features of societies of the past in the Eastern Hemisphere with society today. Content Connection Examples: Egypt, India, China, Mesopotamia (6), Greece and Rome (Gr. 7)

__Key Terms__: all of (c), (b), and content connection examples of at least two societies || HIS.68.2b Identify key physical and human features of societies (e.g., houses, rivers, mountains, roads, buildings).

__Key Terms:__ all of( c), and key physical and human features( || HIS.68.2c Identify the physical and human features of the local community

__Key Terms:__ governments, social structures, religions, technologies, agricultural practices, and geography ||



Unit 5: Maya ** Year 1 Quarter 1/Western Hemisphere ** Resources: Understanding the development of past civilizations helps us understand our world today. |||||| **Essential Questions:** 1. How have ideas and events from the past shaped the Western Hemisphere today? 2. What role did geography play in the development of early civilizations? || (5.2)Early Indian civilizations (Maya) existed in the Western Hemisphere prior to the arrival of Europeans. These civilizations had developed unique governments, social structures, religions, technologies, and agricultural practices and products.
 * ** Unit 5: Maya ** ||
 * **Big Idea:**
 * **Strands and Content Statements** ||||  **Student Expectations**  ||||  **Key Concepts & Vocabulary**  ||
 * **__History__**

(5.8) American Indians developed unique cultures with many different ways of life. American Indian tribes and nations can be classified into cultural groups based on geographic and cultural similarities.
 * __Geography__**

(5.9) Political, environmental, social and economic factors cause people, products and ideas to move from place to place in the Western Hemisphere today.

(5.10) The Western Hemisphere is culturally diverse due to American Indian, European, Asian and African influences and interactions, as evidenced by artistic expression, language, religion and food. |||| **__History__** (5.2)Compare characteristics of early Indian civilizations (governments, social structures, religions, technologies, and agricultural practices and products)

(5.8) Make generalizations about the cultural ways of life among American Indian cultural groups in North and South America.
 * __Geography__**

(5.9) Explain political, environmental, social and economic factors that cause the movement of people, products and ideas in the Western Hemisphere.

(5.10) Describe the cultural diversity of the Western Hemisphere as evidenced by artistic expression, language, religion and food. || ** BENCHMARK **
 * VOCAB **


 * Civilizations**
 * Ancient**
 * Settlement**


 * Technologies**


 * Hierarchy**


 * Society/Social** || Making connections between ancient civilizationsand today’s world.

Mayan settlement development Mayan economy Mayantechnologies Mayan political systems Mayan society/social hierarchy ||


 * Extended Standards: **
 * ** Early Civilizations (Maya) ** ||
 * **Most Complex** ||  || **Least Complex** ||
 * HIS.68.2a Compare the key physical and human features of societies of the past in the Eastern Hemisphere with society today. Content Connection Examples: Maya, Inca, Aztec, and Mississippian.

__Key Terms__: all of (c), (b), and content connection examples of at least two societies || HIS.68.2b Identify key physical and human features of societies (e.g., houses, rivers, mountains, roads, buildings).

__Key Terms:__ all of( c), and key physical and human features of Mayan civilization || HIS.68.2c Identify the physical and human features of the local community

__Key Terms:__ governments, social structures, religions, technologies, agricultural practices, and geography ||