Enduring Understandings
Beliefs and Ideals: People's ideas and feelings influence their decisions.
Conflict and Change: Conflict causes change.
Distribution of Power: Laws and people's beliefs help decide who gets to make choices in government.
Individuals, Groups, Institutions: What people, groups, and institutions say and do can help or harm others whether they mean to or not.
Location: Where people live matters.
Production, Distribution, Consumption: The ways people make, get, and use goods and services may be different from how people in other places make, get, and use goods and services.
Conflict and Change: Conflict causes change.
Distribution of Power: Laws and people's beliefs help decide who gets to make choices in government.
Individuals, Groups, Institutions: What people, groups, and institutions say and do can help or harm others whether they mean to or not.
Location: Where people live matters.
Production, Distribution, Consumption: The ways people make, get, and use goods and services may be different from how people in other places make, get, and use goods and services.
Standard Clusters
Historical Understandings
Influences of ancient Greek on present day America
Rights and freedoms:
Paul Revere (independence)
Frederick Douglass (civil rights)
Susan B. Anthony (womens' rights)
Mary McLeod Bethune (education)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (New Deal and World War II)
Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights)
Thurgood Marshall (civil rights)
Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society and voting rights)
Cesar Chavez (workers' rights)
Geographic Understandings
Major topographical features: major rivers of the United States, major mountain ranges of the United States, Equator,
Prime Meridian, lines of latitude and longitude on a globe
Cultural and geographic systems associated with above historical figures
Government/Civic Understandings
Branches of government and levels of government
Character of above historical figures
Economic Understandings
Four types of productive resources: natural (land), human (labor), capital (capital goods), entrepreneurship
Goods and services
Interdependence and trade
Spending and saving choices
Influences of ancient Greek on present day America
Rights and freedoms:
Paul Revere (independence)
Frederick Douglass (civil rights)
Susan B. Anthony (womens' rights)
Mary McLeod Bethune (education)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (New Deal and World War II)
Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights)
Thurgood Marshall (civil rights)
Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society and voting rights)
Cesar Chavez (workers' rights)
Geographic Understandings
Major topographical features: major rivers of the United States, major mountain ranges of the United States, Equator,
Prime Meridian, lines of latitude and longitude on a globe
Cultural and geographic systems associated with above historical figures
Government/Civic Understandings
Branches of government and levels of government
Character of above historical figures
Economic Understandings
Four types of productive resources: natural (land), human (labor), capital (capital goods), entrepreneurship
Goods and services
Interdependence and trade
Spending and saving choices
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