Standards - Social Studies

2010 - Social Studies Course of Study Document
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Contemporary World Issues and Civic Engagement

SS10.CWI.1

Describe current news stories from various perspectives, including geographical, historical, political, social, and cultur

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • News stories can be interpreted through various perspectives.
  • The types of information that can be found within news stories.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Analyze news stories for comparative purposes in their style, format, and audience.
  • Develop connections between current issues and past events.
  • Interpret various forms of data, including statistical and geographical, contained in news stories.
  • Identify cause-effect relationships with current news stories and their world implications.
  • Locate on a map key locations of major world news stories.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • The relevancy of major news stories can be established through analysis of the story and drawing connections.

Vocabulary

  • perspective
  • local, state, national, and international communities
  • analyze
  • interpret
  • statistical data
  • compare/contrast
  • news graphic (infographic)

Aligned Learning Resources

Obama Calls for Full Cooperation at Malaysia Airlines Crash Site
Document Analysis Worksheet
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Contemporary World Issues and Civic Engagement

SS10.CWI.2

Compare the relationship of governments and economies to events occurring in specific nations.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Economic decisions result in costs and benefits for nations and individuals.
  • Different countries utilize varying means of addressing social and economic problems.
  • World affairs are shaped by the trade patterns of countries.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify recurring trends in history revealing existing patterns.
  • Compare and contrast ways in which countries address existing social and economic problems.
  • Identify cause-effect relationships between government actions and their economies.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There is a relationship between government actions and economic trends as found within news stories of current events.

Vocabulary

  • compare/contrast
  • cost/benefit
  • interdependent world
  • economic problem
  • social problem
  • trade
  • historical pattern
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Contemporary World Issues and Civic Engagement

SS10.CWI.3

Compare civic responsibilities, individual rights, opportunities, and privileges of citizens of the United States to those of citizens of other nations.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The definition of a citizen varies amongst countries, including the rights and responsibilities of such.
  • The rights, opportunities, responsibilities, and privileges American citizens possess.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Compare and contrast the meaning of citizenship in the United States to other countries.
  • Identify examples of and differences between the meanings of a right, privilege, opportunity, and responsibility.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • The role of a citizen differs amongst countries.

Vocabulary

  • compare/contrast
  • civic responsibility
  • individuals rights
  • civic/individual opportunity
  • civic/individual privilege

Aligned Learning Resources

Responsibility Launcher
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Contemporary World Issues and Civic Engagement

SS10.CWI.4

Analyze scientific and technological changes for their impact on the United States and the world.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The important trends in science and technology in relation to current events.
  • How changes in science and technology can shape national and world events.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify cause-effect relationships regarding changes in science and technology and their impact.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are impacts that changes in science and technology can create on national and international events, trends, and issues.

Vocabulary

  • analyze
  • scientific change
  • technological change
  • scientific impact
  • technological impact
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Contemporary World Issues and Civic Engagement

SS10.CWI.5

Analyze cultural elements, including language, art, music, literature, and belief systems, to determine how they facilitate global understanding or misunderstanding.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The elements that form a culture.
  • Differing cultures around the world.
  • Culture conflicts throughout history.
  • The meaning of globalization as well as how globalization has provided a need and an avenue for global/cultural understanding.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Analyze elements of culture using a variety of techniques.
  • Support analysis with global perspective of culture.
  • Identify cultures throughout the world through locating.
  • Form an argument with evidence to determine if cultural elements facilitate global understanding or misunderstanding.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Cultural elements facilitate global understanding or misunderstanding for any given culture.

Vocabulary

  • global understanding
  • cultural elements
  • evidence
  • analyze
  • belief system
  • globalization
  • perspective
  • diversity

Aligned Learning Resources

Bellamy and Evolution/Filthy Dreamers
Racial Prejudice: Past and Present
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Contemporary World Issues and Civic Engagement

SS10.CWI.6

Compare information presented through various media, including television, newspapers, magazines, journals, and the Internet.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • A variety of techniques for analyzing media outlets including television, internet, magazines, newspapers, and journals.
  • A variety of techniques for analyzing the meaning, sources, viewpoints, bias, and sampling involved in media.
  • Media is biased.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Analyze and compare information from various media sources.
  • Support analysis with evidence from various sources.
  • Determine reliability of news and their sources.
  • Identify bias and viewpoints including symbolism.
  • Apply strategies for media analysis to a variety of media outlets.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • It is important to analyze media in all forms to determine the reliability, source, meaning, perspective, bias, and sampling when listening to media outlets.

Vocabulary

  • media bias
  • analyze
  • criticism
  • viewpoints
  • perspective
  • political carton
  • symbolism
  • flawed sampling
  • editorial

Aligned Learning Resources

NewsFeed Defenders
The Crash of 1929 - Photo Gallery: The Roaring 20s
Document Analysis Worksheet
SOCC Visual Image Analysis
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Contemporary World Issues and Civic Engagement

SS10.CWI.7

Identify strategies that facilitate public discussion on societal issues, including debating various positions, using a deliberative process, blogging, and presenting public forums.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • Strategies for public discussion.
  • Important controversial issues facing society today.
  • A variety of techniques for analyzing methods of public discussion and when each method is appropriate.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Analyze strategies for public discussion.
  • Debate, deliberate, blog, and hold public forums on various societal issues.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Public discussion is important in regards to societal issues and how each method is appropriate at various times depending on the discussion.

Vocabulary

  • public discussion
  • societal issues
  • debate
  • blogging
  • deliberation
  • public forum

Aligned Learning Resources

Activate
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Contemporary World Issues and Civic Engagement

SS10.CWI.8

Organize a service-learning project, including research and implementation, that addresses an identified community or global issue having an impact on the quality of life of individuals and groups.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • There are issues of importance to the quality of life in their community and the world.
  • Various types of service-learning projects and activities exist. and new ones can be created.
  • The organizational skills necessary for a successful for a service-learning project.
  • Research and implementation methods for service-learning projects.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify and research an issue of importance to their community and the world that is impacting the quality of life for individuals and groups.
  • Organize and implement a service learning project in their community or the world that addresses the issue that has been identified.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Civic involvement is important as is the ability to serve the community and the world by addressing issues that impact quality of life on a daily basis.

Vocabulary

  • service learning
  • community service
  • community issue
  • global issue
  • quality of life
  • implementation

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