Standards - Social Studies

2010 - Social Studies Course of Study Document
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.1

Describe spatial patterns of world populations to discern major clusters of population density and reasons for these patterns.

Examples: East Asia, India

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Where the world's population is distributed.
  • Issues related to population growth and decline.
  • The importance of the Malthusian dilemma and the demographic transition mode.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Understand and interpret various sources of population data.
  • Interpret the demographic transition model.
  • Analyze data extrapolated from age-sex pyramids.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • The East Asian, South Asian, European, and North American population clusters have had significant impact in the context of global population.

Vocabulary

  • spatial
  • pattern
  • density
  • clusters
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.2

Identify world migration patterns caused by displacement issues.

Example: African refugees relocating from the Republic of Sierra Leone to Scandinavia

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Push and pull factors that trigger migration.
  • Major migration streams and obstacles migrants face.
  • Criteria, policies, and issues related to refugees.
  • The various types of migration.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify various types of push and pull factors.
  • Map the major migration streams that exist.
  • Interpret refugee and migration data.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Displacement issues result from world migratory patterns.

Vocabulary

  • migration
  • patterns
  • displacement
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.3

Identify the characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth’s cultural mosaics.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • How the belief systems, languages, social structure, customs, traditions, art, food, architecture, and technology all shape culture.
  • The role of popular culture and the impact it has on local culture.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Compare and contrast differing cultures around the world.
  • Identify the role that belief systems, languages, social structure, customs, traditions, art, food, architecture, and technology have in shaping culture.
  • Identify major cultural regions of the world.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are essential components that make-up culture.
  • Culture plays an important role in the human mosaic.

Vocabulary

  • characteristics
  • distribution
  • complexity
  • cultural
  • mosaics

Aligned Learning Resources

The Mughal Empire and Historical Reputation/Crash Course World History
How Radar Changed the Course of World War II/The Secret of Tuxedo Park
Bellamy and Evolution/Filthy Dreamers
The Agricultural Revolution/Crash Course World History
The Indus Valley Civilization Crash Course World History
Mesopotamia/Crash Course World History
The Persians and Greeks /Crash Course World History
Buddha and Ashoka/Crash Course World History
2,000 Years of Chinese History! The Mandate of Heaven and Confucius/Crash Course World History
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.4

Describe elements of the landscape as a mirror of culture.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • How folk housing, religious buildings, sacred spaces, and architectural styles are a reflection of culture.
  • How the landscape is altered to reflect the cultural values of people.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Understand the linkeage between the modified landscape and culture.
  • Identify major sacred sites around the world which are a reflection of culture on the landscape.
  • Understand how architectural styles vary worldwide.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Culture is reflected on the landscape.

Vocabulary

  • elements
  • landscape
  • mirror
  • culture
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.5

Compare the geographic distribution of linguistic features around the world.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • How languages diffuse and differentiate.
  • The role of language as it relates to culture.
  • How languages are classified.
  • The most widely spoken languages.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Interpret the language map of the world.
  • Trace the evolution of languages on a map.
  • Use language related vocabulary correctly and effectively.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are patterns to the spatial distribution and diversity of human languages.

Vocabulary

  • compare
  • linguistic
  • geographic distribution
  • world
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.6

Explain how religion influences cultures around the globe.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The major religions, how they have expanded over time, and the source areas of those religions.
  • The basic attributes and belief systems of the world's principal religions.
  • Impact that religion plays on culture and politics.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Locate the major religions on a map.
  • Compare and contrast the major religions.
  • Locate the diffusion routes of the principal religions.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Religion has an significant influence on culture.

Vocabulary

  • religion
  • culture
  • influence
  • globe

Aligned Learning Resources

About Martin Luther/Martin Luther
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.7

Describe patterns of settlement in different regions of the world.

Examples: linear, grid, cluster, urban sprawl

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The diversity of human settlements.
  • The agricultural village forms and various urban structure models.
  • The variables affecting human settlement patterns.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Illustrate the different urban structure models and various agricultural village forms.
  • Compare and contrast variations of human settlement patterns.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Human settlement patterns vary in different parts of the world.
  • Many factors influence settlement patterns.

Vocabulary

  • patterns
  • settlement
  • regions
  • world
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.8

Analyze the interaction of urban places for their impact on surrounding regions.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • The basic hierarchy of the world's prominent cities.
  • The impact of cities on surrounding areas.
  • How cities function as a network.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Map the world's most influential cities.
  • Evaluate how cities operate as a network.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are many ways that urban places affect surrounding regions.
  • There is an interconnectedness of cities.

Vocabulary

  • interaction
  • urban
  • places
  • impact
  • regions
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.9

Explain how economic interdependence and globalization impact many countries and their populations.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • How the economies of various countries interact with one another and how it affects the global division of labor.
  • The impact of globalization on various nation-states.
  • What trading blocs are and how they impact people around the world.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Compare and contrast the effects of globalization on various regions of the world.
  • Explain how the various development models relate to globalization and economic development.
  • Locate less developed and more developed regions of the world.
  • Compare the advantages and disadvantages of global trade agreements.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Populations in various countries are impacted by economic interdependence and globalization.

Vocabulary

  • economic
  • interdependence
  • globalization
  • impact
  • countries
  • populations

Aligned Learning Resources

Water and Classical Civilizations/Crash Course World History
The Silk Road and Ancient Trade/Crash Course World History
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.10

Recognize how human-environmental interaction affects culture in today’s society.

Examples: population growth in the Galapagos Islands damaging the environment of endemic plant and animal species, deforestation in the Pantanal affecting the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem, green technologies affecting humans and the environment

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • How humans have impacted the earth's environment.
  • The major factors contributing to environmental change.
  • How humans are responding to environmental change.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • List several ways humans have impacted the environment.
  • Evaluate reasons why environmental change occurs.
  • Map areas of the world most affected by human activity.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Culture is impacted by humans interacting with the environment.

Vocabulary

  • human-environment
  • interaction
  • recognize
  • culture
  • society

Aligned Learning Resources

Water and Classical Civilizations/Crash Course World History
The Agricultural Revolution/Crash Course World History
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.11

Interpret human geography as it relates to gender.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • How gender dynamics are changing in various parts of the world.
  • How issues related to gender affect power relationships and culture.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Understand how roles related to gender are changing.
  • Compare and contrast roles of men and women around the world.
  • Recognize how gender affects power relationships between men and women.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Gender plays a role regarding human geography.

Vocabulary

  • human
  • geography
  • gender

Aligned Learning Resources

Racial Prejudice and Sexism in Short Stories
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.12

Distinguish among cultural health patterns around the world.

Example: exercise patterns and mortality rates in Asia, the United States, Europe, South America, and Australia

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • How caloric consumption rates relate to disease patterns.
  • The implications of wealth and geographic location on nutrition and disease.
  • Terms related to heath and disease issues.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Compare caloric consumption rates of various regions.
  • Draw conclusions from population, health, and disease related data.
  • Examine disease prevalence and efforts at treatment around the world.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are patterns related to health and disease around the world.

Vocabulary

  • cultural
  • health
  • patterns
  • world
Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Human Geography

SS10.HG.13

Critique music, art, and dance as vehicles for understanding world cultures.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The cultural significance of music, art, and dance.
  • Origins of certain musical, art, and dance forms and their diffusion.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Compare and contrast the musical, art, and dance forms of various cultural groups around the world.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Music, art, and dance influences cultures around the world.

Vocabulary

  • music
  • art
  • dance
  • world
  • culture

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