SS10.HG.6.3
Describing how religion influences political views around the world
Describing how religion influences political views around the world
Describing how religion influences political views around the world
Describe patterns of settlement in different regions of the world.
Examples: linear, grid, cluster, urban sprawl
Analyze the interaction of urban places for their impact on surrounding regions.
Describing urban hinterlands
Explaining dimensions of urban sprawl
Explain how economic interdependence and globalization impact many countries and their populations.
Tracing the flow of commodities from one region to another
Comparing advantages and disadvantages of global trade agreements
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
Interpret human geography as it relates to gender.
Contrasting roles of men and women around the world
Describing ways the diffusion of ideas affects gender roles within societies
Example: effects of Grameen Bank loans
Distinguish among cultural health patterns around the world.
Example: exercise patterns and mortality rates in Asia, the United States, Europe, South America, and Australia
Comparing dietary trends in Africa, Asia, the United States, Europe, and South America
Tracing disease prevalence and efficiency of treatment around the world, including malaria, dengue fever, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), parasites, and obesity
Critique music, art, and dance as vehicles for understanding world cultures.
Categorizing musical instruments as a means to understanding culture, including the didgeridoo in the aboriginal culture in Australia
Identifying music genres and dance styles around the world
Examples: genres–Naxi, Peruvian, pop
dance styles–reggae, folk
Explaining how culture from various countries is expressed through adornments
Examples: jewelry, clothing
Relating artwork and artists to history
Examples: Fabergé eggs, commissioned paintings and sculptures
Describe how tourism shapes cultural traditions and population growth.
Explaining how regions become major business centers of tourism and trade, including the cities of Dubai, Bangkok, New York, and Shanghai
Identifying how trends, including ecotourism and the cruise industry, affect island culture in tropical areas
Trace the development of psychology as a scientific discipline evolving from other fields of study.
Describing early psychological and biological inquiries that led to contemporary approaches and methods of experimentation, including ideologies of Aristotle, John Locke, Wilhelm Wundt, Charles Darwin, William James, Frantz Fanon, and G. Stanley Hall
Differentiating among various modern schools of thought and perspectives in psychology that have evolved since 1879, including each school’s view on concepts of aggression or appetite
Illustrating how modern psychologists utilize multiple perspectives to understand behavior and mental processes
Identifying major subfields and career opportunities related to psychology
Describe research strategies used by psychologists to explore mental processes and behavior.
Describing the type of methodology and strategies used by researchers in different psychological studies
Examples: surveys, naturalistic observations, case studies, longitudinal studies, cross-sectional studies
Contrasting independent, dependent, and confounding variables and control and experimental groups
Identifying systematic procedures necessary for conducting an experiment and improving the validity of results
Describing the use of statistics in evaluating research, including calculating the mean, median, and mode from a set of data; conducting a simple correlational analysis using either calculators or computer software; and explaining the meaning of statistical significance
Explain how processes of the central and peripheral nervous systems underlie behavior and mental processes, including how neurons are the basis for neural communication.
Describing how neurons communicate, including the role of neurotransmitters in behavior and the electrochemical process