CI.06 Identify how geography shapes culture, economics, politics, and history. C, E, G, H, P What am I learning today? Where someone is located at effects that is happening around them. Why am I learning this? When you see the world’s events, you need to know where those events are happening and why. How will […]
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CI.05 Explain how technology and globalization shape new methods of human interaction. C, G What am I learning today? How technology impacts our lives every day. Why am I learning this? Technology has changed rapidly in your lifetime. How will it change in the future may impact what you do to earn a living. How
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BELLWORK – THIS CAN BE GROUP WORK – Put everyone’s name on it. 1) What is the difference between a state (country) and a nation? 2) Name two (2) nations that are not states (countries) CI.04 Explain and analyze reasons and methods for the creation of different political divisions (e.g., state, nation-state, federal states, electoral
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CI.03 Analyze how cultural characteristics (e.g., language, religion, ethnicity, gender roles) link, divide, and/or define regions. C, G What am I learning today? Our culture is our identity. We are going to research how our culture impacts who we are. Why am I learning this? Understanding how we are impacted by our culture will give
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Bellwork? What was the first great example of “Fake News”? Our Standard CI.19 Analyze the changing role of media and technology on the spread of information and theeffects on global culture. C What am I learning today? How media and technology influences the culture around the world and in your hometown. Why am I learning
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CI.02 Locate world regions, and explain how location affects events (e.g., climate, place, resources, globalization, urbanization, cultural diffusion). G, H What am I learning today? Our world’s various regions, their climate, location, cities and cultures. Why am I learning this? Understanding our world helps us understand ourselves. Knowledge of other places and people gives us
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Bellwork #1 On An Index Card Write Your Name, your favorite ice cream flavor, sports team (if you like sports), movie, food and type of music. Our First Standard Geography Overview: Students will see, understand, and appreciate the web of relationships between people, places, and environments using the knowledge, skills, and concepts within the five
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CI.18 Compare and contrast world religions (e.g., Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism), and analyze how they complement or conflict with each other in the contemporary world.C, G, H What am I learning today? The world’s religions have had an impact on our world’s history and our current era. Why am I learning this?
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CI.17 Analyze the political implications of terrorism for American public policy. C, P What am I learning today? 9/11 Changed America – we are going to research how it changed our lives Why am I learning this? America changed on 9/11. Some domestic policies changed because of that event. Some of those changes may impact
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Bellwork/Group Work With your neighbor, identify your current knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement. Ask each other these questions: Who? When? Why? Where? How? Our Standard CI.09 Analyze the causes and effects of extremism, and identify the historical roots of terrorist attacks (e.g., PLO, IRA, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS, the Black Hand, KKK). What am I
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