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 * Lee County Schools**
 * 7th Grade Social Studies Curriculum and Pacing Guide**
 * 2007-2008**

[|Johnston County Schools]

· What is culture? 4.1 · How · … do social groups, language, and religion fit into ss? 4.2 · …do Economic and Political Systems fit into ss? 4.3 · …does Geography fit into ss? Chapter 1 || What are our responsibilities as citizens of the world? How can individuals help a developing country solve one of its problems? || [|http://educate.intel.com/en/Project Design/UnitPlanIndex/VirtualAmbassador/] Sheppards Software [|Sheppard software] What are our responsibilities as citizens of the world? How can individuals help a developing country solve one of its problems? || [|http://educate.intel.com/en/Project Design/UnitPlanIndex/VirtualAmbassador/] ||
 * **Unit 1:** Social Studies
 * Allotted Time:** first quarter ||
 * **SCS Objectives** ||
 * **Objectives**
 * 1.01** Create maps, charts, graphs, databases, and models as tools to illustrate information about different people, places and regions in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 1.02** Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes, charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.
 * 1.03** Use tools such as maps, globes, graphs, charts, databases, models, and artifacts to compare data on different countries of Africa, Asia, and Australia and to identify patterns as well as similarities and differences
 * 9.01** Trace the historical development of governments, including traditional, colonial, and national in selected societies, and assess their effects on the respective contemporary political systems.
 * 9.02** Describe how different types of governments such as democracies, dictatorships, monarchies, and oligarchies in Africa, Asia, and Australia carry out legislative, executive, and judicial functions and evaluate the effectiveness of each.
 * Objectives**
 * 11.01** Identify the concepts associated with culture such as language, religion, family, and ethnic identity, and analyze how they can link and separate societies.
 * 11.02** Examine the basic needs and wants of all human beings and assess the influence of factors such as environment, values, and beliefs in creating different cultural responses.
 * 11.03** Compare characteristics of political, economic, religious, and social institutions of selected cultures and evaluate their similarities and differences.
 * 11.04** Identify examples of economic, political, and social changes, such as agrarian to industrial economies, monarchical to democratic governments, and the roles of women and minorities, and analyze their impact on culture. ||
 * **Essential Questions** ||
 * · What is Social Studies?
 * **Essential Questions** ||
 * · What is Social Studies?
 * **Focus** ||
 * * Geography
 * Religion
 * Intellect
 * Politics
 * Economics
 * Social ||
 * **Tasks and Strategies** ||
 * * Circle Maps
 * Social studies
 * Culture
 * Geography
 * Books
 * Sneeches: identify themes of social studies
 * Seed folks : diversity in culture / compare and contrast cultures
 * Clay Marble:
 * Good Bye Vietnam
 * Homeless Bird
 * Kaffir Boy
 * Project
 * Travel brochures (Rigor and Relevance)
 * Student picks a country and places the five themes of geography for that country on the brochure
 * Students will list 5 themes of geography
 * Students will apply 5 themes to an individual country (Africa, Asia, Pacific Realm)
 * Students will develop a travel brochure describing the 5 themes of geography
 * Seed Folks (Rigor and Relevance)
 * **Sources** ||
 * * PH: Africa, Asia and Australia
 * NCSU: Africa, Asia and the Pacific Realm
 * What is Culture Worksheet (Unangst)
 * Wikispaces
 * Economy Worksheet (Unangst)
 * United Streaming ||
 * **Lee County Schools**
 * 7th Grade Social Studies Curriculum and Pacing Guide**
 * 2007-2008** ||
 * **Unit 2: Virtual Ambassador** ||
 * **SCS Objectives** ||
 * **1.02** Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes, charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.
 * 3.01** Identify ways in which people of selected areas in Africa, Asia, and Australia have used, altered, and adapted to their environments in order to meet their needs and evaluate the impact of their actions on the development of cultures and regions.
 * 3.02** Describe the environmental impact of regional activities such as deforestation, urbanization, and industrialization and evaluate their significance to the global community.
 * 4.01** Describe the patterns of and motives for migrations of people, and evaluate the impact on the political, economic, and social development of selected societies and regions.
 * 4.03** Examine key ethical ideas and values deriving from religious, artistic, political, economic, and educational traditions, as well as their diffusion over time, and assess their influence on the development of selected societies and regions in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 5.01** Describe the relationship between the location of natural resources, and economic development, and analyze the impact on selected cultures, countries, and regions in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 5.02** Examine the different economic systems, (traditional, command, and market), developed in selected societies in Africa, Asia, and Australia, and assess their effectiveness in meeting basic needs.
 * 5.03** Explain how the allocation of scarce resources requires economic systems to make basic decisions regarding the production and distribution of goods and services, and evaluate the impact on the standard of living in selected societies and regions of Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 5.04** Describe the relationship between specialization and interdependence, and analyze its influence on the development of regional and global trade patterns.
 * 6.01** Describe different levels of economic development and assess their connections to standard of living indicators such as purchasing power, literacy rate, and life expectancy.
 * 6.02** Examine the influence of education and technology on productivity and economic development in selected nations and regions of Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 6.03** Describe the effects of over-specialization and evaluate their impact on the standard of living.
 * 9.01** Trace the historical development of governments, including traditional, colonial, and national in selected societies, and assess their effects on the respective contemporary political systems.
 * 9.03** Identify the ways in which governments in selected areas of Africa, Asia, and Australia deal with issues of justice and injustice, and assess the influence of cultural values on their practices and expectations. ||
 * **Essential Questions** ||
 * How can individuals make a difference in the world? ||
 * **Focus** ||
 * What are the key problems facing the world’s developing countries?
 * 9.03** Identify the ways in which governments in selected areas of Africa, Asia, and Australia deal with issues of justice and injustice, and assess the influence of cultural values on their practices and expectations. ||
 * **Essential Questions** ||
 * How can individuals make a difference in the world? ||
 * **Focus** ||
 * What are the key problems facing the world’s developing countries?
 * **Focus** ||
 * What are the key problems facing the world’s developing countries?
 * **Tasks and Strategies** ||
 * Research the problems of the world’s developing countries ||
 * **Sources** ||
 * Intel Workshop (see Wiki link)
 * **Sources** ||
 * Intel Workshop (see Wiki link)
 * Lee County Schools**
 * 7th Grade Social Studies Curriculum and Pacing Guide**
 * 2007-2008** ||
 * **Unit 2: Virtual Ambassador** ||
 * **SCS Objectives** ||
 * **1.02** Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes, charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.
 * 3.01** Identify ways in which people of selected areas in Africa, Asia, and Australia have used, altered, and adapted to their environments in order to meet their needs and evaluate the impact of their actions on the development of cultures and regions.
 * 3.02** Describe the environmental impact of regional activities such as deforestation, urbanization, and industrialization and evaluate their significance to the global community.
 * 4.01** Describe the patterns of and motives for migrations of people, and evaluate the impact on the political, economic, and social development of selected societies and regions.
 * 4.03** Examine key ethical ideas and values deriving from religious, artistic, political, economic, and educational traditions, as well as their diffusion over time, and assess their influence on the development of selected societies and regions in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 5.01** Describe the relationship between the location of natural resources, and economic development, and analyze the impact on selected cultures, countries, and regions in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 5.02** Examine the different economic systems, (traditional, command, and market), developed in selected societies in Africa, Asia, and Australia, and assess their effectiveness in meeting basic needs.
 * 5.03** Explain how the allocation of scarce resources requires economic systems to make basic decisions regarding the production and distribution of goods and services, and evaluate the impact on the standard of living in selected societies and regions of Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 5.04** Describe the relationship between specialization and interdependence, and analyze its influence on the development of regional and global trade patterns.
 * 6.01** Describe different levels of economic development and assess their connections to standard of living indicators such as purchasing power, literacy rate, and life expectancy.
 * 6.02** Examine the influence of education and technology on productivity and economic development in selected nations and regions of Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 6.03** Describe the effects of over-specialization and evaluate their impact on the standard of living.
 * 9.01** Trace the historical development of governments, including traditional, colonial, and national in selected societies, and assess their effects on the respective contemporary political systems.
 * 9.03** Identify the ways in which governments in selected areas of Africa, Asia, and Australia deal with issues of justice and injustice, and assess the influence of cultural values on their practices and expectations. ||
 * **Essential Questions** ||
 * How can individuals make a difference in the world? ||
 * **Focus** ||
 * What are the key problems facing the world’s developing countries?
 * **Focus** ||
 * What are the key problems facing the world’s developing countries?
 * What are the key problems facing the world’s developing countries?
 * **Tasks and Strategies** ||
 * Research the problems of the world’s developing countries ||
 * **Sources**
 * PH: Africa, Asia and Australia
 * NCSU: Africa, Asia and the Pacific Realm
 * What is Culture Worksheet (Unangst)
 * Wikispaces
 * Economy Worksheet (Unangst)
 * United Streaming ||
 * Intel Workshop (see Wiki link)
 * United Streaming ||
 * Intel Workshop (see Wiki link)

[|Intel Virtual Ambassador] [|Assessment Timeline] [|classroom exercise]
 * Additional**
 * Comments/Information** ||
 * Lee County Schools**
 * 7th Grade Social Studies Curriculum and Pacing Guide**
 * 2007-2008**
 * 7th Grade Social Studies Curriculum and Pacing Guide**
 * 2007-2008**

Developed, developing, and underdeveloped countries in Asia Is Asian economy driven by religion? China Japan India Vietnam Cambodia SW Asia (Middle East) Afghanistan Turkey || Homeless Bird Project--Students will rewrite chapter titles and write a journal entry for each chapter. Project is due once week after the book is finished. || Homeless Bird Clay Marble A World in Transition Silk Road Project.org || [|Silk Road Project]
 * **Unit 3**
 * Allotted Time:** Quarter 3 ||
 * **SCS Objectives**
 * Objectives**
 * 4.01** Describe the patterns of and motives for migrations of people, and evaluate the impact on the political, economic, and social development of selected societies and regions.
 * 4.02** Identify the main commodities of trade over time in selected areas of Africa, Asia, and Australia and evaluate their significance for the economic, political, and social development of cultures and regions.
 * 4.03** Examine key ethical ideas and values deriving from religious, artistic, political, economic, and educational traditions, as well as their diffusion over time, and assess their influence on the development of selected societies and regions in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 5.01** Describe the relationship between the location of natural resources, and economic development, and analyze the impact on selected cultures, countries, and regions in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 5.02** Examine the different economic systems, (traditional, command, and market), developed in selected societies in Africa, Asia, and Australia, and assess their effectiveness in meeting basic needs.
 * 5.03** Explain how the allocation of scarce resources requires economic systems to make basic decisions regarding the production and distribution of goods and services, and evaluate the impact on the standard of living in selected societies and regions of Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 5.04** Describe the relationship between specialization and interdependence, and analyze its influence on the development of regional and global trade patterns. ||
 * **Essential Questions** ||
 * How are the developing Asian Countries affecting the world and US economy? ||
 * **Focus**
 * **Essential Questions** ||
 * How are the developing Asian Countries affecting the world and US economy? ||
 * **Focus**
 * **Focus**
 * **Tasks and Strategies**
 * **Tasks and Strategies**
 * **Tasks and Strategies**
 * **Sources**
 * **Sources**
 * **Sources**
 * **Additional**
 * **Additional**
 * **Additional**


 * Comments/Information**
 * Lee County Schools**
 * 7th Grade Social Studies Curriculum and Pacing Guide**
 * 2007-2008** ||
 * **Unit 4 The Pacific Realm**
 * Allotted Time: Quarter 4**
 * Date(s):__****_** ||
 * **SCS Objectives** ||
 * **Objectives**
 * 3.01** Identify ways in which people of selected areas in Africa, Asia, and Australia have used, altered, and adapted to their environments in order to meet their needs and evaluate the impact of their actions on the development of cultures and regions.
 * 3.02** Describe the environmental impact of regional activities such as deforestation, urbanization, and industrialization and evaluate their significance to the global community.
 * 3.03** Examine the development and use of tools and technologies and assess their influence on the human ability to use, modify, or adapt to their environment.
 * 3.04** Describe how physical processes such as erosion, earthquakes, and volcanoes have resulted in physical patterns on the earth's surface and analyze the effects on human activities.
 * 3.04** Describe how physical processes such as erosion, earthquakes, and volcanoes have resulted in physical patterns on the earth's surface and analyze the effects on human activities.

What will be the future for the indigenous people? Will my boomerang ever come back? || Australia Oceania New Zealand || Ideas for 4th Quarter History of kites kite competition Essays Poems
 * 4.01** Describe the patterns of and motives for migrations of people, and evaluate the impact on the political, economic, and social development of selected societies and regions.
 * 4.02** Identify the main commodities of trade over time in selected areas of Africa, Asia, and Australia and evaluate their significance for the economic, political, and social development of cultures and regions.
 * 4.03** Examine key ethical ideas and values deriving from religious, artistic, political, economic, and educational traditions, as well as their diffusion over time, and assess their influence on the development of selected societies and regions in Africa, Asia, and Australia ||
 * **5.01** Describe the relationship between the location of natural resources, and economic development, and analyze the impact on selected cultures, countries, and regions in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 5.02** Examine the different economic systems, (traditional, command, and market), developed in selected societies in Africa, Asia, and Australia, and assess their effectiveness in meeting basic needs.
 * 5.03** Explain how the allocation of scarce resources requires economic systems to make basic decisions regarding the production and distribution of goods and services, and evaluate the impact on the standard of living in selected societies and regions of Africa, Asia, and Australia.
 * 5.04** Describe the relationship between specialization and interdependence, and analyze its influence on the development of regional and global trade patterns.
 * 7.01** Identify historical events such as invasions, conquests, and migrations and evaluate their relationship to current issues.
 * 7.02** Examine the causes of key historical events in selected areas of Africa, Asia, and Australia and analyze the short- and long-range effects on political, economic, and social institutions.
 * 9.01** Trace the historical development of governments, including traditional, colonial, and national in selected societies, and assess their effects on the respective contemporary political systems.
 * 9.02** Describe how different types of governments such as democracies, dictatorships, monarchies, and oligarchies in Africa, Asia, and Australia carry out legislative, executive, and judicial functions and evaluate the effectiveness of each.
 * 9.03** Identify the ways in which governments in selected areas of Africa, Asia, and Australia deal with issues of justice and injustice, and assess the influence of cultural values on their practices and expectations.
 * 9.04** Describe how different governments in Africa, Asia, and Australia select leaders and establish laws in comparison to the United States and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each.
 * 11.01** Identify the concepts associated with culture such as language, religion, family, and ethnic identity, and analyze how they can link and separate societies.
 * 11.02** Examine the basic needs and wants of all human beings and assess the influence of factors such as environment, values, and beliefs in creating different cultural responses.
 * 11.03** Compare characteristics of political, economic, religious, and social institutions of selected cultures and evaluate their similarities and differences.
 * 11.04** Identify examples of economic, political, and social changes, such as agrarian to industrial economies, monarchical to democratic governments, and the roles of women and minorities, and analyze their impact on culture.
 * 12.01** Examine the major belief systems in selected regions of Africa, Asia, and Australia, and analyze their impact on cultural values, practices, and institutions.
 * 12.02** Describe the relationship between and cultural values of selected societies of Africa, Asia, and Australia and their art, architecture, music, and literature, and assess their significance in contemporary culture.
 * 12.03** Identify examples of cultural borrowing, such as language, traditions, and technology, and evaluate their importance in the development of selected societies in Africa, Asia, and Australia. ||
 * **Essential Questions**
 * **Essential Questions**
 * **Essential Questions**
 * **Focus**
 * **Focus**
 * **Focus**
 * **Tasks and Strategies** ||
 * Watch "The Rabbit Proof Fence"
 * **Tasks and Strategies** ||
 * Watch "The Rabbit Proof Fence"

End of Year Projects--students research any country that was covered this year and create a cutural presentation about that country in any form || [|Australia facts] [|Australia Government] [|Australia demographics] PH: Africa, Asia, and Australia NCSU: Africa, Asia and the Pacific Realm Wikispaces United Streaming Rabbit Proof Fence ||
 * **Sources** ||
 * [|Aboriginal lesson plans]
 * [|Aboriginal lesson plans]