The overall emphasis in this course will be on developing effective mapping, citizenship, and economics awareness and skills, with an emphasis on United States government and regions. Students will engage in developing a sense of understanding our country through historical people, places, and things. Students will complete a research project to learn research and application skills, note-taking, and presenting to an audience.
Citizenship and Government
- Identify the major roles and responsibilities of elected and appointed leaders in the community, state and nation; name some current leaders who function in these roles and how they are selected.
Economics
- Apply a reasoned decision-making process to make a choice, such as PACED (problem, alternative, criteria, evaluation, decision).
- Describe a market as any place or manner in which buyers and sellers interact to make exchanges; describe prices as payments of money for items exchanged in markets.
Geography
- Create and use various kinds of maps, including overlaying thematic maps, of places in the United States and also Canada or Mexico; incorporate the TODALS (title, orientation, date, author, legend, and scale) map basics, as well as points, lines of colored areas to display spatial information.
- Choose the most appropriate data from maps, charts, and graphs in an atlas to answer specific questions about geographic issues in the United States and also Canada or Mexico.
- Name and locate states and territories, major cities and state capitals in the United States. Name and locate countries neighboring the United States and their major cities.
History
- Use maps to compare and contrast a particular region in the United States and also Canada or Mexico at different points in time.
