76859790HSED 5.09 - Basic Social Studies 3-Target Workshop
Course Information
Description
Basic Social Studies skills for advanced level (9.0 - 12.9 grade equivalent) students.
Total Credits
2

Course Competencies
  1. Analyze major themes in U.S. history
    Assessment Strategies
    Oral, Written or Graphic Assessment
    Criteria
    you include different points of view on the same historical theme
    you include a minimum of three sources, including primary sources
    you include an analysis of the historical theme and its relationships to different historical time frames
    you include an explanation of the significance of important people, their work, and their ideas to the historical theme
    you include an explanation of the significance of technological advances, urbanization, and population growth to the historical theme

  2. Analyze major themes in World History
    Assessment Strategies
    Oral, Written or Graphic Assessment
    Criteria
    you include different points of view on the same historical theme
    you include a minimum of three sources, including primary sources
    you include an analysis or the historical theme and its relationships to different historical time frames
    you include an explanation of the significance of important people, their work, and their ideas to the historical theme
    you include an explanation of the significance of technological advances, urbanization, and population growth to the historical theme
    you include analysis of why governments of various countries have sometimes sought peaceful resolution to conflicts and sometimes gone to war
    you include an analysis of ongoing change within and across culture such as: the development of ancient civilizations, the rise of nation-states, and social, economic, and political revolutions

  3. Analyze basic economic concepts
    Assessment Strategies
    Oral, Written or Graphic Assessment
    Criteria
    you use basic economic concepts such as: supply and demand; production, distribution, and consumption; labor, wages, and capital; inflation and deflation; market economy and command economy
    you compare different types of economies such as: traditional, command, market, and mixed
    you explain financial institutions such as: credit companies, banks, payday loan stores, and insurance companies
    you analyze the ways in which supply and demand, competition, prices, incentives, and profits influence what is produced and distributed in a competitive market system
    you explain global economic interdependence and competition, using examples to illustrate their influence on national and international policies
    you analyze the economic roles of institutions, such as corporations and businesses, banks, labor unions, and the Federal Reserve System

  4. Compare major geographic regions and features
    Assessment Strategies
    Oral, Written or Graphic Assessment
    Criteria
    you analyze the ways in which the unequal global distribution of natural resources influences trade and shapes economic patterns
    you analyze geographic information to examine the effects that a geographic or environmental change in one part of the world such as: volcanic activity, river diversion, ozone depletion, air pollution, deforestation, or desertification, may have on other parts of the world
    you analyze how different economic, social, political, religious, and cultural systems have adapted to the major ecosystems around the world