Social Studies 8
Area of Learning: SOCIAL STUDIES — 7th Century to 1750
Big Ideas:
By the end of Social Studies 8, you should be able to use social studies inquiry process and skills to ask questions, gather, interpret, and analyze ideas and communicate findings and decisions. In addition, you will gain knowledge about these topics:
Big Ideas:
- Contact and conflict between peoples stimulated significant cultural, social, and
political changes. - Human and environmental factors shape changes in population and
living standards. - Exploration, expansion, and colonization had varying consequences for
different groups. - Changing ideas about the world created tension between people wanting to adopt new ideas and those wanting to preserve established traditions.
By the end of Social Studies 8, you should be able to use social studies inquiry process and skills to ask questions, gather, interpret, and analyze ideas and communicate findings and decisions. In addition, you will gain knowledge about these topics:
- Social, political and economic systems and structures of civilizations
- Scientific and technological innovations
- Philosophical and cultural shifts
- Interactions and exchanges of resources, ideas, arts, and culture between and among different civilizations
- Exploration, expansion, and colonization
Course Documents
Social Studies 8 Course Outline (2018/19) | |
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