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Wisconsin Standarrds
Social Studies
Standard A: Geography Performance Standards
A.8.1 Use a variety of geographic representations, such as political, physical, and topographic maps, a globe, aerial photographs, and satellite images, to gather and compare information about a place
A.8.6 Describe and distinguish between the environmental effects on the earth of short-term physical changes, such as those caused by floods, droughts, and snowstorms, and long-term physical changes, such as those caused by plate tectonics, erosion, and glaciation
A.8.7 Describe the movement of people, ideas, diseases, and products throughout the world
A.8.8 Describe and analyze the ways in which people in different regions of the world interact with their physical environments through vocational and recreational activities
A.8.9 Describe how buildings and their decoration reflect cultural values and ideas, providing examples such as cave paintings, pyramids, sacred cities, castles, and cathedrals
A.8.10 Identify major discoveries in science and technology and describe their social and economic effects on the physical and human environment
A.8.11 Give examples of the causes and consequences of current global issues, such as the expansion of global markets, the urbanization of the developing world, the consumption of natural resources, and the extinction of species, and suggest possible responses by various individuals, groups, and nations
Standard B: HistoryPerformance Standards
B.8.1 Interpret the past using a variety of sources, such as biographies, diaries, journals, artifacts, eyewitness interviews, and other primary source materials, and evaluate the credibility of sources used
B.8.2 Employ cause-and-effect arguments to demonstrate how significant events have influenced the past and the present in United States and world history
B.8.3 Describe the relationships between and among significant events, such as the causes and consequences of wars in United States and world history
B.8.4 Explain how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon the perspectives of participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians
B.8.7 Identify significant events and people in the major eras of United States and world history
B.8.8 Identify major scientific discoveries and technological innovations and describe their social and economic effects on society
B.8.9 Explain the need for laws and policies to regulate science and technology
B.8.10 Analyze examples of conflict, cooperation, and interdependence among groups, societies, or nations
B.8.12 Describe how history can be organized and analyzed using various criteria to group people and events chronologically, geographically, thematically, topically, and by issues
Social Studies, Standard D: Economics Performance Standards
D.8.1 Describe and explain how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services
D.8.4 Describe how investments in human and physical capital, including new technology, affect standard of living and quality of life
D.8.4 Describe how investments in human and physical capital, including new technology, affect standard of living and quality of life
Standard E: Behavioral Science Performance Standards
E.8.3 Describe the ways in which local, regional, and ethnic cultures may influence the everyday lives of people
E.8.4 Describe and explain the means by which individuals, groups, and institutions may contribute to social continuity and change within a community
E.8.5 Describe and explain the means by which groups and institutions meet the needs of individuals and societies
E.8.6 Describe and explain the influence of status, ethnic origin, race, gender, and age on the interactions of individuals
E.8.7 Identify and explain examples of bias, prejudice, and stereotyping, and how they contribute to conflict in a society
E.8.10 Explain how language, art, music, beliefs, and other components of culture can further global understanding or cause misunderstanding
E.8.11 Explain how beliefs and practices, such as ownership of property or status at birth, may lead to conflict among people of different regions or cultures and give examples of such conflicts that have and have not been resolved
E.8.13 Select examples of artistic expressions from several different cultures for the purpose of comparing and contrasting the beliefs expressed
