Delaware State Standards for Social Studies: Grade 7

DE.7.C1. Civics: Students will examine the structure and purposes of governments with specific emphasis on constitutional democracy.

7.C1.1. Students explain why governments have different powers. 34
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7.C1.2. Students explain how different powers of governments are used. 35
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7.C1.3. Students understand that governments have the power to make and enforce laws and regulations, levy taxes, conduct foreign policy, and make war. 39
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7.C1.4. Students explain how different levels of governments meet different needs. 20
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7.C1.5. Students explain why the United States has a federalist government. 8
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7.C1.6. Students analyze the different functions of federal, state, and local governments in the United States and examine the reasons for the different organizational structures each level of government employs. 21
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DE.7.C2. Civics: Students will understand the principles and ideals underlying the American political system.

7.C2.1. Students explain why the Bill of Rights and other amendments that protect individual rights have become part of the U.S. Constitution. 10
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7.C2.2. Students explain why it is necessary to protect the rights of minorities. 19
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7.C2.3. Students explain how the Bill of Rights protects minority groups from discrimination. 10
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7.C2.4. Students understand that the concept of majority rule does not mean that the rights of minorities may be disregarded and will examine and apply the protections accorded those minorities in the American political system. 10
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7.C2.5. Students identify the principles upon which the U.S. government is founded. 17
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7.C2.6. Students explain how the principles upon which the U.S. government is founded have been applied. 16
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7.C2.7. Students understand the principles and content of major American state papers such as the Declaration of Independence; United States Constitution (including the Bill of Rights); and the Federalist Papers. 8
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DE.7.C3. Civics: Students will understand the responsibilities, rights, and privileges of United States citizens.

7.C3.1. Students explain how civil rights guaranteed to U.S. citizens protect individual liberty. 10
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7.C3.2. Students explain how property rights guaranteed to U.S. citizens protect individual liberty. 10
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7.C3.3. Students understand that civil rights secure political freedom while property rights secure economic freedom and that both are essential protections for United States citizens. 10
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7.C3.4. Students identify the responsibilities of a citizen. 14
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7.C3.5. Students explain why meeting the responsibilities of a citizen helps to preserve individual freedoms. 14
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7.C3.6. Students understand that American citizenship includes responsibilities such as voting, jury duty, obeying the law, service in the armed forces when required, and public service. 14
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DE.7.C4. Civics: Students will develop and employ the civic skills necessary for effective, participatory citizenship.

7.C4.1. Students explain why citizens should communicate with public officials about public policy. 5
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7.C4.2. Students identify ways to effectively communicate with public officials about public policy. 4
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7.C4.3. Students follow the actions of elected officials, and understand and employ the mechanisms for communicating with them while in office. 6
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DE.7.E1. Economics: Students will analyze the potential costs and benefits of personal economic choices in a market economy.

7.E1.1. Students identify and explain factors that shift supply or demand in markets. 2
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7.E1.2. Students predict changes to the price of a good or service based on changes in supply or demand. 2
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7.E1.3. Students analyze how changes in technology, costs, and demand interact in competitive markets to determine or change the price of goods and services. 1
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DE.7.E2. Economics: Students will examine the interaction of individuals, families, communities, businesses, and governments in a market economy.

7.E2.1. Students explain how the supply of money in an economy can affect economic growth. 11
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7.E2.2. Students explain how government policies can impact economic growth. 5
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7.E2.3. Students analyze the role of money and banking in the economy, and the ways in which government taxes and spending affect the functioning of market economies. 5
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DE.7.E3. Economics: Students will understand different types of economic systems and how they change.

7.E3.1. Students explain how the amount and quality of resources and technology can influence the economic decision-making of producers and consumers. 6
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7.E3.2. Students explain how cultural values can influence the factors of production, methods of distribution, and means of exchange. 15
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7.E3.3. Students demonstrate the ways in which the means of production, distribution, and exchange in different economic systems have a relationship to cultural values, resources, and technologies. 15
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DE.7.E4. Economics: Students will examine the patterns and results of international trade.

7.E4.1. Students explain how specialization creates interdependence. 12
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7.E4.2. Students analyze how government policies can affect trade. 4
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7.E4.3. Students explain the costs and benefits to free trade policies. 6
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7.E4.4. Students examine how nations with different economic systems specialize and become interdependent through trade and how government policies allow either free or restricted trade. 6
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DE.7.G1. Geography: Students will develop a personal geographic framework, or 'mental map,' and understand the uses of maps and other geo-graphics.

7.G1.1. Students apply mental maps to ask and answer questions that require awareness of the relative location of places in the world's subregions. 19
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7.G1.2. Students explain how mental maps held by people in various sub-regions reflect different perceptions of the world. 20
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7.G1.3. Students demonstrate how different maps and geo-graphics can be used to display different characteristics of places in the world's subregions. 9
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7.G1.4. Students demonstrate mental maps of the world and its sub-regions which include the relative location and characteristics of major physical features, political divisions, and human settlements. 8
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DE.7.G2. Geography: Students will develop a knowledge of the ways humans modify and respond to the natural environment.

7.G2.1. Students identify the processes that shape the natural environment. 16
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7.G2.2. Students explain ways in which people change or affect the natural environment. 57
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7.G2.3. Students apply a knowledge of the major processes shaping natural environments to understand how different peoples have changed, and been affected by, physical environments in the world's subregions. 13
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DE.7.G3. Geography: Students will develop an understanding of the diversity of human culture and the unique nature of places.

7.G3.1. Students identify the world's major cultural hearths and the extent of their geographic influence, using concepts of core and periphery. 75
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7.G3.2. Students apply the different processes of geographic diffusion to show how different places around the world are affected by the spread of ideas from cultural hearths. 15
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7.G3.3. Students identify and explain the major cultural patterns of human activity in the world's sub-regions. 75
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DE.7.G4. Geography: Students will develop an understanding of the character and use of regions and the connections between and among them.

7.G4.1. Students identify types of geographic regions. 21
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7.G4.2. Students explain the factors that affect the location of economic activities. 26
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7.G4.3. Students explain how specialized economic regions are created and how they might change. 9
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7.G4.4. Students understand the processes affecting the location of economic activities in different world regions. 8
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7.G4.5. Students explain why people identify with a territory and the ways they use borders to geographically define it. 20
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7.G4.6. Students explain how culture and resources often form the basis for territories. 74
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7.G4.7. Students explain how a people's territorial identity may cause conflict. 1
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7.G4.8. Students explain how conflict and cooperation among people contribute to the division of the Earth's surface into distinctive cultural and political territories. 10
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DE.7.H1. History: Students will employ chronological concepts in analyzing historical phenomena.

7.H1.1. Students analyze long-term change using historical materials. 22
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7.H1.2. Students draw conclusions from historical materials to explain the causes or effects of historical trends and themes. 18
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7.H1.3. Students examine historical materials relating to a particular region, society, or theme; analyze change over time, and make logical inferences concerning cause and effect. 38
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DE.7.H2. History: Students will gather, examine, and analyze historical data.

7.H2.1. Students explain how to investigate a historical question. 17
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7.H2.2. Students conduct valid historical research and create valid historical conclusions from the examination of primary and secondary historical sources. 41
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7.H2.3. Students explain why a given historical source is credible. 39
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7.H2.4. Students analyze a historical document to explain its purpose, perspective, or point of view. 23
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7.H2.5. Students master the basic research skills necessary to conduct an independent investigation of historical phenomena. 43
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7.H2.6. Students examine historical documents, artifacts, and other materials, and analyze them in terms of credibility, as well as the purpose, perspective, or point of view for which they were constructed. 27
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DE.7.H3. History: Students will interpret historical data.

7.H3.1. Students identify the historical source(s) used to reach a given historical conclusion. 17
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7.H3.2. Students explain why historians using the same historical sources can reach different historical conclusions. 57
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7.H3.3. Students compare different historians' descriptions of the same societies in order to examine how the choice of questions and use of sources may affect their conclusions. 54
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