Washington State Standards for Social Studies: Grade 10

WA.EL.A. World History: Global expansion and encounter (1450-1770).

EL.A.1. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the reasons non-Europeans were unable to maintain sovereignty subsequent to European contact. (H1.1.3a, H 1.1.3b, H1.3.3, H 1.2.3, H2.1.3, H 2.2.3)

EL.A.2. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to understand the rise of nation states and how they influenced world development. (H1.1.3a, H 1.1.3b, H1.3.3, H 1.2.3, H2.1.3, H 2.2.3)

EL.A.3. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to assess the role of Christianity as a factor in European expansion. (H1.1.3a, H 1.1.3b, H1.3.3, H 1.2.3, H2.1.3, H 2.2.3)

EL.A.4. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to understand the interrelationship between religion and governments. (H1.1.3a, H 1.1.3b, H1.3.3, H 1.2.3, H2.1.3, H 2.2.3)

EL.A.6. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to understand the impact of Islamic expansion on European access to Asian resources and markets. (G1.2.3a, G3.1.3a, G3.1.3b)

EL.A.7. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to compare and contrast the cultural centers throughout the world in their origins, development, and tendency toward aggressive expansion. (G1.2.3a, G3.1.3a, G3.1.3b)

EL.A.9. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to explain the development of European dominance in world economics and wealth development after 1600. (E1.1.3a, E1.1.3b, E2.2.3a, E2.2.3d, E2.3.3a)

EL.A.10. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to understand the interconnection of mercantilism and European expansion. (E1.1.3a, E1.1.3b, E2.2.3a, E2.2.3d, E2.3.3a)

EL.A.11. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze/evaluate the positive and negative consequences of Europeans colonizing non-European civilizations. (E1.1.3a, E1.1.3b, E2.2.3a, E2.2.3d, E2.3.3a)

WA.EL.B. World History: Age of Revolution (1750-1914).

EL.B.1. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to describe the basic causes, dynamics, and outcomes of major revolutions (e.g., the Glorious Revolution of England, American Revolution, French Revolution) (H1.1.3a, H1.1.3b, H1.2.3, H1.3.3, H2.1.3, H2.2.3)

EL.B.2. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to compare and contrast the various Latin American independence movements with other regional movements regarding causation, process, and outcome. (H1.1.3a, H 1.1.3b, H1.2.3, H1.3.3, H2.1.3, H2.2.3)

EL.B.3. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the impact and significance of the Russian expansion and imperialism. (H1.1.3a, H 1.1.3b, H1.2.3, H1.3.3, H2.1.3, H2.2.3)

EL.B.4. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to trace the evolution of slavery as an institution and the significant impact on the continent and cultures of Africa. (G3.2.3a, G3.3.3a)

EL.B.5. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to understand the transformations of Asian cultures and governments as a result of revolution. (G3.2.3a, G3.3.3a)

EL.B.6. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to assess the political, cultural, and economic impact of European colonization of Africa. (G3.2.3a, G3.3.3a)

EL.B.7. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to describe the political systems that caused and resulted from various revolutions (e.g., the Glorious Revolution of England, American Revolution, French Revolution, Mexican Revolution) (C1.3.3a, C2.3.3b)

EL.B.8. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the impacts of laissez-faire capitalism. (E2.2.3d, E3.1.3a)

EL.B.9. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the origins and impact of the introduction of non-indigenous, commercial crops in various regions. (E2.2.3d, E3.1.3a)

EL.B.10. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the inter-relationships and impact of agricultural, economic, political, and technological revolutions. (E2.2.3d, E3.1.3a)

EL.B.11. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to assess the impact on the life of people in the change from an agrarian, rural to an industrial, urban society, from subsistence to commercial agriculture. (E2.2.3d, E3.1.3a)

EL.B.12. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the effects of the Industrial Revolution in England, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States. (E2.2.3d, E3.1.3a)

WA.EL.C. World History: Causes and consequences of International Conflicts (1870-Present).

EL.C.1. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the causes, course, and effects of World War I, including the role of political and economic rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, domestic discontent and disorder, and propaganda and nationalism (e.g. The Russian Revolution) (H1.1.3a, H1.2.3, H2.1.3)

EL.C.2. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to discuss human rights violations and genocide. (H1.1.3a, H1.2.3, H2.1.3)

EL.C.3. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to understand the nature of war and its human costs on all sides of the conflict. (H1.1.3a, H1.2.3, H2.1.3)

EL.C.4. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the influence of the Treaty of Versailles, Wilson's Fourteen Points, and the causes and effects of the US's rejection of the League of Nations. (H1.1.3a, H1.2.3, H2.1.3)

EL.C.5. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the rise of totalitarian governments after World War I. (H1.1.3a, H1.2.3, H2.1.3)

EL.C.6. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze patterns of global change in the era of New Imperialism in Africa, Southeast Asia, China, India, Latin America, and the Philippines. (H1.1.3a, H1.2.3, H2.1.3)

EL.C.7. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to describe the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonialism. (H1.1.3a, H1.2.3, H2.1.3)

EL.C.8. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to explain imperialism from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized and the varied immediate and long-term responses by the people under colonial rule. (H1.1.3a, H1.2.3, H2.1.3)

EL.C.9. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to describe the independence struggles of the colonized regions of the world, including the roles of leaders. (H1.1.3a, H1.2.3, H2.1.3)

EL.C.10. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the causes of World War II, including German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empires, the role of appeasement, nonintervention, and domestic distractions in Europe and the U.S. (C3.1.3b)

EL.C.11. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the consequences of World War II and subsequent international developments, including U.S. postwar policies, the Cold War, the formation of NATO, the United Nations, SEATO, OAS (also covered in U.S. History in detail) (C3.1.3b)

EL.C.12. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the causes, course, and effects of World War I, including role of nationalism and the competition for resources and colonies. (G3.1.3a, G3.2.3a, G3.3.3a, G3.3.3b)

EL.C.13. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to understand the nature of war and the consequences for the environment. (G3.1.3a, G3.2.3a, G3.3.3a, G3.3.3b)

EL.C.14. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the effects of the redrawing of national borders in the Treaty of Versailles. (G3.1.3a, G3.2.3a, G3.3.3a, G3.3.3b)

EL.C.16. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to explain imperialism from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized and the varied immediate and long-term. (G3.1.3a, G3.2.3a, G3.3.3a, G3.3.3b)

EL.C.18. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the consequences of World War II and subsequent international developments, including geopolitical power shifts, the rise of nationalism, and the Cold War's division of the world into communist and non-communist areas. (G3.1.3a, G3.2.3a, G3.3.3a, G3.3.3b)

EL.C.19. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the causes, course, and effects of World War I, including the role of economic rivalries and domestic economic unrest. (E1.2.3a, E1.2.3b, E2.3.3b, E2.2.3d)

EL.C.20. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to understand the nature of war and its economic costs on all sides of the conflict. (E1.2.3a, E1.2.3b, E2.3.3b, E2.2.3d)

EL.C.27. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the economic consequences of World War II and subsequent international developments, including the costs of the war, economic power shifts, U.S. postwar policies, the Cold War. (E1.2.3a, E1.2.3b, E2.3.3b, E2.2.3d)

WA.EL.D. World History: Challenges to Democracy and Human Rights (1900-Present).

EL.D.1. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to understand the causes and consequences of the reoccurrence of genocide in history. (H1.1.3a, H1.1.3b, H 1.2.3, H2.1.3, H 2.2.3)

EL.D.2. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the causes, consequences and implications of famines, and pandemics. (H1.1.3a, H1.1.3b, H 1.2.3, H2.1.3, H 2.2.3)

EL.D.3. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the impact of religion and secularism on democracy and human rights. (H1.1.3a, H1.1.3b, H 1.2.3, H2.1.3, H 2.2.3)

EL.D.4. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to identify the implications and multiple perspectives of increasing mechanization and consolidation on the work and living conditions of people in diverse cultural, economic, and political backgrounds. (H1.1.3a, H1.1.3b, H 1.2.3, H2.1.3, H 2.2.3)

EL.D.5. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to assess the progress of human and civil rights around the world since the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights. (H1.1.3a, H1.1.3b, H 1.2.3, H2.1.3, H 2.2.3)

EL.D.16. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to examine the impact of participation in international political bodies. (E1.1.3a, E1.1.3c, E2.2.3a, E3.1.3a)

WA.EL.E. World History: Emergence and Development of New Nations (1945-Present).

EL.E.1. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to explain how African, Asian, and Caribbean peoples achieved independence from European colonial rule. (H1.1.3a, H1.1.3b, H1.2.3, H1.3.3, H2.1.3, H2.2.3)

EL.E.2. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the role of political revolutions in reshaping countries (e.g. The Chinese Revolution) (H1.1.3a, H1.1.3b, H1.2.3, H1.3.3, H2.1.3, H2.2.3)

EL.E.3. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to assess the difficulties of newly emerging countries in a changing economic, environmental, and political world. (H1.1.3a, H1.1.3b, H1.2.3, H1.3.3, H2.1.3, H2.2.3)

EL.E.4. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to understand the mechanisms and nature of inter-dependence of local, regions, and nations in world culture and economy. (H1.1.3a, H1.1.3b, H1.2.3, H1.3.3, H2.1.3, H2.2.3)

EL.E.13. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to compare and contrast the environmental advantages and disadvantages of globalization to countries, regions, and people with different cultural and economic advantages. (G1.1.3b, G1.2.3a, G2.1.3, G2.2.3, G2.3.3, G3.1.3a, G3.2.3a, G3.3.3a, G3.3.3b, G3.3.3c)

EL.E.14. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to analyze the various strategies new African, Asian, and Caribbean nations have used to develop economically (e.g. export-led growth, import substitution) (E1.1.3c, E2.1.3, E2.2.3a, E2.2.3b, E2.3.3a, E2.3.3b, E2.4.3a, E3.1.3a)

EL.E.15. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to assess the economic difficulties of newly emerging countries in a changing economic, environmental, and political world (e.g. foreign debt) (E1.1.3c, E2.1.3, E2.2.3a, E2.2.3b, E2.3.3a, E2.3.3b, E2.4.3a, E3.1.3a)

EL.E.16. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to explain the mechanisms and nature of economic inter-dependence of local, regions, and nations in a world economy. (E1.1.3c, E2.1.3, E2.2.3a, E2.2.3b, E2.3.3a, E2.3.3b, E2.4.3a, E3.1.3a)

EL.E.17. Evidence of Learning: Students will be able to compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of globalization to countries, regions, and people with different cultural and economic advantages. (E1.1.3c, E2.1.3, E2.2.3a, E2.2.3b, E2.3.3a, E2.3.3b, E2.4.3a, E3.1.3a)

WA.1.1. Social Studies Skills: Inquiry and Information Skills: Understand and use inquiry and information skills required by citizens in a democratic society.

1.1.3a. Formulate a thesis statement in the social studies that examines why as well as how.

1.1.3b. Identify key words; use advanced search strategies; independently locate appropriate and varied information sources; evaluate primary/secondary sources.

1.1.3d. Evaluate reliability, credibility, and validity of information from a variety of social studies sources.

1.1.3e. Produce and interpret outlines, charts, graphs, maps, tables, timelines, and decision-making grids that explain problems and/or construct solutions.

1.1.3f. Create a product that uses social studies content to support a thesis and present the product in an appropriate manner to a meaningful audience.

WA.2.1. Social Studies Skills: Interpersonal and Group Process Skills: Understand and use interpersonal and group process skills required by citizens in a democratic society.

2.1.3a. Voice original ideas; demonstrate content knowledge; persuade audience; listen critically and build upon the ideas of others; ask clarifying questions and challenge statements of others; negotiate and compromise.

2.1.3c. Select appropriate people to gain needed information; identify bias of subject; ask questions to refine and verify understanding.

WA.3.1. Social Studies Skills: Critical Thinking Skills: Understand and apply critical thinking and problem solving skills to make informed and reasoned decisions.

3.1.4a. Identify central issue; formulate appropriate questions; identify multiple perspectives; compare and contrast; validate data using multiple sources; determine relevant information; paraphrase problem.

3.1.4b. Distinguish between fact, opinion, and reasoned argument; clarify point of view and context; identify assumptions and fallacies; recognize stereotypes, cliches, bias, and propaganda techniques; evaluate accuracy and timeliness of information; determine main message and identify target audiences; analyze credibility and authenticity.

3.1.4c. Compare benefits and costs; suggest alternatives; predict probable consequences; provide evidence to justify best solution; select most effective manner of communicating solution.

3.1.4d. Hypothesize possible outcomes from an initial event recognizing multiple causes and accidental factors.

3.1.4e. Group human and natural events into broadly defined eras and use timelines to explain patterns of continuity and change in the succession of events.

3.1.4f. Reconstruct and express multiple points of view and integrate a historic, geographic, civic, or economic perspective.

WA.H.1. History: The student examines and understands major ideas, eras, themes, developments, turning points, chronology, and cause-effect relationships in the United States, world, and Washington State history.

H.1.1. Understand and analyze historical time and chronology.

H.1.1.3a. Group events and individuals by broadly defined historical eras and use timelines to identify and explain patterns of historical continuity and change in a succession of related events; compare and contrast different cultural perceptions of time.

H.1.1.3b. Compare and evaluate competing historical narratives, analyze multiple perspectives, and challenge arguments of historical inevitability.

H.1.2. Understand events, trends, individuals, and movements shaping the United States, world, and Washington State history.

H.US1.2.3. United States History: Identify and analyze major concepts, people, and events in the 20th century U.S. History including: Emergence of America as a world power (1890-1918); Reform, prosperity, and depression; WW II, the Cold War, and International Relations (1939-Present); Post-World War II domestic, political, social, and economic issues (1945-present).

H.WH1.2.3. World History: Identify and analyze major concepts, people, and events in world history from 1600 to the present including: Global expansion and encounter (1450-1770); Age of Revolutions (1750-1914); Causes and consequences of WW1 and WWII (1870-1989); Emergence and development of new nations (1945-present); Challenges to democracy and human rights (1900-present)

H.1.3. Examine the influence of culture on the United States, world, and Washington State history.

H.1.3.3a. Examine and analyze how the contributions of various cultural groups influence society.

WA.H.2. History: The student understands the origin and impact of ideas and technological developments on history.

H.2.1. Compare and contrast ideas in different places, time periods, and cultures, and examine the interrelationships between ideas, change, and conflict.

H.2.1.3a. Compare and analyze major ideas in different places, times, and cultures, and how those ideas have brought about continuity, change, or conflict.

H.2.2. Understand how ideas and technological developments influence people, culture, and environment.

H.2.2.3a. Analyze how technological developments have changed people's ideas about the natural world and evaluate their short and long-term consequences.

WA.G.1. Geography: The student uses maps, charts, and other geographic tools to understand the spatial arrangement of people, places, resources, and environments on Earth's surface.

G.1.1. Use and construct maps, charts, and other resources to gather and interpret geographic information.

G.1.1.3a. Produce and interpret maps, tables, and graphs to help explain phenomenon such as transportation networks within regions, literacy rates, voting patterns, or the variation in population density in relation to resources and land use (Five Themes).

G.1.2. Recognize spatial patterns on Earth's surface and understand the processes that create these patterns.

G.1.2.3a. Explain why different places of the world have particular physical and human characteristics (Five Themes).

WA.G.2. Geography: The student understands the complex physical and human characteristics of places and regions.

G.2.1. Describe the natural characteristics of places and regions and explain the causes of their characteristics.

G.2.1.3a. Describe and interpret the physical processes that shape places and regions (Location, Region, Place).

G.2.2. Describe the patterns humans make on places and regions.

G.2.2.3a. Analyze how social, cultural, and economic influences shape the physical features of places and regions (Five Themes).

G.2.3. Identify the characteristics that define the Pacific Northwest and the Pacific Rim as regions.

G.2.3.3a. Analyze how cultural and physical features define the Pacific Rim as a region (Five Themes).

WA.G.3. Geography: The student observes and analyzes the interaction between people, the environment, and culture.

G.3.1. Identify and examine people's interaction with and impact on the environment.

G.3.1.3a. Analyze and evaluate the positive benefits and negative consequences of people's different uses of the environment (Human/Environment Interaction, Region).

G.3.1.3b. Analyze how environmental knowledge and responsible action can encourage species' survival in the midst of air, water, and land issues (Human/ Environment Interaction, Region).

G.3.2. Analyze how the environment and environmental changes affect people.

G.3.2.3a. Detect and interpret how changes in the physical environment enhance or diminish its capacity to support human activity (Five Themes).

G.3.2.3b. Analyze how technological innovation may both solve environmental problems and create new ones (Five Themes).

G.3.3. Examine cultural characteristics, transmission, diffusion and interaction.

G.3.3.3a. Evaluate how the numerous subcultures that comprise a national culture interact and examine the consequences of their interaction (Five Themes).

G.3.3.3b. Analyze how peoples' responses to policy debates are shaped by cultural influences (Five Themes).

G.3.3.3c. Examine how communication technologies are bridging and impacting cultures (Five Themes).

WA.C.1. Civics: The student understands and can explain the core values and democratic principles of the United States as set forth in foundational documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

C.1.1. Understand and interpret the major ideas set forth in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and other foundational documents.

C.1.2. Examine key ideals of United States democracy such as individual human dignity, liberty, justice, equality, and the rule of law.

C.1.2.3a. Analyze why democratic ideals demand that people work together to reduce the disparity between those ideals and realities.

C.1.3. Examine representative government and citizen participation.

C.1.3.3a. Examine and evaluate how citizens use and influence governmental institutions and processes to solve problems.

WA.C.2. Civics: The student analyzes the purposes and organization of government and laws.

C.2.1. Understand and explain the organization of government at the federal, state, and local level including the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.

C.2.1.3a. Analyze problems and solutions related to the distribution of authority.

C.2.2. Understand the function and effect of law.

C.2.2.3a. Explain how the Constitution is maintained as the supreme law of the land and how it is changed or amended.

C.2.3. Compare and contrast democracies with other forms of government.

C.2.3.3a. Compare and contrast U.S. democracy and other forms of government.

WA.C.3. Civics: The student understands the purposes and organization of international relationships and how United States foreign policy is made.

C.3.1. Understand how the world is organized politically and how nations interact.

C.3.1.3a. Evaluate how national interests are maintained through international agreements, treaties, and alliances.

C.3.2. Recognize factors and roles that affect the development of foreign policy by the United States, other nations, and multinational organizations.

C.3.1.3a. Evaluate how national interests are maintained through international agreements, treaties, and alliances.

WA.C.4. Civics: The student understands the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and the principles of democratic civic involvement.

C.4.1. Understand individual rights and their accompanying responsibilities including problem-solving and decision-making at the local, state, national, and international level.

C.4.2. Identify and demonstrate rights of United States citizenship related to school, local, state, national, and international issues.

C.4.3. Explain how various stakeholders influence public policy.

WA.E.1. Economics: Students understand the impact of scarcity on their personal lives and on the households, businesses, governments, and societies in which they are participants.

E.1.1. Understand that the condition of scarcity requires people to choose among alternatives and bear the consequences of that choice.

E.1.1.3a. Using the concepts of scarcity, choice, and incentives explain the use of a contemporary resource.

E.1.1.3b. Analyze how choices made by businesses and individuals can impose costs on others.

E.1.2. Understand that the availability and use of resources influences the production of goods and services in the economy.

E.1.2.3a. Identify how cost of resources impact production decisions.

E.1.2.3b. Explain how the difficulty of assessing the real costs of resources has consequences on present and future production and quality of life.

WA.E.2. Economics: Students understand the essential characteristics of past and present economic systems.

E.2.1. Recognize that both buyers and sellers participate in voluntary trade because both expect to gain from the exchange.

E.2.1.3a. Explain how comparative advantage within markets leads to production choices and specialization.

E.2.2. Explain how different economic systems produce, distribute, and exchange goods and services.

E.2.2.3a. Evaluate how the nature of distribution may advantage or disadvantage particular groups of people.

E.2.2.3b. Predict how a change in a law or custom could affect production, distribution, or consumption of a good or service.

E.2.2.3c. Evaluate how the characteristics of economic systems may advantage or disadvantage particular groups of people.

E.2.3. Understand that prices in competitive markets create incentives that influence the choices of buyers and sellers.

E.2.3.3a. Explain how prices provide information and serve as incentives that assist producers and consumers in making decisions.

E.2.3.3b. Analyze how prices coordinate production and exchange in domestic and international markets.

E.2.4. Understand that investment in people, tools, and technology affects employment levels and standards of living.

E.2.4.3a. Explain how investments in human capital can increase productivity but such investments entail opportunity costs and risks.

WA.E.3. Economics: Students understand the role of government and institutions in past and present economic systems.

E.3.1. Analyze the role of government as participant in an economy through taxation, spending, and policy setting.

E.3.1.3a. Analyze costs and benefits of the roles of government in establishing and enforcing property rights or contractual agreements to protect the producer and consumer while attending to the public interest.

E.3.1.3b. Analyze costs and benefits of how governments redistribute income through taxation and government expenditures.

E.3.2. Understand the role of money, banking, and financial institutions and how individuals and businesses use them.

E.3.1.3b. Analyze costs and benefits of how governments redistribute income through taxation and government expenditures.

WA.1. CIVICS - The student understands and applies knowledge of government, law, politics, and the nation's fundamental documents to make decisions about local, national, and international issues and to demonstrate thoughtful, participatory citizenship.

1.2. Understands the purposes, organization, and function of governments, laws, and political systems.

1.2.3. FORMS OF GOVERNMENT: Evaluates the impact of various forms of government on people in the past or present.

1.3. Understands the purposes and organization of international relationships and United States foreign policy.

1.3.1. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: Analyzes the relationships and tensions between national interests and international issues in the world in the past or present.

WA.2. ECONOMICS - The student applies understanding of economic concepts and systems to analyze decision-making and the interactions between individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies.

2.1. Understands that people have to make choices between wants and needs and evaluate the outcomes of those choices.

2.1.1. ECONOMIC CHOICES: Analyzes how the costs and benefits of economic choices have shaped events in the world in the past or present.

2.2. Understands how economic systems function.

2.2.1. ECONOMIC SYSTEMS: Understands and analyzes how planned and market economies have shaped the production, distribution, and consumption of goods, services, and resources around the world in the past or present.

2.2.2. TRADE: Analyzes how and why countries have specialized in the production of particular goods and services in the past or present.

2.3. Understands the government's role in the economy.

2.3.1. GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY: Analyzes the costs and benefits of government trade policies from around the world in the past or present.

2.4. Understands the economic issues and problems that all societies face.

2.4.1. ECONOMIC ISSUES: Analyzes and evaluates how people across the world have addressed issues involved with the distribution of resources and sustainability in the past or present.

WA.3. GEOGRAPHY - The student uses a spatial perspective to make reasoned decisions by applying the concepts of location, region, and movement and demonstrating knowledge of how geographic features and human cultures impact environments.

3.1. Understands the physical characteristics, cultural characteristics, and location of places, regions, and spatial patterns on the Earth's surface.

3.1.2. CHARACTERISTICS AND SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF PLACES AND REGIONS: Identifies major world regions and understands their cultural roots.

3.2. Understands human interaction with the environment.

3.2.1. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION: Analyzes and evaluates human interaction with the environment across the world in the past or present.

3.2.2. CULTURE: Understands and analyzes examples of ethnocentrism.

3.2.3. HUMAN MIGRATION: Understands the causes and effects of voluntary and involuntary migration in the world in the past or present.

3.3. Understands the geographic context of global issues and events.

3.3.1. GEOGRAPHIC CONTEXT OF GLOBAL ISSUES: Understands how the geography of expansion and encounter has shaped global politics and economics in the past or present.

WA.4. HISTORY - The student understands and applies knowledge of historical thinking, chronology, eras, turning points, major ideas, individuals, and themes in local, Washington State, tribal, United States, and world history in order to evaluate how history shapes the present and future.

4.1. Understands historical chronology.

4.1.1. CHRONOLOGY: Analyzes change and continuity within a historical time period.

4.1.2. CHRONOLOGICAL ERAS: Understands how the following themes and developments help to define eras in world history:

4.1.2.a. Global expansion and encounter (1450 - 1750).

4.1.2.b. Age of revolutions (1750 - 1917).

4.1.2.c. International conflicts (1870 - present).

4.1.2.d. Emergence and development of new nations (1900 - present).

4.1.2.e. Challenges to democracy and human rights (1945 - present).

4.2. Understands and analyzes causal factors that have shaped major events in history.

4.2.1. INDIVIDUALS AND MOVEMENTS: Analyzes how individuals and movements have shaped world history (1450 - present).

4.2.2. CULTURES AND CULTURAL GROUPS: Analyzes how cultures and cultural groups have shaped world history (1450-present).

4.2.3. IDEAS AND TECHNOLOGY: Analyzes and evaluates how technology and ideas have shaped world history (1450 - present).

4.3. Understands that there are multiple perspectives and interpretations of historical events.

4.3.1. HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION: Analyzes and interprets historical materials from a variety of perspectives in world history (1450 - present).

4.3.2. MULTIPLE CAUSATION: Analyzes the multiple causal factors of conflicts in world history (1450 - present).

4.4. Uses history to understand the present and plan for the future.

4.4.1. HISTORICAL ANTECENDENTS: Analyzes how an understanding of world history can help us prevent problems today.

WA.5. SOCIAL STUDIES SKILLS - The student understands and applies reasoning skills to conduct research, deliberate, form, and evaluate positions through the processes of reading, writing, and communicating.

5.1. Uses critical reasoning skills to analyze and evaluate positions.

5.1.1. UNDERSTANDS REASONING: Analyzes consequences of positions on an issue or event.

5.1.2. EVALUATES REASONING: Evaluates the precision of a position on an issue or event.

5.2. Uses inquiry-based research.

5.2.1. FORMS QUESTIONS: Creates and uses research questions that are tied to an essential question to focus inquiry on an idea, issue, or event.

5.2.2. ANALYZES SOURCES: Evaluates the validity, reliability, and credibility of sources when researching an issue or event.

5.3. Deliberates public issues.

5.3.1. DELIBERATION: Evaluates one's own viewpoint and the viewpoints of others in the context of a discussion.

5.4. Creates a product that uses social studies content to support a thesis and presents the product in an appropriate manner to a meaningful audience.

5.4.1. CREATES POSITION AND PRODUCT: Evaluates multiple reasons or factors to develop a position paper or presentation.

5.4.2. CITING SOURCES: Creates strategies to avoid plagiarism and respects intellectual property when developing a paper or presentation.