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Using the QR Codes provided, what effects does the Ebola crisis have on the
following disciplines?
The Ebola Crisis
What is Ebola?
Locations in Africa
Understanding the Outbreak
Video Questions
How Ebola is Spreading Through the
African Population
Barriers to Treatment
World Geography
Psychology
Government
Economics
Sociology Contemporary Issues
Compare & Contrast the Ebola Outbreak to the spread of HIV in Africa.
Standards Correlation
7th Grade World Geography:
7SS3: Students examine recent historical events and leaders that contributed to the development of nations in
modern Middle Eastern, Asian, African and Central and South American nations from the 1980s to today.
7SS3.a: Analyze and compare major groups of people, events and developments in the recent history
of nations that comprise the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Central and South America. Examples:
Desert Storm, economic expansion of China, Apartheid, rainforest depletion, and Osama Bin Ladin
7SS3.b: Understand the challenges in the regions, including their geopolitical, cultural, military, and
economic significance and the international relationships in which they are involved.
7SS3.c: Analyze the effects of North American economic and foreign policies on the nations that
comprise the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Central and South America. Examples: Arab/Israeli Policy,
Darfur, outsourcing in India, support of governmental policies
7SS3.d: Discuss the important trends in the regions today. Example: individual freedom and
democracy
Social Studies Skills:
Research, Evidence, and Point of View
7SSK4: Students frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research.
7SSK5: Students distinguish fact from opinion in historical narratives and stories.
7SSK6: Students distinguish relevant from irrelevant information, essential from incidental information, and
verifiable from unverifiable information in historical narratives and stories.
7SSK7: Students assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources and draw sound conclusions from
them.
7SSK8: Students detect the different historical points of view on historical events and determine the context
in which the historical statements were made (the questions asked, sources used, author’s perspectives).
Historical Interpretation
7SSK10: Students understand and distinguish cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events,
including the long-and short-term causal relations.
7SSK11: Students explain the sources of historical continuity and how the combination of ideas and events
explains the emergence of new patterns.
7SSK13: Students recognize that interpretations of history are subject to change as new information is
uncovered.
12th Grade American Government:
12SSAG8: Students formulate and defend positions on the influence of the media on American political life.
12SSAG8.c: Examine the impact of media over time in shaping public policy, political elections, and public
opinion.
12SSAG8.d: Explain how public officials use the media to communicate with the citizenry and to shape public
opinion.
12SSAG9: Students analyze the origins, characteristics, and development of different political systems across
time, with emphasis on the quest for political democracy, its advances, and its obstacles.
12SSAG9.i: Identify the successes of relatively new democracies in Africa, Asia, and Latin American and the
ideals, leaders, and general societal conditions that have launched and sustained, or failed to sustain, them.
12SSAG9.j: Describe the ways in which groups and nations interact with one another to try to resolve
problems in such areas as trade, cultural contact, treaties, diplomacy, and military force.
Social Studies Skills:
Historical Interpretation
Skills: 12SSKAG9: Students show the connections, causal and otherwise, between particular historical events
and larger social, economic, and political trends and developments.
12SSKAG11: Students interpret past events and issues within the context in which an event unfolded rather
than solely in terms of present-day norms and values.
12SSKAG12: Students understand the meaning, implication, and impact of historical events and recognize
that events could have taken other directions.
Economics:
Standard: 12SSE6 Students analyze issues of international trade and explain how the U.S. economy affects,
and is affected by, economic forces beyond the United States’ borders.
12SSE6.a Analyze the gains in consumption and production efficiency from trade, with emphasis on the main
products and changing geographic patterns of twentieth-century trade among countries in the Western
Hemisphere.
12SSE6.c Interpret the changing role of international political borders and territorial sovereignty in a global
economy.
12SSE6.d Explain foreign exchange, the manner in which exchange rates are determined, and the effects of
the dollar’s gaining (or losing) value relative to other currencies.
Psychology:
Standard: PSS8: Students will understand the socio-cultural dimensions of behavior including topics such as
conformity, obedience, perception, attitudes and the influences of the group on the individual.
PSS8.a: Discuss how attribution theory shapes social interaction.
PSS8.b: State how different kinds of physical attractiveness can influence perceptions of other personal
characteristics.
PSS8.c: Describe the different influences that affect individual’s levels of aggression and violence.
PSS8.d: Evaluate the factors that impact an individual’s willingness to help others in need.
PSS8.e: Assess the impact of culture and groups on attitudes and beliefs.
PSS8.f: Define stereotypes and explain how they can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
PSS8.g: Explain different methods used to persuade as well as defenses against it
Sociology:
Standard: SSS4: Students will explain and interpret the influence of social groups on individual/group behavior
and assess how social inequalities may affect changes in society.
SSS4.a: Describe how individuals are affected by the different social groups to which they belong.
SSS4.b: Identify major characteristics of social groups.
SSS4.c: Examine roles, interactions and leadership of social groups.
SSS4.d: Discuss the social norms of groups to which the students belong.
SSS4.e: Analyze what can occur when the rules of behavior are broken.
SSS4.f: Identify the various types of norms in society and why these rules are important to society.
SSS4.g: Discuss deviance and how society controls/discourages it.
SSS4.h: Explain how members of primary and secondary groups influence behavior.
SSS4.i: Discuss how formal organizations influence behavior of their members.
SSS4.j: Distinguish the degree of assimilation that ethnic, cultural and social groups achieve within a culture.
SSS4.k: Discuss how humans interact in a variety of social settings.
SSS4.l: Determine the cultural patterns of behavior within social groups.
SSS4.m: Investigate and compare the ideas about citizenship and cultural participation of social groups.
SSS6: Students will examine the changing nature of society the disruption of social functions caused by
numerous factors.
SSS6.a: Describe how and why societies change over time.
SSS6.b: Examine various social influences that can lead to immediate and long-term changes.
SSS6.c: Describe how collective behavior can influence and change society.
SSS6.d: Examine how technological innovations and scientific discoveries have influenced major social
institutions.
SSS6.e: Describe how the role of the mass media has changed over time and project what changes might
occur in the future.
SSS6.f: Discuss major changes that have occurred because of social movement in collective behavior.
SSS6.g: Investigate the consequences to society as a result of economic, government, and geographic changes.
SSS6.h: Examine and discuss how technological innovations and scientific discoveries have influenced major
social institutions.
SSS7: Students will analyze a range of contemporary social problems and examine various imbalances that
result in social problems.
SSS7.a: Identify characteristics of a “social” problem, as opposed to an “individual” problem.
SSS7.b: Describe how social problems have changed over time.
SSS7.c: Explain how patterns of behavior are found with certain social problems.
SSS7.d: Discuss the implications of social problems for society.
SSS7.e: Examine how individual and group responses are often associated with social problems.
SSS7.f: Evaluate possible solutions to resolving social problems and changes that may occur as a result of
implementation.
SSS7.g: Identify agencies that would be responsible in determining the extent of problems within the
community.
SSS8: Students will examine the role of an individual as a member of a community and analyze both individual
and collective behavior.
SSS8.a: Describe traditions, roles and expectations necessary for a community to continue.
SSS8.b: Describe how collective behavior can influence and change society.
SSS8.c: Discuss theories that explain collective behavior and the benefits and costs in society.
SSS8.d: Examine factors that could lead to the breakdown and disruption of an existing community.
SSS8.e: Discuss the impact of leaders of different social movements.
SSS8.f: Discuss the methods of propaganda used to influence social behavior
Contemporary Issues: