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7th Grade Social Studies Standards and Objectives
Primary Social Studies Skills: Habits of Mind
 Multiple Perspectives: students will address events from various
cultural, ethnic, political, economic, age and gender points of view
 Sourcing: students will comprehend and analyze primary and
secondary documents to identify bias, finding main ideas through
summarizing and categorizing
 Contextualization: students will be introduced to contextualization
using documents that can fit into a time period, event or situation
Additional Skills for 7th Grade Students
 Using physical and human geographic data to draw conclusions about regional
environments and populations
 Comparing cultures to discern similarities and differences
 Analyzing causes to determine effects
 Reading, interpreting, & drawing inferences from maps
 Comprehending and using subject specific vocabulary
Standard 1: Students will know how to use geographic skills to interpret maps and globes
Objectives
7.1.1
Students will demonstrate necessary map
skills.
Essential Understandings
What kind of map/globe is used for what
purpose.
How are maps used to examine human
migration and land use?
Know the key components of a map and how
to use them.
7.1.2
Students can identify and apply the six
elements of culture.
7.1.3
Students can describe the five major
world religions.
How do the six elements of a culture
(Communication, Art Forms, Social
Structure, Social Behaviors, Institutions,
Economic Base) help us understand and
compare various cultures throughout the
world?
How did the five major world religions
(Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism,
Hinduism) originate and develop.
Terms
Hemisphere
Latitude/longitude
Prime Meridian
Equator
Cardinal Directions
Scale
Key
Compass Rose
Map Titles
Physical/Political Map
Special Purpose Map
People & Places
Resources
Nystrom “Our
World Today”
Program
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific,
pages M4-M18
District Provided
Unit
Monotheism
Polytheism
District Provided
Unit
How do the five major world religions
impact the world today.
7th Grade Social Studies Standards
rev 5/5/17
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STANDARD 2: Students will understand how Asia and the Pacific play an important role in today’s global society.
Objectives
Essential Understandings
Terms
People/Places
7.2.1
How does regional climate affects human
Peninsula
Himalayas
Students will understand how
settlement and land use?
Plateau
Chang River
Geography affects the history and
Fertile
Huang River
culture of East Asia.
How do natural resources affect human
Archipelago
settlement and land use?
Population Density
Typhoon
Monsoon
Deciduous
Developing Country
Developed Country
Terrace
Double-Cropping
Aquaculture
Three Gorges Dam
7.2.2
Students will understand the History
and Culture of East Asia
7th Grade Social Studies Standards
How has past isolationism impacted cultural
diffusion, identity, economies, and history?
How have historical achievements changed the
lives of people?
rev 5/5/17
Emperor
Dynasty
Isolationism
Clan
Cultural Diffusion
Dialect
Nomad
Homogeneous
Ethnic Group
Paper making
Gunpow
Tradition
Communes
Communism
China
Japan
Korea
Great Wall of China
Samurai
Shogun
Commodore Matthew
Perry
Confucius
Resources
Nystrom “Our
World Today”
Program
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 1 (p. 8-24)
Article – China’s
Three Gorges Dam
http://www.scienti
ficamerican.com/ar
ticle.cfm?id=chinas
-three-gorges-damdisaster
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 4 (p.76-90)
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Objectives
7.2.3
Students will understand the
Impact of East Asia on today’s
world.
Essential Understandings
How do technological innovations drive economies,
trade, & foreign relations with other countries?
7.2.4
Students will understand how
Geography affects the history and
culture of Southeast Asia
How do climate regions affect human settlement and
land use?
7.2.5
Students will understand how the
History and Culture of the
Southeast Asia has affected today’s
world.
*Note* Obj. 2.5 and 2.6 may be
combined
7.2.6
Students will understand the
Impact of Southeast Asia on the
world today.
7th Grade Social Studies Standards
Terms
Radical
Free Enterprise
System
Gross Domestic
Product
Subsidy
Recession
Birthrate
Labor
Truce
Diversify
Famine
Korean War
Cultural Revolution
Great Leap Forward
Subsistence Farming
Commercial Farming
Paddy
Monsoon
People/Places
China
North Korea
South Korea
Japan
Tiananmen Square
Red Guards
Demilitarized Zone
How does colonialism affect the culture of Southeast
Asia?
Khmer Empire
Nationalist
Colonialism
Vietnam War
Communist
Pol Pot
Khmer Rouge
How has Southeast Asia been impacted by war?
Civil War
Domino Theory
Vietnam War
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Analyze the social & political changes that have
challenged the development of East Asian countries?
How do natural resources affect human settlement
and land use?
rev 5/5/17
Ring of Fire
Rain forest
Resources
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 7
(p. 142-166)
Nystrom “Our
World Today”
Program
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 3, Sect 1
(p. 53-60)
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 6, Sect 1
(p. 122-127)
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 9, Sect 1
(p. 230-235)
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7.2.7
Students will understand how
Geography affects the history and
culture of South Asia.
7.2.8
Students will understand how the
History and Culture of South Asia
has affected today’s world.
How does regional climate affect settlement and land
use?
How do natural resources affect settlement and land
use?
How has religion shaped the political and cultural
structure of India?
What impact did the past Indian empires have on
India?
How did colonization impact the modern
development of India?
7.2.9
Students will understand the
Impact of South Asia has on the
world today.
How has economic and social challenges affected the
advancement of the countries of South Asia?
7.2.10
Students will understand how
Geography affects the history and
culture of Southwest & Central
Asia.
How do climate regions affect human settlement and
land use?
7.2.11
Students will understand how the
History and Culture of Southwest
& Central Asia has affected today’s
world.
What effect did early civilization and governments
have on the world?
How do natural resources affect human settlement
and land use?
How has religion had an impact on the history of the
region?
How has the diversity of cultures shaped the region?
7th Grade Social Studies Standards
rev 5/5/17
Subcontinent
Alluvial
Monsoon
Cash Crop
Himalayas
Indus River
Ganges River
Caste
Colony
Boycott
Partition
Maurya
Gupta
Mughal
Mohandas Gandhi
Siddhartha Guatma
India
Pakistan
Great Britian
Textiles
Malnutrition
Life Expectancy
Literacy Rate
Drought
Self-Sufficient
Green Revolution
Oasis
Petroleum
Nonrenewable
Resource
Standard of Living
Steppe
Code of Hammurabi
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
Muezzin
Monothesism
Sunni
Shi'as
India
Kashmir
Pakistan
Tigris River
Euphrates
Caspian Sea
Aral Sea
Middle East
Soviet Union
Silk Road
Jerusalem
Mesopotamia
Arabs
Israel
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 2, Sect 1
(p.28-34)
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 5, Sect 1
(p. 94-102)
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 8, Sect 1
(p. 184-189)
Chapter 8, Sect 2
(p. 190-194)
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 2, Sect 2
(p. 35-41)
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 5, Sect 2
(p. 103-109)
Chapter 5, Sect. 3
(p. 112-116)
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7.2.12
Students will understand the
Impact of Southwest & Central
Asia on today’s world.
What effect has natural resources had on the
economy and standard of living of the region?
How has religion effected the social development of
the region?
How has war and changes and struggle for
governmental control affected the region?
Irrigation
Kibbutz
Monarchy
Refugee
Dictatorship
oil
Koran
Israel
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Golan Heights
Saudi Arabia
The “Stans”
Taliban
Soviet Union
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 8, Sect
3/4/5
(p. 195-214)
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 3, Sect 2
(p. 61-65)
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 6, Sect 2
(p. 130-133)
Prentice Hall:
World Studies; Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter 9, Sect 2
(p. 238-242)
7.2.13
Students will understand how
Geography affects the history and
culture of Australia/New Zealand.
How do climate regions and landforms affect human
settlement and land use?
Geyser
Fiord
Uluru/Ayers Rock
Great Barrier Reef
Outback
Australia
New Zealand
7.2.14
Students will understand how the
History and Culture of
Australia/New Zealand have
impacted today’s world.
7.2.15
Students will understand the
Impact of Australia/New Zealand
on today’s world.
How did colonization effect the history and native
cultures of Australia and New Zealand?
Station
Penal Colony
Aborigines
Maori
Outback
How has the economy of Australia been affected by
agriculture and trade?
Artisan Well
Aborigines
7th Grade Social Studies Standards
Analyze the effects of a modern economy on a
historical culture.
rev 5/5/17
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STANDARD 3: Students will understand how Europe and Russia plays an important role in today’s global society
Objectives
Essential Understandings
Key Terms
Key People/Places
7.3.2 (Chapter 2)
How did the ideas of democracy and
City-State
Athens
Students will understand how the
governmental systems of ancient Greece and
Democracy
Greece
History of Europe and Russia have
Rome affect life today?
Pax Romana
Rome
affected today’s world.
Middle Ages
Alexander the Great
How did life in Europe during the Middle
Feudalism
Michelangelo
Ages affect trade and the rise of countries?
Industrial Revolution
Leonardo da Vinci
Imperialism
King Louis XIV
How did the Renassiance, Age of Revolution,
Nationalism
Isaac Newton
and the rise of monarchs effect life and
Westernization
Catherine the Great
government in Europe?
Tsar
Ivan the Terrible
Revolutionary
Peter the Great
How did the Industrial Revolution changed life Communism
Napoleon
in Europe?
Dictatorship
Tsar Alexander II
Euro
Vladimir Lenin
How did the imperialism, nationalism and war Single Market
Josef Stalin
effect governments in Europe?
Foreign Minister
Mikhail Gorbachev
Parliament
Adolf Hitler
How does the government in Russia evolve
Constitution
Vatican City
from Imperial times to the Russian
Constitutional Monarchy New Baltic Nations
Federation?
Cold War
Reunification
How does the development of the European
Berlin Wall
Union affect life in Europe today?
Standard of Living
Entrepreneur
Civil War
Secede
Embargo
Economic Sanctions
Collectives
Inflation
Capitalism
Maastricht Treaty
7th Grade Social Studies Standards
rev 5/5/17
Resources
Prentice Hall:
World Studies,
Europe and Russia
Chapter 2
Page 6 of 8
Objectives
Essential Understandings
7.3.3 (Chapter 3)
How has the impact of industry, cultural
Students will understand how the centers, and open borders affected culture
Culture of Europe and Russia
in Western Europe?
have affected today’s world.
How has the impact of foreign domination
affected the ethnic groups of Eastern
Europe?
7.3.4 (Chapter 4)
Students will understand the
development of Western
European countries today.
How has ethnic groups, education, and
artistic tradition affected the culture of
Russia today?
What types of government have existed in Europe and
Russia?
How have the people of Europe ad Russia been shaped
by their culture?
How have Russian and European economies developed
into what they are today?
How has the complexity of Italian culture, the differences
between northern and southern regions, and the
importance of Vatican City influenced the history of
Europe and Russia?
7.3.5 (Chapter 5)
Students will understand the
development of Russia and
Eastern Europe countries
today.
How did Germany’s involvement in World War I and II,
its division, and reunification affect Europe and Russia?
How have Polish traditions and the impact of
Communism affected Europe?
How have the issues facing the people of the Balkans
affected the development of the area?
How has outside influences affected the Ukrainian
people.
How has Russia been affected by tradition, changes in
society and challenges facing the region today?
7th Grade Social Studies Standards
rev 5/5/17
Key Terms
Urbanization
Immigrants
Ethnic Groups
Dialect
Heritage
Propaganda
Key People/Places
Leo Tolstoy
Peter Tachaikovsky
Vaclav Havel
Resources
Prentice Hall:
World Studies,
Europe and Russia
Chapter 3
Parliament
Representative
Constitution
Constitutional
Monarchy
Philosophy
Welfare State
National Debt
Basilica
Manufacturing
Land Reform
Holocaust
Reunification
Standard of Living
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
France
Sweden
Italy
Germany
Prentice Hall:
World Studies,
Europe and Russia:
Chapter 4
Capitalism
Entrepreneur
Civil War
Secede
Embargo
Economic Sanctions
Chernozem
Collective
Investor
Inflation
Privatization
Poland
Slovenia
Croatia
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Serbia
Montenegro
Macedonia
Albania
Romania
Hungary
Greece
European Turkey
Ukraine
Russia
Yugoslavia
Prentice Hall:
World Studies,
Europe and Russia:
Chapter 5
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7th Grade Social Studies Standards
rev 5/5/17
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