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SS.6.1 History
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SS.6.1.1 Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources to ask and research historical questions about the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.1.1.a Identify ways different cultures record history in the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.1.1.b Analyze multiple primary and secondary sources while formulating historical questions about the Western Hemisphere.
- Foundations of Maya civilization (6-P.1)
- Foundations of Inca civilization (6-P.2)
- Foundations of Aztec civilization (6-P.3)
- The Age of Exploration: origins (6-Q.1)
- Portuguese and Spanish expeditions: part I (6-Q.2)
- Portuguese and Spanish expeditions: part II (6-Q.3)
- French and English expeditions: part I (6-Q.4)
- French and English expeditions: part II (6-Q.5)
- The Columbian Exchange (6-Q.6)
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SS.6.1.1.c Gather, organize, synthesize, and critique information to determine if it is sufficient to answer historical questions about the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.1.2 The historical eras, individuals, groups, ideas, and themes within regions of the Western Hemisphere and their relationships with one another.
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SS.6.1.2.a Explain how people, products, cultures, and ideas interact and are interconnected in the Western Hemisphere and how they have impacted modern times.
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SS.6.1.2.b Determine and explain the historical context of key people, events, and ideas over time including the examination of different perspectives from people involved.
- Origins of Judaism (6-H.1)
- Origins of Christianity (6-H.2)
- Origins of Islam (6-H.3)
- Origins of Hinduism (6-H.4)
- Origins of Buddhism (6-H.5)
- Foundations of Maya civilization (6-P.1)
- Foundations of Inca civilization (6-P.2)
- Foundations of Aztec civilization (6-P.3)
- Pre-contact Native Peoples: introduction (6-P.)
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SS.6.1.2.c Identify examples of the social, political, cultural, and economic development in key areas of the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.2 Geography
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SS.6.2.1 Use geographic tools and resources to research and make geographic inferences and predictions about the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.2.1.a Use geographic tools to identify, locate and describe places and regions in the Western Hemisphere, to solve problems.
- Read a map: cardinal directions (5-A.1)
- Identify lines of latitude and longitude (5-A.2)
- Use lines of latitude and longitude (5-A.3)
- Region profile: South America (6-S.1)
- Country profile: Brazil (6-S.2)
- Identify and select countries of Northern and Central America (6-T.1)
- Name countries of Northern and Central America (6-T.2)
- Identify and select countries of the Caribbean (6-T.3)
- Name countries of the Caribbean (6-T.4)
- Identify and select countries of South America (6-T.5)
- Name countries of South America (6-T.6)
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SS.6.2.1.b Collect, analyze, and synthesize data from geographic tools to compare regions in the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.2.1.c Examine geographic sources to formulate questions and investigate responses.
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SS.6.2.1.d Interpret, apply, and communicate geographic data to justify potential solutions to problems in the Western Hemisphere at the local, state, national, and global levels.
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SS.6.2.2 Regional differences and perspectives in the Western Hemisphere impact human and environmental interactions.
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SS.6.2.2.a Classify and analyze the types of human and geographic connections between places.
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SS.6.2.2.b Identify physical features of the Western Hemisphere and explain their effects on people who reside in the region.
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SS.6.2.2.c Analyze positive and negative interactions of human and physical systems in the Western Hemisphere and give examples of how people have adapted to their physical environment.
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SS.6.3 Economics
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SS.6.3.1 Investigate how societies create different economic systems in the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.3.1.a Describe how economic systems in the Western Hemisphere (such as traditional, command, market, and mixed) allocate resources.
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SS.6.3.1.b Use economic reasoning to explain how specialization of production can result in more interdependence.
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SS.6.3.2 Investigate the role of consumers within the Western Hemisphere (PFL).
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SS.6.3.2.a Explain the roles of buyers and sellers in product, labor, and financial markets
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SS.6.3.2.b Describe the role of competition in the determination of prices and wages in a market economy.
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SS.6.3.2.c Explore how consumer spending decisions and demand impact market economies.
- What is economics? (6-GG.1)
- What is a market? (6-GG.5)
- Understand quantity supplied and quantity demanded (6-II.1)
- Understand overall supply and demand (6-II.2)
- Create and use supply and demand curves (6-II.3)
- Identify shortage and surplus (6-II.4)
- Identify shortage and surplus with graphs (6-II.5)
- Identify shortage and surplus with data (6-II.6)
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SS.6.3.2.d Analyze how external factors might influence spending decisions for different individuals.
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SS.6.4 Civics
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SS.6.4.1 Analyze the relationships of different nations in the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.4.1.a Discuss advantages and disadvantages of living in an interconnected world.
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SS.6.4.1.b Examine changes and connections in ideas about citizenship in different times and places in the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.4.1.c Describe how groups and individuals influence governments within the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.4.1.d Explain how political ideas and significant people have interacted, are interconnected, and have influenced nations.
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SS.6.4.1.e Analyze political issues from national and global perspectives over time.
- Region profile: South America (6-S.1)
- Country profile: Brazil (6-S.2)
- Region profile: Europe (6-U.1)
- Region profile: West and Central Africa (6-W.1)
- Region profile: the Middle East (6-Y.1)
- Region profile: East Asia (6-Z.1)
- Country profile: China (6-Z.2)
- Country profile: Japan (6-Z.3)
- International organizations (6-CC.7)
- Trade and specialization (6-GG.4)
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SS.6.4.1.f Identify historical examples illustrating how people from diverse backgrounds in the Western Hemisphere perceived and reacted to various global issues.
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SS.6.4.2 Systems of government in the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.4.2.a Describe different systems of government in the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.4.2.b Identify how different systems of government relate to their citizens in the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.4.2.c Compare the economic components of the different systems of government in the Western Hemisphere.
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SS.6.4.2.d Compare the various governments and citizens' liberties in the Western Hemisphere.
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