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Inquiry

1 Developing questions and planning inquiry
- INQ 6-8.1 Explain how a question represents key ideas in the field.
- INQ 6-8.2 Explain points of agreement experts have about interpretations and applications of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a compelling question.
- INQ 6-8.3 Explain points of agreement experts have about interpretations and application of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a supporting question.
- INQ 6-8.4 Explain how the relationship between supporting questions and compelling questions is mutually reinforcing.
- INQ 6-8.5 Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of views represented in the sources.
2 Applying disciplinary concepts and tools
- Content for this dimension is included in the individual discipline sections below (History, Civics, Economics, and Geography).
3 Evaluating sources and using evidence
- INQ 6-8.6 Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection.
- INQ 6-8.7 Evaluate the credibility of a source by determining its relevance and intended use.
- INQ 6-8.8 Identify evidence that draws information from multiple sources to support claims, noting evidentiary limitations.
- INQ 6-8.9 Develop claims and counterclaims while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both.
4 Communicating conclusions and taking informed action
- INQ 6-8.10 Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of the arguments.
- INQ 6-8.11 Construct explanations using reasoning, correct sequences, examples, and details with relevant information and data, while acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of the explanations.
- INQ 6-8.12 Present adaptations of arguments and explanations on topics of interest to others to reach audiences and venues outside the classroom using print and oral technologies (e.g., posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, reports, and maps) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, and digital documentary).
- INQ 6-8.13 Critique arguments for credibility.
- INQ 6-8.14 Critique the structure of explanations.
- INQ 6-8.15 Draw on multiple disciplinary lenses to analyze how a specific problem can manifest itself at local, regional, and global levels over time, identifying its characteristics and causes, and the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address the problem.
- INQ 6-8.16 Assess their individual and collective capacities to take action to address local, regional, and global problems, taking into account a range of possible levels of power, strategies, and potential outcomes.
- INQ 6-8.17 Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action in their classrooms and schools, and in out-of-school civic contexts.
  - Rights and responsibilities of active citizenship (7-FF.2)

Geography

Geographic Representations: Spatial Views of the World
- GEO 6-7.1 Construct maps to represent and explain the pattern of cultural and environmental characteristics in our world.
- GEO 6-7.2 Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions, and changes in their environmental characteristics.
Human-Environment Interaction: Places, Regions, and Culture
- GEO 6-7.3 Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people.
- GEO 6-7.4 Analyze the cultural and environmental characteristics that make places both similar to and different from one another.
- GEO 6-7.5 Explain the connections between the physical and human characteristics of a region and the identity of individuals and cultures living there.
Human Population: Spatial Patterns and Movement
- GEO 6-7.6 Explain how changes in transportation and communication technology influence human settlements and affect the diffusion of ideas and cultural practices.
- GEO 6-7.7 Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract settlement and movement.
- GEO 6-7.8 Evaluate the influences of long-term, human-induced environmental change on conflict and cooperation.
  - The Columbian Exchange (7-BB.6)
Global Interconnections
- GEO 6-7.9 Analyze the ways in which cultural and environmental characteristics vary among various regions of the world.
- GEO 6-7.10 Explain how the relationship between the environmental characteristics of places and the production of goods influences the world trade.
- GEO 6-7.11 Explain how global changes in population distribution affect changes in land use in particular regions.
  - Region profile: Europe (7-D.1)
  - Region profile: East Asia (7-I.1)

Civics

Civic and Political Institutions
- CIV 6-7.1 Explain specific roles played by citizens (such as voters, jurors, taxpayers, members of the armed forces, petitioners, protesters, and officeholders).
Processes, Rules and Laws
- CIV 6-7.2 Assess specific rules and laws (both actual and proposed) as means of addressing public problems.
- CIV 6-7.3 Compare historical and contemporary means of changing societies and promoting the common good.

Economics

Economic Decision-Making
- ECO 6-7.1 Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.
- ECO 6-7.2 Evaluate alternative approaches or solutions to current economic issues in terms of benefits and costs for different groups and society as a whole.
Exchange and Markets
- ECO 6-7.3 Explain how changes in supply and demand cause changes in prices and quantities of goods and services, labor, credit, and foreign currencies.
- ECO 6-7.4 Analyze the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in a market economy.
  - What is a market? (7-GG.5)
- ECO 6-7.5 Describe the roles of institutions such as corporations, nonprofits, and labor unions in a market economy.
  - What is a market? (7-GG.5)
The Global Economy
- ECO 6-7.6 Explain barriers to trade and how those barriers influence trade among nations.
  - International organizations (7-CC.7)
  - Trade and specialization (7-GG.4)
- ECO 6-7.7 Explain the benefits and the costs of trade policies to individuals, businesses, and society.
  - International organizations (7-CC.7)
  - Trade and specialization (7-GG.4)

History

Change, Continuity and Context
- HIST 6-7.1 Use questions about historically significant people or events to explain the impact on a region.

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Inquiry

1 Developing questions and planning inquiry

INQ 6-8.1 Explain how a question represents key ideas in the field.

INQ 6-8.2 Explain points of agreement experts have about interpretations and applications of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a compelling question.

INQ 6-8.3 Explain points of agreement experts have about interpretations and application of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a supporting question.

INQ 6-8.4 Explain how the relationship between supporting questions and compelling questions is mutually reinforcing.

INQ 6-8.5 Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of views represented in the sources.

2 Applying disciplinary concepts and tools

Content for this dimension is included in the individual discipline sections below (History, Civics, Economics, and Geography).

3 Evaluating sources and using evidence

INQ 6-8.6 Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection.

INQ 6-8.7 Evaluate the credibility of a source by determining its relevance and intended use.

INQ 6-8.8 Identify evidence that draws information from multiple sources to support claims, noting evidentiary limitations.

INQ 6-8.9 Develop claims and counterclaims while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both.

4 Communicating conclusions and taking informed action

INQ 6-8.10 Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of the arguments.

INQ 6-8.11 Construct explanations using reasoning, correct sequences, examples, and details with relevant information and data, while acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of the explanations.

INQ 6-8.13 Critique arguments for credibility.

INQ 6-8.14 Critique the structure of explanations.

INQ 6-8.15 Draw on multiple disciplinary lenses to analyze how a specific problem can manifest itself at local, regional, and global levels over time, identifying its characteristics and causes, and the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address the problem.

INQ 6-8.16 Assess their individual and collective capacities to take action to address local, regional, and global problems, taking into account a range of possible levels of power, strategies, and potential outcomes.

INQ 6-8.17 Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action in their classrooms and schools, and in out-of-school civic contexts.

Geography

Geographic Representations: Spatial Views of the World

GEO 6-7.1 Construct maps to represent and explain the pattern of cultural and environmental characteristics in our world.

GEO 6-7.2 Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions, and changes in their environmental characteristics.

Human-Environment Interaction: Places, Regions, and Culture

GEO 6-7.3 Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people.

GEO 6-7.4 Analyze the cultural and environmental characteristics that make places both similar to and different from one another.

GEO 6-7.5 Explain the connections between the physical and human characteristics of a region and the identity of individuals and cultures living there.

Human Population: Spatial Patterns and Movement

GEO 6-7.6 Explain how changes in transportation and communication technology influence human settlements and affect the diffusion of ideas and cultural practices.

GEO 6-7.7 Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract settlement and movement.

GEO 6-7.8 Evaluate the influences of long-term, human-induced environmental change on conflict and cooperation.

Global Interconnections

GEO 6-7.9 Analyze the ways in which cultural and environmental characteristics vary among various regions of the world.

GEO 6-7.10 Explain how the relationship between the environmental characteristics of places and the production of goods influences the world trade.

GEO 6-7.11 Explain how global changes in population distribution affect changes in land use in particular regions.

Civics

Civic and Political Institutions

CIV 6-7.1 Explain specific roles played by citizens (such as voters, jurors, taxpayers, members of the armed forces, petitioners, protesters, and officeholders).

Processes, Rules and Laws

CIV 6-7.2 Assess specific rules and laws (both actual and proposed) as means of addressing public problems.

CIV 6-7.3 Compare historical and contemporary means of changing societies and promoting the common good.

Economics

Economic Decision-Making

ECO 6-7.1 Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.

ECO 6-7.2 Evaluate alternative approaches or solutions to current economic issues in terms of benefits and costs for different groups and society as a whole.

Exchange and Markets

ECO 6-7.3 Explain how changes in supply and demand cause changes in prices and quantities of goods and services, labor, credit, and foreign currencies.

ECO 6-7.4 Analyze the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in a market economy.

ECO 6-7.5 Describe the roles of institutions such as corporations, nonprofits, and labor unions in a market economy.

The Global Economy

ECO 6-7.6 Explain barriers to trade and how those barriers influence trade among nations.

ECO 6-7.7 Explain the benefits and the costs of trade policies to individuals, businesses, and society.

History

Change, Continuity and Context

HIST 6-7.1 Use questions about historically significant people or events to explain the impact on a region.