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Skills available for Hawaii seventh-grade social studies standards

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Historical Understanding

History

3 Understand important historical events in the Pacific region
- European Contact and Colonization
  - SS.7PI.3.1 Explain why foreigners (including explorers, traders, whalers, and missionaries) came to Oceania and examine the resultant political (including colonization), social (including decline of population and demise of culture), and economic (including trade and diminishing resources) impact on the indigenous people
  - SS.7PI.3.2 Analyze conflicting beliefs, values, and norms of the indigenous populations and the European explorers/settlers and explain the impact of those differences
- Government
  - SS.7PI.3.3 Trace the development/evolution of government systems in Oceania from pre-contact to present (including colonization, protectorate, trust territory, territory, commonwealth, self-governing, free-association, and independent) and explain the effects of the changes
  - SS.7PI.3.4 Analyze the roles and responsibilities of contemporary governments (including monarchy, free association, trust territory and independence) in the Pacific Islands and how they are similar or different
- United States and The Pacific Islands
  - SS.7PI.3.5 Describe the cultural and political relationship between the United States and one of the Pacific Islands, including interactions between the two
- Contemporary Issues in The Pacific Islands
  - SS.7PI.3.6 Examine current issues or problems facing contemporary Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia and propose solutions to them based on research

Political Science/Civics

4 Understand the purpose and historical impact of political institutions, the principles and values of American constitutional democracy, and the similarities and differences in government across cultural perspectives
5 Understand roles, rights (personal, economic, political), and responsibilities of American citizens and exercise them in civic action

Cultural Anthropology

6 Understand culture as a system of beliefs, knowledge, and practices shared by a group and understand how cultural systems change over time
- Cultural Diversity and Unity
  - SS.7PI.6.1 Compare conditions and motivations that contribute to conflict, cooperation, or interdependence among the islands of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia or between the islands and the United States

Geography

7 Use geographic representations to organize, analyze, and present information on people, places, and environments and understand the nature and interaction of geographic regions and societies around the world
- World in Spatial Terms
  - SS.7PI.7.1 Use geographic representations such as maps or models to explain population distribution and the physical and human characteristics of places in Oceania, including landforms, natural resources, climate, river, lakes, bridges, dams, roads, and buildings
    - Identify and select countries of Oceania (7-K.1)
    - Name countries of Oceania (7-K.2)
- Human and Physical Characteristics in Spatial Terms
  - SS.7PI.7.2 Describe demographic patterns and how they affect places
  - SS.7PI.7.3 Analyze important economic activities and explain the relationship between these activities and the physical (including natural resources, land forms, and waterways) and human (including bridges, canals, and roads) characteristics of places in Oceania

Economics

8 Understand economic concepts and the characteristics of various economic systems

1 Understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history

2 Use the tools and methods of inquiry, perspective, and empathy to explain historical events with multiple interpretations and judge the past on its own terms

3 Understand important historical events in the Pacific region

European Contact and Colonization

SS.7PI.3.2 Analyze conflicting beliefs, values, and norms of the indigenous populations and the European explorers/settlers and explain the impact of those differences

Government

SS.7PI.3.3 Trace the development/evolution of government systems in Oceania from pre-contact to present (including colonization, protectorate, trust territory, territory, commonwealth, self-governing, free-association, and independent) and explain the effects of the changes

SS.7PI.3.4 Analyze the roles and responsibilities of contemporary governments (including monarchy, free association, trust territory and independence) in the Pacific Islands and how they are similar or different

United States and The Pacific Islands

SS.7PI.3.5 Describe the cultural and political relationship between the United States and one of the Pacific Islands, including interactions between the two

Contemporary Issues in The Pacific Islands

SS.7PI.3.6 Examine current issues or problems facing contemporary Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia and propose solutions to them based on research

4 Understand the purpose and historical impact of political institutions, the principles and values of American constitutional democracy, and the similarities and differences in government across cultural perspectives

5 Understand roles, rights (personal, economic, political), and responsibilities of American citizens and exercise them in civic action

6 Understand culture as a system of beliefs, knowledge, and practices shared by a group and understand how cultural systems change over time

Cultural Diversity and Unity

SS.7PI.6.1 Compare conditions and motivations that contribute to conflict, cooperation, or interdependence among the islands of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia or between the islands and the United States

7 Use geographic representations to organize, analyze, and present information on people, places, and environments and understand the nature and interaction of geographic regions and societies around the world

World in Spatial Terms

SS.7PI.7.1 Use geographic representations such as maps or models to explain population distribution and the physical and human characteristics of places in Oceania, including landforms, natural resources, climate, river, lakes, bridges, dams, roads, and buildings

Human and Physical Characteristics in Spatial Terms

SS.7PI.7.2 Describe demographic patterns and how they affect places

SS.7PI.7.3 Analyze important economic activities and explain the relationship between these activities and the physical (including natural resources, land forms, and waterways) and human (including bridges, canals, and roads) characteristics of places in Oceania

8 Understand economic concepts and the characteristics of various economic systems