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Skills available for Idaho seventh-grade social studies standards
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- Idaho Content Standards: Geography - Eastern Hemisphere Idaho Content Standards: Geography - Eastern Hemisphere
- Idaho Content Standards: Geography - Western Hemisphere Idaho Content Standards: Geography - Western Hemisphere
- Idaho Content Standards: U.S. History I Idaho Content Standards: U.S. History I
- Idaho Content Standards: World History and Civilization Idaho Content Standards: World History and Civilization
- Idaho Content Standards (2009): 6th - 12th U.S. History I Idaho Content Standards (2009): 6th - 12th U.S. History I
- Idaho Content Standards (2009): 6th - 9th Geography Eastern Hemisphere Idaho Content Standards (2009): 6th - 9th Geography Eastern Hemisphere
- Idaho Content Standards (2009): 6th - 9th Geography Western Hemisphere Idaho Content Standards (2009): 6th - 9th Geography Western Hemisphere
- Idaho Content Standards (2009): 6th - 9th World History and Civilization Idaho Content Standards (2009): 6th - 9th World History and Civilization
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1 Students in World History and Civilization explain the rise of human civilization, trace how natural resources and technological advances have shaped human civilization, build an understanding of the cultural and social development of human civilization, and identify the role of religion in the development of human civilization.
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1.6 Explain the rise of human civilization.
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6-9.WHC.1.6.1 Describe types of evidence used by anthropologists, archaeologists, and other scholars to reconstruct early human and cultural development.
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6-9.WHC.1.6.2 Describe the characteristics of early hunter-gatherer communities.
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6-9.WHC.1.6.3 Analyze the characteristics of early civilizations.
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1.7 Trace how natural resources and technological advances have shaped human civilization.
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6-9.WHC.1.7.1 Explain how man adapted the environment for civilization to develop.
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6-9.WHC.1.7.2 Identify the technological advances developed by Ancient, Greco Roman, Middle Ages, Early-Modern, and Modern European societies and civilizations.
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1.8 Build an understanding of the cultural and social development of human civilization.
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6-9.WHC.1.8.1 Find examples of how writing, art, architecture, mathematics, and science have evolved in western civilization over time.
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6-9.WHC.1.8.2 Identify the origins and characteristics of different social classes.
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6-9.WHC.1.8.3 Describe how the structure of family changes in relation to socioeconomic conditions.
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1.9 Identify the role of religion in the development of human civilization.
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6-9.WHC.1.9.1 Explain the relationship between religion and the peoples understanding of the natural world.
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6-9.WHC.1.9.2 Explain how religion shaped the development of western civilization.
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6-9.WHC.1.9.3 Discuss how religion influenced social behavior and created social order.
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6-9.WHC.1.9.4 Describe why different religious beliefs were sources of conflict.
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2 Students in World History and Civilization analyze the spatial organizations of people, places, and environment on the earth's surface, trace the migration and settlement of human populations on the earth's surface, analyze the human and physical characteristics of different places and regions, and explain how geography enables people to comprehend the relationships between people, places, and environments over time.
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2.1 Analyze the spatial organizations of people, places, and environment on the earth's surface.
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6-9.WHC.2.1.1 Develop and interpret different kinds of maps, globes, graphs, charts, databases and models.
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2.3 Trace the migration and settlement of human populations on the earth's surface.
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6-9.WHC.2.3.1 Identify main reasons for major migrations of people.
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6-9.WHC.2.3.2 Explain how climate affects human migration and settlement.
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6-9.WHC.2.3.3 Describe how physical features such as mountain ranges, fertile plains, and rivers led to the development of cultural regions.
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6-9.WHC.2.3.4 Explain how transportation routes stimulate growth of cities and the exchange of goods, knowledge, and technology.
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2.4 Analyze the human and physical characteristics of different places and regions.
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6-9.WHC.2.4.1 Explain the impact of waterways on civilizations.
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2.5 Explain how geography enables people to comprehend the relationships between people, places, and environments over time.
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6-9.WHC.2.5.1 Explain how the resources of an area can be the source of conflict between competing groups.
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6-9.WHC.2.5.2 Illustrate how the population growth rate impacts a nation's resources.
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6-9.WHC.2.5.3 Explain how rapid growth of cities can lead to economic, social, and political problems.
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6-9.WHC.2.5.4 Describe how the conservation of resources is necessary to maintain a healthy environment.
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3 Students in World History and Civilization explain basic economic concepts and identify different influences on economic systems.
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3.1 Explain basic economic concepts.
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6-9.WHC.3.1.1 Explain how historically people have relied on their natural resources to meet their needs.
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6-9.WHC.3.1.2 List examples that show how economic opportunity and a higher standard of living are important factors in the migration of people.
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6-9.WHC.3.1.3 Analyze the role of money as a means of exchange.
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6-9.WHC.3.1.4 Describe alternative means of exchange.
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3.2 Identify different influences on economic systems.
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6-9.WHC.3.2.1 Analyze the impact of economic growth on European society.
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6-9.WHC.3.2.2 Trace the evolution of hunting-gathering, agrarian, industrial and technological economic systems.
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6-9.WHC.3.2.3 Identify influential economic thinkers and the impact of their philosophies.
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6-9.WHC.3.2.4 Identify important economic organizations that have influenced economic growth.
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4 Students in World History and Civilization build an understanding of the evolution of democracy.
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4.4 Build an understanding of the evolution of democracy.
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6-9.WHC.4.4.1 Describe the role of government in population movements throughout western civilization.
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6-9.WHC.4.4.2 Analyze the various political influences which shaped western civilization including the City-State, Monarchy, Republic, Nation-State, and Democracy.
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6-9.WHC.4.4.3 Analyze and evaluate the global expansion of liberty and democracy through revolution and reform movements in challenging authoritarian or despotic regimes.
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5 Students in World History and Civilization build an understanding of multiple perspectives and global interdependence.
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5.1 Build an understanding of multiple perspectives and global interdependence.
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6-9.WHC.5.1.1 Explain common reasons and consequences for the breakdown of order among nation-states, such as conflicts about national interests, ethnicity, and religion; competition for resources and territory; the absence of effective means to enforce international law.
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6-9.WHC.5.1.2 Explain the global consequences of major conflicts in the 20th century, such as World War I; World War II, including the Holocaust; and the Cold War.
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6-9.WHC.5.1.3 Evaluate why peoples unite for political, economic, and humanitarian reasons.
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