Analyze the motivations, routes, and impacts of European exploration and the Columbian Exchange.

The learner will be able to pose and answer questions about geographic patterns and compare world regions and countries using data from maps, graphs, and charts.

The learner will be able to analyze and organize text-based social studies information by identifying relationships, comparing societies, and summarizing main ideas about world cultures.

Analyze the geography, society, and contributions of ancient Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush.

Analyze the geography, government systems, and lasting contributions of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.

Analyze the geography, innovations, and contributions of ancient Indian and Chinese civilizations.

Analyze the geography, government, and contributions of ancient Mesopotamian civilization.

Explain how societies express themselves through architecture, art, music, and literature, how contemporary issues shape creative expressions, and how universal themes appear across cultures.

Define citizenship and compare the roles, responsibilities, and participation opportunities of citizens across different contemporary societies, including democracies and non-democracies.

The learner will be able to use social studies terminology correctly, express ideas orally based on research, and create written and visual materials such as journal entries, reports, and outlines.

Compare the characteristics of government, economic, educational, and religious institutions across contemporary societies, and analyze how institutions sustain and adapt themselves over time.

Compare how different societies organize production and distribution, contrast free enterprise, socialist, and communist economies, and use economic indicators to measure development.

Compare how China, Germany, India, and Russia organize their governments and trace the historical origins of democracy back to Ancient Greece.