Economics, Markets, and the American Workforce

Develop foundational map skills including cardinal directions, latitude and longitude grids, scale calculation, and interpreting physical map features.

Explore the major mountain ranges, water systems, landforms, and climate zones across the United States while learning to analyze and create thematic maps.

Explain how humans adapt to, modify, and depend on their physical environments across the regions of the United States.

Understand fundamental economic concepts including goods, services, supply, demand, competition, and how labor systems shaped the American economy.

Analyze foundational democratic values, explain the rule of law, and examine how the three branches of government balance power.

Identify constitutional rights, distinguish civic duties and responsibilities, explore local governance, and apply active citizenship through community projects.

Explore Indigenous nations prior to European arrival, compare Spanish, French, and English colonial motivations, and examine the earliest permanent settlements.

Examine the geographic regions, economic systems, diverse cultures, and early democratic institutions of the Thirteen American Colonies.

Examine the political, economic, and ideological factors that led the American colonies to protest British rule, unite, and declare independence.

Explore key battles, leadership, diverse wartime contributions, international alliances, and the peace treaty that secured American independence.

Examine how the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation led to the Constitutional Convention, major compromises, and the creation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Explore early presidential administrations, the rise of political parties, the War of 1812, and the evolving democratic and regional challenges facing the young nation.

Understand the major territorial acquisitions, cultural motivations, and pioneer migrations that shaped the westward growth of the United States.

Explore how transportation technologies, infrastructure developments, and political conflicts over slavery transformed a growing nation.

Explore West Virginia's physical regions, major waterways, transportation challenges, and foundational natural resource industries.

Examine West Virginia's demographic changes and modern economy, and develop historical inquiry and research project skills.