7th Grade World History Quarter 1

KTheme, Enduring Understandings, How Students will Demonstrate Standards-based Essential Skills & Strategies/Best Practices Used to Resources for the Unit & Essential Questions for this Unit Their Understanding Concepts to be Targeted Explicitly Teach the Skills & Throughout the Unit Concepts

History Summative Short CONTENT STANDARDS Students will create a brochure History of Our World: 1. Historians and archaeologists Cycle Assessment inviting people to either visit Athens The Early Ages with describe over Greek OH- Ohio Academic Content or supplemental materials historical events and issues from the geography and the Standards (now the Ohio Model Sparta. Students will design their and binder perspectives of people living at the rise of the Greek Curriculum) (2011) brochure convincing the reader that time in civilization Subject: Social Studies the government, food, rights of order to avoid evaluating the past in Grade: Pre-Kindergarten Through women, Internet: Google Earth terms of Grade Eight military or the education is the best. Glogster today’s norms and values. Formative Course /Grade with Theme: Grade Quia assessment of 7. World Studies from 750 B.C. to Video clips and Powerpoints will give Moodle 2. The civilizations that developed in Greek religious 1600 A.D.: Ancient Greece to the visual representation for students of Googledocs Greece beliefs and how First Global Age. The seventh grade concepts learned this month. Powermediaplus and Rome had an enduring impact their religion year is an integrated study of world on later molded their history, beginning with ancient Computer folder: civilizations. This legacy includes civilization. Greece and continuing through Students will create a poster or use Greece governance global exploration. All four social Glogster to show the impact of (Video clips, Powerpoints) and law, engineering and Performance studies strands are used to illustrate olives, technology, art and Assessment: how historic events are shaped by grapes, Nike symbol, columns, architecture, as well as literature and Greek geographic, social, cultural, Olympics, comedies, tragedies, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/m history. advertisement economic and political factors. aps/index.html The Roman Empire also played an about an ancient Students develop their Students will analyze the different instrumental god or goddess understanding of how ideas and perspectives of historical events by http://www.nationalgeogr role in the spread of Christianity. events from the past have shaped examining diaries, letters, art, aphic.com/xpeditions/less Project: Sparta or the world today. editorial on/17/g68/history.html Athens Brochure Strand: History cartoons and photographs. Students Geography Topic: Early Civilizations will look at the perspective from two http://www.lib.utexas.edu/ 12. Maps and other geographic Content Statement: 2. The different angles. maps/index.html representations can be used to trace civilizations that developed in the Summative Short Greece and Rome had an enduring Students will act out a direct http://www.nationalgeo development of human settlement Cycle Assessment impact on later civilizations. This democracy and a representative graphic.com/xpeditions/ from past over Athens, legacy includes governance and law, democracy in teams. Students will lesson/17/g68/history.h to present. Sparta and the engineering and technology, art and decided which was best for Greece tml conflicts between architecture, as well as literature and and 13. Geographic factors promote or them history. The Roman Empire also which is best for our country today impede the played an instrumental role in the and http://asiasociety.org/c movement of people, products and spread of Christianity. why. ountries-history ideas. Strand: Geography Topic: Human Systems Content Statement: 13. Geographic factors promote or impede the movement of people, products and ideas. 7th Grade World History Quarter 1

Content Statement: 14. Trade 14. Trade routes connecting Africa, routes connecting Africa, Europe and Europe Asia fostered the spread of and Asia fostered the spread of technology and major world technology religions. and major world religions. Content Statement: 15. Improvements in transportation, 15. Improvements in transportation, communication and technology have communication and technology have facilitated cultural diffusion among facilitated peoples around the world. cultural diffusion among peoples Strand: Economics around the Topic: Economic Decision Making world. and Skills Content Statement: 19. Individuals, Government governments and businesses must 16. The ability to understand analyze costs and benefits when individual and making economic decisions. A cost- group perspectives is essential to benefit analysis consists of analyzing determining the potential costs and historic and contemporary issues. benefits of an action and then balancing the costs against the 17. Greek democracy and the Roman benefits. Republic were radical departures from monarchy and theocracy, influencing the structure and function of modern democratic governments.