Grades 5-7
- Policies and treatment of minority peoples have negative and positive legacies.
- Natural resources continue to shape the economy and identity of different regions.
- Immigration and multiculturalism continue to shape society and identity.
- Institutions and government reflect the challenge of our regional diversity.
- Economic self-interest can be a significant cause of conflict among peoples and governments.
- Complex global problems require international cooperation to make difficult choices for the future.
- Systems of government vary in their respect for human rights and freedoms.
- Media sources can both positively and negatively affect our understanding of important events and issues.
- Geographic conditions shaped the emergence of civilizations.
- Religious and cultural practices that emerged during this period have endured and continue to influence people.
- Increasingly complex societies required new systems of laws and government.
- Economic specialization and trade networks can lead to conflict and cooperation between societies.
Grades 8-10
- Contacts and conflicts between peoples stimulated significant cultural, social, political change.
- Human and environmental factors shape changes in population and living standards.
- Exploration, expansion, and colonization had varying consequences for different groups.
- Changing ideas about the world created tension between people wanting to adopt new ideas and those wanting to preserve established traditions.
- Emerging ideas and ideologies profoundly influence societies and events.
- The physical environment influences the nature of political, social, and economic change.
- Disparities in power alter the balance of relationships between individuals and between societies.
- Collective identity is constructed and can change over time.
- Global and regional conflicts have been a powerful force in shaping our contemporary world and identities.
- The development of political institutions is influenced by economic, social, ideological, and geographic factors.
- Worldviews lead to different perspectives and ideas about developments in society.
- Historical and contemporary injustices challenge the narrative and identity of the world collective as an inclusive, multicultural society.
