Essential Questions 

#1: How are various peoples and regions differentiated across the globe?

#2: How does the concept of scarcity affect each of these differentiated "cultures"?

#3: How are each of these cultures work both independently and collaboratively?

Content 

Concepts of:

-Culture

-Scarcity

-Change

-Interdependence 

Skills 

Bloom's Taxonomy

Webb's Depth of Knowledge

1. Identify

2. Utilize map skills

3. Prepare Essay Formats

4. Outline Essay content

5. Autobiographical formatting and writing

Lesson Plans 

Autobiography

WY: Social Studies (2014)

WY: Grades 9-12

Citizenship, Government, and Democracy

Students will:

SS12.1.2 Explain and/or demonstrate how to participate in the political process and form personal opinions.

Culture and Cultural Diversity

Students will:

SS12.2.1 Analyze and evaluate the ways various groups (e.g., social, political, and cultural) meet human needs and concerns (e.g., individual needs and common good) and contribute to identity (e.g., group, national, and global), situations, and events.

Production, Distribution, and Consumption

Students will:

SS12.3.1 Analyze the impact of supply, demand, scarcity, prices, incentives, competition, and profits on what is produced, distributed, and consumed.

SS12.3.3 Analyze and evaluate the impact of current and emerging technologies at the micro and macroeconomic levels (e.g., jobs, education, trade, and infrastructure) and their impact on global economic interdependence.

Time, Continuity, and Change

Students will:

SS12.4.3 Given a significant current event, critique the actions of the people or groups involved; hypothesize how this event would have played out in another country.

SS12.4.4 Describe the historical interactions between and among individuals, groups, and/or institutions (e.g., family, neighborhood, political, economic, religious, social, cultural, and workplace) and their impact on significant historical events.

People, Places, and Environments

Students will:

Spatial

SS12.5.1 Use geographic tools and reference materials to interpret, analyze, evaluate, and synthesize historical and geographic data to demonstrate an understanding of global patterns and interconnectedness

Physical Place and Region

SS12.5.2 Describe regionalization and analyze how physical characteristics distinguish a place, influence human trends, political and economic development, and solve immediate and long-range problems.

Human Place and Movement

SS12.5.3 Analyze, interpret, and evaluate how conflict, demographics, movement, trade, transportation, communication, and technology affect humans’ sense of place.