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Essential Question:

Why begin a course in human history before humans existed?

Portrait of a Graduate:

Learner’s Mindset

Inquiry Question:

What is history and why study it?

2. Inquiry Question:

In what ways can using a “frame” help us develop a more meaningful understanding of history?

3. Inquiry Question:

How might physical, geographic, and biological contexts impact human lives and history?

Student Outcomes:

Students will be able to understand and evaluate history as a discipline of study.

2. Student Outcomes:

Students will be able to examine how historians frame history by creating narratives of different scales of time and space.

3. Student Outcomes:

Students will be able to evaluate the impact that the Earth has had and continue to have on humans and how humans have impacted the Earth.

Skills Demonstrated:

Reading for Content
Image/Video Analysis
Examine Varying Perspectives

Standards:

SS:GE:12:2.2: Investigate how relationships between humans and the physical environment lead to the formation of ‘place’.
SS:GE:12:5.4: Examine how the spatial distribution of resources affects patterns of human settlement.

Resources:

[Our Hidden Google Drive Resource link]

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