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Course Details:
Course Details:
Grades: 9-12
Length: one semester
Prerequisites: none
Course Description:
Course Description:
Learners will explore current world issues in the context of causes and influences of history in the modern world. They will come up with viable solutions to problems the world faces today, and learn modern civil discourse in the process.
While the grade/course level competencies are required, the content objectives are suggested pathways that move learners toward competency and the achievement of performance indicators.
While the grade/course level competencies are required, the content objectives are suggested pathways that move learners toward competency and the achievement of performance indicators.
Graduate - Level Competency:
Graduate - Level Competency:
Social Studies Processes, Knowledge, and Skills
GL.4 The learner will develop research skills by selecting, evaluating, and synthesizing information from varied sources in order to effectively communicate using reasoning and sufficient evidence, both orally and in writing.
Course/Grade Competency:
Course/Grade Competency:
WS.24 The learner will become a critical consumer of information, and an engaged global citizen who acts with empathy and awareness of historical and current systems of power, in order to be better prepared to make political and economic decisions.
Content Objectives:
Content Objectives:
The learner will:
Analyze a range of primary sources, including written documents, artifacts, works of art, and oral histories.
Analyze sources to determine their perspective, bias, and reliability.
Read sources and identify claims and evidence.
Develop evidence-based interpretations of sources.
Use multiple sources to corroborate information.
Build deliberative dialogue skills to learn how to engage in civil discussion about controversial issues.
Standards:
Standards:
NCSS
I-X
C3
D2.Civ.1.9-12,
D2.Civ.3.9-12,
D2.Civ.5-14.9-12,
D2.Eco.6-8.9-12,
D2.Eco.10.9-12,
D2.Eco.15.9-12,
D2.Geo.1.9-12,
D2.Geo.5-6.9-12,
D2.Geo.8-12.9-12,
D2.His.1-5.9-12,
D2.His.12-16.9-12
Suggested Activities, Materials, and Resources:
Suggested Activities, Materials, and Resources:
The Choices Program (https://www.choices.edu/about/meeting-standards/)
Graduate - Level Competency:
Graduate - Level Competency:
Historical
GL.3 The learner will understand how historical events impact the modern era by applying historical inquiry skills in order to understand the forces of change and make informed decisions.
Course/Grade Competency:
Course/Grade Competency:
WS.25 The learner will understand issues, events, and policy choices in the context of a historical time period, in order to understand the forces of change and make informed decisions.
Content Objectives:
Content Objectives:
The learner will:
Understand the roles of individuals, groups, and institutions, as well as elite decision makers in history and current events.
Explore various themes and create at least one research project to share with the class. Optional topics include, but are not limited to, political, social, cultural, terrorism, and economic perspectives, and how these factors influence one another.
Standards:
Standards:
NCSS
I-X
C3
D2.Civ.1.9-12,
D2.Civ.3.9-12,
D2.Civ.5-14.9-12,
D2.Eco.6-8.9-12,
D2.Eco.10.9-12,
D2.Eco.15.9-12,
D2.Geo.1.9-12,
D2.Geo.5-6.9-12,
D2.Geo.8-12.9-12,
D2.His.1-5.9-12,
D2.His.12-16.9-12
AK Cultural
B.1, E.7
Suggested Activities, Materials, and Resources:
Suggested Activities, Materials, and Resources:
Kids Voting
Graduate - Level Competency:
Graduate - Level Competency:
Communication
GL.1 The learner will demonstrate the ability to read a variety of texts fluently and critically by using a variety of strategies in order to evaluate arguments, biases, intended audience, and purpose.
Course/Grade Competency:
Course/Grade Competency:
WS.11 The learner will develop research skills by selecting, evaluating, and synthesizing information from varied sources, in order to effectively communicate using reasoning and sufficient evidence, both orally and in writing.
Content Objectives:
Content Objectives:
The learner will:
Analyze critical topics which will be covered within the context of student presentations (e.g., effects of WWII, United Nations, NATO, and the origins of communism).
Explore each of the following themes and create a project to share with the class:
Conflict
Oppression
Governance
Human Rights
Environment
Health
Equity
Natural Resources
Complete a research project (e.g., National History Day).
Complete an annotated bibliography.
Standards:
Standards:
Suggested Activities, Materials, and Resources:
Suggested Activities, Materials, and Resources:
Global issues project rubric (see appendix)
Fairbanks History Day: https://www.k12northstar.org/Page/8806
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