5th Grade Competency 1 - Apply geographic knowledge and skills
Identify the 8 cardinal and intermediate directions.
Use a map key and symbols to read a map.
Use a scale to find distance on a map.
Identify basic information found on political, physical, and special purpose maps.
Locate and read the location of a place using a basic grid system.
Locate and read the location of a place using latitude and longitude coordinates.
Competency 2 - Demonstrate a general understanding of the geography of the United States.
Identify the capitals and postal abbreviations of the 50 states.
Competency 3 - Demonstrate an understanding of the early development of the United States beginning with pre-Columbian settlement.
Explain how archaeologists learn about people who lived in the past.
Explain how geography and natural resources influenced major Native American groups settling in North and South America.
Explain the goals, obstacles, and accomplishments of key European expeditions.
Compare and contrast the New England, Middle, and Southern American colonies in terms of the reasons behind their foundation, their geography, their economy, and the way of life of the settlers.
Describe the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution.
Competency 4 -Demonstrate an understanding of the development of government in the United States.
Explain the reasons for government.
Demonstrate a general understanding of U.S. and local government including town meeting and key documents such as the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
6th Grade Competency 1- Apply geographic knowledge and skills
Identify and use different types of maps. Political, topographical, maps from the ancient world, physical
Compare and contrast the ancient cultures of Sumer (Mesopotamia), Egypt, Greece, Rome using maps.
Locate where these ancient cultures are on a map.
Competency 2- Demonstrate how geography affects the growth of civilizations. (Early Humans, Sumer (Mesopotamia), Egypt, Greek,and Roman
Identify advantages and disadvantages of geographical locations in the development of culture.
Identify the water systems, landforms, climate and use of land in ancient cultures.
Understand how geography affects the development of agriculture and trade.
Competency 3- Understand why civilizations became dominate and why they declined.
Able to describe the forces that led to the expansion/decline of the culture.
Understand how human modifications to the environment enabled their success.
Understand the relationship between religion, and social/political order.
Competency 4- Understand the everyday lives, problems, and accomplishments of people in ancient civilizations.
Investigate the intellectual traditions and technological achievements.
Describe the origins and significance of religion in ancient times.
competency 5- Understand the interactions among various ancient cultures and the link between contempory and the ancient world.
Able to compare and contrast how ancient cultures interacted with each other.
Describe how ancient and contemporary cultures compare.
Describe the government of the Roman Republic and its checks and balances and civic duty.
7th Grade
Competency 1 – Apply geographic knowledge and skills
Identify and apply the Five Themes of Geography
Identify and differentiate between various maps including topographic, physical, thematic and political maps.
Identify the cultural locations of the topic of study by using maps.
To compare and contrast Asia as it changes over time by using map-based skills.
To recognize the development of modern European borders from the Middle Ages.
Competency 2 – Demonstrate the effect of geography on the growth of civilizations.
Describe the need for trade and the routes taken by Asian cultures to expand their territory.
Explain how the geography of medieval Europe influenced the development of feudalism.
Compare and contrast China, Japan and Korea in regard to their geographic location.
Competency 3 – Demonstrate an understanding of underlying economic factors in societies.
Describe the function of money.
Differentiate Command, market and mixed economies.
Apply modern economic theory to ancient economies.
Distinguish different monetary instruments and their functions.
Competency 4 – Demonstrate an ability to connect the past to the present.
To provide a daily topical current event to class.
To explain the significance of their current event and provide necessary details without prompting.
To predict or assess based on prior knowledge what the impact may be from that current event. (World, nation, State or local)
To identify instances where topic of study may intersect with modern day news examples.
Competency 5 – Demonstrate an ability to explain why societies succeed or fail
Compare and contrast the role of governments in societies
Describe factors which make a society vulnerable to conquest.
Explain the contributions of medieval society to the field of economics. (Feudalism, Trade)
8th Grade Competency 1 -Apply geographical knwledge and skills
Identify and use different types of maps (political, thematical and physical) from Colonial America through Reconstruction Era United States.
Identify advantages and disadvantages for development of the United States.
Identify the water systems, landforms, climate and use of land in the expansion of the United States.
Competency 2 -Demonstrate essential knowledge of US and NH history from the constitution to reconstruction
Identify the formation of government, pre Civil War America through Industrialization and Westward Expansion.
Describe how the geography of the United States influenced the territorial growth.
Competency 3 - Relate the past with the present
Interpret the past to reflect the future.
Analyze what an impact may be from a current event.
Competency 4 -Demonstrate complex thinking
Analyze the forces tghat led to the expansion of the United States.
Understand how human alteration of the environment enabled successes or failures.
Competency 5 -Analyze economic factors in US history
Describe the formation of economic systems through trade, expansion and conquest.
Compare and contrast the economies of the North and South.
Competency 1 - Apply geographic knowledge and skills
Competency 2 - Demonstrate a general understanding of the geography of the United States.
Competency 3 - Demonstrate an understanding of the early development of the United States beginning with pre-Columbian settlement.
Competency 4 - Demonstrate an understanding of the development of government in the United States.
6th Grade
Competency 1- Apply geographic knowledge and skills
Competency 2- Demonstrate how geography affects the growth of civilizations. (Early Humans, Sumer (Mesopotamia), Egypt, Greek,and Roman
- Identify advantages and disadvantages of geographical locations in the development of culture.
- Identify the water systems, landforms, climate and use of land in ancient cultures.
- Understand how geography affects the development of agriculture and trade.
Competency 3- Understand why civilizations became dominate and why they declined.Competency 4- Understand the everyday lives, problems, and accomplishments of people in ancient civilizations.
competency 5- Understand the interactions among various ancient cultures and the link between contempory and the ancient world.
7th Grade
Competency 1 – Apply geographic knowledge and skills
Competency 2 – Demonstrate the effect of geography on the growth of civilizations.
- Describe the need for trade and the routes taken by Asian cultures to expand their territory.
- Explain how the geography of medieval Europe influenced the development of feudalism.
- Compare and contrast China, Japan and Korea in regard to their geographic location.
Competency 3 – Demonstrate an understanding of underlying economic factors in societies.- Describe the function of money.
- Differentiate Command, market and mixed economies.
- Apply modern economic theory to ancient economies.
- Distinguish different monetary instruments and their functions.
Competency 4 – Demonstrate an ability to connect the past to the present.Competency 5 – Demonstrate an ability to explain why societies succeed or fail
8th Grade
Competency 1 -Apply geographical knwledge and skills
- Identify and use different types of maps (political, thematical and physical) from Colonial America through Reconstruction Era United States.
- Identify advantages and disadvantages for development of the United States.
- Identify the water systems, landforms, climate and use of land in the expansion of the United States.
Competency 2 -Demonstrate essential knowledge of US and NH history from the constitution to reconstruction- Identify the formation of government, pre Civil War America through Industrialization and Westward Expansion.
- Describe how the geography of the United States influenced the territorial growth.
Competency 3 - Relate the past with the present- Interpret the past to reflect the future.
- Analyze what an impact may be from a current event.
Competency 4 -Demonstrate complex thinking- Analyze the forces tghat led to the expansion of the United States.
- Understand how human alteration of the environment enabled successes or failures.
Competency 5 -Analyze economic factors in US history