La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CV-707

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section CV-707 - Social Studies

A. Geography Strand: Physical and Cultural Systems (G). Students develop a spatial understanding of Earth's surface and the processes that shape it, the connections between people and places, and the relationship between man and his environment.

1. Benchmark A: The World in Spatial Terms

G-1A-H1	Using geographic representations, tools, and technologies to explain, analyze, and solve geographic problems.
G-1A-H2	Organizing geographic information and answering complex questions by formulating mental maps of places and regions.

2. Benchmark B: Places and Regions

G-1B-H1

Determining how location and social, cultural, and economic processes affect the features and significance of places.

3. Benchmark C: Physical and Human Systems

G-1C-H1	Analyzing the ways in which Earth's dynamic and interactive physical processes affect different regions of the world.
G-1C-H2	Determining the economic, political, and social factors that contribute to human migration and settlement patterns and evaluating their impact on physical and human systems.

4. Benchmark D: Environment and Society

G-1D-H1	Describing and evaluating the ways in which technology has expanded the human capability to modify the physical environment.
G-1D-H2	Examining the challenges placed on human systems by the physical environment and formulating strategies to deal with these challenges.
G-1D-H3	Analyzing the relationship between natural resources and the exploration, colonization, settlement, and uses of land in different regions of the world.
G-1D-H4	Evaluating policies and programs related to the use of natural resources.
G-1D-H5	Developing plans to solve local and regional geographic problems related to contemporary issues.

B. Civics Strand: Citizenship and Government (C). Students develop an understanding of the structure and purposes of government, the foundations of the American democratic system, and the role of the United States in the world, while learning about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

1. Benchmark A: Structure and purposes of Government

C-1A-H1	Analyzmg the necessity and purposes of politics and government and identifying examples of programs that fit within those purposes
C-1A-H5	Evaluating the role and importance of law in the American political system and applying criteria to evaluate laws

C. Economics Strand: Interdependence and Decision Making (E). Students develop an understanding of fundamental economic concepts as they apply them to the interdependence and decision making of individuals, households, businesses, and governments in the United States and the world.

1. Benchmark A: Fundamental Economic Concepts

E-1A-H1	Analyzing the impact of the scarcity of productive resources and examining the choices and opportunity cost that result.
E-1A-H2	Analyzing the roles that production, distribution, and consumption play in economic decisions
E-1A-H3	Applying the skills and knowledge necessary in making decisions about career options.
E-1A-H4	Comparing and evaluating economic systems.
E-1A-H5	Explaining the basic features of market structures and exchanges.
E-1A-H6	Analyzing the roles of economic institutions, such as corporations and labor unions, that compose economic systems.

2. Benchmark B: Individuals, Households, Businesses and Governments.

E-1B-H1	Identifying factors that cause changes in supply and demand.
E-1B-H1	Analyzing how changes in supply and demand, price, incentives, and profit influence production and distribution in a competitive market system.
E-1B-H1	Analyzing the impact of governmental taxation, spending, and regulation on different groups in a market economy.
E-1B-H1	Analyzing the causes and consequences of worldwide economic interdependence.
E-1B-H1	Evaluating the effects of domestic policies on international trade.
E-1B-H1	Analyzing Louisiana's role in the national and world economies.

3. Benchmark C: The Economy as a Whole

E-1C-H2

Explaining how interest rates, investments, and inflation/ deflation impact the economy.

D. History Strand: Time Continuity, and Change (H). Students develop a sense of historical time and historical perspective as they study the history of their community, state, nation, and world.

1. Benchmark A: Historical Thinking Skills

H-1A-H1	Applying key concepts, such as chronology and conflict, to explain and analyze patterns of historical change and continuity.
H-1A-H2	Explaining and analyzing events, ideas, and issues within a historical context.
H-1A-H3	Interpreting and evaluating the historical evidence presented in primary and secondary sources.
H-1A-H4	Utilizing knowledge of facts and concepts drawn from history and methods of historical inquiry to analyze historical and contemporary issues.
H-1A-H5	Conducting research in efforts to analyze historical questions and issues.
H-1A-H6	Analyzing cause-effect relationships.

2. Benchmark B: United States History

a. Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900).

H-1B-H6	Analyzing the development of industrialization and examining its impact on American society.
H-1B-H16	Explaining the major changes that have resulted as the United States has moved from an industrial to an information society.
H-1B-H17	Analyzing developments and issues in contemporary American society.

3. Benchmark C: World History

a. Era 9: The Twentieth Century since 1945 (1945 to the present).

H-1C-H15

Explaining the worldwide significance of major political, economic, social, cultural, and technological developments and trends.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CV-707

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Trade and Industrial Education, LR 32:560 (April 2006).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6(A)(10) and R.S. 17:10.