| SOCIAL STUDIES | ||||
| Seventh Grade | ||||
| Internet Resources | ||||
| SPI | Skill Assessed | Resources | ||
| Powerpoint | United Streaming | Websites | ||
| CULTURE | ||||
| Culture encompasses similarities and differences among people, including their beliefs, knowledge, changes, values, and tradition. The student will explore these elements of society to develop an appreciation of and respect for the variety of human cultures. | ||||
| 7.1.1 | Recognize cultural definitions (i.e., language, religion, customs, political system, economic system). | The Development of Civilization | Culture: What Is It? (12:48) | Various Definitions Of The Word "Religion" |
| What Is "Religion"? | ||||
| 7.1.2 | Locate cultural information on a thematic map (i.e., languages, political systems, economic systems, religions). | Types of Maps (04:04) | Building Bridges: A Peace Corps Classroom Guide to Cross-Cultural Understanding | |
| Cultures Of The World | ||||
| 7.1.3 | Compare and contrast the tenets of the five major world religions (i.e., Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism). | World Religions: A Look at the Ways the World Prays | Religions of the World: A Comparison of Religious Thought (1:00:00) | Religions of the World |
| The Development of Christianity | The Major World Religi | |||
| ECONOMICS | ||||
| Globalization of the economy, the explosion of population growth, technological changes and international competition compels the student to understand, both personally and globally, production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The student will examine and analyze economic concepts such as basic needs versus wants, using versus saving money, and policy-making versus decision-making. | ||||
| 7.2.2 | Define renewable and nonrenewable resources. | Natural Resources (06:21) | Natural Resources: Can We Use the Forever? | |
| Renewable Energy Fact Sheets | ||||
| 7.2.1 | Recognize basic economic concepts (i.e., imports, exports, barter system, tariffs, closed and emerging markets, supply and demand, inflation, recession, and depression). | Supply and Demand | Understanding Economics (25:00) | Argentina: The Post-Money Economy |
| Market Equilibrium-Demand and Supply | Surviving In Today's Economy Using Trade And Barter | |||
| 7.2.5 | Select the major resources, industrial, and agricultural products from the three grand divisions from a map of Tennessee. | Tennessee | A Look at Tennessee's Agriculture | |
| 7.2.3 | Define demographic concepts. (i.e., population, population distribution, population density, growth rate). | Biologix: Population Changes, Density, and Chaos (29:00) | ||
| 7.2.4 | Interpret economic issues as expressed with maps, tables, diagrams, and charts. | An Introduction to Economics (01:21) | The State of Manufacturing in Tennessee | |
| Graphs, Charts, and Tables (07:32) | Tennessee Economic Overview | |||
| GEOGRAPHY | ||||
| Geography enables the student to see, understand and appreciate the web of relationships between people, places, and environments. The student will use the knowledge, skills, and understanding of concepts within the six essential elements of geography: world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, and the use of geography. | ||||
| Identify and use the basic elements of maps and mapping. | Geography | Parts of a Map (00:59) | What Do Maps Show? | |
| Looking at Regions | Maps (07:27) | Map Skills | ||
| 7.3.6 | Locate on map specific lines of longitude and latitude. (i.e., Prime Meridian, International Date Line, Equator, North and South Poles, Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, and Arctic Antarctic Circles). | Lines on Maps and Globes | Parallels of Latitude (03:30) | Worldatlas.com |
| Lines of Longitude (01:48) | Greenwich Meridian | |||
| Using Latitude and Longitude to Find Locations (00:51) | Basic Geography: The Equator and the Prime Meridian | |||
| Latitude and Longitude (00:39) | The Equator, Hemispheres, Tropic of Cancer, and Tropic of Capricorn | |||
| Arctic Circle | ||||
| A History of the International Date Line | ||||
| Basic Geography: Latitude and Longitude | ||||
| 7.3.2 | Locate the earth's major physical characteristics (i.e., 7 continents and 4 oceans). | Earth | Geographical Features: Landforms (18:00) | Worldatlas.com |
| Geographical Features: Bodies of Water (14:00) | Nationalgeographic.com: Ggeospy | |||
| 7.3.14 | Distinguish between types of maps. (i.e., political, physical, climatic, land-use resource, contour, elevation, and topographic.) | Maps | Types of Maps (04:04) | Lesson Plan: What do maps show? |
| 7.3.15 | Interpret a map indicating scale, distance, and direction. | Using a Map Scale to Find Distance (01:01) | How to read a map | |
| 7.3.17 | Read and interpret a time zone map. | Using Maps to Navigate (01:28) | World Time Zone Map | |
| Time Zones | ||||
| 7.3.3 | Identify the major river systems of Tennessee. | Tennessee's Special Rivers | ||
| 7.3.5 | Select the natural resources found in the 3 grand divisions of Tennessee (coal, copper, timber, plants, and animals.) | Tennessee | Tennessee Division of Geology | |
| Mining in Tennessee | ||||
| 7.3.9 | Identify the location of the earth's major landforms and bodies of water (i.e., Rockies, Andes, Himalayas, Alps, Urals, Sahara desert, Nile River Valley, Great Plains, Mississippi River, Amazon River, Thames River, Seine River, Rhine River, Danube River, | Geographical Features: Landforms (18:00) | Landforms of the World | |
| World Geography | ||||
| 7.3.12 | Identify the six physical regions of Tennessee (i.e., Unaka Mountains, Valley and Ridge, Cumberland Plateau, Highland Rim, Central Basin, and Gulf Coastal Plain). | Tennessee Geography and Landforms | ||
| Physiography of Tennessee | ||||
| The Geography of Tennessee | ||||
| 7.3.4 | Distinguish the differences among rural, suburban, and urban communities. | Lookinbg at Regions | City, Suburb, and Rural Communities (16:00) | |
| 7.3.10 | Identify the characteristics that define a region geographically. | Lookinbg at Regions | Global Regions (01:52) | |
| 7.3.8 | Define demographic concepts. (i.e., population, population distribution, population density, and growth rate). | Lookinbg at Regions | Biologix: Population Changes, Density, and Chaos (29:00) | Population-Country Ranks |
| Population density - Persons per sq km | ||||
| 7.3.7 | Compare the five largest cities of Tennessee using a bar graph. | Tennessee-City Populations | ||
| 7.3.11 | Recognize specific physical processes that operate on the earth’s surface (i.e., erosion, volcanoes, earthquakes, wind and water currents, plate tectonics, and weathering). | Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics | Weathering and Erosion (20:00) | Mr. Raezer's Plate Tectonics Practice |
| Theory of Plate Tectonics | Forces That Shape the Earth (20:00) | Earthquake Vocabulary Practice | ||
| Plate Tectonics | Part Two: Mountains, Volcanoes, and Earthquakes (11:12) | Plate Tectonics Practice 2 | ||
| Faults and Earthquakes | Plate Tectonics Practice 3 | |||
| 7.3.13 | Recognize the definitions of modifications on the physical environment (i.e., global warming, deforestation, desert, and urbanization). | Looking at Regions | The Greenhouse Effect Defined: Global Warming (06:11) | |
| Deforestation and the Amazon Rainforest (00:55) | ||||
| 7.3.18a | Analyze the environmental consequences of humans changing their physical environment (i.e., air and water pollution, mining, deforestation, and global warming). | TLC Elementary School: People and the Environment (25:32) | Great Keppel Island – a Case Study of the effects of people on the physical environment | |
| 7.3.20 | Interpret a population pyramid. | |||
| Define demographic concepts (i.e., population, population distribution, population density, growth rate, family size, and infant mortality). | Biologix: Population Changes, Density, and Chaos (29:00) | |||
| Recognize cultural definitions (i.e., language, religion, customs, political system, and economic system. | The Development of Civilization | Culture: What Is It? (12:48) | ||
| Locate cultural information on a thematic map (i.e., languages, political systems, economic systems, and religions). | Types of Maps (04:04) | |||
| 7.3.19 | Predict the consequences of population changes on the Earth’s physical and cultural environments (I.e., air and water pollution, mining, deforestation, and global). | Biologix: Population Changes, Density, and Chaos (29:00) | ||
| TLC Elementary School: People and the Environment (25:32) | ||||
| 7.3.16 | View and discuss a show which shows a diverse global culture. | Many Voices: Food for Thought (Islamic Culture) (15:00) | ||
| Many Voices: Quick to Judge (African-American Culture) (15:00) | ||||
| Many Voices: To Jew is Not a Verb (Jewish Culture) (15:00) | ||||
| 7.3.1 | Identify and use the basic elements of maps and mapping. | Earth Science: Mapping the Earth (20:00) | ||
| Maps and Globes: Maps and Their Use (12:16) | ||||
| 7.3.18b | Examine reasons and patterns of human migration through the use of maps, charts, diagrams (i.e., famine, natural disasters, political and religious oppression, and wars). | Segment One: The Great Migration (06:27) | ||
| GOVERNANCE AND CIVICS | ||||
| Governance establishes structures of power and authority in order to provide order and stability. Civic efficacy requires understanding rights and responsibilities, ethical behavior, and the role of citizens within their community, nation, and world. | ||||
| 7.4.2 | Using a map key, locate various governance systems. | |||
| 7.4.4 | Identify political leaders from selected contemporary settings (i.e., United States, India, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Russia, and China). | The Revolutionary War | ||
| Tennessee | ||||
| 7.4.1 | Define the different types of governments (i.e., democracy, autocracy, oligarchy, monarchy, and dictatorship). | Types of Government | For the People: The Meaning of American Democracy (00:30) | Types of Government |
| The Revolutionary War | Caesar Voted Dictator (01:57) | Ben's Guide to the U.S. Governement | ||
| 7.4.3 | Recognize how the boundaries of congressional districts change in the state of Tennessee (i.e., statutory requirements, population shifts, and political power shifts). | Tennessee Division of Elections | ||
| HISTORY | ||||
| History involves people, events, and issues. The student will evaluate evidence to develop comparative and causal analyses, and to interpret primary sources. He/she will construct sound historical arguments and perspectives on which informed decisions in contemporary life can be based. | ||||
| 7.5.1 | Identify the causes and consequences of urbanization (i.e., industrial development, education, health care, cultural opportunities, poverty, overcrowding, disease, pollution, and crime). | Growth of a Nation | Inventions and Industry (04:11) | Rise of Industrial America, 1876-1900: City Life in the Late 19th Century |
| The Industrial Revolution | The Rise of New York City (03:39) | |||
| American Industrial Revolution, The (27:22) | ||||
| 7.5.2 | Identify reasons why people choose to settle in different places (i.e., occupation, family, climate, and natural resources). | The Industrial Revolution | What is Urbanisation? | |
| Colonial America | ||||
| 7.5.3 | Map large civilizations to discover the impact of water as a main reason behind a society's founding. | How Water Affects Living Patterns (01:55) | ||
| 7.5.4 | Analyze, from a written passage, the causes and effects of change in a place over time. | |||
| Examine reasons and patterns of human migration through the use of maps, charts, and diagrams (i.e., famine, natural disasters, political and religious oppression, and wars). | Fliight From Famine (04:57) | A Brief History of Jamestown, Virginia | ||
| Compare and contrast the tenets of the five major world religions (i.e., Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism). | Religions of the World: A Comparison of Religious Thought (1:00:00) | Religions of the World | ||
| Religions of the World: Christianity (28:14) | ||||
| Religions of the World: Buddhism (28:10) | ||||
| Religions of the World: Islam (28:00) | ||||
| Religions of the World: Hinduism (28:00) | ||||
| Religions of the World: Judaism (27:47) | ||||
| Respecting Beliefs: Muslims, Christians, Jews and Others (24:00) | ||||
| INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND INTERACTIONS | ||||
| 7.6.1 | Identify ways family, groups, and community influence daily life and personal choices. | |||
| 7.6.2 | Differentiate between the rights, roles, and state of the individual in relation to the general welfare in various regions of the world. | What Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights? | ||
| Cooperation, Community and the Common Good | ||||
| Vaccinations: Public Good Vs. Individual Rights | ||||
| 7.6.3 | Recognize the causes, consequences, and possible solutions applied by governing bodies to persistent global issue using a narrative (i.e., health, security, resource allocation, economic development, and environmental quality). | |||