Unit 1: History and Foundation of Modern Power Dynamics - Country Context Video
Mini Unit 1: Government in Japan - Government Institution Infographic
Mini Unit 2: Culture in Japan (religion) - Create a game
Mini Unit 3: Civil Society in Vietnam - Create an NGO Mission Statement
Mini Unit 4: Gender Equality in Vietnam - Write a Policy Proposal
Unit 2: How Nation-States Relate to You and the World - Create a Civics Workshop
Mini Unit 1: Geopolitics in Asia - Interactive Infographic
Mini Unit 2: Chiang Mai - Scavenger Hunt
Mini Unit 3: Thailand's Economy - Video Edit
The world is a complicated and amazing place. This course enables students to understand this complex duality through aspects of world history, the nation-state, and how the international system works, including the key problems and players.
* General Academic Skill Building
* Publishing and Maintaining Online Portfolio
* Discussion and Class Interaction
* Consciousness Engagement
* Teamwork
C3 Dimension 1: Developing Questions & Planning Inquiries
D1.5.6-8. Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of views represented in the sources.
C3 Dimension 2: Applying Disciplinary Concepts & Tools: Civics
D2.Civ.1.6-8. Distinguish the powers and responsibilities of citizens, political parties, interest groups, and the media in a variety of governmental and nongovernmental contexts.
D2.Civ.2.6-8. Explain specific roles played by citizens (such as voters, jurors, taxpayers, members of the armed forces, petitioners, protesters, and office-holders).
D2.Civ.3.6-8. Examine the origins, purposes, and impact of constitutions, laws, treaties, and international agreements.
D2.Civ.4.6-8 Explain the powers and limits of the three branches of government, public officials, and bureaucracies at different levels in the United States and in other countries.
D2.Civ.6.6-8. Describe the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations in shaping people’s lives.
D2.Civ.7.6-8. Apply civic virtues and democratic principles in school and community settings.
D2.Civ.10.6-8. Explain the relevance of personal interests and perspectives, civic virtues, and democratic principles when people address issues and problems in government and civil society.
D2.Civ.11.6-8. Differentiate among procedures for making decisions in the classroom, school, civil society, and local, state, and national government in terms of how civic purposes are intended.
D2.Civ.12.6-8. Assess specific rules and laws (both actual and proposed) as means of addressing public problems.
D2.Civ.13.6-8. Analyze the purposes, implementation, and consequences of public policies in multiple settings.
D2.Civ.14.6-8. Compare historical and contemporary means of changing societies, and promoting the common good.
C3 Dimension 2: Applying Disciplinary Concepts & Tools: Economics
D2.Eco.1.6-8. Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.
D2.Eco.2.6-8. Evaluate alternative approaches or solutions to current economic issues in terms of benefits and costs for different groups and society as a whole.
D2.Eco.13.6-8. Explain why standards of living increase as productivity improves.
D2.Eco.14.6-8. Explain barriers to trade and how those barriers influence trade among nations.
C3 Dimension 2: Applying Disciplinary Concepts & Tools: Geography
D2.Geo.1.6-8. Construct maps to represent and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.4.6-8. Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.
D2.Geo.5.6-8. Analyze the combinations of cultural and environmental characteristics that make places both similar to and different from other places.
D2.Geo.6.6-8. Explain how the physical and human characteristics of places and regions are connected to human identified and cultures.
D2.Geo.7.6-8. Explain how changes in transportation and communication technology influence the spatial connections among human settlements and affect the diffusion of ideas and cultural practices.
D2.Geo.8.6-8. Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract spatial patterns of settlement and movement.
D2.Geo.9.6-8. Evaluate the influences of long-term human-induced environmental change on spatial patterns of conflict and cooperation.
D2.Geo.10.6-8. Analyze the ways in which cultural and environmental characteristics vary among various regions of the world.
D2.Geo.11.6-8. Explain how the relationship between the environmental characteristics of places and production of goods influences the spatial patterns of world trade.
D2.Geo.12.6-8. Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use in particular places.
C3 Dimension 2: Applying Disciplinary Concepts & Tools: History
D2.His.1.6-8. Analyze connections among events and developments in broader historical contexts.
D2.His.3.6-8. Use questions generated about individuals and groups to analyze why they, and the developments they shaped, are seen as historically significant.
D2.His.4.6-8. Analyze multiple factors that influenced the perspectives of people during different historical eras.
D2.His.5.6-8. Explain how and why perspectives of people have changed over time.
D2.His.6.6-8. Analyze how people’s perspectives influenced what information is available in the historical sources they created.
D2.His.14.6-8. Explain multiple causes and effects of events and developments in the past.
D2.His.15.6-8. Evaluate the relative influence of various causes of events and developments in the past.
D2.His.16.6-8. Organize applicable evidence into a coherent argument about the past.
D2.His.17.6-8. Compare the central arguments in secondary works of history on related topics in multiple media.
C3 Dimension 3: Evaluating Sources & Using Evidence
D3.1.6-8. Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection.
D3.2.6-8. Evaluate the credibility of a source by determining its relevance and intended use.
C3 Dimension 4: Communicating Conclusions & Taking Informed Action
D4.1.6-8. Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of the arguments.
D4.2.6-8. Construct explanations using reasoning, correct sequence, examples, and details with relevant information and data, while acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of the explanations.
D4.3.6-8. Present adaptations of arguments and explanations on topics of interest to others to reach audiences and venues outside the classroom using print and oral technologies (e.g., posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, reports, and maps) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, and digital documentary).
D4.4.6-8. Critique arguments for credibility.
D4.6.6-8. Draw on multiple disciplinary lenses to analyze how a specific problem can manifest itself at local, regional, and global levels over time, identifying its characteristics and causes, and the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address the problem.
D4.7.6-8. Assess their individual and collective capacities to take action to address local, regional, and global problems, taking into account a range of possible levers of power, strategies, and potential outcomes.
D4.8.6-8. Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action in their classrooms and schools, and in out-of-school civic contexts.
Outcomes courtesy of: National Council for the Social Studies