CONCEPTS

Movement and Change

Power Standards

• Identify ways people depend on and interact with the physical environment.
• Compare the lifestyles of groups of people (e.g., families, tribes and cultures) in various regions over time.
• Compare the features of the physical environment of the Midwest to another U.S. region.
• Utilize major elements of a map to locate specific places (e.g., title, scale, legend/key, directional indicators, number/letter grid system).

Essential Understandings & Guiding Questions

Essential Understanding: People depend on, adapt to, and modify their environment to meet basic needs.

Guiding Questions

• Why do people depend on the environment?
• How do people use the environment to meet basic needs?
• How can humans positively or negatively affect the environment?
• Why is caring for the environment so important?

Essential Understanding: The movement of people, goods, and ideas impact a society.

Guiding Questions

• What goods and ideas can be moved throughout communities?
• How can the movement of people impact society?
• What changes happen in society because of movement?
• How do technological, economic, and social advances affect society?

Essential Understanding: A place’s growth depends on land forms, natural resources, natural defense, and location.

Guiding Questions

• What physical features define a place?
• Why do people settle where they do?
• How do land forms, natural resources, natural defense, and location effect the growth of a place?
• How is transportation dependent on natural resources?
• What positive and negative effects can occur as a result of human/environment interactions?

Essential Understanding: One individual’s effort to bring about change can impact a society.

Guiding Questions

• What motivates people to change?
• How can one individual make a difference in society?
• What happens to a society when individuals don’t become involved?

CRITICAL CONTENT

Exploration’s past, present, and future

• Motivation for exploration
• Challenges of exploration
• Technology used and developed
• Impact of exploration on different groups of people and the environment

Key groups of explorers

• Environmental impact
• Social impact
• Cultural influences
• Interactions with native populations

Native American Tribes (Midwest/Northeast)

• Cultural characteristics
• Use of natural resources
• Roles
• Meeting basic needs
• Economics and trade

CONCEPTS

Movement and Change

POWER STANDARDS

• Identify ways people depend on and interact with the physical environment.
• Compare the lifestyles of groups of people (e.g., families, tribes and cultures) in various regions over time.
• Compare the features of the physical environment of the Midwest to another U.S. region.
• Utilize major elements of a map to locate specific places (e.g., title, scale, legend/key, directional indicators, number/letter grid system).

ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS & GUIDING QUESTIONS

Essential Understanding: The ability to provide for the needs and wants of a society depends upon availability, management, distribution, and consumption of resources.

Guiding Questions

• What are economic needs?
• How are economic needs met?
• How do the natural resources of a region impact the economy?

Essential Understanding: A place’s growth depends on land forms, natural resources, natural defense, and location.

Guiding Questions

• What physical features define a place?
• What human designed environments can define a place?
• Why do people settle where they do?
• What natural resources are available?
• How is transportation dependent on natural resources?
• What positive and negative effects can occur as a result of human/environment interactions?
• Why is it important to treat the environment respectfully?

CRITICAL CONTENT

Regional divisions of nation

Relative location of Illinois and the Midwest region

Characteristics of Midwest region past and present

• Knowledge and information gained during the study of “Exploring Our Past” should be applied during the study of history within the region and state.
  • Natural resources
  • History
  • Economics – Key terminology

Compare and contrast the Midwest with at least one other region

CONCEPTS

Movement and Change

POWER STANDARDS

• Describe how people are citizens of their community, state and nation and explain the importance of good citizenship.
• Identify ways people depend on and interact with the physical environment.
• Compare the features of the physical environment of the Midwest to another U.S. region.
• Utilize major elements of a map to locate specific places (e.g., title, scale, legend/key, directional indicators, number/letter grid system).

ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS & GUIDING QUESTIONS

Essential Understanding: Political, economic, and social systems exist to meet the needs of citizens.

Guiding Questions

• What are some examples of political, economic, and social systems in society?
• How do systems help society?
• How do systems meet the needs of citizens?
• How would society be different if systems were not in place?

Essential Understanding: The ability to provide for the needs and wants of a society depends upon availability, management, distribution, and consumption of resources.

Guiding Questions

• How does a community meet the economic needs of its citizens?
• How does economic change impact a community?

Essential Understanding: Governmental systems are impacted by the beliefs, needs, and values of people.

Guiding Questions

• What is government?
• Why do people need government?
• Who creates the government?
• What documents are the foundation of American government?
• How do these documents meet the needs, beliefs, and values of the people?
• How are these documents connected?
• How do citizens interact with governmental systems?

CRITICAL CONTENT

Review of local cities (suburbs) and the city system (Chicago)

• History and development
• Transportation
• Communication
• Physical characteristics
• Economics
• Government
• Culture/traditions

Government (local, state, federal)

• Location and structure of local, state, and federal governments
• Comparison of local, state, and federal governments
• Similarities and differences between leadership roles