Social Studies HS Guide

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● WG Standard 2.2: Students will explain the push and pull factors causing voluntary and involuntary migration and the consequences created by the movement of people. ○ Learning Target #1: ■ Students will explain the push and pull factors causing voluntary and involuntary migration. ○ Learning Target #2: ■ Students will identify consequences created by the movement of people. ● WG Standard 2.3: Students will investigate the effects of signi fi cant patterns of human movement that shape urban and rural environments over time such: as mass urbanization, immigration, and movement of refugees. ○ Learning Target #1: ■ Students will investigate the effects of signi fi cant patterns of human movement that shape urban and rural environments over time such: ● as mass urbanization ● immigration ● movement of refugees NOTE: Students should develop skills associated with social studies to construct arguments using historical thinking skills. Of particular importance in a geography course is developing the reading, thinking, and writing skills of historians. These skills are vertically aligned throughout the curriculum guide with the intent to support the skills needed for students to become critical thinkers and to think like an historian. ● Historical Thinking Skills: WG Standard 2: ○ Source Analysis • Who wrote this? • What is the author’s perspective? • Why was it written? • When was it written? • Where was it written? • Is this source reliable? Why? Why not? ○ Contextualization • When and where was the document created? • What was different then? • What was the same? • How might the circumstances in which the document was created affect its content? POSSIBLE GUIDING AND INQUIRY QUESTIONS ● Why do people live where they live? ● Why do people move, sometimes at great risk to themselves? ● How might population trends in fl uence aspects of daily life at local, regional, or global scales? ● Why are urbanization patterns different around the world? ● How do geographers use demographic data to make informed decisions? ● How can governmental policies have both intended and unintended consequences on population and migration? ● What are the costs and bene fi ts of mass urbanization?