Social Studies HS Guide

1990C.E. - Present

PACING

RESOURCES

● See World History Year at aGlance ● Work together as a

● K-12 Research Framework

PLC to determine individual standard pacing.

STANDARDS

Students will identify a pressing global problem and select the most promising political, technological, medical, or scientifc advances being created to address those problems. CONCEPTS (Nouns) SKILLS (Verbs) LANGUAGE SUPPORTS

● Global problem ● Political advances ● Technological advances ● Medical advances ● Scientifc advances

● Identify

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LEARNING PROGRESSIONS

● As a class brainstorm contemporary pressing global problems. Examples may include: pollution, mental health crisis, gender inequality, child labor, economic disparities between and within countries, refugee crises and displacement, human traffcking, terrorism, cybersecurity, war, misinformation, sustainable agriculture, water, etc. ● Review the elements of research. ● As a class, select one of the global problems you identifed to research. Then research the most promising political, technological, medical, or scientifc advances being created to address that problem. ● Students can be divided into political, technological, medical, and/or scientifc groups to collect their research and fndings. ● Students can participate in a Socratic Seminar to share their research.

VOCABULARY

● Global problem ● Political advances ● Technological advances ● Medical advances ● Scientifc advances