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Middle Grades, Theme VII. Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Learner Expectation Learners will be able to compare their own economic decisions with those of others and consider the wider consequences of those decisions.
Assessment Write an individual solution to a problem that affects everybody in the class. Have the class chart and compare the various opportunity costs and the tradeoffs and consequences of the decisions.
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Middle Grades, Theme VIII. Science, Technology, and Society
Learner Expectation Learners understand how science and technology have changed people’s perceptions of the social and natural world, as well as their relationships to the land and so forth.
Assessment
Students will read about the Seven Wonders and design a structure of their own worth being called an Eighth Wonder. They will describe the technology needed to build their wonder and consider its costs and benefits to society. Each student’s project includes a written component that is evaluated on two criteria: analysis of the relationship between technology and building structure and the description of the potential impact of the technology on the environment.
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Middle Grades, Theme IX. Global Connections
Learner Expectation Learners will be able to analyze examples of conflict, cooperation, and interdependence among groups, communities, regions, societies, and nations.
Assessment Students are given a series of articles written during the Gulf War. Each student is to select three examples and describe how conflict, cooperation, and interdependence were incorporated into each of
the situations.
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Middle Grades, Theme X. Civic Ideals and Practices
Learner Expectation Learners will understand key practices involving the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Assessment Students are asked (during a two-day period) to develop an essay with pictures collected in advance to explain what the rights and responsibilities of the local citizenry have come to mean. Examples should
be included.
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