SOCIAL STUDIES
By the end of grade 8 students will:
A. Geography
A.8.2 Construct mental maps of selected locales, regions, states and countries and draw maps from memory, representing relative location, direction, size, and shape.
A.8.6 Describe and distinguish between the environmental effects on the earth of short term physical changes, such as those caused by floods, droughts, and snowstorms, and long term physical changes, such as those caused by plate tectonics, erosion, and glaciation.
A.8.7 Describe the movement of people, ideas, diseases, and products throughout the world.
A.8.11 Give examples of the causes and consequences of current global markets, the urbanization of the developing world, the consumption of natural resources, and the extinction of species, and suggest possible responses by various individuals, groups and nations.
B. History
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B.8.1 Interpret the past using a variety of sources, such as biographies, diaries, journals, artifacts, eyewitness interviews, and other primary source materials, and evaluate the credibility of sources used.
B.8.3 Describe the relationships between and among significant events, such as the causes and consequences of wars in the United States and world history.
B8.4 Explain how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon the perspectives of participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians,
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B8.6 Analyze important political values such as freedom, democracy, equality, and justice embodied in documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
B8.7 Identify significant events and people in the major eras of the United States and World History,
B8.11 Summarize major issues associated with the history, culture, tribal sovereignty, and current status of the American Indian tribes and bands in Wisconsin.
B8.12 Describe how history can be organized and analyzed using various criteria to group people and events chronologically, geographically, thematically, tropically and by issues.
C. Political Science and Citizenship: Power, Authority, Governance, and Responsibility
C.8.1 Identify and explain democracy basic principles, including individual rights, responsibility for the common good, equal opportunity, equal protection of the laws, freedom of speech, justice, and majority rule with protection for minority rights.
C.8.3 Explain how laws are developed, how the purposes of government are established, and how the powers of government are acquired, maintained, justified, and sometimes abused.
C8. 7 Locate, organize, and use relevant information to understand an issue of public concern, take a position, and advocate the position in a debate.
D. Economics: Production, Distribution, Exchange, Consumption
D.8.2 Identify and explain basic economic concepts: supply, demand, production, exchange, and consumption; labor, wages, and capital; inflation and deflation; market economy and command economy; public and private goods and services
D8.3 Describe Wisconsin’s role in national and global economics and give examples of local economic activity in national and global markets.
D8.10 Identify the economic roles of institutions such as corporations and businesses, banks,labor unions, and the Federal Reserve System.
D8.11 Describe how personal decisions can have a global impact on issues such as trade agreements, recycling, and conserving the environment.
E. The Behavioral Sciences: Individuals, Individuals, and Society
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E.8.2 Give examples to explain and illustrate how factors such as family, gender, and socioeconomics status contribute to individual identity and development.
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E.8.7 Identify and explain examples of bias, prejudice, and stereotyping, and how they contribute to conflict in a society,
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E.8.10 Explain how language, art, music, beliefs, and other components of culture can further global understanding or cause misunderstanding.
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