TN Social Studies Standards - 2008-2009 Implementation

Ancient History - Era 1
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Era 1: The Beginnings of Human Society
Culture 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3
Ancient History Curriculum Standards 3402 - Social Studies Performance Indicators:	Internet Resources
1.1 understand the relationship between physical environments and culture
Level 1 - describe the components of culture (e.g., language, religion, customs, gender relations)	�
Level 1 - recognize how human migration and cultural activities influence the character of a place.	�
Level 2 - analyze the role of cultural diffusion and interactions among Earth�s human systems in the ongoing development of Earth�s cultural landscapes (e.g., the environmental changes of late Ice Age, changing territorial range in Africa and Asia	�
Level 2 - compare how cultures differ in their use of similar environments and resources	�
Level 3 - interpret scientific evidence regarding early human communities and its impact on the hunter gatherer culture	�
1.2 understand how language, art, music, belief systems, traditions, science, technology, values and behaviors contribute to the development and transmission of culture.
Level 1 - identify early forms of written expression	�
Level 1 - identify early world examples of art	�
Level 2 - use archaeological evidence to discuss early cultural beliefs (e.g., emergence of complete belief systems)	�
Level 3 - indicate how different human communities expressed their beliefs. (e.g. late Paleolithic cave paintings, the communication of past memory).	�
Level 3 - construct a time line of technological innovations and rate the importance of technological advancements	�
1.3 understand the role that diverse cultures and historical experiences had on the development of the world.
Level 1 - identify differing early world cultures	�
Level 1 - identify characteristics of a physical environment that contribute to the growth and development of a culture	�
Level 2 - compare and contrast the resulting cultural difference between hunter gatherer cultures and agricultural cultures	�
Level 3 -analyze the various social and cultural roles that resulted due to a community's society (e.g. emergence of social class, occupational specialization, gender role differences).	�
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Economics 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3
Ancient History Curriculum Standards 3402 - Social Studies Performance Indicators:	Internet Resources
2.1 understand economic connections, conflicts, and interdependence.
Level 1 - identify how early world communities economically provided for their families (e.g., identify the location of major anthropologic geographic discoveries in relation to resources)	�
Level 1 - explain the relationship of supply and demand in early world communities	�
Level 2 - recognize economic relationships that resulted from early world economies	�
Level 2 - describe the change from hunter/gatherer economies to economies based on animal and plant domestication	�
Level 3 - compare and contrast the interactions among early world economic systems (e.g., evidence of early trade systems)	�
2.2 understand the changes that occur in the nature, use, distribution, and importance of resources
Level 1 - identify early world economy systems (e.g., hunter gatherers, agricultural, nomads)	�
Level 2 - study the changing role of economies based on the spread of agricultural communities	�
Level 3 - evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of hunter gatherer and early farming styles	�
2.3 recognize the importance of technologies on economic development
Level 1 - explain the relationship between the use, availability, and accessibility of resources and the subsequent technological developments	�
Level 2 - identify how agricultural advancements encouraged a further advancement in population and sophistication in early world communities	�
Level 3 - analyze how technological developments aided the development of produce and livestock	�
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Geography 3.1 | 3.2
Ancient History Curriculum Standards 3402 - Social Studies Performance Indicators:	Internet Resources
3.1 understand the importance of physical geographic features on world historic events
Level 1 - recognize and name early world major physical geographic features	�
Level 2 - examine the ways in which physical geographic features influence interaction of individuals and civilizations	�
Level 2 - identify early world vegetation, and natural resources	�
Level 2 - recognize how the world's surface is different from today's surface	�
Level 3 - assess the relative importance of physical geographic features the development of early world societies (e.g., changing climate of the world)	�
3.2 understand human geographic interactions and their impact on world historic events.
Level 1 - identify human communities that developed in response to environment	�
Level 2 - recognize the rise in human population in relation to climate changes and available resources	�
Level 3 - contrast the development and the sophistication of human communities in response to their environment	�
Level 3 - create a model fictitious early world community based on geographic elements	�
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Governance and Civics 4.1 | 4.2
Ancient History Curriculum Standards 3402 - Social Studies Performance Indicators:	Internet Resources
4.1 explain the development of a people�s need to belong and organize into a system of governance
Level 1 - recognize the relationship between a place's physical, political and cultural characteristics and the type of governance that emerges in that place	�
Level 2 - analyze types of early world governance (e.g., within the community, within the family)	�
Level 2 - recognize the differing role of individuals in governance	�
Level 2 - identify traditional laws and rules enacted in ancient civilizations	�
Level 3 - distinguish the differences among early world communities in their approach and implementation of governance	�
4.2 identify how cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control resources, rights, and privileges
Level 1 - list probable situations for early world cooperation and conflict over resources or privileges	�
Level 2 - compare and contrast roles of individuals in different forms of governance due to the economic, environmental, and geographic situations	�
Level 2 - analyze the necessity of establishing and enforcing the rule of law in early world communities	�
Level 3 - research archaeological evidence on cooperation and conflict among early world cultures over resources	�
Level 3 - explore the issues power, role, and status within early world communities	�
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History 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.3
Ancient History Curriculum Standards 3402 - Social Studies Performance Indicators:	Internet Resources
5.1. understand the processes that gave rise to the earliest human civilizations
Level 1 - list ancient weapons and tools	�
Level 2 - understand the role of the environment in terms of influencing the development of weapons, and tools	�
5.2 understand the chronological flow of historical eras and events in Ancient History
Level 1 - describe the interaction between early human groups, the environmental and survival methods that led to the formation of civilizations	�
Level 2 - compare the development of several different early human civilizations including agrarian, hunter-gather, nomadic, warrior and pastoral	�
Level 2 - identify the characteristics of hunter-gatherer communities in various continental regions in Africa, the Americas, and Europe	�
Level 3 - explore the scientific evidence regarding early human settlements in Africa	�
5.3 understand how historical information is collected, recorded, interpreted, transmitted, and disseminated across various historical eras
Level 1 - describe the biological processes that shaped the earliest human communities	�
Level 1 - explain how geologists, archaeologists, and anthropologists study early human development	�
Level 2 - identify and label key traits of the various civilizations and how researches and archaeologists record these artifacts	�
Level 3 - compare and contrast the world civilizations by examining similarities and differences	�
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Individuals, Groups and Interactions 6.1
Ancient History Curriculum Standards 3402 - Social Studies Performance Indicators:	Internet Resources
6.1 understand the extent to which individuals, groups and institutions interact to produce continuity and change throughout world history
Level 1 - identify the difficulty of knowing individuals, and groups from early world cultures	�
Level 2 - create graphic representations or models of significant contact or trading patterns based on archaeological evidence	�
Level 2 - relate probable personal changes to early world social, cultural, and historical contexts	�
Level 3 - discuss why some groups developed and accepted complete sedentary agricultural practices while others retained earlier subsistence methods	�
Level 3 - Describe surviving evidence showing personal connections to place	�