Grade 7 Outcomes

Analyze positions and evidence supporting an issue or an event.

SSS1: Uses critical reasoning skills to analyze and evaluate claims.

Evaluate the logic of reasons for a position on an issue or event.

SSS1: Uses critical reasoning skills to analyze and evaluate claims.

Create and use research questions to guide inquiry on an issue or event.

SSS2: Uses inquiry-based research.

Evaluate the breadth, reliability, and credibility of primary and secondary sources to determine the need for new or additional information when researching an issue or event.

SSS2: Uses inquiry-based research.

Engage in discussion, analyzing multiple viewpoints on public issues.

SSS3: Deliberates public issues.

Analyze multiple factors, make generalizations, and interpret sources to formulate a thesis in a paper or presentation, while observing rules related to plagiarism and copyright.

SSS4: Creates a product that uses social studies content to support a thesis, and presents the product in an appropriate manner to a meaningful audience.

Use appropriate format to cite sources within an essay, presentation, and reference page.

SSS4: Creates a product that uses social studies content to support a thesis, and presents the product in an appropriate manner to a meaningful audience.

Analyze a major historical event and how it is represented on timelines from different cultural perspectives, including those of indigenous people.

H1: Understands historical chronology.

Explain how themes and developments have defined eras in Washington state history from 1854 to the present: Territory and treaty-making (1854-1889); Railroads, reform, immigration, and labor (1889-1930); Turmoil and triumph (1930-1974); New technologies and industries in contemporary Washington (1975-present)

H1: Understands historical chronology.

Explain and analyze how individuals and movements have shaped Washington state history since statehood.

H2: Understands and analyzes causal factors that have shaped major events in history.

Explain and analyze how cultures and ethnic groups contributed to Washington state history since statehood.

H2: Understands and analyzes causal factors that have shaped major events in history.

Explain and analyze how technology and ideas have impacted Washington state history since statehood.

H2: Understands and analyzes causal factors that have shaped major events in history.

Explain, analyze, and develop an argument about how Washington state has been impacted by: Individuals and movements.; Cultures and cultural groups.; Technology and ideas.

H3: Understands that there are multiple perspectives and interpretations of historical events.

Analyze how a historical event in Washington state history helps us to understand contemporary issues and events.

H4: Understands how historical events inform analysis of contemporary issues and events.

Explain the structure of and key ideals set forth in fundamental documents, including the Washington state constitution and tribal treaties with the United States government.

C1: Understands key ideals and principles of the United States, including those in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and other foundational documents.

Distinguish the structure, organization, powers, and limits of government at the local, state, and tribal levels.

C2: Understands the purposes, organization, and function of governments, laws, and political systems.

Analyze how international agreements have affected Washington state.

C3: Understands the purposes and organization of tribal and international relationships and U.S. foreign policy.

Recognize that, according to the United States Constitution, treaties are “the supreme law of the land;” consequently, treaty rights supersede most state laws.

C3: Understands the purposes and organization of tribal and international relationships and U.S. foreign policy.

Explain elements of the agreements contained in one or more treaty agreements between Washington tribes and the United States.

C3: Understands the purposes and organization of tribal and international relationships and U.S. foreign policy.

Describe the relationship between the actions of people in Washington state and the ideals outlined in the Washington state constitution.

C4: Understands civic involvement.

Employ strategies for civic involvement that address a state or local issue.

C4: Understands civic involvement.

Analyze maps and charts from a specific time period to understand an issue or event.

G1: Understands the physical characteristics, cultural characteristics, and location of places, regions, and spatial patterns on the Earth’s surface.

Explain how human spatial patterns have emerged from natural processes and human activities.

G1: Understands the physical characteristics, cultural characteristics, and location of places, regions, and spatial patterns on the Earth’s surface.

Explain and analyze how the environment has affected people and how human actions modify the physical environment, and in turn, how the physical environment limits or promotes human activities in Washington state in the past or present.

G2: Understands human interaction with the environment.

Explain the role of immigration in shaping societies in the past or present.

G2: Understands human interaction with the environment.

Explain examples of cultural diffusion in the world from the past or present.

G2: Understands human interaction with the environment.

Explain how learning about the geography of Washington state helps us understand global issues such as diversity, sustainability, and trade.

G3: Understands the geographic context of global issues and events.

Evaluate alternative approaches or solutions to current economic issues of Washington state in terms of costs and benefits for different groups.

E1: Understands that people have to make choices between wants and needs and evaluates the outcomes of those choices.

Analyze the production, distribution, and consumption of goods, services, and resources in societies from the past or in the present.

E2: Understands how economic systems function.

Analyze how the forces of supply and demand have affected international trade in Washington state in the past or present.

E2: Understands how economic systems function.

Analyze the role of government in the economy of Washington state through taxation, spending, and policy setting in the past or present.

E3: Understands the government’s role in the economy.

Analyze the distribution of wealth and sustainability of resources in Washington state.

E4: Understands the economic issues and problems that all societies face.

Explain the costs and benefits of trade policies to individuals, businesses, and society in Washington state.

E4: Understands the economic issues and problems that all societies face.