World+History+(7-9)

These are some questions the grade 8 had about standard based assessments

what do assessments look like in standards based classroom? Is writing the main focus now. How many common assessment need there be per grade?

What is the grading system look like? - A, B, C - rubric mcas like?

How many standards are we covering? how many from the common core and how many from other National Council for History?

What does a unit look like? Is the title now just disease in history - or are we covering time periods? how much freedom with content do we have?

What does grade 7 and grade 9 look like? we need to know before we get too deep into the planing stages of this for grade 8

__**Grade 8**__
World History (includes ancient, early, and modern) Power standards? we do this already with the medieval project and disease project //Research to Build and Present Knowledge // For Grade 8 these standards interest me
 * 7. **Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
 * 8. **Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
 * 9. **Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

These are, shorthand, the big ideas we want to teach in the 8th grade

Big Ticket Ideas - Rights Oppurtunity - social mobility Urbanization disease Globalization - trade and conflict Use of natural resources

These are the standards from the NCHS that explain them in a little more detail and fancy language

[] These are the standards from NCHS - they are the standards that ask "students to give attention to long-term changes and recurring patterns of the past" they are not specific to any time period but definitely connect to the current 8th grade curriculum.

Focusing on these big patterns gives us more flexibility to cover modern topics that are more relevant to 8th graders.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; display: block; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- Trace major changes in world population from paleolithic times to the present and explain why these changes occurred, including the effects of major disease pandemics. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; display: block; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; display: block; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- Analyze why humans have built cities and how the character, function, and number of cities have changed over time. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; display: block; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; display: block; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- Trace major patterns of long-distance trade from ancient times to the present and analyze ways in which trade has contributed to economic and cultural change in particular societies or civilizations. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; display: block; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; display: block; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- Analyze how ideals and institutions of freedom, equality, justice, and citizenship have changed over time and from one society to another. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; display: block; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; display: block; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- Analyze ways in which human action has contributed to long-term changes in the natural environment in particular regions or worldwide.