Elements of the Ohio Social Studies Standards addressed in the workshop: Brazil: The Other Latin America

Students use materials drawn from the diversity of human experience to analyze and interpret significant events, patterns and themes in the history of Ohio, the United States and the world.

1. Interpret relationships between events shown on multiple-tier time lines.

2. Describe the political and social characteristics of early civilizations and their enduring impact on later civilizations.

3. Describe the characteristics of feudal societies and the transition to the Renaissance and Reformation in Europe.

4. Describe the effects of interactions among civilizations during the 14th through the 18th centuries.

5. Explain the causes and consequences of the American Revolution, with emphasis on both Colonial and British perspectives.

6. Explain the political and economic challenges faced by the United States after the Revolutionary War and the actions that resulted in the adoption of the United States Constitution.

1. Explain connections between the ideas of the Enlightenment and changes in the relationships between citizens and their governments.

3. Analyze the reasons that countries gained control of territory through imperialism and the impact on people living in the territory that was controlled.

5. Analyze connections between World War II, the Cold War and contemporary conflicts.

6. Identify major historical patterns in the domestic affairs of the United States during the 20th century and explain their significance.

1. Explain patterns of historical continuity and change by challenging arguments of historical inevitability.

2. Use historical interpretations to explain current issues.

Students use knowledge of perspectives, practices and products of cultural, ethnic and social groups to analyze the impact of their commonality and diversity within local, national, regional and global settings.

1. Compare cultural practices, products and perspectives of past civilizations in order to understand commonality and diversity of cultures.

2. Analyze examples of interactions between cultural groups and explain the factors that contribute to cooperation and conflict.

3. Explain how contact between different cultures impacts the diffusion of belief systems, art, science, technology, language and forms of government.

1. Analyze the influence of different cultural perspectives on the actions of groups.

2. Analyze the consequences of oppression, discrimination and conflict between cultures.

3. Analyze the ways that contacts between people of different cultures result in exchanges of cultural practices.

1. Analyze how issues may be viewed differently by various cultural groups.

2. Identify the causes of political, economic and social oppression and analyze ways individuals, organizations and countries respond to resulting conflicts.

3. Explain the role of diverse cultural institutions in shaping American society.

Students use knowledge of geographic locations, patterns and processes to show the interrelationship between the physical environment and human activity, and to explain the interactions that occur in an increasingly interdependent world.

1. Identify on a map the location of major physical and human features of each continent.

3. Explain how the environment influences the way people live in different places and the consequences of modifying the environment.

4. Explain reasons that people, products and ideas move from place to place and the effects of that movement on geographic patterns.

1. Analyze the cultural, physical, economic and political characteristics that define regions and describe reasons that regions change over time

2. Analyze geographic changes brought about by human activity using appropriate maps and other geographic data.

3. Analyze the patterns and processes of movement of people, products and ideas.

1. Explain how the character and meaning of a place reflect a society’s economics, politics, social values, ideology and culture.

2. Evaluate the consequences of geographic and environmental changes resulting from governmental policies and human modifications to the physical environment.

3. Use appropriate data sources and geographic tools to analyze and evaluate public policies.

Students use economic reasoning skills and knowledge of major economic concepts, issues and systems in order to make informed choices as producers, consumers, savers, investors, workers and citizens in an interdependent world.

1. Explain how the endowment and development of productive resources affect economic decisions and global interactions.

2. Explain why trade occurs and how historical patterns of trade have contributed to global interdependence.

1. Compare how different economic systems answer the fundamental economic questions of what goods and services to produce, how to produce them and who will consume them.

2. Explain how the United States government provides public services, redistributes income, regulates economic activity and promotes economic growth and stability.

1. Analyze how scarcity of productive resources affects supply, demand, inflation and economic choices.

2. Identify factors which inhibit or spur economic growth and cause expansions or recessions.

3. Explain how voluntary worldwide trade, specialization and interdependence among countries affect standards of living and economic growth.

5. Explain the use of a budget in making personal economic decisions and planning for the future.

Students use knowledge of the purposes, structures and processes of political systems at the local, state, national and international levels in order to understand that people create systems of government as structures of power and authority to provide order, maintain stability and promote the general welfare.

1. Explain why people institute governments, how they influence governments and how governments interact with each other.

2. Explain how the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, and the Northwest Ordinance have provided for the protection of rights and the long-term future of a growing democracy.

3. Compare the defining characteristics of democracies, monarchies and dictatorships.

1. Analyze the evolution of the Constitution through post-Reconstruction amendments and Supreme Court decisions.

2. Analyze the differences among various forms of government to determine how power is acquired and used.

1. Evaluate, take and defend positions about issues concerning the alignment of the characteristics of American democracy with realities in the United States today.

2. Explain how the United States Constitution has evolved including its philosophical foundations, amendments and court interpretations.

3. Analyze how citizens participate in the election process in the United States.

Students use knowledge of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in order to examine and evaluate civic ideals and to participate in community life and the American democratic system.

1. Show the relationship between civic participation and attainment of civic and public goals.

2. Identify historical origins that influenced the rights United States citizens have today.

1. Analyze ways people achieve governmental change, including political action, social protest and revolution.

2. Explain how individual rights are relative, not absolute, and describe the balance between individual rights, the rights of others and the common good.

2. Explain how the exercise of a citizen’s rights and responsibilities helps to strengthen a democracy.

Students collect, organize, evaluate and synthesize information from multiple sources in order to draw logical conclusions. Students communicate this information using appropriate social studies terminology in oral, written or multimedia form and apply what they have learned to societal issues in simulated or real-world settings.

1. Analyze different perspectives on a topic obtained from a variety of sources.

2. Organize historical information in text or graphic format and analyze the information in order to draw conclusions.

1. Evaluate the reliability and credibility of sources.

2. Use data and evidence to support or refute a thesis.

1. Obtain and evaluate information from public records and other resources related to a public policy issue.

2. Critique data and information to determine the adequacy of support for conclusions.

3. Develop a research project that identifies the various perspectives on an issue and explain a resolution of that issue.