Diploma Plus Social Studies Competencies
Diploma-Plus Competencies in Social Studies
Each unit will be evaluated using specific competencies from the list.
- 1) Historical Context - Develop a sense of time and the meaning, implications, and importance of historical events, people, ideas, or artifacts.
- 2) Change, Cause and Effect - Understand change, cause and effect.
- 3) Perspective - Understand events from more than one perspective.
- 4) Research-based Arguments - Construct and present arguments based on research and interpretation.
- 5) Representation of Information and Ideas - Read, record, create, and analyze data and information in the form of graphic organizers, lists, charts, and maps.
- 6) Impact of Geography and Environment - Explain how geography and environment has influenced and has been influenced by cultures, economic or political systems, and historical events.
- 7) Impact of Culture - Understand how culture and belief systems shape history.
- 8) Impact of Economics - Understand fundamental economic principles and how they influence political systems and historical events.
- 9) Power, Justice and Human Rights - Analyze systems of power and oppression.
