Course Description 7th, 8th Social Studies
In accordance with the 7, 8 grade Utah State Core Curriculum, our class will focus on the following by way of primary vs. secondary sources, online research skills, book-based research skill, map reading, analyzing current events, cultural appreciation, connect past, present and future, Drawing inferences, Importance of citizenship, Globally aware, impact or resources, Geography. Your students will be writing reports in each of the topic listed.
·Explorers, Trappers, and Traders/Utah Geography
·Industrial Revolution
·Westward Expansion/Mormon Pioneers Settle Utah
·Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction
·Utah Works toward Statehood
·European Imperialism
·Conflict and Change in the 20Th Century: WWI, 1920s, Great Depression, WWII, the
Cold War, and the Civil Rights Era
·Today’s World/Utah Government, Economics, and Citizenship/Current Events
In accordance with the 7, 8 grade Utah State Core Curriculum, our class will focus on the following by way of primary vs. secondary sources, online research skills, book-based research skill, map reading, analyzing current events, cultural appreciation, connect past, present and future, Drawing inferences, Importance of citizenship, Globally aware, impact or resources, Geography. Your students will be writing reports in each of the topic listed.
·Explorers, Trappers, and Traders/Utah Geography
·Industrial Revolution
·Westward Expansion/Mormon Pioneers Settle Utah
·Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction
·Utah Works toward Statehood
·European Imperialism
·Conflict and Change in the 20Th Century: WWI, 1920s, Great Depression, WWII, the
Cold War, and the Civil Rights Era
·Today’s World/Utah Government, Economics, and Citizenship/Current Events