AISL Grade 7 Benchmarks in Social Studies
(Revised June, 2010)
- AISL.SST.01 HISTORY: Students will understand patterns of change and continuity, relationships between people and events through time, and the causes and effects of interaction among societies.
- AISL.SST.01.G7.01 Describe the historical origins, central beliefs, and spread of major religions
- AISL.SST.01.G7.02 Recognize the interconnection of historical people, places, events, and developments that have taken place in civilizations throughout the world
- AISL.SST.01.G7.03 Analyze examples of conflict, cooperation, and interdependence among groups, societies, and nation
- AISL.SST.01.G7.04 Identify and use key concepts such as chronology, causality, change, conflict, and complexity to explain, analyze, and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity
- AISL.SST.01.G7.05 Demonstrate an understanding of concepts such as role, status, and social class in describing interactions of individuals and social groups
- AISL.SST.01.G7.06 Identify and describe examples of tensions between belief systems and government policies and laws
- AISL.SST.01.G7.07 Identify the reasons for colonialism and how the creation of colonies contributed to current political problems in now independent countries
- AISL.SST.01.G7.08 Understand how the search for knowledge and new trade routes led to world exploration
- AISL.SST.01.G7.09 Use knowledge of facts and concepts drawn from history, along with methods of historical inquiry, to inform decision-making about and action-taking on public issues
- AISL.SST.02 GEOGRAPHY: Students will understand the concepts of geography and how they contribute to the interaction between humans and natural and man-made environments.
- AISL.SST.02.G7.01 Recognize and label on a map the countries studied in class, their capitals, and their physical features
- AISL.SST.02.G7.02 Explain the importance of natural barriers and how said barriers led to isolation of a country or protection from a country
- AISL.SST.02.G7.03 Identify and explain the distribution of ecosystems
- AISL.SST.02.G7.04 Describe the restrictions that climate and land forms place on land use and discern how patterns of population distribution reflect these restrictions
- AISL.SST.02.G7.05 Give reasons why rates of population growth and life expectancy vary among countries
- AISL.SST.02.G7.06 Investigate how physical geography, productive resources, specialization, and trade have influenced the way people earn money
- AISL.SST.02.G7.07 Understand how culture and experience influence people’s perception of places or regions
- AISL.SST.02.G7.08 Understand the characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations
- AISL.SST.02.G7.09 Understand how the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence division and control of the earth’s surface
- AISL.SST.03 CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT: Students will understand why societies create and adopt systems of government and how these systems address human needs, rights, and citizen responsibilities.
- AISL.SST.03.G7.01 Explain how religion can determine the political structure of a non-secular nation
- AISL.SST.03.G7.02 Describe the purpose of government and how its powers are acquired, used, and justified
- AISL.SST.03.G7.03 Describe and analyze the role of technology as it contributes to or helps resolve conflict
- AISL.SST.03.G7.04 Explain how power, role, status, and justice influence the examination of persistent issues and social problems
- AISL.SST.03.G7.05 Give examples and explain how governments attempt to achieve their stated ideals at home and abroad
- AISL.SST.03.G7.06 Give examples of the different routes taken to independence from colonial rule by various countries
- AISL.SST.03.G7.07 Identify principles and practices of democracy in current governments
- AISL.SST.03.G7.08 Assess the extent of democracy and observance of human rights in various countries
- AISL.SST.03.G7.09 Compare citizenship and the citizen’s role in various countries
- AISL.SST.04 CULTURE: Students will understand cultural and intellectual developments and interactions among and within societies
- AISL.SST.04.G7.01 Explain how information and experiences may be interpreted by people from diverse cultural perspectives and frames of reference
- AISL.SST.04.G7.02 Explain and give examples of how language, literature, the arts, architecture, artifacts, traditions, beliefs, values, and behaviors contribute to the development and transmission of culture
- AISL.SST.04.G7.03 Compare and contrast how social institution, including the family, religion, education, government, and the economic system, influence individual behavior in different societies
- AISL.SST.04.G7.04 Explain the term social status. Describe how this concept helped to determine individual roles in various countries
- AISL.SST.04.G7.05 Identify major languages spoken in areas studied and give examples of how language, literature, and the arts have contributed to the development and transmission of culture
- AISL.SST.04.G7.06 Use a variety of resources to identify examples of present conflicts between cultural groups or nations and analyze the historical and geographical background of such conflict
- AISL.SST.05 ECONOMICS: Students will understand fundamental economic principles and ways in which economies are shaped by geographic and human factors
- AISL.SST.05.G7.01 Recognize that trade routes often determined the development of civilizations
- AISL.SST.05.G7.02 Give examples of ways that economic systems influence choices about how goods and services are to be produced and distributed
- AISL.SST.05.G7.03 Explain how values and beliefs influence different economic decisions
- AISL.SST.05.G7.04 Understand how international trade requires a system for exchanging currency between and among nations
- AISL.SST.05.G7.05 Use economic concepts to help explain historical and current events in local, national, or global situations
- AISL.SST.05.G7.06 Describe why and how different economic systems in countries answer the basic economic questions: What to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?
- AISL.SST.05.G7.07 Compare and contrast the standard of living of various countries using the GDP as an indicator
- AISL.SST.06 CURRENT EVENTS: Students will understand and analyze major issues and events while tracing their historical foundation.
- AISL.SST.06.G7.01 Explore efforts to improve political and social conditions around the world and reasons they can/cannot occur.
- AISL.SST.06.G7.02 Analyzing social, geographic, political, and economic implications of major issues or events