Standard(s):
[SS2010] GHS (3) 11 : 11 ) Interpret various primary sources for reconstructing the past, including documents, letters, diaries, maps, and photographs.
• Comparing maps of the past to maps of the present
[SS2010] ALA (4) 1 : 1 ) Compare historical and current economic, political, and geographic information about Alabama on thematic maps, including weather and climate, physical-relief, waterway, transportation, political, economic development, land-use, and population maps.
• Describing types of migrations as they affect the environment, agriculture, economic development, and population changes in Alabama
[SS2010] GEOG (7) 1 : 1 ) Describe the world in spatial terms using maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies.
• Explaining the use of map essentials, including type, projections, scale, legend, distance, direction, grid, and symbols
Examples: type—reference, thematic, planimetric, topographic, globe and map projections, aerial photographs, satellite images
distance—fractional, graphic, and verbal scales
direction—lines of latitude and longitude, cardinal and intermediate directions
• Identifying geospatial technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective
Examples: Google Earth, Global Positioning System (GPS), geographic information system (GIS), satellite-remote sensing, aerial photography
• Utilizing maps to explain relationships and environments among people and places, including trade patterns, governmental alliances, and immigration patterns
• Applying mental maps to answer geographic questions, including how experiences and cultures influence perceptions and decisions
• Categorizing the geographic organization of people, places, and environments using spatial models
Examples: urban land-use patterns, distribution and linkages of cities, migration patterns, population-density patterns, spread of culture traits, spread of contagious diseases through a population
[SS2010] US11 (11) 5 : 5 ) Evaluate the impact of social changes and the influence of key figures in the United States from World War I through the 1920s, including Prohibition, the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the Scopes Trial, limits on immigration, Ku Klux Klan activities, the Red Scare, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Jazz Age, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W. C. Handy, and Zelda Fitzgerald. (Alabama) [A.1.a., A.1.b., A.1.d., A.1.f., A.1.i., A.1.j., A.1.k.]
• Analyzing radio, cinema, and print media for their impact on the creation of mass culture
• Analyzing works of major American artists and writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and H. L. Mencken, to characterize the era of the 1920s
• Determining the relationship between technological innovations and the creation of increased leisure time
[SS2010] CWI (9-12) 1 : 1 ) Describe current news stories from various perspectives, including geographical, historical, political, social, and cultural.
• Evaluating the impact of current news stories on the individual and on local, state, national, and international communities (Alabama)
• Comparing current news stories to related past events
• Analyzing news stories for implications regarding nations of the world
• Locating on a map areas affected by events described in news stories
• Interpreting statistical data related to political, social, and economic issues in current events
[SS2010] CWI (9-12) 6 : 6 ) Compare information presented through various media, including television, newspapers, magazines, journals, and the Internet.
• Explaining the reliability of news stories and their sources
• Describing the use, misuse, and meaning of different media materials, including photographs, artwork, and film clips
• Critiquing viewpoints presented in editorial writing and political cartoons, including the use of symbols that represent viewpoints
• Describing the role of intentional and unintentional bias and flawed samplings
