Appropriate connections to the United States and/or contemporary issues make world history more relevant to students in Pennsylvania.
Biography explores the life of an individual.
Biography is a historical construct used to reveal positive and/or negative influences an individual can have on civilization.
Biography is a historical construct used to reveal positive and/or negative influences an individual can have on Pennsylvania’s society.
Biography is a historical construct used to reveal positive and/or negative influences an individual can have on world history.
Comprehension of the experiences of individuals, society, and how past human experience has adapted builds aptitude to apply to civic participation.
Conflict and cooperation among social groups, organizations, and nation-states are critical to comprehending past cultures throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
Conflict and cooperation among social groups, organizations, and nation-states are critical to comprehending societies throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
Cultural changes influence people's perceptions of places and regions.
Current and past settlement patterns construct place and region.
Demographic characteristics of populations influence migration streams over time.
Demographic trends, including spatial distribution, size, and density, stimulate patterns of population distribution and movement.
Historical causation involves motives, reasons, and consequences that result in events and actions.
Historical causation involves motives, reasons, and consequences that result in events and actions. Some consequences may be impacted by forces of the irrational or the accidental.
Historical literacy requires a focus on time and space, and an understanding of the historical context of events and actions.
Historical literacy requires a focus on time and space, and an understanding of the historical context, as well as an awareness of point of view.
Historical skills (organizing information chronologically, explaining historical issues, locating sources and investigate materials, synthesizing and evaluating evidence, and developing arguments and interpretations based on evidence) are used by an analytical thinker to create a historical construction.
Human activity, including cultural conflicts and forces of cultural convergence, has an effect on the human characteristics of place and region.
Human organizations work to socialize members and, even though there is a constancy of purpose, changes occur over time.
Learning about the past and its different contexts shaped by social, cultural, and political influences prepares one for participation as active, critical citizens in a democratic society.
Long-term continuities and discontinuities in the structures of Pennsylvania culture provide vital contributions to contemporary issues.
Long-term continuities and discontinuities in the structures of Pennsylvania society provide vital contributions to contemporary issues. Belief systems and religion, commerce and industry, innovations, settlement patterns, social organization, transportation and trade, and equality are examples continuity and change.
Patterns of physical features and spatial patterns of human features change over time.
Physical characteristics of places and regions are impacted through the interrelationships among the components of Earth’s physical systems: atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.
Physical systems influence how people depend on, adjust to, and modify physical systems.
Social entities throughout the world clash over disagreement and assist each other when advantageous.
Spatial patterns of political units, including role of political alliances and the impact of political conflicts, fashion the division and control of the Earth’s surface.
State and local history can offer an individual judicious understanding about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
State and local history can offer an individual, discerning judgment in public and personal life, supply examples for living, and thinking about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
Technology reshapes spatial processes of cultural convergence and divergence.
Textual evidence, material artifacts, the built environment, and historic sites are central to understanding the history of Pennsylvania.
The spatial distribution of economic activities are reshaping businesses and effecting changes and movements in factors of production.
World history can offer an individual discerning judgment in public and personal life, supply examples for living, and thinking about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
World history can offer an individual judicious understanding about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
World history looks for common patterns that emerge across all cultures.
World history looks for common patterns that emerge across all cultures. Long-term continuities and discontinuities in the structures of societies provide vital contributions to contemporary issues.
