1. Performance Standards
Concept Wall
Essential
Questions
Enduring
Understandings

2. Connecting Themes Enduring Understandings
7th Grade
Connecting Themes Enduring Understandings

3. 7th Grade Time, Change, Continuity Conflict & Change Governance
Production, Distribution, Consumption
Movement/ Migration
Human Environmental Interaction
Culture
Location 3

4. Conflict & Change
When there is conflict between or within societies, change is the result.
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, WH, USH, WG 4

5. Conflict and Change
When you have conflicts with your friends does it change your friendship? If so, how?
Why does change always follow conflict?

6. Time, Change, Continuity
While change occurs over time, there is continuity to the basic structure of a society.
K, 1, 2, 6, 7, WH 6

7. Time, Change, & Continuity
How has school changed and stayed the same since kindergarten?
Why do some things remain the same when society is always changing?

8. Governance
As a society increases in complexity and interacts with other societies, the complexity of the government also increases.
6, 7, WH 8

9. Governance
How have your responsibilities changed as your family as changed or as you have gotten older?
How have society and government adapted to each other’s growing complexities?

10. Production, Distribution, Consumption
The production, distribution, and consumption of goods/services produced by the society are affected by the location, customs, beliefs, and laws of the society.
2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, USH, WG 10

11. Production, Distribution, Consumption
What are the elements that make up an economy?
How do you decide what to buy?
What factors determine the price of the things you want to buy?

12. Human Environmental Interaction
Humans, their society, and the environment affect each other.
6, 7, WG 12

13. Human Environmental Interaction
What jobs are available or unavailable because of the physical geography near you?
What are the positive and negative consequences of human environment interaction?

14. Location affects a society’s economy, culture, and development.
K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, WH, USH, WG 14

15. Location
What changes have occurred in your life since moving from elementary school to middle school?
How do opportunities change (jobs, food, homes, standard of living, clothes, etc.) depending on where you live?

16. Culture
The culture of a society is the product of the religion, beliefs, customs, traditions, and government of that society.
K, 1, 6, 7, WH, USH, WG 16

17. Culture How do you describe your family’s culture?
Should schools try to influence or reflect the students’ cultures?
Why do you choose the friends you choose?

18. Movement/ Migration
The movement or migration of people and ideas affects all societies involved.
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, WH, USH 18

19. Movement/Migration
How have your ideas, opinions, likes and dislikes changed since going from sixth
grade to seventh?
How do people change when they move from one place to another?