1. SOCIAL STUDIES GRADE SEVEN – ASIA
Physical Features
of Asia and affects on people
Asia’s natural resources
Effect on modern daily life
Different types of government
Effect of population on Asia
Geography
Development of Buddhism
Asia
Religion
Development of Hinduism
Effects of physical features on settlement and culture
Current Issues in Asia
Population-global concern with global solution?
Population Essay
Conflict between China and Tibet
Globalization’s influence on economy of China and India
One-child policy-agree or disagree?
14th Dalai Lama and his role in conflict
Culture’s effect on population
Conflict between India and Pakistan
Solution to population problem
Essential Understandings/Concepts:
• CT.CK Analyze how specific individuals and their ideas and beliefs influenced world history.
• CT.CK Evaluate the cultural contributions of a variety of past and present civilizations.
• CT.CK Identify selected countries and determine the advantages and challenges created by their geography.
• CT.CK Examine geographic factors that help explain historical events and contemporary issues.
• CT.CK Analyze settlement patterns in different world regions using appropriate maps.
• CT.CK Analyze and describe how technology influenced migration patterns in a region/country.
• CT.CK Assess how ideas/religions affected migration in different regions (e.g. Crusades, South African trek, founding of Israel).
• CT.CK Compare similarities and differences of cultural groups in different world regions (e.g. beliefs, values, traditions, institutions).
• CT.CK Recognize how values, beliefs and attitudes develop in different cultures.
Vocabulary:
Siddhartha Gautama 14th Dalai Lama Meditation
Tibetan Buddhism Enlightenment Reincarnation
Partition Kashmir Non-violence
Communism Revolution One-child policy
Socialism Free enterprise Overpopulation
Capitalism Himalayas Arable
Monsoon Yangtze River Birth rate
Ganges River Indus River Death rate
Yellow River Plateau Literacy rate
Population density Carrying capacity Standard of living
Demographics Pollution Population growth
Sewage Hinduism Polytheism
4 Noble Truths Karma Sacred
Eightfold Path Dharma Nirvana
Caste Mahatma Gandhi Vedas
Gender Imbalance Krishna
Shiva Brahma