Social Studies: NCSS.1.
| NCSS.1. | STANDARD / BENCHMARK CULTURE BENCHMARK / GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAMS SHOULD INCLUDE EXPERIENCES THAT PROVIDE FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY. |
| 1.1. | GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION KNOWLEDGE - Learners will understand: |
| 1.1.1. | EXPECTATION 'Culture'' refers to the socially transmitted behaviors, beliefs, values, traditions, institutions, and ways of living together of a group of people. |
| 1.1.2. | EXPECTATION Concepts such as: beliefs, values, mores, institutions, cohesion, diversity, accommodation, adaptation, assimilation, and dissonance. |
| 1.1.3. | EXPECTATION How culture develops and changes in ways that allow human societies to address their needs and concerns. |
| 1.1.6. | EXPECTATION How people from different cultures develop diverse cultural perspectives and frames of reference. |
| 1.2. | GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION PROCESSES - Learners will be able to: |
| 1.2.1. | EXPECTATION Ask questions related to culture and find, select, organize, and interpret data from research to address research questions. |
| 1.2.4. | EXPECTATION Evaluate how data and experiences may be interpreted by people from diverse cultural perspectives and frames of reference. |
| 1.2.5. | EXPECTATION Analyze data from various cultural perspectives and evaluate the consequences of interpretations associated with the world views of different cultures. |
| 1.2.7. | EXPECTATION Construct reasoned judgments about specific cultural responses to persistent human issues. |
| 1.2.8. | EXPECTATION Analyze historic and current issues to determine the role that culture has played. |