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Understandings and Standards
Core Understandings
- Where you live affects what you eat.
- Where you live affects what you do.
- Different countries have different strengths.
- Different countries have similarities to each other.
Learning Objectives
- Use a map to choose a country.
- Explore web sites to gather information.
- Create a brochure in Word to highlight the strengths of a country.
- Present information to the class as a mini vacation trip.
| Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) |
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| | Social Studies | |
| Grade 8
| | Geography |
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| | SOC-8-10. The student uses geographic tools to collect, analyze, and interpret data. |
 | SOC-8-10.B. Pose and answer questions about geographic distributions and patterns shown on maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases. |
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| | Culture |
| SOC-8-24. The student understands the relationships between and among people from various groups, including racial, ethnic, and religious groups, during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. |
| SOC-8-24.B. Explain the relationship between urbanization and conflicts resulting from differences in religion, social class, and political beliefs. |
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| | Social Studies Skills |
| SOC-8-30. The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of sources including electronic technology. |
| SOC-8-30.C. Organize and interpret information from outlines, reports, databases, and visuals including graphs, charts, timelines, and maps. |
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| | Technology Applications
| Grades 6-8
Information Acquisition |
| TECH-(6-8).4. The student uses a variety of strategies to acquire information from electronic resources, with appropriate supervision. |
| TECH-(6-8).4.B. apply appropriate electronic search strategies in the acquisition of information including keyword and Boolean search strategies. |
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| | Solving Problems |
| TECH-(6-8).8. The student uses research skills and electronic communication, with appropriate supervision, to create new knowledge. |
| TECH-(6-8).8.A. participate with electronic communities as a learner, initiator, contributor, and teacher/mentor. |
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