Grade 8 Social Studies BC Learning Standards Standards

social, political, and economic systems and structures, including those of at least one indigenous civilization

Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions

Contact and conflict between peoples stimulated significant cultural, social, and political change.

scientific and technological innovations

Assess the significance of people, places, events, or developments at particular times and places (significance)

Human and environmental factors shape changes in population and living standards.

philosophical and cultural shifts

Identify what the creators of accounts, narratives, maps, or texts have determined is significant (significance)

Exploration, expansion and colonization had varying consequences for different groups.

interactions and exchanges of resources, ideas, arts, and culture between and among different civilizations

Assess the credibility of multiple sources and the adequacy of evidence used to justify conclusions (evidence)

Changing ideas about the world created tension between people wanting to adopt new ideas and those wanting to preserve established traditions.

exploration, expansion, and colonization

Characterize different time periods in history, including periods of progress and decline, and identify key turning points that mark periods

changes in population and living standards

of change (continuity and change)

Determine which causes most influenced particular decisions, actions, or events, and assess their short-and long-term consequences (cause and consequence)

Explain different perspectives on past or present people, places, issues, or events, and compare the values, worldviews, and beliefs of human cultures and societies in different times and places (perspective)

Make ethical judgments about past events, decisions, or actions, and assess the limitations of drawing direct lessons from the past (ethical judgment)

Big Ideas

Curricular Competency

Content

Ethical Judgement

Perspectives

Continuity and Change

Cause and Consequence

Evidence

Significance

Inquiry Skills

Simplified Curricular Competencies for Socials