8th Grade Social Studies

Students will explain how history is a series of connected events shaped by multiple cause-and-effect relationships and give examples of those relationships.

Students will explain how compromise and cooperation are possible choices to resolve conflict among individuals and groups in the present day.

Students will explain and give examples of how, in order for the U.S. government to function as a democracy, citizens must assume responsibilities (e.g., participating in community activities, voting in elections) and duties (e.g., obeying the law, paying taxes, serving on a jury, registering for the military)

Students use a variety of geographic tools (maps, photographs, charts, graphs, data bases, satellite images) to interpret patterns and locations on Earth;s surface in the present day.