We live in a world where many young learners are already global citizens. In this series, we will move beyond being merely a global citizen and start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the universe. Contemplating our purpose in the grand scheme of things can make a world of difference.

Cities

Sustainable cities and communities

Infrastructure industrialization

Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Peace justice

Peace, Justice and strong institutions

 The Big Picture

Listen to and describe the role of music in ancient civilizations (e.g., Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, and Roman).

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Describe the historical development of monarchies, oligarchies and city-states in ancient civilizations.

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Describe the factors that shape identity - including institutions, religion, language, social class, geography, culture, and society in ancient civilizations.

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Analyze the intellectual, cultural, religious, and artistic contributions of ancient civilizations to our modern world of racially and ethnically diverse people.

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Assess the economies of ancient civilizations based on trade, resources, labor, monetary systems, and other factors.

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Explain how trade impacted economic growth, labor markets, rights of citizens, the environment, resources, and income distribution in different ancient civilizations.

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Identify the characteristics of various political systems of ancient civilizations.

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explaining their role in navigation, beginning with ancient civilizations, advancing through 19th century mathematical celestial navigation, to current Global Positioning Systems.

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Understands and analyzes how individuals and movements from ancient civilizations have shaped world history.

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Understands and analyzes how technology and ideas from ancient civilizations have impacted world history.

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Understands and analyzes how cultures and cultural groups in ancient civilizations contributed to world history.

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research and describe the use of astronomy in ancient civilizations such as the Egyptians, Mayans, Aztecs, Europeans, and the native Americans;

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identify some ancient civilizations/empires (e.g., Egypt, Assyria, Greece, Indus Valley civilization, Macedonia, the Roman Empire, or the Qin/Han Empire), and explain some of the reasons for their decline

B2.2 Politics and Conflict

 The Pale Blue Dot...

Biodiversity

Life on land

Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.

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Identifying ways in which the theory of evolution explains the nature and diversity of organisms

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Describing early psychological and biological inquiries that led to contemporary approaches and methods of experimentation, including ideologies of Aristotle, John Locke, Wilhelm Wundt, Charles Darwin, William James, Frantz Fanon, and G. Stanley Hall

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Biological evolution accounts for the diversity of species developed through gradual processes over many generations. As a basis for understanding this concept: Students know the reasoning used by Charles Darwin in reaching his conclusion that natural selection is the mechanism of evolution

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Biological evolution accounts for the diversity of species developed through gradual processes over many generations. As a basis for understanding this concept: Students know how independent lines of evidence from geology, fossils, and comparative anatomy provide the bases for the theory of evolution

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Evolution is a change in allelic frequencies of a population over time. The theory of evolution is supported by extensive biochemical, structural, embryological, and fossil evidence.

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The scientific theory of evolution is the organizing principle of life science.

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The scientific theory of evolution is supported by multiple forms of evidence.

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The scientific theory of evolution is the fundamental concept underlying all of biology.

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The scientific theory of evolution is supported by multiple forms of scientific evidence.

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Recognize that fossil evidence is consistent with the scientific theory of evolution that living things evolved from earlier species.

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Explain how the scientific theory of evolution is supported by the fossil record, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, biogeography, molecular biology, and observed evolutionary change.

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Explain how and why the genetic code is universal and is common to almost all organisms.

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Identify significant advances in science to world and U.S. history in several different fields, including: medical science and the prevention of disease (e.g., the discoveries of Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, and Jonas Salk), biology and heredity (e.g., works of Charles Darwin and Gregor Johann Mendel), chemistry (e.g., Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev and the Periodic Table), and atomic energy (e.g., contributions of Marie Curié, Albert Einstein, and Robert Oppenheimer).

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Explain, using examples, how the fossil record, comparative anatomy, and other evidence supports the theory of evolution.

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Explain how natural selection acts on individuals, but it is populations that evolve. Relate genetic mutations and genetic variety produced by sexual reproduction to diversity within a given population.

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Summarize the use of evidence drawn from geology, fossils, and comparative anatomy to form the basis for biological classification systems and the theory of evolution.

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Explain how fossil, biochemical, and anatomical evidence support the theory of evolution.

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Explain how the millions of different species alive today are related by descent from a common ancestor.

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Explain that genes in organisms that are very different (e.g., yeast, flies, and mammals) can be very similar because these organisms all share a common ancestor.

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Using the fossil record and anatomical and/or molecular (DNA) similarities as evidence, formulate a logical argument for biological evolution as an explanation for the development of a representative species (e.g., birds, horses, elephants, whales).

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Classify organisms, using similarities and differences in physical and functional characteristics.

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analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.

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The fossil record documents the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of many life forms and their environments through Earth’s history. The fossil record and comparisons of anatomical similarities between organisms enables the inference of lines of evolutionary descent.

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explain the significance of contributions of influential anthropologists (e.g., Noam Chomsky, Charles Darwin, Jane Goodall, the Leakeys, Margaret Mead, Edward Sapir, Marvin Harris, Richard Lee, Biruté Galdikas, Sherry Ortner)

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Methodologies B1.1

identify significant contributions of influential anthropologists (e.g., Noam Chomsky, Charles Darwin, Jane Goodall, the Leakeys, Margaret Mead, Edward Sapir, Marvin Harris, Richard Lee, Biruté Galdikas, Sherry Ortner)

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Methodologies B1.1

 The Ultimate Jackpot

Economic growth

Decent work and economic growth

health

Good health and well-being

Space exploration has produced data to answer questions about the solar system.

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The technology used in space exploration expands our knowledge of the Universe and has many spin-offs related to everyday applications.

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Identify an effect space exploration has had on Florida’s economy.

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Recognize a technology tool created for space exploration and adapted for personal use, such as computers, telescopes, or satellites.

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Identify major contributions and research from space exploration that affected Florida’s economy and culture.

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Identify major contributions related to space exploration that affected Florida.

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Recognize items, such as freeze-dried food and space blankets, developed because of space exploration.

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Summarize the effects of space exploration on the economy and culture of Florida.

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Relate the history of and explain the justification for future space exploration and continuing technology development.

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Analyze the broad effects of space exploration on the economy and culture of Florida.

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Analyze the domestic policies of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George Herbert Walker Bush, including: the space exploration program, the Kennedy assassination, Johnson’s “Great Society,” Nixon’s appeal to the “silent majority” and the and Constitutional crisis of the Watergate scandal, anti-war and countercultural movements, the creation of the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Use the target language to analyze current science issues (e.g., ecology and the environment, space exploration, health) from the perspective of speakers of the language.

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Apply scientific inquiries or technological designs to study space exploration, creating a timeline which denotes the important events associated with the global space programs, identifying the kinds of technologies which are currently used for studying the solar system and universe, or reporting on applicable historic studies which have provided discoveries, tools or explanations associated with space exploration.

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Describe how the work of scientists in the 20th century influenced historical events, changed the lives of the general populace, and led to further scientific research Wernher von Braun and space exploration

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Analyze the important domestic policies and events that took place during the presidencies of President Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon the space exploration program

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Johnson and the Great Society The Moon landing: the challenge of space exploration

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Much of our knowledge about the solar system is a result of space exploration efforts. These efforts continue to improve our understanding of the solar system. For example, ongoing research including information about magnetic and gravitational fields, surface features, volcanism, tectonics, atmospheric composition, and overall density reveals much about planets’ internal structures, formation, and evolution (ES.2 d).

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Much of our knowledge about the solar system is a result of space exploration efforts. These efforts continue to improve our understanding of the solar system.

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create a timeline of key events in space exploration.

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evaluate the probability of travel to nearby solar systems using current spacecraft speeds.

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analyze the various fusion products of a blue giant star over its lifetime, and relate this to the presence and abundance of elements that make up our solar system and its contents, including living organisms.

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Identify, analyze, and interpret primary and secondary source documents, records, and data to increase understanding of events and life in the United States.

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Examples of technological advances: Space exploration Space shuttle

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Examples of technological advances: Space exploration Mars rover

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Examples of technological advances: Space exploration Voyager missions

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Examples of technological advances: Space exploration Hubble telescope

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describe the effect of technology and its impact in creating a global community (e.g., computers, space exploration, medicine).

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identify and examine international treaties and other agreements concerning such issues as environmental protection, arms control, space exploration and trade. then formulate an opinion as to the agendas of those involved in each treaty. and formulate an opinion as to the agendas of those who refuse to participate in the treaties.

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describe the history and future of space exploration, including the types of equipment and transportation needed for space travel.

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identify the accommodations, considering the characteristics of our solar system, that enabled manned space exploration.

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demonstrate an awareness of new developments and discoveries in astronomy.

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analyze how scientific discoveries, technological innovations, space exploration, and the application of these by the free enterprise system improve the standard of living in the United States , including changes in transportation and communication; and

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analyze how scientific discoveries, technological innovations, space exploration, and the application of these by the free enterprise system improve the standard of living in the United States, including changes in transportation and communication; and

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describe some key developments in science and/or technology during this period, and explain their impact on Americans (e.g., with reference to television, weaponry, the Salk vaccine and other medical breakthroughs, developments in computers and other digital technologies, space exploration, biotechnology)

E1.2 Social, Economic, and Political Context

analyse how globalization and technological advances have created the need for new types of intergovernmental cooperation (e.g., with reference to nuclear weaponry; space exploration/ activity; environmental and labour regulation in industrializing countries; censorship, freedom of speech, and the Internet; international terrorism; drug trafficking), and explain what types of international organizations/agreements are being developed to address these changes

C2.3 Intergovernmental Cooperation

analyse the importance to the fashion industry of key technological developments (e.g., the loom, the sewing machine, automation, mechanization, computer assisted design [CAD], synthetic fibres and fabrics, silk farming, new materials arising from research related to military or space exploration)

Grade 12  Fashion History B1.3

 A Case for Space Exploration

With guidance from an educator, students use technology tools to work with friends and with people outside their neighborhood, city and beyond.

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With guidance from an educator, students use technology to communicate with others and to look at problems from different perspectives.

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Describe common interests and evaluate examples of global collaboration

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Practice foundational innovative abilities (for example, design thinking) in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.

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Develop and refine a determined range of creative and adaptive innovation abilities (for example, design thinking, risk taking) in addressing identified challenges and constraints within and through media arts productions.

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Recognize the responsibilities of some of the departments and regulatory agencies of the federal government (e.g., the Treasury, NASA, EPA, FCC).

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Recognize that our earth is part of the solar system in which the sun, an average star, is the central and largest body. Observe that our solar system includes the sun, moon, seven other planets and their moons, and many other smaller objects like asteroids and comets.

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Practice foundational innovative abilities, such as design thinking, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.

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Develop and refine a determined range of creative and adaptive innovation abilities, such as design thinking, and risk taking, in addressing identified challenges and constraints within and through media arts productions.

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Apply design thinking strategies to identify a problem within the community, and create and document various solutions.