Social+Studies

=**NEW YORK STATE SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS ADDRESSED IN THIS WEBQUEST:**= = = Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States.
 * Standard 1: //History of the United States and New York// **
 * P **I** || Students gather and organize information about the important accomplishments of individuals and groups, including Native American Indians, living in their neighborhoods and communities. ||  || **PI** || Students consider different interpretations of key events and/or issues in history and understand the differences in these accounts. ||   || **PI** || Students explore different experiences, beliefs, motives, and traditions of people living in their neighborhoods, communities, and State. ||   || **PI** || Students know the roots of American culture, its development from many different traditions, and the ways many people from a variety of groups and backgrounds played a role in creating it. ||   ||

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.
 * Standard 3: //Geography// **
 * **PI** || Students locate places within the local community, State, and nation; locate the Earth's continents in relation to each other and to principal parallels and meridians. (Adpated from National Geography Standards, 1994). || **PI** || Students identify and compare the physical, human, and cultural characteristics of different regions and people (Adapted from National Geography Standards, 1994). ||  || **PI** || Students investigate how people depend on and modify the physical environment. || **PI** || Students study about how people live, work, and utilize natural resources. || **PI** || Students draw maps and diagrams that serve as representations of places, physical features, and objects. ||   ||

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.
 * Standard 4: //Economics// **
 * **PI** || Students know some ways individuals and groups attempt to satisfy their basic needs and wants by utilizing scarce resources.  ||   ||