Transcript GRADES THREE AND FOUR PHYSICAL EDUCATION

What are the main
physical features of
the Middle East?
Geography
SOCIAL STUDIES
GRADE SEVEN – THE MIDDLE EAST
The
Middle
East
Judaism
Similarities and
differences
Religion
How do natural
Christianity
resources cause conflict
Solutions to
and cooperation?
problems?
Islam
Importance of
Response
Current Issues in the
water and oil
Religion as a
of US
Middle East/Poster
cause of conflict
and/or UN
Presentation
Major conflicts in
Project
Factors contributing to
Middle East today
the events on 9/11/2001
Essential Understandings/Concepts:
• CT.CK.1.1.1. Evaluate the impact of interactions between the United States and other
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countries/areas worldwide.
CT.CK.1.3.6. Analyze how specific individuals and their ideas and beliefs influenced world
history.
CT.CK.1.3.7. Evaluate the cultural contributions of a variety of past and present civilizations.
CT.CK.1.3.8. Analyze how cultural differences sometimes contributed to conflict among
civilizations or nations.
CT.CK.1.4.9. Identify selected countries and determine the advantages and challenges
created by their geography.
CT.CK.1.4.10. Examine geographic factors that help explain historical events and
contemporary issues.
CT.CK.1.6.14. Assess how ideas/religions affected migration in different regions (e.g.
Crusades, South African trek, founding of Israel).
CT.CK.1.10.21. Analyze how resources or lack of resources influenced a nation/region’s
development (e.g. diversification vs. one-crop economies).
CT.CK.1.12.24. Identify economic resources in the world and analyze their relationship to
international trade.
CT.CK.1.13.26. Compare similarities and differences of cultural groups in different world
regions (e.g. beliefs, values, traditions, institutions).
CT.CK.1.13.27. Analyze the relationship among culture, government and social systems in
various countries.
CT.CK.1.13.28. Recognize how values, beliefs and attitudes develop in different cultures.
Vocabulary:
Arab
Islam
Muslim
Jewish
Christianity
Temple
Mosque
Sunni
Shiite
Koran
Torah
Bible
Arabic
Sect
Fundamentalist
Shabbat
Hebrew
Pope
Old Testament Monotheism
New Testament
Mohammad
Jesus Christ
Abraham
Jerusalem
Holy Trinity
Pilgrimage
Mecca
Jerusalem
Theocracy
Petroleum
Desalination
Potable
OPEC
Al-Qaeda
Hydrologic cycle
Westernized
Taliban
Terrorism
9/11
Iraq War
Homeland
Diaspora
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Shah
Ayatollah
Secular
Human rights Judaism
Irrigation
Drought
Refugee
Arabian Peninsula
Renewal resource
natural resources
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Non-renewable resources