Curriculum Standards

Social Studies Standards Addressed

The following standards are excerpted from the Florida State Sunshine Standards for Curriculum. The entire document can be found at: Florida Department of Education Curriculum Standards web site.

• Time, Continuity, and Change [History]
• The student understands historical chronology and the historical perspective.
• Benchmark SS.A.1.3.1: The student understands how patterns, chronology, sequencing (including cause and effect), and the identification of historical periods are influenced by frames of reference.
• Benchmark SS.A.1.3.2: The student knows the relative value of primary and secondary sources and uses this information to draw conclusions from historical sources such as data in charts, tables, graphs.
• The student understands the world from its beginning to the time of the Renaissance.
• Benchmark SS.A.2.3.1: The student understands how language, ideas, and institutions of one culture can influence other (e.g., through trade, exploration, and immigration).
• Benchmark SS.A.2.3.4: The student understands the impact of geographical factors on the historical development of civilizations.
• Benchmark SS.A.2.3.5: The student knows significant historical leaders who shaped the development of early cultures (e.g., military, political, and religious leaders in various civilizations).
• Benchmark SS.A.2.3.7: The student knows significant achievements in art and architecture in various urban areas and communities to the time of the Renaissance (e.g., the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, pyramids in Egypt, temples in ancient Greece, bridges and aqueducts in ancient Rome, changes in European art and architecture between the Middle Ages and the High Renaissance).
• Benchmark SS.A.2.3.8: The student knows the political, social, and economic institutions that characterized the significant aspects of Eastern and Western civilizations.
• The student understands Western and Eastern civilization since the Renaissance.
• Benchmark SS.A.3.3.3: The student knows how physical and human geographic factors have influenced major historical events and movements.
• The student understands United States history to 1880.
• Benchmark SS.A.4.3.2: The student knows the role of physical and cultural geography in shaping events in the United States (e.g., environmental and climatic influences on settlement of the colonies, the American Revolution, and the Civil War).
• People, Places, and Environments [Geography]
• The student understands the world in spatial terms.
• Benchmark SS.B.1.3.6: The student understands ways in which regional systems are interconnected.

This lesson also encourages deeper level of thinking on the part of the learner as it allows them to investigate some of the darker years of Carcassonne's history.