Search over 150,000+ teacher reviewed Lesson Plans
Browse Hawaii State Standards
Grade: Grade 8
Standard:
Standard 1: HISTORY: Change, Continuity, Causality-Students employ chronology to understand change and/or continuity and cause and/or effect in history.
Standard 2: HISTORY: Historical Empathy-Students learn to judge the past on its own terms and use that knowledge to understand present day issues, problems, and decision-making.
Standard 3: HISTORY: Historical Inquiry-Students use the tools and methods of historians to transform learning from memorizing historical data to "doing history."
Standard 4: HISTORY: Historical Perspectives and Interpretations-Students explain historical events with multiple interpretations rather than explanations that point to historical linearity or inevitability.
Standard 5: POLITICAL SCIENCE/CIVICS: Governance/Power/Authority-Students understand the ways and reasons people and groups create governments and use this knowledge to make reasoned decisions.
Standard 6: POLITICAL SCIENCE/CIVICS: DEMOCRACY-Students understand and demonstrate the principles and values underlying American constitutional democracy.
Standard 7: POLITICAL SCIENCE/CIVICS: GLOBAL Cooperation, Conflict and Interdependence-Students understand similarities and differences across cultural perspectives and evaluate the ways in which individuals, groups, societies, nations, and organizations change and interact.
Standard 8: POLITICAL SCIENCE/CIVICS: CITIZENSHIP/Participation-Students understand roles, rights (personal, economic, political), and responsibilities of American citizens and exercise them in civic action.
Standard 9: POLITICAL SCIENCE/CIVICS: POLITICAL Analysis-Students understand and use the tools and methods of the political scientist to explain ideas, events, and behaviors and use this knowledge to make reasoned decisions.
Standard 10: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Cultural Systems-Students understand culture as a system of beliefs, knowledge, and practices shared by a group.
Standard 11: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Cultural Diversity and Unity-Students understand and respect the myriad of ways that society addresses human needs and wants.
Standard 12: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Cultural Dynamics/Change and Continuity-Students understand culture as dynamic, selective, adaptive, and ever-changing.
Standard 13: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Cultural Inquiry-Students use the tools and methodology of social scientists to explain and interpret ideas and events.
Standard 14: GEOGRAPHY: World in Spatial Terms-Students use geographic representations to organize, analyze, and present information on people, places, and environments.
Standard 15: GEOGRAPHY: Places and Regions-Students understand how distinct physical and human characteristics shape places and regions.
Standard 16: GEOGRAPHY: Human Systems-Students understand how people organize their activities on earth through their analysis of human populations, cultural mosaic, economic interdependence, settlement, and conflict and cooperation.
Standard 17: GEOGRAPHY: Environment and Society-Students demonstrate stewardship of earth's resources through the understanding of society and the physical environment.
Standard 18: ECONOMICS: Limited Resources and Choice-Students understand costs and benefits of economic choice and use this knowledge to make sound economic decisions.
Standard 19: ECONOMICS: Role and Function of Markets-Students understand how markets function and analyze the role of prices and incentives to realize how economic interactions affect human behavior.
Standard 20: ECONOMICS: Economic Interdependence-Students evaluate the costs and benefits of trade among individuals, nations, and organizations to explain why trade results in higher overall levels of production and consumption.
Standard 21: ECONOMICS: Role of Government-Students understand how the government influences the well-being of people and institutions.
Standard 2: HISTORY: Historical Empathy-Students learn to judge the past on its own terms and use that knowledge to understand present day issues, problems, and decision-making.
Standard 3: HISTORY: Historical Inquiry-Students use the tools and methods of historians to transform learning from memorizing historical data to "doing history."
Standard 4: HISTORY: Historical Perspectives and Interpretations-Students explain historical events with multiple interpretations rather than explanations that point to historical linearity or inevitability.
Standard 5: POLITICAL SCIENCE/CIVICS: Governance/Power/Authority-Students understand the ways and reasons people and groups create governments and use this knowledge to make reasoned decisions.
Standard 6: POLITICAL SCIENCE/CIVICS: DEMOCRACY-Students understand and demonstrate the principles and values underlying American constitutional democracy.
Standard 7: POLITICAL SCIENCE/CIVICS: GLOBAL Cooperation, Conflict and Interdependence-Students understand similarities and differences across cultural perspectives and evaluate the ways in which individuals, groups, societies, nations, and organizations change and interact.
Standard 8: POLITICAL SCIENCE/CIVICS: CITIZENSHIP/Participation-Students understand roles, rights (personal, economic, political), and responsibilities of American citizens and exercise them in civic action.
Standard 9: POLITICAL SCIENCE/CIVICS: POLITICAL Analysis-Students understand and use the tools and methods of the political scientist to explain ideas, events, and behaviors and use this knowledge to make reasoned decisions.
Standard 10: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Cultural Systems-Students understand culture as a system of beliefs, knowledge, and practices shared by a group.
Standard 11: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Cultural Diversity and Unity-Students understand and respect the myriad of ways that society addresses human needs and wants.
Standard 12: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Cultural Dynamics/Change and Continuity-Students understand culture as dynamic, selective, adaptive, and ever-changing.
Standard 13: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Cultural Inquiry-Students use the tools and methodology of social scientists to explain and interpret ideas and events.
Standard 14: GEOGRAPHY: World in Spatial Terms-Students use geographic representations to organize, analyze, and present information on people, places, and environments.
Standard 15: GEOGRAPHY: Places and Regions-Students understand how distinct physical and human characteristics shape places and regions.
Standard 16: GEOGRAPHY: Human Systems-Students understand how people organize their activities on earth through their analysis of human populations, cultural mosaic, economic interdependence, settlement, and conflict and cooperation.
Standard 17: GEOGRAPHY: Environment and Society-Students demonstrate stewardship of earth's resources through the understanding of society and the physical environment.
Standard 18: ECONOMICS: Limited Resources and Choice-Students understand costs and benefits of economic choice and use this knowledge to make sound economic decisions.
Standard 19: ECONOMICS: Role and Function of Markets-Students understand how markets function and analyze the role of prices and incentives to realize how economic interactions affect human behavior.
Standard 20: ECONOMICS: Economic Interdependence-Students evaluate the costs and benefits of trade among individuals, nations, and organizations to explain why trade results in higher overall levels of production and consumption.
Standard 21: ECONOMICS: Role of Government-Students understand how the government influences the well-being of people and institutions.