What does a student learn in StateGeorgia,GradeGrade 9,SubjectSocial Studies?

Compare and contrast various systems of government.

Compare and contrast the development of English settlement and colonization during the 17th Century.

Examine the development of the field of U.S. Intelligence.

Analyze the origins, structures, and interactions of societies in the ancient world from 3500 BCE/BC to 500 BCE/BC.

Evaluate various sources of income and analyze variables that affect a person's income.

Describe the basic roles and functions of the Intelligence field.

Explore the different types of Intelligence, collection methods, and information sharing.

Analyze the Intelligence Cycle.

Evaluate role of an Intelligence Analyst.

Analyze the ethical, moral, and legal considerations of Intelligence.

Compare and contrast the roles and missions of the U.S. federal agencies comprising the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Demonstrate knowledge of the political philosophies that shaped the development of United States constitutional government.

Describe the early English colonial society and investigate the development of its governance.

Identify the major achievements of Chinese and Indian societies to 500 CE/AD.

Describe how budgeting and actively reviewing finances can be used to allocate scarce income.

Demonstrate knowledge of the framing and structure of the United States Constitution.

Analyze the causes of the American Revolution.

Examine the political, philosophical, and cultural interaction of Classical Mediterranean societies from 700 BCE/BC to 400 CE/AD.

Analyze the ideological, military, social, and diplomatic aspects of the American Revolution.

Demonstrate knowledge of the organization and powers of the national government.

Evaluate different methods for paying for goods and services.

Demonstrate knowledge of the federal system of government described in the United States Constitution.

Analyze impact of the Byzantine and Mongol empires.

Evaluate alternatives for life after high school including college, technical school, internships, working, military, doing nothing (taking a "gap year"), traveling, or other options.

Investigate specific events and key ideas that brought about the adoption and implementation of the United States Constitution.

Analyze the meaning and importance of each of the rights guaranteed under the Bill of Rights and how each is secured.

Demonstrate knowledge of civil liberties and civil rights.

Examine the political, economic, and cultural interactions within the Medieval Mediterranean World between 600 CE/AD and 1300 CE/AD.

Describe the importance of credit and having a favorable credit score.

Analyze the challenges faced by the first five presidents and how they responded.

Demonstrate knowledge of the legislative branch of government.

Describe the diverse characteristics of early African societies before 1500 CE/AD.

Analyze the purpose and functions of various financial institutions.

Investigate political, economic, and social developments during the Age of Jackson.

Analyze European medieval society with regard to culture, politics, society, and economics.

Explain the impeachment and removal process and its use for federal officials as defined in the U.S. Constitution.

Demonstrate knowledge of the executive branch of government.

Explore the relationship between slavery, growing north-south divisions, and westward expansion that led to the outbreak of the Civil War.

Explain how interest rates affect various consumer decisions.

Describe the diverse characteristics of societies in Central and South America.

Analyze change and continuity in the Renaissance and Reformation.

Evaluate key events, issues, and individuals related to the Civil War

Explain the functions of the departments and agencies of the federal bureaucracy.

Evaluate reasons for and various methods of investment.

Describe the tools used to carry out United States foreign policy, including diplomacy and treaties; economic, military, and humanitarian aid; and sanctions and military intervention.

Demonstrate knowledge of the operation of the judicial branch of government.

Identify legal, political, and social dimensions of Reconstruction.

Describe how insurance and other risk-management strategies protect against financial loss.

Analyze the causes and effects of exploration and expansion into the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

Demonstrate knowledge of the criminal justice process.

Examine political and social changes in Japan and in China from the fourteenth century CE/AD to mid-nineteenth century CE/AD.

Examine connections between the rise of big business, the growth of labor unions, and technological innovations.

Describe how government taxing and spending decisions affect consumers.

Describe the development and contributions of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires.

Demonstrate knowledge of local, state, and national elections.

Examine the intellectual, political, social, and economic factors that changed the world view of Europeans from the sixteenth century CE/AD to the late eighteenth century CE/AD.

Evaluate how westward expansion impacted the Plains Indians and fulfilled Manifest Destiny.

Explain and evaluate various forms of consumer protection.

Analyze the Age of Revolutions.

Evaluate efforts to reform American society and politics in the Progressive Era.

Analyze the difference between involuntary and voluntary participation in civic life.

Explain sources of and protection against identity theft.

Describe the impact of industrialization and urbanization.

Demonstrate knowledge of the organization and powers of state and local government described in the Georgia Constitution.

Explain America's evolving relationship with the world at the turn of the twentieth century.

Analyze the rise of nationalism and worldwide imperialism.

Analyze the origins and impact of U.S. involvement in World War I.

Demonstrate an understanding of long-term causes of World War I and its global impact.

Investigate how political, economic, and cultural developments after WW I led to a shared national identity.

Examine the major political and economic factors that shaped world societies between World War I and World War II.

Analyze the causes and consequences of the Great Depression.

Demonstrate an understanding of the global political, economic, and social impact of World War II.

Evaluate Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal as a response to the Great Depression and compare how governmental programs aided those in need.

Demonstrate an understanding of the global social, economic, and political impact of the Cold War and decolonization from 1945 to 1989.

Examine the origins, major developments, and the domestic impact of World War II, including the growth of the federal government.

Examine change and continuity in the world since the 1960s.

Analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.

Analyze globalization in the contemporary world.

Analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

Analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations.

Assess the political, economic, and technological changes during the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations.

Explore the history of U.S. Intelligence efforts from American Revolution through the Civil War.

Explain the application of U.S. intelligence from the World War I to World War II.

Explain how the late and post-Cold War era shaped U.S. intelligence agencies.

Analyze the current challenges to the U.S. Intelligence community (e.g. social media and information warfare).

Define Intelligence as the process of collection and analysis of information gathered within or outside the U.S. that involves threats to our nation, its people, property, or interests.

Explain the purpose and uses of Intelligence for the U.S. government.

Describe the various career paths for a person entering the Intelligence field (e.g. Analytical, Operational, and Technical).

Explain the security clearance process (e.g. include barriers to acquiring the various types).

Describe levels of vulnerability for Intelligence Security.

Identify the six basic intelligence sources and methods of collection and explain their uses (Signals Intelligence (SIGINT/aka COMINT), Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), Human-Source Intelligence (HUMINT), Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT)).

Describe other sources and types of Intelligence such as: Medical Intelligence, Cyber Intelligence, Environmental Intelligence, Economic and Competitive Intelligence, Law Enforcement Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Strategic Intelligence, and Financial Intelligence.

Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses inherent in the various sources and types of Intelligence in SSINSS3a-b.

Explore current trends in different types of Intelligence that challenge collection methods.

Explain how recent events affect how information is shared with partner nations.

Describe the stages of the Intelligence Cycle (e.g. Planning, Collection, Processing, Analysis, Dissemination, and Feedback).

Distinguish between raw and finished Intelligence.

Explain how to be successful at each stage of the Intelligence Cycle and describe the strengths and weaknesses of the current model.

Describe the role of an analyst in assessing the value of information.

Explain how analysts use structured analytic techniques such as analysis of competing hypotheses and key assumptions check.

Describe the authorized activities (Military/Civilian, International/Domestic) of each of the federal agencies comprising the Intelligence Community.

Explain the purposes and processes for sharing of information between U.S. Intelligence agencies.

Describe the role of Fusion Centers in coordinating federal and state information sharing.

Describe how ethical standards and moral dilemmas challenge intelligence analysts as they relate to secrecy, war and peace, ends versus means, nature of the opponent, and national interest.

Explain how changes over time in societal ethics and morality, both domestic and foreign, affect intelligence officers.

Explain how Intelligence professionals relate ethical and moral issues to collection and covert action.

Describe the legal constraints and challenges to the collection of intelligence domestically and abroad.

Identify all U.S. federal agencies which make up the U.S. Intelligence Community, including their functions and area of focus.

Describe the role of the Director of National Intelligence in coordinating information sharing between agencies.

Explain the role of Congress as an oversight body to the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Analyze income as a scarce resource that must be allocated.

Compare different types of income including hourly wages, salary, tips, independent contractor services (Form 1099), dividends, and capital gains.

Analyze how career choice, education, skills, and economic conditions are related to income and levels of unemployment.

Describe how income taxes affect disposable income.

Review and complete a sample federal individual income tax form 1040EZ or 1040A.

Describe the basic components of a pay-stub including gross pay, net pay, and common deductions (i.e. federal and state income tax, Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA – which includes Social Security and Medicare), and elective deductions like insurance and tax-deferred savings).

Compare and contrast Mesopotamian and Egyptian societies, include: religion, culture, economics, politics, and technology.

Describe the societies of India and China, include: religion, culture, economics, politics, and technology.

Explain the development of monotheism, include: the concepts developed by the ancient Hebrews.

Identify the Bantu migration patterns and contribution to settled agriculture.

Explain the rise of the Olmecs.

Analyze how scarcity affects the choices of individuals, businesses, and governments.

Explain that scarcity is a basic, permanent condition that exists because unlimited wants exceed limited productive resources.

Compare and contrast strategies for allocating scarce resources such as by price, majority rule, contests, force, sharing, lottery, authority, first-come-first-served, and personal characteristics.

Define and give examples of productive resources (i.e factors of production): natural resources (i.e land), human resources (i.e labor and human capital), physical capital and entrepreneurship.

Apply the concept of opportunity cost (the forgone next best alternative) to personal choices, as well as business and government decisions.

Give examples of how rational decision-making entails comparing the marginal benefits and the marginal costs of an action.

Explain that rational decisions occur when the marginal benefits of an action equal or exceed the marginal costs.

Explain that individuals, businesses, and governments respond to positive and negative incentives in predictable ways.

Analyze how economic systems influence the choices of individuals, businesses, and governments.

Analyze how command, market and mixed economic systems answer the three basic economic questions (what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce) to prioritize various social and economic goals such as freedom, security, equity, growth, efficiency, price stability, full employment, and sustainability.

Compare the roles of government in different economic systems with regards to providing public goods and services, redistributing income, protecting property rights, resolving market failures, regulation and providing consumer protections.

Analyze factors that influence the standard of living of individuals and nations.

Explain how investments in human capital (e.g., education, job training, and healthcare) can lead to a higher standard of living.

Explain how investment in equipment and technology can lead to economic growth.

Explain how individuals, businesses, and governments benefit from specialization and voluntary, non-fraudulent trade.

Illustrate economic growth using a production possibilities curve.

Determine how governments differ in geographic distribution of power, particularly unitary, confederal, and federal types of government.

Determine how some forms of government differ in their level of citizen participation particularly authoritarian (autocracy and oligarchy) and democratic.

Determine how the role of the executive differs in presidential and parliamentary systems of governments.

Differentiate between a direct democracy, representative democracy, and/or a republic.

Explain why physical characteristics of place such as landforms, bodies of water, climate, and natural resources act as contributing factors to world settlement patterns.

Identify and describe climates and locations of major physical features of North America. Explain how these physical characteristics impact settlement patterns including, but not limited to, the Mississippi River System, the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains, and the Canadian Shield.

Identify and describe climates and locations of major physical features of Central and South America. Explain how these physical characteristics impact settlement patterns including, but not limited to, the Andes Mountains, Amazon Basin, Atacama Desert, and the Pampas.

Identify and describe climates and locations of major physical features of Europe. Explain how these physical characteristics impact settlement patterns including, but not limited to, the Alps, Pyrenees, and Ural Mountains, and the Rhine, Danube, and Seine Rivers.

Identify and describe climates and locations of major physical features of Africa. Explain how these physical characteristics impact settlement patterns including, but not limited to, the Nile River Valley, the Sahara, the Kalahari Desert, the Sahel, and the Congo River Basin.

Identify and describe climates and locations of major physical features of Central and Southwest Asia. Explain how these physical characteristics impact settlement patterns including, but not limited to, the Zagros Mountains, Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea.

Identify and describe climates and locations of major physical features of South Asia, Southeastern Asia, and Eastern Asia. Explain how these physical characteristics impact settlement patterns including, but not limited to, the Himalayan Mountains and Tibetan Plateau, Gobi Desert, Ganges, Indus, Huang He, and Yangtze Rivers.

Identify and describe climates and locations of major physical features of Oceania, including Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. Explain how these physical characteristics impact settlement patterns including, but not limited to, the Great Dividing Range and Great Victoria Desert.

Describe the spatial distribution of natural resources, including, but not limited to, fuel and energy, agricultural, and mineral sources. Predict how distribution of natural resources continues to impact global settlement patterns.

Investigate how mercantilism and trans-Atlantic trade led to the development of colonies.

Explain the development of the Southern Colonies, including but not limited to reasons established, impact of location and place, relations with American Indians, and economic development.

Explain the development of the New England Colonies, including but not limited to reasons established, impact of location and place, relations with American Indians, and economic development.

Explain the development of the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, including but not limited to reasons established, impact of location and place, relations with American Indians, and economic development.

Explain the origins of sociology, the sociological perspective, and how sociology relates to the other social sciences.

Explain sociology, sociological perspective, and the sociological imagination.

Describe the origins of sociology as a social science and the significance of its historical framework.

Explain the relationship of sociology to the other social sciences.

Identify careers where sociological knowledge is applicable.

Explain the research methodologies used in sociology.

Identify the major research methods used in sociology.

Explain how various methods are used to conduct research in sociology.

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the methods of sociological research.

Explain the importance and influence of ethics in guiding research and data collection in sociology.

Explain the major theoretical perspectives in sociology.

Explain and apply the theoretical perspectives of Structural Functionalism, Symbolic Interaction, and Conflict Theory.

Compare and evaluate the theoretical perspectives of Structural Functionalism, Symbolic Interaction, and Conflict Theory.

Explain selected historical and contemporary perspectives and practices of psychologists.

Define the field of psychology.

Identify key figures and their perspectives in the history of the field of psychology: include Wundt, Freud, Skinner, James, Watson, Rogers, Bandura, and Pavlov.

List and describe the major occupations and subfields of psychology.

Explain the research methods and the types of statistics used in the field of psychology.

Explain how psychologists conduct research to describe, explain, predict, and control behavior.

Describe the types of research methods used by psychologists, include: experiment, survey, case study, and observation.

Identify the basic elements of an experiment, include: independent and dependent variables, types of experimental control (blind/double-blind procedures, placebo controls).

Explain the differences between a correlation and an experiment.

Classify the types and uses of statistics in psychological research, include: descriptive statistics.

Interpret graphic data representations.

Explain ethical issues in psychological research.

Analyze key ideas of limited government and the rule of law as seen in the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and the English Bill of Rights.

Analyze the impact of the writings of Hobbes (Leviathan), Locke (Second Treatise on Government), Rousseau (The Social Contract), and Montesquieu (The Spirit of the Laws) on our concept of government.

Analyze the ways in which the philosophies listed in element 2b influenced the Declaration of Independence.

Describe European cultural diversity including the contributions of different ethnic and religious groups.

Describe the Middle Passage, the growth of the African population and their contributions, including but not limited to architecture, agriculture, and foodways.

Describe different methods of colonial self-governance in the period of Salutary Neglect

Explain the role of the Great Awakening in creating unity in the colonies and challenging traditional authority.

Describe the development of Indian civilization, include: the rise and fall of the Maurya and Gupta Empires.

Describe the development of Chinese civilization under Zhou, Qin, and Han.

Explain the development and impact of Hinduism and Buddhism on India, and Confucianism on China.

Explain how geography contributed to the movement of people and ideas, include: Silk Roads and Indian Ocean Trade.

Explain the importance of setting short-term, medium-term, and long-term savings goals.

Differentiate between needs and wants.

Analyze the basic components of a personal budget including income, expenses, and savings.

Explain how to reconcile a checking account, either online or on paper, including how to account for transactions that have not been posted (i.e. checks or weekend debit card transactions).

Describe overdraft fees including why they are assessed and how to avoid them.

Explain the concept of net worth.

Explain that people, businesses, and governments respond to positive and negative incentives in predictable ways.

Describe the roles of government in the United States economy.

Explain why government provides public goods and services, redistributes income, protects property rights, and resolves market failures.

Explain the effects on consumers and producers caused by government regulation and deregulation.

Explain how productivity, economic growth, and future standards of living are influenced by investment in factories, machinery, new technology, and the health, education, and training of people.

Define productivity as the relationship of inputs to outputs.

Explain how investment in equipment and technology can lead to economic growth.

Explain how investments in human capital (e.g., education, job training, and healthcare) can lead to a higher standard of living.

Analyze, by means of a production possibilities curve: trade-offs, opportunity cost, growth, and efficiency.

Analyze debates during the drafting of the Constitution, including the Three-Fifths Compromise, the Great Compromise, and the Commerce Clause.

Analyze how the Constitution addresses the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

Explain the fundamental principles of the United States Constitution, including limited government, the rule of law, federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, and popular sovereignty.

Explain the key ideas in the debate over ratification made by the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists.

Explain how the French and Indian War and the 1763 Treaty of Paris laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.

Explain colonial response to the Proclamation of 1763, the Stamp Act, and the Intolerable Acts as seen in the Sons and Daughters of Liberty and the Committees of Correspondence.

Explain the importance of Thomas Paine's Common Sense to the movement for independence.

Evaluate how the physical and human characteristics of places and regions are connected to human identities and cultures.

Examine how ethnic compositions of various groups has led to diversified cultural landscapes, including, but not limited to, architecture, traditions, food, art, and music.

Examine how language can be central to identity and a unifying or a divisive force (e.g., Bantu, French-Canadians (Quebecois), and Basques.

Examine the effects of universalizing and ethnic religions on local populations, including, but not limited to, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism.

Examine the impact of cultural beliefs on gender roles and perceptions of race and ethnicity as they vary from one region to another (e.g., the caste system, apartheid, and legal rights for women).

Explain the processes of culture diffusion and convergence through the effects of various media norms, transnational corporations, and technological advancements in transportation infrastructure (e.g., Coca-Cola and American fast food restaurants, social media networks, and universalized clothing choices).