Idaho Social Studies 6-9.WG.5.1
The Standard
Discuss how social institutions, including the family, religion, and education, influence behavior in different societies in regions throughout the world.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how families, religious groups, and schools can shape daily choices in different parts of the world. They compare examples without assuming everyone in one place acts alike.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name the institution behind a behavior and use a detail from an account to explain its influence. They can compare accounts from two regions and say why the same practice may not apply to everyone there.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume all children in Japan clean classrooms or all Muslims in Egypt fast during Ramadan. They may mistake a school cleanup rule for a family choice.
How to Assess It
- Give students three short accounts: a classroom cleanup in Japan, a Ramadan meal in Egypt, and a grandparent picking up a child in Mexico. Ask them to name the institution shaping each action and explain one answer using a detail from the account.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Pin three cards to a world map: Japan classroom cleaning, Egypt Ramadan meals, Mexico grandparent childcare; write the institution beside each.
Ask students to write how a school cleanup in Japan and grandparent childcare in Mexico could shape a child's daily responsibilities.
Play Behavior Bingo: read the three account cards aloud while students cover family, religion, or school squares and explain one match.
Compare your school lunch schedule with a mosque's Ramadan iftar timetable; students explain how each can guide when someone eats.
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Related Standards
- 6-9.WH.1.11
Discuss how religion, belief systems, economics, and politics influenced social behavior and were used to maintain social order.
- 6-9.WH.1.12
Examine why the diversity of religion and belief systems across cultural, social, political, and economic institutions have been sources of conflict.
- 1.SS.5.1
Compare family life, structures, and daily routines of various cultures around the world.
- 6-9.WG.2.10
Compare and contrast cultural patterns in regions throughout the world, such as language, religion, and ethnicity.
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