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Social Studies and the KEEP Conceptual Framework
In 2007, the
Wisconsin K-12 Energy Education Program received a grant from the Wisconsin
Environmental Education Board (WEEB) to conduct a specialized KEEP course
for Social Studies teachers. The outcome of the course was to provide Social
Studies teachers and their students with energy-enriched lessons and
teaching strategies. The course adjunct faculty and teachers worked together
to cross-reference academic standards in social studies to the KEEP
conceptual framework. They identified existing activities in the KEEP guides
that are particularly useful for teachers of Social Studies and they each
developed an additional activity that highlights energy aspects of one or
more social studies concepts. Below are the results of their contributions.
KEEP welcomes any suggestions or additions to this list.
Click on the
bulleted sub-themes to scroll down to suggested KEEP activities and related
academic standards in social studies.
Theme 1: We Need Energy
Theme 2: Developing Energy
Resources
Types and
development of energy resources (renewable and nonrenewable)
Consumption of energy resources (renewable and nonrenewable)
Theme 3: Effects of Energy
Resource Development
Quality of life: Sociopolitical
Theme 4: Managing Energy
Resource Use
Management of
energy resource use, including efficiency, conservation, and choice of
resource
Future outlooks
for the development and use of energy resources
Theme
1: We Need Energy
Definition of Energy
"Station Break" from the KEEP Activity Guide
Standard A: Geography
A.4.9 Give
examples to show how scientific and technological knowledge has led to
environmental changes, such as pollution prevention measures,
air-conditioning, and solar heating
E.4.1
Explain the influence of prior knowledge, motivation, capabilities, personal
interests, and other factors on individual learning
Types
and development of energy resources (renewable and nonrenewable)
"Digging for Coal" from the KEEP Activity Guide
"Waterwheels, Windmills, and Turbines" from the KEEP Activity Guide
"Fuel That Power Plant" from the KEEP Activity Guide
"Where the Wind Blows" from Doable Renewables
Related Social Studies Standards
Standard A: Geography:
A.4.1 Use reference points, latitude and longitude, direction, size, shape,
and scale to locate positions on various representations of the earth's
surface
A.4.4
Describe and give examples of ways in which people interact with the
physical environment, including use of land, location of communities,
methods of construction, and design of shelters
A.4.5
Use atlases, databases, grid systems, charts, graphs, and maps to gather
information about the local community,
A.4.7
Identify connections between the local community and other places in
A.8.1
Use a variety of geographic representations, such as political, physical,
and topographic maps, a globe, aerial photographs, and satellite images, to
gather and compare information about a place
A.8.5
Identify and compare the natural resource bases of different states and
regions in the United States and elsewhere in the world, using a statistical
atlas, aerial photographs, satellite images, and computer databases
A.8.7
Describe the movement of people, ideas, diseases, and products throughout
the world
A.8.10
Identify major discoveries in science and technology and describe their
social and economic effects on the physical and human environment
B.4.4 Compare and
contrast changes in contemporary life with life in the past by looking at
social, economic, political, and cultural roles played by individuals and
groups
B.4.8
Compare past and present technologies related to energy, transportation, and
communications and describe the effects of technological change, either
beneficial or harmful, on people and the environment
B.8.8
Identify major scientific discoveries and technological innovations and
describe their social and economic effects on society
B.8.9
Explain the need for laws and policies to regulate science and technology
D.4.3
Identify local goods and services that are part of the global economy and
explain their use in
D.4.4
Give examples to explain how businesses and industry depend upon workers
with specialized skills to make production more efficient
D.4.7
Describe how personal economic decisions, such as deciding what to buy, what
to recycle, or how much to contribute to people in need, can affect the
lives of people in
D.8.4
Describe how investments in human and physical capital, including new
technology, affect standard of living and quality of life
D.8.7
Identify the location of concentrations of selected natural resources and
describe how their acquisition and distribution generates trade and shapes
economic patterns
Consumption of energy resources (renewable and nonrenewable)
"Energy Divide" from the KEEP Activity Guide
"Renewable Candy Resources" from Doable Renewables
"Energy Use Then and Now" from the KEEP Activity Guide
"Automobile Alternatives: Beyond the Gas Guzzler"
PDF Document for Download
"Food Production and Energy"
PDF Document for
Download (plus supplementary documents (Food
system costs,
Ingredient Notes,
Performance
Rubrics,
Six Impacts, 100 mile
meal,
Eat Local Challenge)
Standard A:
Geography:
A. 8.1 Use a variety of geographic representations, such as political,
physical, and topographic maps, a globe, aerial photographs, and satellite
images, to gather and compare information about a place
A.8.3 Use an
atlas to estimate distance, calculate scale, identify dominant patterns of
climate and land use, and compute population density
A.8.5 Identify
and compare the natural resource bases of different states and regions in
the United States and elsewhere in the world, using a statistical atlas,
aerial photographs, satellite images, and computer databases
A.8.10 Identify major discoveries in science and technology and
describe their social and economic effects on the physical and human
environment
A.8.11 Give
examples of the causes and consequences of current global issues, such as
the expansion of global markets, the urbanization of the developing world,
the consumption of natural resources, and the extinction of species, and
suggest possible responses by various individuals, groups, and nations
Standard B:
History
B.4.1 Identify and examine various sources of information that are used for
constructing an understanding of the past, such as artifacts, documents,
letters, diaries, maps, textbooks, photos, paintings, architecture, oral
presentations, graphs, and charts
B.4.2 Use a
timeline to select, organize, and sequence information describing eras in
history
B.4.3 Examine
biographies, stories, narratives, and folk tales to understand the lives of
ordinary and extraordinary people, place them in time and context, and
explain their relationship to important historical events
B.4.4 Compare
and contrast changes in contemporary life with life in the past by looking
at social, economic, political, and cultural roles played by individuals and
groups
B.4.8 Compare
past and present technologies related to energy, transportation, and
communications and describe the effects of technological change, either
beneficial or harmful, on people and the environment
B.8.1 Interpret
the past using a variety of sources, such as biographies, diaries, journals,
artifacts, eyewitness interviews, and other primary source materials, and
evaluate the credibility of sources used
B.8.8 Identify
major scientific discoveries and technological innovations and describe
their social and economic effects on society
Standard C:
Political Science and Citizenship
C.8.1 Identify and explain democracy's basic principles, including
individual rights, responsibility for the common good, equal opportunity,
equal protection of the laws, freedom of speech, justice, and majority rule
with protection for minority rights
Standard D: Economics
D.4.3 Identify local goods and services that are part of the global economy
and explain their use in
D.4.7 Describe
how personal economic decisions, such as deciding what to buy, what to
recycle, or how much to contribute to people in need, can affect the lives
of people in
D.8.1 Describe
and explain how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and
compare the value of goods and services
D.8.2 Identify
and explain basic economic concepts: supply, demand, production, exchange,
and consumption; labor, wages, and capital; inflation and deflation; market
economy and command economy; public and private goods and services
D.8.7 Identify
the location of concentrations of selected natural resources and describe
how their acquisition and distribution generates trade and shapes economic
patterns
D.8.11 Describe
how personal decisions can have a global impact on issues such as trade
agreements, recycling, and conserving the environment
Standard E: Behavioral Science
E.4.6 Give examples of group and institutional influences such as laws,
rules, and peer pressure on people, events, and culture
E.4.7 Explain
the reasons why individuals respond in different ways to a particular event
and the ways in
which interactions among individuals influence behavior
E.4.8 Describe
and distinguish among the values and beliefs of different groups and
institutions
E.4.15 Describe
instances of cooperation and interdependence among individuals, groups, and
nations, such as helping others in famines and disasters
E.8.3 Describe
the ways in which local, regional, and ethnic cultures may influence the
everyday lives of people
E.8.4 Describe
and explain the means by which individuals, groups, and institutions may
contribute to social continuity and change within a community
E.8.5 Describe
and explain the means by which groups and institutions meet the needs of
individuals and societies
Theme 3: Effects of Energy Resource Development
Quality
of life - Economic
"Energy Prices and the Laws of Supply and Demand" from the KEEP
Activity Guide
C.12.9 Identify and evaluate the means through which advocates influence
public policy
C.12.11
Evaluate the ways in which public opinion can be used to influence and shape
public policy
Standard D: Economics
D.12.1 Explain how decisions about spending and production made by
households, businesses, and governments determine the nation's levels of
income, employment, and prices
D.12.2
Use basic economic concepts (such as supply and demand; production,
distribution, and consumption; labor, wages, and capital; inflation and
deflation; market economy and command economy) to compare and contrast
local, regional, and national economies across time and at the present time
D.12.4
Explain and evaluate the effects of new technology, global economic
interdependence, and competition on the development of national policies and
on the lives of individuals and families in the
D.12.6
Use economic concepts to analyze historical and contemporary questions about
economic development in the
D.12.10
Analyze the ways in which supply and demand, competition, prices,
incentives, and profits influence what is produced and distributed in a
competitive market system
D.12.13
Describe and explain global economic interdependence and competition, using
examples to illustrate their influence on national and international
policies
Quality
of life - Sociopolitical
Suggested Activity
"Viewpoints" from the KEEP Activity Guide
"Viewpoints adaptation" PDF
Document for Download
Related Social Studies Standards
Standard A: Geography
A.8.4 Conduct a historical study to analyze the use of the local environment
in a
A.8.5
Compare natural resource bases of different regions
A.8.6
Describe and distinguish between the environmental effects on the earth of
short-term physical changes, such as those caused by floods, droughts, and
snowstorms, and long-term physical changes, such as those caused by plate
tectonics, erosion, and glaciation
A.8.7
Describe the movement of people, ideas, diseases, and products throughout
the world
A.8.8
Describe and analyze the ways in which people in different regions of the
world interact with their physical environments through vocational and
recreational activities
A.8.10
Identify major discoveries in science and technology and describe their
social and economic effects on the physical and human environment
A.8.11
Give examples of the causes and consequences of current global issues, such
as the expansion of global markets, the urbanization of the developing
world, the consumption of natural resources, and the extinction of species,
and suggest possible responses by various individuals, groups, and nations
A.12.4
Analyze the short-term and long-term effects that major changes in
population in various parts of the world have had or might have on the
environment
A.12.11
Describe scientific and technological development in various regions of the
world and analyze the ways in which development affects environment and
culture
Standard B: History
B.4.8-Compare past and present technologies related to energy, and describe
the effects of technological change, either beneficial or harmful, on people
and the environment
B.8.4
Explain how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon the
perspectives of participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians
B.8.8
Identify major scientific discoveries and technological innovations and
describe their social and economic effects on society
B.8.9
Explain the need for laws and policies to regulate science and technology
B.8.10
Analyze examples of conflict, cooperation, and interdependence among groups,
societies, or nations
B.8.11
Summarize major issues associated with the history, culture, tribal
sovereignty, and current status of the American Indian tribes and bands in
B.12.2
Analyze primary and secondary sources related to a historical question to
evaluate their relevance, make comparisons, integrate new information with
prior knowledge, and come to a reasoned conclusion
B.12.9
Select significant changes caused by technology, industrialization,
urbanization, and population growth, and analyze the effects of these
changes in the
Standard C: Political Science and Citizenship
C.12.11 Evaluate the ways in which public opinion can be used to influence
and shape public policy
C.12.12
Explain the
Standard D: Economics
D.8.4 Give examples to show how government provides for environmental
protection
D.8.8
Explain how and why people who start new businesses take risks to provide
goods and services, considering profits as an incentive.
D.8.11
Describe how personal decisions can have a global impact on issues such as
conserving the environment
Standard E: Behavioral Science
E.8.8 Give examples to show how the media may influence the behavior and
decision-making of individuals and groups
E.12.6
Analyze the means by which and extent to which groups and institutions can
influence people, events, and cultures in both historical and contemporary
settings
E.12.11
Illustrate and evaluate ways in which cultures resolve conflicting beliefs
and practices
E.12.14
Use the research procedures and skills of the behavioral sciences (such as
gathering, organizing, and interpreting data from several sources) to
develop an informed position on an issue
Suggested Activities
"Community Energy Use" from the KEEP Activity Guide
"Sustainable Communities" from Doable Renewables
"Renewable World" from Doable Renewables
"Community Living and Greenhouse Gases"
PDF document for download
Related Social Studies Standards
A.4.1 Use reference points, latitude and longitude, direction, size, shape,
and scale to locate positions on various representations of the earth's
surface
A.4.2
Locate on a map or globe physical features such as continents, oceans,
mountain ranges, and land forms, natural features such as resources, flora,
and fauna; and human features such as cities, states, and national borders
A.4.4
Describe and give examples of ways in which people interact with the
physical environment, including use of land, location of communities,
methods of construction, and design of shelters
A.4.5
Use atlases, databases, grid systems, charts, graphs, and maps to gather
information about the local community,
A.4.7
Identify connections between the local community and other places in
A.4.8
Identify major changes in the local community that have been caused by human
beings, such as a construction project, a new highway, a building torn down,
or a fire; discuss reasons for these changes; and explain their probable
effects on the community and the environment
A.8.1
Use a variety of geographic representations, such as political, physical,
and topographic maps, a globe, aerial photographs, and satellite images, to
gather and compare information about a place
A.8.3
Use an atlas to estimate distance, calculate scale, identify dominant
patterns of climate and land use, and compute population density
A.8.4
Conduct a historical study to analyze the use of the local environment in a
A.8.5
Identify and compare the natural resource bases of different states and
regions in the United States and elsewhere in the world, using a statistical
atlas, aerial photographs, satellite images, and computer databases
A.8.7
Describe the movement of people, ideas, diseases, and products throughout
the world
A.8.8
Describe and analyze the ways in which people in different regions of the
world interact with their physical environments through vocational and
recreational activities
A.8.9
Describe how buildings and their decoration reflect cultural values and
ideas, providing examples such as cave paintings, pyramids, sacred cities,
castles, and cathedrals
A.8.10
Identify major discoveries in science and technology and describe their
social and economic effects on the physical and human environment
A.8.11
Give examples of the causes and consequences of current global issues, such
as the expansion of global markets, the urbanization of the developing
world, the consumption of natural resources, and the extinction of species,
and suggest possible responses by various individuals, groups, and nations
A.12.4
Analyze the short-term and long-term effects that major changes in
population in various parts of the world have had or might have on the
environment
A.12.5
Use a variety of geographic information and resources to analyze and
illustrate the ways in which the unequal global distribution of natural
resources influences trade and shapes economic patterns
A.12.11
Describe scientific and technological development in various regions of the
world and analyze the ways in which development affects environment and
culture
A.12.12
Assess the advantages and disadvantages of selected land use policies in the
local community,
Standard B: History
B.4.8 Compare
past and present technologies related to energy, transportation, and
communications and describe the effects of technological change, either
beneficial or harmful, on people and the environment
Standard C: Political Science and Citizenship
C.8.7 Locate, organize, and use relevant information to understand an issue
of public concern, take a position, and advocate the position in a debate
C.8.8
Identify ways in which advocates participate in public policy debates
Standard D: Economics
D.4.3
Identify local goods and services that are part of the global economy and
explain their use in
D.4.4
Give examples to explain how businesses and industry depend upon workers
with specialized skills to make production more efficient
D.4.5
Distinguish between private goods and services (for example, the family car
or a local restaurant) and public goods and services (for example, the
interstate highway system or the United States Postal Service)
D.4.6
Identify the economic roles of various institutions, including households,
businesses, and government
D.4.7
Describe how personal economic decisions, such as deciding what to buy, what
to recycle, or how much to contribute to people in need, can affect the
lives of people in
D.8.2
Identify and explain basic economic concepts: supply, demand, production,
exchange, and consumption; labor, wages, and capital; inflation and
deflation; market economy and command economy; public and private goods and
services
D.8.3
Describe
D.8.4
Describe how investments in human and physical capital, including new
technology, affect standard of living and quality of life
D.8.8
Explain how and why people who start new businesses take risks to provide
goods and services, considering profits as an incentive
D.8.9
Explain why the earning power of workers depends on their productivity and
the market value of what they produce
D.8.11
Describe how personal decisions can have a global impact on issues such as
trade agreements, recycling, and conserving the environment
Standard E: Behavioral Science
E.4.2 Explain the influence of factors such as family, neighborhood,
personal interests, language, likes and dislikes, and accomplishments on
individual identity and development
E.4.3
Describe how families are alike and different, comparing characteristics
such as size, hobbies, celebrations, where families live, and how they make
a living
E.4.8
Describe and distinguish among the values and beliefs of different groups
and institutions
E.4.11
Give examples and explain how language, stories, folk tales, music, and
other artistic creations are expressions of culture and how they convey
knowledge of other peoples and cultures
E.4.13
Investigate and explain similarities and differences in ways that cultures
meet human needs
E.8.2
Give examples to explain and illustrate how factors such as family, gender,
and socioeconomic status contribute to individual identity and development
E.8.3
Describe the ways in which local, regional, and ethnic cultures may
influence the everyday lives of people
E.8.6
Describe and explain the influence of status, ethnic origin, race, gender,
and age on the interactions of individuals
E.8.12
Describe conflict resolution and peer mediation strategies used in resolving
differences and disputes
E.12.2
Explain how such factors as physical endowment and capabilities, family,
gender, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, attitudes, beliefs, work,
and motivation contribute to individual identity and development
E.12.10
Describe a particular culture as an integrated whole and use that
understanding to explain its language, literature, arts, traditions,
beliefs, values, and behaviors
Suggested Activities
"Renewable
World" from Doable Renewables
"Comparing the Use of Natural resources Across Three Cultures"
PDF Document for Download
Related Social Studies Standards
Standard A: Geography
A.4.4
Describe and give examples of ways in which people interact with the
physical environment, including use of land, location of communities,
methods of construction, and design of shelters
Standard B: History
B.4.1 Identify
and examine various sources of information that are used for constructing an
understanding of the past, such as artifacts, documents, letters, diaries,
maps, textbooks, photos, paintings, architecture, oral presentations,
graphs, and charts
B.4.4
Compare and contrast changes in contemporary life with life in the past by
looking at social, economic, political, and cultural roles played by
individuals and groups
B.4.8
Compare past and present technologies related to energy, transportation, and
communications and describe the effects of technological change, either
beneficial or harmful, on people and the environment
Standard C: Political Science and Citizenship
C.4.1 Identify and explain the individual's responsibilities to family,
peers, and the community, including the need for civility and respect for
diversity
Standard D: Economics
D.4.7 Describe how personal economic decisions, such as deciding what to
buy, what to recycle, or how much to contribute to people in need, can
affect the lives of people in
Standard E: Behavioral Science
E.4.7 Explain the reasons why individuals respond in different ways to a
particular event and
the ways in which interactions among individuals
E.4.14
Describe how differences in cultures may lead to understanding or
misunderstanding among people
Theme 4: Managing Energy Resource Use
Management of energy resource use, including efficiency, conservation, and
choice of resource
Suggested Activities
"Don't Throw
Energy Away" from the KEEP Activity Guide
Related Social Studies Standards
Standard A: Geography:
A.4.9 Give examples to show how scientific and technological knowledge has
led to environmental changes, such as pollution prevention measures,
air-conditioning, and solar heating
A.8.10
Identify major discoveries in science and technology and describe their
social and economic effects on the physical and human environment
A.8.11
Give examples of the causes and consequences of current global issues, such
as the expansion of global markets, the urbanization of the developing
world, the consumption of natural resources, and the extinction of species,
and suggest possible responses by various individuals, groups, and nations
Standard B: History
B.4.8 Compare past and present technologies related to energy,
transportation, and communications and describe the effects of technological
change, either beneficial or harmful, on people and the environment
B.8.8
Identify major scientific discoveries and technological innovations and
describe their social and economic effects on society
B.8.9
Explain the need for laws and policies to regulate science and technology
Standard C: Political Science and Citizenship
C.4.1 Identify and explain the individual's responsibilities to family,
peers, and the community, including the need for civility and respect for
diversity
C.8.7
Locate, organize, and use relevant information to understand an issue of
public concern, take a position, and advocate the position in a debate
Standard D: Economics
D.4.7 Describe how personal economic decisions, such as deciding what to
buy, what to recycle, or how much to contribute to people in need, can
affect the lives of people in
D.8.2
Identify and explain basic economic concepts: supply, demand, production,
exchange, and consumption; labor, wages, and capital; inflation and
deflation; market economy and command economy; public and private goods and
services
D.8.4
Describe how investments in human and physical capital, including new
technology, affect standard of living and quality of life
D.8.11
Describe how personal decisions can have a global impact on issues such as
trade agreements, recycling, and conserving the environment
Standard E: Behavioral Science
E.4.4 Describe the ways in which ethnic cultures influence the daily lives
of people
E.4.8
Describe and distinguish among the values and beliefs of different groups
and institutions
Future
outlooks for the development and use of energy resources
Suggested Activities
"Energy Futures"
from the KEEP Activity Guide
Related Social Studies Standards
Any
Suggestions?
Send comments and suggestions to KEEP, energy@uwsp.edu or call 715.346.4770.
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