| All of our
programs have been reviewed to ensure their relevance to state and national standards.
(See
School Program descriptions.) Below are the ties to the Massachusetts
Curriculum Frameworks standards. History
and Social Science:
Grade 4 North American Geography: Concepts and Skills:
Observe and describe national historic sites and describe their function and significance.
(History) Give examples of how the interaction of buyers and sellers influences
the prices of goods and services in markets. (Economics) Grade 5 Learning
Standards: Growth of the United States to 1820: Identify the diverging economic
issues that contributed to the onset of the Civil War. Grades 8-12 Concepts
and Skills: Show connections, causal and otherwise, between particular historical
events and ideas and larger social, economic, and political trends and developments.
(History, Economics) Interpret the past within its own historical context rather
than in terms of present day norms and values. (History, Economics)
Distinguish
intended from unintended consequences. (History, Economics) Describe the role
of buyers and sellers in determining the equilibrium price, and use supply and
demand to explain and predict changes in quantity and price. (Economics) Describe
how the earnings of workers are affected by the market value of the product produced
and worker skills. (Economics) Learning Standards USI 26: Explain the importance
of the Transportation Revolution of the 19th century (the building of canals,
railroads), including the stimulus it provided to the growth of a market economy.
USI 27: Explain the emergence and impact of the textile industry in
New England and industrial growth generally throughout antebellum American.
a.
the technological improvements and inventions that contributed to industrial growth
b. the causes and impact of the wave of immigration from Northern Europe to
America in the 1840s and 1850s
c. the rise of a business class of merchants
and manufacturers
d. the roles of women in New England textile factories USI28:
Describe the rapid growth of slavery in the South after 1800, the impact of the
cotton gin on the economics of slavery and Southern agriculture. USII.1
Explain the various causes of the Industrial Revolution:
a. Important technological
and scientific advances
b. The role of business leaders, entrepreneurs, and
inventors USII.2 Explain the important consequences of the Industrial Revolution
a. the growth of big business
b. the environmental impact of the Industrial
Revolution
c. the expansion of cities English/Language Arts
Grades 5-6 Learning Standards:
1.3 Apply understanding of agreed-upon
rules and individual roles in order to make decisions.
9.4 Relate a literary
work to information about its setting. (if Lyddie) Grades 7-8 Learning
Standards:
1.4 Know and apply rules for formal discussions.
9.5 Relate
a literary work to artifacts, artistic creations, or historical sites of the period
of its setting. (if Lyddie) Science and Technology/Engineering
Grades
6-8 Manufacturing Technologies
4.1: Describe and explain the manufacturing
systems of custom and mass production.
4.2 Explain and give examples of impacts
of interchangeable parts, components of mass-produced products, and the use of
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