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Topics of Study for the Third Nine Weeks
Social Studies
Wold War II and The Cold War
Enduring Understandings:
The learner will be able to describe the main developments on the United
States from World War II to the Cold War and their impact on American culture.
Unit Essential Questions:
What were the causes of WWII?
How did the system of alliances involve countries in WWII?
How did WWII impact life in America?
Why did America to become involved in WWII?
How did life change in America after entering WWII?
What events let to an Allied victory?
How did WWII affect life in Georgia?
How has life in American improved since the end of World War II?
How did the United Nations creation help to maintain world peace?
What effect did the Cold War have on American society?
Key Vocabulary:
nationalism, militarism,
imperialism, arms race, Nazism, communism, socialism, internment, Holocaust,
rationing, Axis powers, Allied powers, alliance, dictator, invasion,
concentration camps, Hitler,Stalin, Mussolini, Hirohito, Churchill, WWII,
nationalism, militarism, imperialism, rationing, victory garden, relocation
camp, D-Day, VE Day, VJ Day, front, radar, communism, island hopping,
Hiroshima, atomic bomb, tanks, cannons, penicillin, sulfa, DDT, Bell Bomber,
Lockheed, Fort McPherson, Fort Gillem, Warner Robbins AFB, Coca-Cola
Science
Electricity & Magnetism / The Properties of Matter
Enduring Understandings:
Students will be able to describe the relationship between electricity and
magnetism.
Students will know the difference between static and current electricity, open
and close circuits, conductors and insulators, and series and parallel circuits.
Unit Essential Questions:
What is the relationship between electricity and magnetism?
What are the cardinal directions and intermediate attracting and repelling forces?
How do you make an electromagnet?How can you construct open and closed circuit?
How are a series and parallel circuit different?
How do conductors and insulators compare?
How can you test materials to find out if it is a conductor or an insulator?
What is the difference between static and current electricity?
Key Vocabulary:
attract, repel, poles, cardinal directions, compass, current, electromagnet,
magnetism, open, closed, circuits, bulb, battery, insulator, conductor, wire,
path, series, parallel,circuit, wire, bulb, path, D-cell, conductor,
insulator, static, current, electricity
Constructive & Destructive Forces (continued in 4th nine weeks)
Key Ideas:
Students will be able to describe how constructive and destructive forces
change the earth.
Unit Essential Questions:
How does the earth's surface structure change due to plate tectonics and other
forces?
How do constructive processes form surface features?
How do destructive processes form surface features?
How does technology and human intervention control constructive and
destructive processes?
What are five major landforms in Georgia formed by constructive and
destructive processes?
Students should become familiar with the following terms and understand the
forces and processes that created listed locations.
Key Vocabulary:
plate tectonics, deposition, earthquakes, volcanoes, faults, erosion,
weathering, earthquake, volcano, flood control, satellites, seismological
studies, beach reclamation, Stone Mountain, Amicalola Falls, Tallulah Falls,
Okefenokee Swamp, Cumberland Plateau, Chattahoochee River, Appalachian
Mountains, Brass Town Bald, Blue Ridge Mountains
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