History 20 PBL “We need to protect our way of life…”

History 20 PBL “We need to protect our way of life…”

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Objectives (K) - The student will:

1.      Know that all nations must determine how to use their available human and material resources and that determination will involve choices among perceived/real demands on those resources.

2.      Know that scarcity is the relationship that occurs because the unlimited wants exceeds the limited resources available to meet those wants.

3.      Know that major events/situations such as wars will affect the resources a nation has available and will influence how those resources are used.

4.      Know that distinct populations will seek to have control over the decision making process which affect their lives.

5.      Know that groups seeking to fulfill their agendas have a number of alternative methods to achieve those agendas including the use of violent and nonviolent tactics.

6.      Know that nations will sometimes consider certain geographic regions, including other nations, as being strategic importance to their interests and will seek to have a preponderance of influence over that region.

7.      Know that every society has to establish some fundamental criteria that can be used to justify the allocation of supreme power within that society to certain individual or groups.