7th grade Social Studies
8 units matched to the Washington State Learning Standards.
Focus areas
- Washington State history, including local Tribal history
- Washington's government and Tribal sovereignty
- Washington's economy and resources
Units
Unit 1
Washington's Land
Washington's regions, from the Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound to the Cascades, Columbia Plateau and Palouse, and how geography shapes climate, settlement and trade.
Learning standard: G1.6-8.2; G2.6-8.3; G3.6-8.2 · the regions, physical features and climate of Washington State and how they shape people's lives
Unit 2
Tribes of Washington
The 29 federally recognized Tribes, how coastal, river and Plateau peoples lived in their environments, languages and oral history, and Tribes today. Light, present tense, and specific to each Tribe; aligned with Since Time Immemorial.
Learning standard: H2.6-8.3; G2.6-8.3; H1.6-8.4 · the Tribes of Washington since time immemorial, their ways of life, languages and contributions today
Unit 3
Territory to Statehood
Explorers and the fur trade, the Oregon Trail and the Oregon Treaty, Washington Territory (1853) and statehood on November 11, 1889, including who was helped and who was left out.
Learning standard: H1.6-8.5; H1.6-8.4; G2.6-8.4 · exploration, the fur trade, settlement, territory and statehood in Washington
Unit 4
Treaties & Tribal Sovereignty
The treaties of 1854–1856, the rights Tribes reserved, the fish wars and the Boldt decision (1974), and the government-to-government relationship set out in the Centennial Accord (1989).
Learning standard: C3.6-8.3; C3.6-8.4; C1.6-8.2; H4.6-8.2 · treaties between Washington Tribes and the United States, treaty rights and Tribal sovereignty
Unit 5
Governing Washington
Washington's 1889 constitution, the governor, the 49-seat Senate and 98-seat House, the Supreme Court, initiatives and referendums, local government and how young people take part.
Learning standard: C1.6-8.2; C4.6-8.2; C4.6-8.3 · the Washington state constitution, the branches of state and local government and civic involvement
Unit 6
Washington's Economy
What Washington makes and trades, supply and demand, imports, exports and tariffs, and how the state collects and spends taxes. No company names.
Learning standard: E2.6-8.4; E3.6-8.2; E4.6-8.4; E1.6-8.2 · Washington's economy, trade, taxes, supply and demand
Unit 7
Washington Since 1889
The Seattle fire, the Chinese expulsions, women's suffrage in 1910, Grand Coulee Dam, Japanese American incarceration, Hanford, the 1962 World's Fair, Mount St. Helens and the people who shaped modern Washington.
Learning standard: H2.6-8.2; H2.6-8.3; H2.6-8.4; H3.6-8.3 · people, movements, groups and technology that shaped Washington after statehood
Unit 8
Salmon, Water & Forests
Salmon, dams, forests and water, renewable and nonrenewable resources, and weighing the costs and benefits of decisions such as dam removal.
Learning standard: E4.6-8.3; G2.6-8.3; E1.6-8.2 · Washington's natural resources, sustainability and the costs and benefits of resource choices
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