Lesson Plan: Standards

Grades 9-12

Behavioral Studies Standard 1-
1.Understands that group and cultural influences contribute to human development, identity, and behavior.
2.Benchmarks: Understands that cultural beliefs strongly influence the values and behavior of the people who grow up in the culture often without their being fully aware of it, and that people have different responses to these influences;
3.Understands that punishment for "unacceptable" social behavior depends partly on beliefs about the purposes of punishment and about its effectiveness;
4.Understands that social distinctions are a part of every culture, but they take many different forms;
5.Understands that people often take differences to be signs of social class; Understands that the difficulty of moving from one social class to another varies greatly with time, place, and economic circumstances;
6.Understands that heredity, culture, and personal experience interact in shaping human behavior, and that the relative importance of these influences is not clear in most circumstances;
7.Understands that family, gender, ethnicity, nationality, institutional affiliations, socioeconomic status, and other group and cultural influences contribute to the shaping of a person's identity.

Behavioral Studies Standard 2-
8.Understands various meanings of social group, general implications of group membership, and different ways that groups function.
9.Benchmarks: Understands how the diverse elements that contribute to the development and transmission of culture;
10.Understands that social groups may have patterns of behavior, values, beliefs, and attitudes that can help or hinder cross-cultural understanding