• What is culture, and what roles does it play in personal and group behavior?
• What role do time and place pay in the development and change of cultures?
• How does culture unify a group of people?
• How do elements of unity and diversity develop both within and across cultures?
• How do beliefs, such as religion or political ideals, influence other aspects of a culture, such as its institutions or art?
• How do different cultural perspectives lead groups to interpret the same event differently?
• What happened in the past, and how do we know?
• How and why do people differ in their judgments about what was important in the past?
• What connections are there between past and present?
• What events and turning points are important in history and why?
• What questions are important to ask about people, places, and environments?
• How are historical, cultural, national, or world religions differentiated from each other?
• How do maps ... help humans understand spatial relationships?
• How does personal motivation impact individual development and identity?
• How do people change physically and emotionally over time, and why?
• How do specific groups, such as family and friends, and attributes such as gender, ethnicity, and nationality influence personal identity?
• What factors influence how individuals perceive others, and how they are perceived by others?
• How does time and place influence individual development and identity?
• How do the choices that individuals make impact who they are now and who they can become?
• How do groups and institutions influence individuals and society?
• How do individuals influence groups and institutions?
• What are the causes and effects of tensions that occur when the goals, beliefs, norms, and principles of two or more groups or institutions are in conflict?
• How are power, authority, and governance alike and different across groups and nations?
• What are current and historic examples of science and technology that have impacted individuals, society, and the world?
• How do changes in science and technology affect individuals, groups, institutions, nations, and the environment?
• What can be learned from the past about how technologies resulted in both planned and unanticipated changes?
• How are media messages created, and how can we determine their impact?
• What global connections affect this community and region, and what are the consequences?
• What are examples of global connections from the past, and how have these connections changed in more recent years?
• What actions can we suggest and take in response to global change?
• How do citizens balance personal interests and working for the common good?
• What is culture, and how do language, the arts, traditions, beliefs, values, and behavior patterns distinguish one cultural group from another?
• What roles do unity among cultures and diversity across cultural groups play in communities, nations, and world religions?
• What are examples of the role culture has played in individual, group, institutional, and societal development in the past and present?
• How does cultural diffusion occur over time and space?
• What patterns of behavior and interactions foster or pose obstacles to cross-cultural understanding?
• How do different cultural perspectives lead groups to interpret the same event differently and with what consequences?
• How do historians use a variety of sources and inquiry methods to support their reconstruction and interpretation of past events?
• How do we use knowledge of the past to evaluate the possible consequences of specific courses of action and make more informed decisions?
• What are the origins and influence of social, cultural, political, and economic systems, and how can they be compared across time and space?
• What questions are important to ask about people, places, and environments?
• How have the relationships forged by humans with places changed over time?
• How have national and global regions developed and changed over time?
• How are historic, cultural, national, or world religions defined and differentiated by physical and human characteristics?
• How do maps ... help humans understand spatial relationships?
• What are important questions to ask about individual development and identity?
• How does personal motivation impact individual development and identity?
• What is the role of a sense of ethics in individual development and identity?
• How are individual development and identity influenced by time and space?
• What are the genetic and social factors that influence personal identity?
• How do social, cultural, and national norms influence identity?
• What influences how humans learn, perceive, and grow?
• What questions are important to ask about individuals, groups, and institutions?
• How do groups and institutions work to meet individual needs, promote the common good, and address persistent social issues?
• What are the influences of groups and institutions on people and events in historical and contemporary settings?
• What are the roles of individuals, groups, and institutions in furthering both societal continuity and change over time?
• What are the consequences of tensions and cooperation among individuals, groups, and institutions?
• What questions are important to ask about power, authority, and governance?
• How are individual rights protected and social justice promoted within the context of majority rule?
• How have changes in science and technology impacted individuals, groups, societies, nations, and the environment, past and present, in both positive and negative ways?
• What can be learned from the past about how science and technology have resulted in broad social change, planned or unanticipated?
• What types of global connections exist in the community, state, region, and nation, and what are their consequences?
• How and why is global interdependence more evident at some times in history than others, and in some places rather than others?
• How do location, resources, and cross-cultural diffusion cause tension, as well as lead to positive global connections?