Strand I. Historical Perspective
Students use knowledge of the past to construct meaningful
understanding of our diverse cultural heritage and to inform their civic
judgments.
Standard I.I Time
and Chronology
All students will sequence chronologically the
following eras of American History and key events within these eras in
order to examine relationships and to explain cause and effect.
Standard I.2 Comprehending
the Past
All students will understand narratives about major
eras of American and world history by identifying the people involved,
describing the setting, and sequencing the events.
Standard I.3 Analyzing
and Interpreting the Past
All students will reconstruct the
past by comparing interpretations written by others from a variety of
perspectives and creating narratives from evidence.
Standard I.4 Judging
Decisions from the Past
All students will evaluate key
decisions made at critical turning points in history by assessing their
implications and long-term consequences.
Strand II. Geographic Perspective
Students will use knowledge of spatial patterns on earth to understand
processes that shape human environments and to make decisions about
society.
Standard II.I "Diversity of People, Places, and Cultures"
All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and
characteristics of places, cultures, and settlements.
Standard II.2 Human/Environment
Interaction
All students will describe, compare, and explain
the locations and characteristics of ecosystems, resources, human
adaptation, environmental impact, and the interrelationships among them.
Standard II.3 Location,
Movement, and Connections
All students will describe, compare,
and explain the locations and characteristics of economic activities,
trade, political activities, migration, information flow, and the
interrelationships among them.
Standard II.4 "Regions, Patterns, and Processes"
All
students will describe and compare characteristics of ecosystems, states,
regions, countries, major world regions, and patterns and explain the
processes that created them.
Standard II.5 Global
Issues and Events
All students will describe and explain the
causes, consequences, and geographic context of major global issues and
events.
Strand III. Civic Perspective
Students will use knowledge of American government and politics to
make informed decisions about governing their communities.
Standard III.I Purposes
of Government
All students will identify the purposes of
national, state, and local governments in the United States, describe how
citizens organize government to accomplish their purposes and assess their
effectiveness.
Standard III.2 Ideals
of American Democracy
All students will explain the meaning
and origin of the ideas, including the core democratic values expressed in
the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and other foundational
documents of the United States.
Standard III.3 Democracy
in Action
All students will describe the political and legal
processes created to make decisions, seek consensus, and resolve conflicts
in a free society.
Standard III.4 American
Government and Politics
All students will explain how American
governmental institutions at the local, state, and federal levels provide
for the limitation and sharing of power and how the nation's political
system provides for the exercise of power.
Standard III.5 American
Government and World Affairs
All students will understand how
the world is organized politically, the formation of American foreign
policy, and the roles the United States plays in the international arena.
Strand IV. Economic Perspective
Students will use knowledge of the production, distribution, and
consumption of goods and services to make personal and societal decisions
about the use of scarce resources.
Standard IV.I Individual
and Household Choices
All students will describe and
demonstrate how the economic forces of scarcity and choice affect the
management of personal financial resources, shape consumer decisions
regarding the purchase, use, and disposal of goods and services, and
affect the economic well-being of individuals and society.
Standard IV.2 Business
Choices
All students will explain and demonstrate how
businesses confront scarcity and choice when organizing, producing, and
using resources, and when supplying the marketplace.
Standard IV.3 Role
of Government
All students will describe how government
decisions on taxation, spending, public goods, and regulation impact what
is produced, how it is produced, and who receives the benefits of
production.
Standard IV.4 Economic
Systems
All students will explain how a free market economic
system works, as well as other economic systems, to coordinate and
facilitate the exchange, production, distribution, and consumption of
goods and services.
Standard IV.5 Trade
All students will describe how trade generates economic development
and interdependence and analyze the resulting challenges and benefits for
individuals, producers, and government.
Strand V. Inquiry
Students will
use methods of social science investigation to answer questions about
society.
Standard V.I Information
Processing
All students will acquire information from books,
maps, newspapers, data sets, and other sources, organize and present the
information in maps, graphs, charts, and time lines, interpret the meaning
and significance of information, and use a variety of electronic
technologies to assist in accessing and managing information.
Standard V.2 Conducting
Investigations
All students will conduct investigations by
formulating a clear statement of a question, gathering and organizing
information from a variety of sources, analyzing and interpreting
information, formulating and testing hypotheses, reporting results both
orally and in writing, and making use of appropriate technology.
Strand VI. Public Discourse and Decision
Making
Students will analyze public issues and
construct and express thoughtful positions on these issues.
Standard VI.I Identifying
and Analyzing Issues
All students will state an issue clearly
as a question of public policy, trace the origins of the issue, analyze
various perspectives people bring to the issue, and evaluate possible ways
to resolve the issue.
Standard VI.2 Group
Discussion
All students will engage their peers in
constructive conversation about matters of public concern by clarifying
issues, considering opposing views, applying democratic values,
anticipating consequences, and working toward making decisions.
Standard VI.3 Persuasive
Writing
All students will compose coherent written essays that
express a position on a public issue and justify the position with
reasoned arguments.
Strand VII. "Citizen Involvement"
Students will act constructively to further the public good.
Standard VII.I Responsible
Personal Conduct
All students will consider the effects of an
individual's actions on other people, how one acts in accordance with the
rule of law, and how one acts in a virtuous and ethically responsible way
as a member of society.