Social Studies
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Social Studies |
| Strand A | Time, Continuity, and Change [History] | ||
| Standard | The
student a understands historical chronology and the historical perspective. |
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| SS.A.1.2.1.3 |
The student understands how individuals, ideas, decisions, and events can influence history.
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Race, Religion and Culture
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| Strand A | Time, Continuity, and Change [History] | ||
| Standard | The
student understands United States history from 1880 to the present day.
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| SS.A.5.2.7.3 | The
student knows the economic, political, and social transformations that
have taken place in the United States since World War II.
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Exhibiting Responsible Citizenship |
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| Strand B | People,Places, and Environments [Geography] | ||
| Standard | The student understands the world in spatial terms. | ||
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| SS.B.1.2.1.3 | The students uses maps, globes, charts, graphs, and other geographic tools including map keys and symbols to gather and interpret data and to draw conclusions about physical patterns. |
Places and Maps
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| SS.B.1.2.3.3 | The student locates and describes the physical and cultural features of major world political regions. |
Ethnic Heritage
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| SS.B.1.2.5.3 | The student knows ways in which people view and relate to places and regions differently. | Ethnic Heritage | |
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| Strand B | People, Places, and Environments [Geography] | ||
| Standard | The student understands the interactions of people and the physical environment. | ||
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| SS.B.2.2.2.3 | The student understands how the physical environment supports and constrains human activities. |
Community
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| SS.B.2.2.3.3 | The student understands how human activity affects the physical environment. |
Community
Clean Air and Water |
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| Strand C | Government
and the Citizen [Civics and Government] |
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| Standard | The student understands the structure, functions, and purpose of government and how the principles and values of American democracy are reflected in American constitutional government. | ||
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| SS.C.1.2.2.3 | The student knows possible consequences of the absence of government, rules, and laws. | Being
Responsible
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| SS.C.1.2.5.3 | The student knows the basic purposes of government in the United States and knows the basic things governments do in one’s school, community, state, and nation. | Law And Government | |
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| Strand C | Government
and the Citizen [Civics and Government] |
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| Standard | The student understands the role of the citizen in American democracy. | ||
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| SS.C.2.2.1.3 | The student understands the importance of participation through community service, civic improvement, and political activities. |
Law And Government
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| SS.C.2.2.2.3 | The student understands why personal responsibility (e.g., taking advantage of the opportunity to be educated) and civic responsibility (e.g., obeying the law and respecting the rights of others) are important. |
Being Responsible
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| SS.C.2.2.3.3 | The student knows that a citizen is a legally recognized member of the United States who has certain rights and privileges and certain responsibilities (e.g., privileges such as the right to vote and hold public office and responsibilities such as respecting the law, voting, paying taxes, and serving on juries). |
Exhibiting
Responsible Citizenship
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| SS.C.2.2.4.3 | The student knows examples of the extension of the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship. | What is Freedom? | |
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| Strand D | Production, Distribution, and Consumption [Economics] | ||
| Standard | The
student understands how scarcity requires individuals and institutions
to make choices about how to use resources. |
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| SS.D.1.2.1.3 | The student understands that all decisions involve opportunity costs and that making effective decisions involves considering the costs and the benefits associated with alternative choices. | Consumerism
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| SS.D.1.2.5.3 | The student understands the concept of earning income and the basic concept of a budget. | Money Management | |
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| Strand D | Production,
Distribution, and Consumption [Economics] |
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| Standard | The
student understands the characteristics of different economic systems
and institutions. |
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| SS.D.1.2.1.3 | The student understands economic specialization and how specialization generally affects costs, amount of goods and services produced, and interdependence | Consumerism
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| SS.D.2.2.2.3 | The student understands the roles that money plays in a market economy | Consumerism | |