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.1.2.1.4 | The student understands how individuals, ideas, decisions, and events can influence history. |
Race, Religion and Culture
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| Strand A | Time, Continuity, and Change [History] | ||
| Standard | The student understands United States history to 1880. | ||
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| SS.A.4.2.1.4 | The student understands the geographic, economic, political, and cultural factors that characterized early exploration of the Americas. | Ethnic Heritage |
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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.5.2.7.4 | 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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Race, Religion and Culture
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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.1.2.1.4 | 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. |
Consumerism
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| SS.B.1.2.3.4 | The student locates and describes the physical and cultural features of major world political regions. |
World Cultures
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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.2.2.2.4 | The student understands how the physical environment supports and constrains human activities. |
Consumerism
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| SS.B.2.2.3.4 | The student understands how human activity affects the physical environment. | Consumerism | |
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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.1.2.4.4 | The student knows possible consequences of the absence of government, rules, and laws. | Community
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| SS.C.1.2.5.4 | 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. | Community | |
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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.2.2.1.4 | The student understands the importance of participation through community service, civic improvement, and political activities. |
Race, Religion and Culture
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| SS.C.2.2.2.4 | 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. |
Race, Religion and Culture
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| SS.C.2.2.3.4 | 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). |
Law and Government
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| SS.C.2.2.4.4 | The student knows examples of the extension of the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship. |
Law and Government
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| SS.C.2.2.5.4 | The student knows what constitutes personal, political, and economic rights and why they are important and knows examples of contemporary issues regarding rights. | Law and Government | |
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| Strand D |
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| Standard | The
student understands how scarcity requires individuals and institutions
to make choices about how to use resources. |
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| SS.D.1.2.2.4 | 4 The student understands that scarcity of resources requires choices on many levels, from the individual to societal | Conservation | |