Social Studies Standards
Michigan Social Studies Standards as of June 2019.
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1-C1.0.1Explain the need for rules and purposes of rules. | ||
1-C1.0.2Give examples of the use of power with authority and power without authority in school. | ||
1-C2.0.1Explain fair ways to make decisions and resolve conflicts in the school community. | ||
1-C2.0.2Identify important symbols of the United States of America and what they represent. | ||
1-C5.0.1Describe some responsibilities people have at home and at school. | ||
1-C5.0.2Explain important rights and how, when, and where members of American society demonstrate their responsibilities by actively participating in civic life. | ||
1-E1.0.1Distinguish between producers and consumers of goods and services. | ||
1-E1.0.2Describe ways in which families consume goods and services. | ||
1-E1.0.3Using examples, explain why people cannot have everything they want (scarcity) and describe how people respond (choice). | ||
1-E1.0.4Describe reasons why people voluntarily trade. | ||
1-E1.0.5Describe ways in which people earn money. | ||
1-E1.0.6Describe how money simplifies trade. | ||
1-G1.0.1Construct simple maps of the classroom to demonstrate aerial perspective. | ||
1-G1.0.2Describe places using absolute location or relative location. | ||
1-G1.0.3Distinguish between landmasses and bodies of water using maps and globes. | ||
1-G2.0.1Distinguish between physical and human characteristics of places. | ||
1-G2.0.2Describe the unifying characteristics and boundaries of different school regions. | ||
1-G4.0.1Use components of culture to describe diversity in family life. | ||
1-G5.0.1Describe ways in which people are part of, modify, and adapt to their physical environments. | ||
1-G5.0.2Describe ways in which the physical environment in a place or region affects people's lives. | ||
1-H2.0.1Demonstrate chronological thinking by distinguishing among past, present, and future using family or school events. | ||
1-H2.0.2Investigate a family history for at least two generations, identifying various members and their connections in order to tell a narrative about family life. | ||
1-H2.0.3Use historical sources to draw possible conclusions about family or school life in the past. | ||
1-H2.0.4Compare life today with life in the past using the criteria of family, school, jobs, or communication. | ||
1-H2.0.5Identify the events or people celebrated during U.S. national holidays and why we celebrate them. | ||
1-P3.1.1Identify public issues in the school community. | ||
1-P3.1.2Use graphic data to analyze information about a public issue in the school community. | ||
1-P3.1.3Identify alternative resolutions to a public issue in the school community. | ||
1-P3.3.1Express a position on a public policy issue in the school community and justify the position with a reasoned argument. | ||
1-P4.2.1Develop and implement an action plan to address or inform others about a school issue. | ||
1-P4.2.2Participate in projects to help or inform others. | ||
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2-C1.0.1Explain why people form governments. | ||
2-C1.0.2Distinguish between government action and private action. | ||
2-C2.0.1Explain how local governments balance individual rights with the common good to solve local community problems. | ||
2-C2.0.2Describe how the Pledge of Allegiance reflects the Democratic Value of patriotism. | ||
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2-C3.0.2Use examples to describe how local government affects the lives of people in a community. | ||
2-C3.0.3Identify services commonly provided by local governments. | ||
2-C5.0.1Identify ways in which people participate in community decisions. | ||
2-C5.0.2Distinguish between personal and civic responsibilities and explain why they are important in community life. | ||
2-C5.0.3Design and participate in community improvement projects that help or inform others. | ||
2-E1.0.1Identify the opportunity cost involved in a consumer decision. | ||
2-E1.0.2Describe how businesses in the local community meet economic wants of consumers. | ||
2-E1.0.3Describe the natural, human, and capital resources needed for production of a good or service in the community. | ||
2-E1.0.4Use examples to show that people cannot produce everything they want (specialization) and depend on trade with others to meet their wants (interdependence). | ||
2-E1.0.5Utilize a decision-making process to analyze the benefits and costs of a personal decision. | ||
2-G1.0.1Construct maps of the local community that contain symbols, labels, and legends denoting human and physical characteristics of place. | ||
2-G1.0.2Use maps to describe the spatial organization of the local community by applying concepts including relative location, and using distance, direction, and scale. | ||
2-G1.0.3Use maps to describe the location of the local community within the state of Michigan in relation to other significant places in the state. | ||
2-G2.0.1Compare the physical and human characteristics of the local community with those of another community. | ||
2-G2.0.2Describe how the local community is part of a larger region. | ||
2-G4.0.1Describe land use in the community. | ||
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2-G5.0.1Suggest ways in which people can responsibly interact with the environment in the local community. | ||
2-G5.0.2Describe positive and negative consequences of changing the physical environment of the local community. | ||
2-H2.0.1Demonstrate chronological thinking by distinguishing among years and decades using a timeline of local community events. | ||
2-H2.0.2Examine different perspectives of the same event in a community and explain how and why they are different. | ||
2-H2.0.3Explain how individuals and groups have made significant historical changes. | ||
2-H2.0.4Describe changes in the local community over time. | ||
2-H2.0.5Describe how community members responded to a problem in the past. | ||
2-H2.0.6Construct a historical narrative about the history of the local community from a variety of sources. | ||
2-P3.1.1Identify public issues in the local community that influence people’s daily lives. | ||
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2-P3.1.3Give examples of how conflicts over Democratic Values lead people to differ on resolutions to a public policy issue in the local community. | ||
2-P3.3.1Compose a statement expressing a position on a public policy issue in the local community and justify the position with a reasoned argument. | ||
2-P4.2.1Develop and implement an action plan to address or inform others about a community issue. | ||
2-P4.2.2Participate in projects to help or inform others. | ||
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3-C1.0.1Give an example of how Michigan state government fulfills one of the purposes of government. | ||
3-C2.0.1Describe how the Michigan state government reflects the principle of representative government. | ||
3-C3.0.1Distinguish between the roles of tribal, state, and local governments. | ||
3-C3.0.2Identify goods and services provided by the state government and describe how they are funded. | ||
3-C3.0.3Identify the three branches of state government in Michigan and the powers of each. | ||
3-C3.0.4Explain how state courts function to resolve conflict. | ||
3-C3.0.5Describe the purpose of the Michigan Constitution. | ||
3-C5.0.1Identify and explain rights and responsibilities of citizenship. | ||
3-E1.0.1Using a Michigan example, explain how scarcity, choice, and opportunity cost affect what is produced and consumed. | ||
3-E1.0.2Identify incentives that influence economic decisions people make in Michigan. | ||
3-E1.0.3Analyze how Michigan’s location and natural resources influenced its economic development. | ||
3-E1.0.4Describe how entrepreneurs combine natural, human, and capital resources to produce goods and services in Michigan. | ||
3-E1.0.5Explain the role of entrepreneurship and business development in Michigan's economic future. | ||
3-E2.0.1Using a Michigan example, explain how specialization leads to increased interdependence. | ||
3-E3.0.1Identify products produced in other countries and consumed by people in Michigan. | ||
3-G1.0.1Use cardinal directions (north, south, east, west) to describe the relative locations of significant places in the immediate environment. | ||
3-G1.0.2Use thematic maps to identify and describe the physical and human characteristics of Michigan. | ||
3-G1.0.3Use a world map to describe North America in relation to the equator and other continents and oceans, and Michigan within North America. | ||
3-G2.0.1Use a variety of visual materials and data sources to describe ways in which Michigan can be divided into regions. | ||
3-G2.0.2Describe different regions to which Michigan belongs. | ||
3-G4.0.2Describe diverse groups that have migrated into a region of Michigan and reasons why they came (push/pull factors). | ||
3-G4.0.3Describe some of the current movements of goods, people, jobs, or information to, from, or within Michigan and explain reasons for the movements. | ||
3-G4.0.4Use data and current information about the Anishinaabek and other Indigenous Peoples living in Michigan today to describe the cultural aspects of modern life. | ||
3-G5.0.1Describe how people are a part of, adapt to, use, and modify the physical environment of Michigan. | ||
3-G5.0.2Locate natural resources in Michigan and explain the consequences of their use. | ||
3-H3.0.1Identify questions historians ask in examining the past in Michigan. | ||
3-H3.0.10Create a timeline to sequence and describe major eras and events in early Michigan history. | ||
3-H3.0.2Explain how historians use primary and secondary sources to answer questions about the past. | ||
3-H3.0.3Describe the casual relationships between three events in Michigan's past. | ||
3-H3.0.4Draw upon traditional stories and/or teachings of Indigenous Peoples who lived and continue to live in Michigan in order to better understand their beliefs and histories. | ||
3-H3.0.5Use informational text and visual data to compare how Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous Peoples in the early history of Michigan interacted with, adapted to, used, and/or modified their environments. | ||
3-H3.0.6Use a variety of sources to describe interactions that occurred between Indigenous Peoples and the first European explorers and settlers in Michigan. | ||
3-H3.0.7Use a variety of primary and secondary sources to construct a historical narrative about daily life in the early settlements of Michigan (pre-statehood). | ||
3-H3.0.8Use case studies or stories to describe how the ideas or actions of individuals affected the history of Michigan (pre-statehood). | ||
3-H3.0.9Describe how Michigan attained statehood. | ||
3-P3.1.1Identify public issues in Michigan that influence the daily lives of its citizens. | ||
3-P3.1.2Use graphic data and other sources to analyze information about a public issue in Michigan and evaluate alternative resolutions. | ||
3-P3.1.3Give examples of how conflicts over Democratic Values lead people to differ on resolutions to a public policy issue in Michigan. | ||
3-P3.3.1Compose a paragraph expressing a position on a public policy issue in Michigan and justify the position with a reasoned argument. | ||
3-P4.2.1Develop and implement an action plan and know how, when, and where to address or inform others about a public issue. | ||
3-P4.2.2Participate in projects to help or inform others. | ||
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4-C1.0.1Identify questions political scientists ask in examining the United States. | ||
4-C1.0.2Describe the purposes of government as identified in the Preamble of the Constitution. | ||
4-C2.0.1Explain how the principles of popular sovereignty, rule of law, checks and balances, separation of powers, and individual rights serve to limit the powers of the federal government as reflected in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. | ||
4-C2.0.2Describe how rights guaranteed by the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, and Democratic Values are involved in everyday situations. | ||
4-C3.0.1Give examples of ways the Constitution limits the powers of the federal government. | ||
4-C3.0.2Give examples of powers exercised by the federal government, tribal governments and state governments. | ||
4-C3.0.3Describe the organizational structure of the federal government in the United States (legislative, executive, and judicial branches). | ||
4-C3.0.4Describe how the powers of the federal government are separated among the branches. | ||
4-C3.0.5Give examples of how the system of checks and balances limits the power of the federal government. | ||
4-C3.0.6Describe how the President, members of the Congress, Supreme Court Justices are elected or appointed. | ||
4-C3.0.7Explain how the federal government uses taxes and spending to serve the purposes of the government. | ||
4-C5.0.1Explain the responsibilities of members of American society. | ||
4-C5.0.2Explain rights of citizenship, why rights have limits, and the relationships between rights and responsibilities. | ||
4-C5.0.3Describe ways in which people can work together to promote the values and principles of American democracy. | ||
4-E1.0.1Identify a good or service produced in the United States and apply the three economic questions all economies must address. | ||
4-E1.0.2Describe characteristics of a market economy. | ||
4-E1.0.3Describe how positive and negative incentives influence behavior in a market economy. | ||
4-E1.0.4Explain how price affects decisions about purchasing goods and services. | ||
4-E1.0.5Explain how specialization and division of labor increase productivity. | ||
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4-E1.0.7Describe the role of money in the exchange of goods and services. | ||
4-E1.0.8List goods and services governments provide in a market economy and explain how these goods and services are funded. | ||
4-E2.0.1Explain how changes in the United States economy impact levels of employment and unemployment. | ||
4-E3.0.1Identify advantages and disadvantages of global competition. | ||
4-G1.0.1Identify questions geographers ask in examining the United States. | ||
4-G1.0.2Identify and describe the characteristics and purposes of a variety of technological geographic tools. | ||
4-G1.0.3Use geographic tools and technologies, stories, songs, and pictures to answer geographic questions about the United States. | ||
4-G1.0.4Use maps to describe elevation, climate, and patterns of population density in the United States. | ||
4-G1.0.5Use hemispheres, continents, oceans, and major lines of latitude to describe the relative location of the United States on a world map. | ||
4-G2.0.1Describe ways in which the United States can be divided into different regions. | ||
4-G2.0.2Locate and describe human and physical characteristics of major U.S. regions and compare them to the Great Lakes region. | ||
4-G4.0.1Use a case study or story about migration within or to the United States to identify push and pull factors (why they left, why they came) that influenced the migration. | ||
4-G4.0.2Describe the impact of immigration to the United States on the cultural development of different places or regions of the United States. | ||
4-G4.0.3Describe some of the movements of resources, goods, people, and information to, from, or within the United States, and explain the reasons for the movements. | ||
4-G5.0.1Assess the positive and negative consequences of human activities on the physical environment of the United States and identify the causes of those activities. | ||
4-H3.0.1Use historical inquiry questions to investigate the development of Michigan's major economic activities from statehood to present. | ||
4-H3.0.2Use primary and secondary sources to explain how migration and immigration affected and continue to affect the growth of Michigan. | ||
4-H3.0.3Use case studies or stories to describe the ideas and actions of individuals involved in the Underground Railroad in Michigan and in the Great Lakes region. | ||
4-H3.0.4Describe how the relationship between the location of natural resources and the location of industries (after 1837) affected and continue to affect the location and growth of Michigan cities. | ||
4-H3.0.5Use visual data and informational text or primary accounts to compare a major Michigan economic activity today with that same activity or a related activity in the past. | ||
4-H3.0.6Use a variety of primary and secondary sources to construct a historical narrative about the beginnings of the automobile industry and the labor movement in Michigan. | ||
4-H3.0.7Describe past and current threats to Michigan’s natural resources and describe how state government, tribal and local governments, schools, organizations, and individuals worked in the past and continue to work today to protect its natural resources. | ||
4-P3.1.1Identify public issues in the United States that influence the daily lives of its citizens. | ||
4-P3.1.1aCompose a brief essay expressing a position on a public policy issue in the United States and justify the position with a reasoned argument. | |
4-P3.1.2Use graphic data and other sources to analyze information about a public issue in the United States and evaluate alternative resolutions. | ||
4-P3.1.3Give examples of how conflicts over Democratic Values lead people to differ on resolutions to a public policy issue in the United States. | ||
4-P4.2.1Develop and implement an action plan and know how, when, and where to address or inform others about a public issue. | ||
4-P4.2.2Participate in projects to help or inform others. | ||
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5-P3.1.1Identify contemporary public issues related to the U.S. Constitution and their related factual, definitional, and ethical questions. | ||
5-P3.1.2Use graphic data and other sources to analyze information about a contemporary public issue related to the U.S. Constitution and evaluate alternative resolutions. | ||
5-P3.1.3Give examples of how conflicts over Democratic Values lead people to differ on contemporary Constitutional issues in the United States. | ||
5-P3.3.1Compose a short essay expressing a position on a contemporary public-policy issue related to the Constitution and justify the position with a reasoned argument. | ||
5-P4.2.1Develop and implement an action plan and know how, when, and where to address or inform others about a public issue. | ||
5-P4.2.2Participate in projects to help or inform others. | ||
5-U1.1.1Use maps to locate peoples in the Eastern Woodland (the Woodland Peoples east of the Mississippi River), desert Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, and the nomadic nations of the Great Plains. | ||
5-U1.1.2Compare how Indigenous Peoples in the Eastern Woodland and another tribal region adapted to or modified the environment. | ||
5-U1.1.3Describe Eastern Woodland life with respect to governmental and family structures, trade, and their relationship to the land. | ||
5-U1.2.1Explain the technological and political developments that made sea exploration possible. | ||
5-U1.2.2Use case studies of individual explorers and stories of life in Europe to compare the goals, obstacles, motivations, and consequences for European exploration and colonization of the Americas. | ||
5-U1.3.1Use maps to locate the major regions of Africa (North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa). | ||
5-U1.3.2Describe the life and cultural development of people living in West Africa before the 16th century with respect to economic (the ways people made a living) and family structures, and the growth of states, towns, and trade. | ||
5-U1.4.1Describe the convergence of Europeans, Indigenous Peoples, and Africans in the Americas after 1492 from the perspective of these three groups. | ||
5-U1.4.2Use primary and secondary sources to compare Europeans, Africans, and Indigenous Peoples who converged in the Western Hemisphere after 1492 with respect to governmental structure, and views on property ownership and land use. | ||
5-U1.4.3Explain the cultural impact that occurred between the British, French, and Spanish on the lives of Indigenous Peoples. | ||
5-U1.4.4Describe the Columbian Exchange and its impact on Europeans, Indigenous Peoples, and Africans. | ||
5-U2.1.1"Describe significant developments in the Southern colonies, including: • patterns of settlement and control, including the impact of geography (landforms | |
5-U2.1.2"Describe significant developments in the New England colonies, | |
5-U2.1.3"Describe significant developments in the Middle colonies, including: | |
5-U2.1.4Compare the regional settlement patterns of the Southern colonies, New England, and the Middle colonies. | ||
5-U2.1.5Explain the economic, political, cultural, and religious causes of migration to colonial North America. | ||
5-U2.2.1"Describe Triangular Trade, including:
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5-U2.2.2Describe the lives of enslaved Africans and free Africans, including fugitive and escaped slaves in the American colonies. | ||
5-U2.2.3Describe how enslaved and free Africans struggled to retain elements of their diverse African histories and cultures to develop distinct African-American identities. | ||
5-U2.3.1Locate the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies on a map. | ||
5-U2.3.2Describe the daily lives of people living in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. | ||
5-U2.3.3Describe colonial life in America from the perspectives of at least three different groups of people. | ||
5-U2.3.4Describe the development of the emerging labor force in the colonies. | ||
5-U2.3.5Make generalizations about the reasons for regional differences in colonial America. | ||
5-U3.1.1Describe how the French and Indian War affected British policy toward the colonies and subsequent colonial dissatisfaction with the new policy. | ||
5-U3.1.2Describe the causes and effects of events such as the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts. | ||
5-U3.1.3Using an event from the Revolutionary era, explain how British and colonial views on authority and the use of power without authority differed (views on representative government). | ||
5-U3.1.4Describe the role of the First and Second Continental Congresses in unifying the colonies. | ||
5-U3.1.5Use the Declaration of Independence to explain why many colonists wanted to separate from Great Britain and why they believed they had the right to do so. | ||
5-U3.1.6Identify the role that key individuals played in leading the colonists to revolution, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Thomas Paine. | ||
5-U3.1.7Describe how colonial experiences with self-government and ideas about government influenced the decision to declare independence. | ||
5-U3.1.8Identify a problem that people in the colonies faced, identify alternative choices for addressing the problem with possible consequences, and describe the course of action taken. | ||
5-U3.2.1Describe the advantages and disadvantages each side had during the American Revolution with respect to military leadership, geography, types of resources, and motivations. | ||
5-U3.2.2Describe the importance of Valley Forge, the Battle of Saratoga, and the Battle of Yorktown in the American Revolution. | ||
5-U3.2.3Investigate the role of women, enslaved and freed Africans, Indigenous Peoples, and France in helping shape the outcome of the war. | ||
5-U3.2.4Describe the significance of the Treaty of Paris (establishment of the United States and its initial boundaries). | ||
5-U3.3.1Describe the powers of the national government and state governments under the Articles of Confederation. | ||
5-U3.3.2Give examples of problems the country faced under the Articles of Confederation. | ||
5-U3.3.3Explain why the Constitutional Convention was convened and why the Constitution was written. | ||
5-U3.3.4Describe the issues over representation and slavery the Framers faced at the Constitutional Convention and how they were addressed in the Constitution. | ||
5-U3.3.5Give reasons why the Framers wanted to limit the power of government. | ||
5-U3.3.6Describe the principle of federalism and how it is expressed through the sharing and distribution of power as stated in the Constitution. | ||
5-U3.3.7Describe the concern that some people had about individual rights and why the inclusion of a Bill of Rights was needed for ratification. | ||
5-U3.3.8Describe the rights of individuals protected in the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments) to the U.S. Constitution. | ||
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6-C1.1.1Compare and contrast different ideas about the purposes of government in different nations, nation-states or governments. | ||
6-C3.6.1Define the characteristics of modern nation-states. | ||
6-C3.6.2Compare and contrast various forms of government around the world. | ||
6-C4.3.1Explain how governments address national and international issues and form policies, and how the policies may not be consistent with those of other nation-states. | ||
6-C4.3.2Explain the challenges to governments to address global issues, and the international cooperation needed to do so. | ||
6-C4.3.3Analyze the impact of treaties, agreements, and international organizations on global issues. | ||
6-E1.1.1Explain how incentives and disincentives in the market economy can change the decision-making process. | ||
6-E2.3.1Analyze the impact of sanctions, tariffs, treaties, quotas, and subsidies. | ||
6-E3.1.1Explain and compare how economic systems (traditional, command, market) answer the three basic economic questions: What goods and services will be produced? How will they be produced? For whom will they be produced? Also, who will receive the benefits or bears the costs of production? | ||
6-E3.1.2Compare and contrast the economic and ecological costs and benefits of different kinds of energy production. Examples may include but are | ||
6-E3.3.1Use charts and graphs to compare imports and exports of different countries in the world and propose generalizations about patterns of economic interdependence. | ||
6-E3.3.2Diagram or map the flow of materials, labor, and capital used to produce a consumer product. | ||
6-E3.3.3Explain how communication innovations have affected economic interactions and where and how people work. | ||
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6-G1.1.2Draw a sketch map, or add information to an outline map, of the world or a world region. | ||
6-G1.2.1Apply the skills of geographic inquiry (asking geographic questions, acquiring geographic information, organizing geographic information, analyzing geographic information, and answering geographic questions) to analyze a geographic problem or issue. | ||
6-G1.2.2Explain why maps of the same place may vary, including the perspectives and purposes of the cartographers. | ||
6-G1.2.3Use, interpret, and create maps and graphs representing population characteristics, natural features, and land use of the region under study. | ||
6-G1.2.4Use images as the basis for answering geographic questions about the human and physical characteristics of places and major world regions. | ||
6-G1.2.5Locate and use information from GIS and satellite remote sensing to answer geographic questions. | ||
6-G1.2.6Create or interpret a map of the population distribution of a region and generalize about the factors influencing the distribution of the population. | ||
6-G1.3.1Use the fundamental themes of geography (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, region) to describe regions or places on earth. | ||
6-G1.3.2Explain the different ways in which places are connected and how those connections demonstrate interdependence and accessibility. | ||
6-G2.1.1Locate and describe the basic patterns of landforms. | ||
6-G2.1.2Locate and describe the basic patterns and processes of plate tectonics. | ||
6-G2.1.3Locate and describe the characteristics and patterns of major world climates and ecosystems. | ||
6-G2.2.1Describe the human characteristics of the region under study, including languages, religions, economic system, governmental system, cultural traditions. | ||
6-G2.2.2Explain how communities are affected positively or negatively by changes in technology. | ||
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