Standards for Around the Neighborhood

Identify the beliefs, experiences, perspectives, and values that underlie their own and others' points of view about civic issues.

Explain how policies are developed to address public problems.

Illustrate historical and contemporary means of changing society.

Describe ways in which people benefit from and are challenged by working together, including through government, workplaces, voluntary organizations, and families.

Construct maps and other graphic representations of both familiar and unfamiliar places.

Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.

Use maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics.

Compare information provided by different historical sources about the past.

Use evidence to develop a claim about the past.

Compare life in specific historical time periods to life today.

Describe how people's perspectives shaped the historical sources they created.

Use evidence to develop claims in response to compelling questions.

Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources.

Draw on disciplinary concepts to explain the challenges people have faced and opportunities they have created, in addressing local, regional, and global problems at various times and places.