Standards for Dog Patch Over the Years

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.

Explain how a democracy relies on people's responsible participation, and draw implications for how individuals should participate.

Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to compare developments that happened at the same time.

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.