Standards for Fun in Dog Patch

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

Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community.

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

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.

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.