Hawaii K–6 social studies standards

Compare roles and responsibilities of self and others at home, at school, and in neighborhood settings

Compare rules that apply in different settings and evaluate the consequences of following or not following rules

Determine ways that people can work together effectively to make decisions

Sequence important events in your life

Describe an event from two different perspectives

Explain the effects of an event in your life

Give examples of how scarcity affects your daily choices

Describe differences between needs and wants

Examine physical characteristics on maps and globes using positional words

Describe how and why people move from place to place

Construct a variety of questions about social studies topics with guidance from adults and/or peers

Construct supporting questions to help answer compelling questions with guidance from adults and/or peers

Determine whether a source is primarily fact or opinion

Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

Gather facts from teacher and/or adult-curated sources to answer questions

Construct explanations using correct sequence and relevant information

Respectfully ask and answer questions about arguments and explanations

Present explanations using a variety of print, oral, and digital technologies

Identify problems or issues in classrooms, schools, or communities

Identify ways in which people are trying to address problems or issues in classrooms, schools, or communities

Use deliberative and democratic procedures (e.g., listening, consensus building, voting) to identify ways to take action on classroom, school, or community problems or issues

Show evidence of taking individual or group action on one or more problems or issues

Investigate historically significant events, people, and observances in history

Explain shared democratic values

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and listen attentively to others

Use maps and map features to describe places

Explain how people improve their communities and the environment

Explain how scarcity is a result of limited resources

Describe some physical features of continents and oceans in the world

Investigate cultural and environmental characteristics of your community

Describe the ways climate, weather, and natural disasters affect your community

Compare life in the past to life today

Compare fact and opinion in stories and narratives from the past

Compare differences between goods and services

Identify different ways of acquiring what you need and want

Explain causes and effects of an event in your life or in your family's life

Investigate school, community, and national leaders and their responsibilities

Describe how historical figures exemplify our shared democratic values

Describe how significant people and events have shaped communities and places now and in the past

Explain how human activities impact the environment

Construct timelines that sequence historical events

Compare varying perspectives on historical events

Compare goods and services that are produced locally and globally

Describe public goods and services the government provides

Examine how people are dependent on others for goods and services they cannot produce themselves

Describe major geographic features of places using maps, photos, and other geographic representations

Compare a variety of the Earth's natural resources and how people use them

Develop logical solutions to various community problems

Explain how scarcity of resources affects the cost of goods and services

Determine costs and benefits of saving money

Investigate how people in your community rely on local and global resources to meet their daily needs

Describe the relationship between authority and power

Explore how people can change rules and laws, and how these changes affect society

Explain the role of money in making exchange easier

Explain how groups have worked to effect change in American society

Explain the purpose of various government functions

Explain how to be a responsible and active citizen in a democracy

Explain how democratic rights promote equality and opportunity

Explain how public goods and services support community needs

Analyze how geographical features affect human life in local communities and those around the world

Analyze how cultural practices create and influence communities

Investigate factors that influence why people migrate and where they settle

Compare the ways people, goods, and ideas move from place to place

Analyze connections among historical events using a timeline

Compare ways that people are addressing the issue of limited natural resources

Analyze ways the environment of a community changes over time in various world regions

Analyze the effects of disasters on people around the world

Assess the reliability and accuracy of differing historical accounts

Construct compelling questions and explain the importance of the questions to self and others

Categorize questions according to the social studies disciplines

Create supporting questions to help answer compelling questions

Explain how supporting questions help answer compelling questions

Determine whether a source is primarily fact or opinion

Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

Gather relevant information from multiple sources that would be helpful in addressing compelling and supporting questions

Develop claims in response to compelling questions

Identify specific evidence that supports the claims

Construct arguments and explanations about classroom, school, or community issues and use relevant reasons to support the arguments

Respectfully ask and answer questions about the reasons others use in their arguments and explanations

Present arguments and explanations using a variety of print, oral, and digital technologies

Identify local, regional, or global problems or issues in various times and places

Explain different ways students could work individually or in collaboration with others (e.g., other students, teachers, community and/or global organizations) to address local, regional, or global problems or issues and predict possible results of their actions

Use deliberative and democratic procedures (e.g., listening, consensus-building, voting) to identify ways to take action about local and/or regional problems or issues

Show evidence of taking individual or group action on one or more problems or issues

Explain how voyaging skills and canoe design allowed Polynesians to travel from Asia throughout the Pacific to Hawaiʻi

Describe how early Hawaiians viewed the creation of the world and their environment through oral traditions

Summarize migration stories passed down through Hawaiian oral tradition

Identify major geographic characteristics of the Hawaiian archipelago, including its relative location to other major land masses

Describe how the original settlers modified their environment

Explain how geographic characteristics of the islands influenced locations of early settlements

Analyze how early Hawaiians used natural resources to meet their needs

Differentiate between native and non-native plants and animals used by early Hawaiians

Explain how core values of the early Hawaiians are applicable to modern-day Hawaiʻi

Compare aspects of early Hawaiian culture and other Polynesian cultures

Investigate the roles of gods in early Hawaiian society

Summarize how the concept of mana and one's genealogy determined rights and responsibilities

Explain how the kapu system regulated people's behavior and lives

Analyze how the kapu system maintained natural resources

Analyze how specialization of labor and the exchange of goods and services created a successful interdependent society in the ahupua'a

Use maps and illustrations to explain how Hawaiians used and modified land in the ahupua'a

Explain the roles and responsibilities of the aliʻi in governing Hawaiian society

Analyze major events that led to the unification of Hawaiʻi Island by Kamehameha I

Explain how the geography of North America shaped the development of Native American societies

Compare elements of culture in early Native American societies

Compare motivations of European powers in the exploration and conquest of the New World

Analyze the impact of European discovery and settlement on Native Americans

Explain the role of government in the establishment of early English settlements

Analyze how European culture influenced the development of settlements in North America

Explain the role religion played in early colonial society

Compare labor systems and their socioeconomic impact on Colonial America

Explain the system and impact of the transatlantic slave trade

Draw conclusions about the lives of enslaved people in the American colonies

Draw conclusions about how the physical geography of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies shaped the development of their unique economies

Explain the roles of women in Colonial America

Explain how principles in the Declaration of Independence became unifying ideas of American democracy

Compare diverse perspectives of participants during the Revolutionary War

Analyze how economic and political conflicts between the colonies and England led to the American Revolution

Explain the significance of key battles, alliances, and people on the outcome of the Revolutionary War

Create compelling questions representing key ideas of the disciplines

Explain how a question reflects an enduring issue in the field

Create supporting questions that address key ideas identified in compelling questions

Explain the relationship between compelling and supporting questions

Evaluate the credibility of a source by examining its origin, author, context, and content

Gather relevant information from credible sources representing a wide range of view

Develop claims and counterclaims while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both

Identify specific evidence that supports the claims and counterclaims

Construct arguments and explanations using claims and evidence from multiple sources while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of the arguments

Present arguments and explanations using a variety of print and oral technologies (e.g., posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, reports, maps) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, digital documentary)

Identify local, regional and/or global problems or issues using interdisciplinary lenses

Examine the origins of a problem or issue and explain the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address it

Apply a range of deliberative strategies and procedures to make decisions and propose feasible solutions to address local, regional, and/or global concerns

Create an action plan to address a solution to the problem or issue and demonstrate evidence of implementation

Explain the connection between politics and religion in the complex societies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China

Compare cultural characteristics of early river valley civilizations

Analyze the role of technological change in early river valley civilizations

Describe cultural and political structures in classical eastern societies

Describe cultural and political structures in classical western societies

Evaluate the lasting impact of philosophy, art, science, and technology of Classical Greece, Rome, India, and China

Compare causes of decline in the Roman, Han, and Gupta empires

Explain how religion and philosophy shaped European, Asian, and Middle Eastern societies during the classical period

Describe the distribution of resources among classes in the feudal hierarchy

Explain the reasons for expansion of Sub-Saharan African regions

Analyze the importance of innovations of the Middle Eastern Abbasid Dynasty, Indian Gupta Empire, and Chinese Tang and Song Dynasties

Explain how the fall of the Roman Empire led to the emergence of European feudalism

Describe how trade networks and the transfer of goods and ideas linked post-classical societies

Explain how the transfer of goods and ideas along trade routes affected ideas and cultures of different people in post-classical societies

Explain how encounters and exchanges of the Mongols linked the world

Describe encounters between Christians, Muslims, and Jews during the Crusades

Explain how the voyages of Zheng He contributed to the rise of the Ming Dynasty

Compare cultural and technological innovations of the Olmec, Mayan, Aztec, and Inca civilizations

Explain the reestablishment of Europe's political and social order in medieval times

Analyze social, political, and economic effects of the Black Death on Europe

Explain the rise of the European Renaissance

Explain how people, ideas, art, literature, science, and technology shaped the Renaissance