Illinois K–6 social studies standards

Create questions that are relevant to self as they relate to the content of the Social Science Standards.

With guidance and support, students will use varied teacher-selected resources to learn procedures to locate evidence that assists with finding answers to their questions. Introduce the importance of informational resources that are reliable and distinguish fact from opinion.

With guidance and support, gather relevant information from multiple sources to analyze information.

With guidance and support, evaluate a source by distinguishing between fact and opinion.

With guidance and support, students will share their findings on the asked and answered questions with peers.

With guidance and support, reflect on one’s inquiry process and findings.

Using various viewpoints, students will engage in reflective conversations to draw conclusions on inquiry findings and create action steps.

With guidance and support, identify the roles of individuals and leaders and their responsibility to meet the needs of different people and communities.

With guidance and support, identify reasons for rules and explain how rules establish responsibilities and roles for various settings.

Explain that choices are made because of scarcity (i.e., because individuals cannot have everything that they want).

With guidance and support, explain how weather, climate, and other environmental factors affect people's lives and cultural identities in our region.

With guidance and support, explain how people and goods move from place to place.

With guidance and support, identify characteristics of print and digital maps, graphs, and other cultural representations of familiar places.

With guidance and support, compare life in the past to life today, including the points of view of diverse groups of people.

Identify and describe the purpose of the national holidays of the United States, the major holidays of diverse groups, and the bravery or achievements of the diverse people who make these days special holidays.

With guidance and support, explain how individuals who live, learn, and work together make important decisions, and the effect that these decisions have on a variety of diverse communities.

Identify reasons for rules and explain how rules establish responsibilities and roles, and their effect on one’s own and other groups and communities.

Explain and give examples of when choices are made that something else is given up.

Describe the skills and knowledge required to produce certain goods and services.

With guidance and support, construct and interpret print and digital maps and other cultural representations of familiar places.

With guidance and support, describe how human activities affect the cultural and environmental characteristics of places or regions.

Compare how people in different types of communities use local and worldwide environments to meet their daily needs.

Create a chronological sequence of multiple events based on current learning.

With guidance and support, investigate how our perspectives of historical events have changed over time.

With guidance and support, identify features and functions of governments.

With guidance and support, describe how communities can collaborate to accomplish tasks, establish roles and responsibilities, and achieve equitable outcomes for the community.

Demonstrate how our choices can affect ourselves and others in positive and negative ways.

Explain the role of money in making exchange easier.

Compare the goods and services that people in the local community produce and those that are produced in other communities.

With guidance and support, use print and digital maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.

With guidance and support, identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of your community and compare to other places or regions.

Describe the connections between the physical environment of a place and the economic activities found there.

Identify main ideas and changes that have occurred in the local community over time and retell how these changes impacted diverse groups in the community.

Examine key events that changed history from multiple perspectives, including the perspectives of diverse individuals, cultures, and groups.

Develop essential questions and explain the importance of the questions to self and others.

Students generate supporting questions that require investigation to help answer essential questions.

Identify varied resources that answer essential and student- generated questions and that take into consideration multiple points of view.

Gather relevant information and distinguish between fact and opinion to determine credibility of multiple sources.

Develop claims using evidence from multiple sources to answer essential questions.

Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources.

Present a summary of arguments and explanations to others inside and/or outside of the classroom using print and oral technologies.

Explain the use of inquiry strategies, approaches, and relevant sources that will allow students to address local, regional, state, national, and global problems.

Engage in reflective conversations to draw conclusions on inquiry findings and create action steps that consider multiple viewpoints.

Explain how families, workplaces, organizations, and government entities interact and affect communities in multiple ways.

Using evidence, describe how people have strived to improve communities over time to achieve equitable outcomes, practices, or policies.

Compare the goods and services that people in the local community produce and those that are produced in other communities.

Generate examples of the goods and services that governments provide.

Use print and digital maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify topographic and other graphic representations of both familiar and unfamiliar locations.

Explain how culture influences the way people modify and adapt to the environment or the way people do not modify and adapt to their environments.

Describe the movement of goods, people, jobs, and/or information and the effect of the cultural and environmental characteristics on movement of goods.

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

Explain how the diverse perspectives of people and events develop and shape communities and/or regions.

Identify and analyze how different kinds of historical sources are used to explain events in the past.

Explain the roles and responsibilities of government officials at the local, state, and national levels and investigate how the roles and responsibilities of government have changed over time.

Define democracy and explain how limited participation affects the political representation of multiple groups.

Identify core civic virtues and democratic principles that guide governments, society, and communities.

Using evidence, explain how rules, regulations, and laws alter or transform societies and how people from multiple communities influence and experience this transformation.

Explain how profits reward and influence sellers.

Describe how goods and services are produced using human, natural, and capital resources (e.g., tools, machines).

Construct print and digital maps and other topographic representations to show the details of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.

Explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places change over time.

Investigate the human effects on the physical environment over time.

Study important individuals or major events in order to recognize and explain that there are multiple cultural perspectives.

Generate questions about multiple historical sources and their relationships to particular historical events and developments.

Explain probable causes and effects of events and developments in Illinois history.

Explain the roles and responsibilities of government officials at the local, state, and national levels and investigate how the roles and responsibilities of the three branches of government have changed over time.

Examine the origins and purposes of rules, laws, and key provisions of the U.S. Constitution and investigate the impact they had/have on multiple groups of people.

Compare and contrast the U.S. government to other global governments in their structure and systems of governing with consideration for their impact on equitable outcomes.

Using evidence, explain how policies are developed to address public problems and concerns and achieve equitable outcomes.

Analyze why and how individuals, businesses, and nations around the world specialize and trade.

Discover how positive incentives (e.g., sale prices, earning money) and negative consequences (e.g., library fines, parking tickets) influence behavior in the U.S. economy and around the world.

Determine the ways in which government pays for goods and services it provides.

Explain that interest is the price the borrower pays for using someone else's money.

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

Investigate and explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places within the United States change over time.

Explain how human settlements and technological advancements have impacted natural resources.

Analyze the effects of catastrophic environmental and technological events on human settlements and migration.

Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to identify cause and effects of relationships in history and the impacts of underrepresented groups.

Use information about a historical source, including the creator (author), date, place of origin, intended audience, and purpose, to judge the extent to which the source is useful for studying a particular topic.

Summarize the central claim in a work of history.

Create essential questions that consider multiple perspectives to guide inquiry about a topic.

Ask essential and focused questions that consider multiple perspectives and will lead to independent research.

Determine sources representing multiple points of view and diversity of authorship that will assist in organizing a research plan.

Determine the value of sources by evaluating their relevance and intended use.

Determine the credibility of sources based upon their origin, authority, and context.

Gather relevant information from credible sources and determine whether they support each other.

Appropriately cite all the sources that are used.

Identify evidence from multiple sources to support claims, noting any limitations of the evidence.

Develop claims and counter claims using evidence from credible sources while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both.

Present arguments and explanations that would appeal to audiences and venues outside of the classroom, using a variety of media.

Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging the arguments’ strengths and limitations.

Construct explanations for a specific audience using reasoning, correct sequences, examples, and details, while acknowledging their strengths and weaknesses.

Critique the structure and credibility of arguments and explanations (self and others) about a topic.

Analyze how a problem can manifest itself, identify the individuals and communities impacted by a problem, and address the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to take action toward solutions.

Assess individual and collective capacities within a given context to take action, address problems, and identify potential outcomes.

Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action in schools and community contexts.

Identify different types of citizenship and immigration statuses of individuals in the United States and the different rights and roles (e.g., voters, jurors, taxpayers, military, protesters, and officeholders) based on citizenship or immigration status.

Describe and analyze the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations from a national to local scale in impacting multiple individuals and communities.

Evaluate the powers and responsibilities of individuals, political parties, interest groups, and the media; how these have changed over time; and the impacts on multiple communities.

Explain the origins, functions, and structure of government with reference to the U.S. Constitution, Illinois Constitution, and other systems of government and how they have impacted multiple groups of people.

Analyze how the application of laws and the protection, granting, or denial of individual and collective rights have impacted participation and powers of various groups of people.

Synthesize how the changes over time in the application of laws and granting or denial of rights have impacted governments, public officials, and bureaucracies at different levels in the United States, U.S. territories, and tribal nations within the United States.

Describe the origins and purposes and impact of governing documents and policies (e.g., U.S. Constitution, Illinois Constitution, laws, treaties, and international agreements) and synthesize their application and impacts on multiple groups of people with how they have changed over time.

Identify the means used by individuals and groups to either maintain or change powers and protect, grant, or deny rights of individuals and communities in societies.

Analyze the origins, purposes, and processes connected to maintaining or changing powers and how individuals and societies protect, grant, or deny rights.

Analyze the relationships among democratic principles, civic virtues, special interests, and perspectives to the ideas and principles contained in the constitutions, laws, treaties, and international agreements of the United States and other countries.

Analyze and synthesize ideas and principles contained in the founding and governing documents and practices of the United States, U.S. territories, and tribal nations within the United States.

Evaluate and critique deliberative processes regarding the development and application of governing documents and policies and how they have changed over time.

Identify the impact of specific rules and laws (both those that are in effect and proposed) on multiple individuals and communities in relationship to the intended issues they were meant to address.

Analyze the perspectives and positions of multiple individuals and communities impacted by specific rules and laws (both actual and proposed); the equitable application of rules and laws; and consequences for not abiding by rules and laws historic and contemporary settings.

Develop and evaluate procedures for making decisions in historic and contemporary settings (e.g., school; civil society; or local, state, or national governments).

Explain how economic decisions affect the well- being of individuals, businesses and society.

Explain how external benefits and costs influence choices.

Evaluate alternative approaches or solutions to current economic issues in terms of benefits and costs for different groups and society as a whole.

Analyze the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in a market economy.

Describe the roles of institutions, such as corporations, non- profits, and labor unions in a market economy.

Explain how changes in supply and demand cause changes in prices and quantities of goods and services, labor, credit, and foreign currencies.

Explain why standards of living increase as productivity improves.

Explain barriers to trade and how those barriers influence trade among nations.

Evaluate employment, unemployment, inflation, total production, income and economic growth data and how they affect different groups.

Use geographic representations (e.g., maps, photographs, satellite images) to explain relationships between the locations (places and regions) and changes in their environment.

Use mapping and graphing to represent and analyze spatial patterns of different environmental and cultural characteristics.

Construct different representations to explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.

Explain how humans and their environment affect one another.

Compare and contrast the cultural and environmental characteristics of different places or regions.

Evaluate how cultural and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.

Explain how environmental characteristics affect human migration and settlement.

Explain how changes in transportation and communication influence the spatial connections among human settlements and affect the spread of ideas and culture.

Evaluate the influences of long-term, human-induced environmental change on spatial patterns of conflict and cooperation.

Identify how cultural and environmental characteristics vary among regions of the world.

Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use.

Analyze how the environmental characteristics of places and production of goods influence patterns of world trade.

Identify and describe the contexts of a series of historical events and developments as examples of change and/or continuity based on the perspectives of multiple diverse groups.

Analyze connections and disconnections among events and developments in broader historical contexts and identify the effects of events on groups of people who have been marginalized.

Evaluate the significance of historical events to multiple groups and the relationship to modern-day movements and events.

Explain how and why perspectives of people have changed over time.

Analyze and compare multiple factors that influenced the perspectives of multiple groups of people during different historical eras relevant to the cultural groups.

Evaluate how perspectives of multiple individuals and groups have impacted the availability of information and the creation of historical sources.

Classify the kinds of historical sources used in a secondary interpretation to include sources representing multiple perspectives.

Detect possible biases and limitations in the historical record based on evidence collected from different kinds of historical sources by identifying the author, purpose, funding/source, type of publication/outlet, intended audience, etc.

Evaluate the validity of claims made in historical sources representing a variety of perspectives, describe the possible or actual impact(s) of the sources on audiences, and determine uses and applications.

Describe the differences between correlation and causation in historical events and explain multiple causes and effects of historical events.

Compare and contrast the central historical arguments in secondary works across multiple media.

Organize and critique applicable evidence to develop a coherent argument about the past.