Nevada K–6 social studies standards

With prompting and support, generate compelling questions to explore how learning and working together builds a classroom community.

Share and discuss stories that illustrate honesty, courage, friendship, respect, and responsibility.

Explore strategies to resolve conflicts in the classroom.

Identify diverse cultural events, holidays, and symbols and where appropriate, identify these celebrations on a calendar.

Describe ways in which students and families are alike and different across cultures.

Describe an action that exemplifies civic dispositions, including but not limited to: deliberative discussion, equality, freedom, liberty, and respect for individual rights.

Compare and contrast rules from different places and cultures.

Describe how people work to improve their communities.

Use simple geographic models to describe spaces at school and home.

Explain why and how people move from place to place within the community.

Give examples of choices that are made because of scarcity.

With prompting and support, generate supporting questions related to compelling questions.

With prompting and support, using a primary source from your school or community, develop a reasonable idea about who created the source, when they created it, where they created it, and why they created it.

With prompting and support, construct responses to compelling questions using examples.

With prompting and support, construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes.

With prompting and support, participate in a structured academic discussion using evidence and reasoning.

With prompting and support, list and discuss group or individual actions to help address local, regional, and or global problems.

With prompting and support, use deliberative and democratic procedures to take action about an issue in your classroom, school, or community.

Kindergarten: Building Community – Learning & Working Together Compare life in the past to life today within the community.

With prompting and support, generate compelling questions to explore the places people live and work.

Share stories that illustrate honesty, courage, friendship, respect, and responsibility; have students explain how the stories show these qualities.

Demonstrate the ability to resolve conflicts.

Describe ways in which students and families are alike and different across cultures.

Identify and compare cultural practices and traditions in the community.

Discuss the importance of culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse people in building a strong and equitable community.

Describe and give examples of how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in the community.

Explain the purpose of different government functions, including but not limited to: garbage collection, passing and enforcing laws, road building, and schools.

Describe a situation that exemplifies democratic principles, including but not limited to: deliberative discussion, equality, freedom, liberty, and respect for individual rights.

Compare and contrast the different ways people work to improve the community.

Use simple geographic models to describe environmental and physical characteristics of the community.

With prompting and support, generate supporting questions related to compelling questions.

Describe how the environment impacts how we live and the work we do.

Describe the roles of financial institutions and other businesses in the community.

Compare the goods and services produced locally with those that are produced in other communities.

With prompting and support, analyze two or more primary sources from the school or community. For each source, determine who created it, when they created it, where they created it, and/or why they created it.

With prompting and support, construct responses to compelling questions using examples.

With prompting and support, construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes.

With prompting and support, participate in a structured academic discussion using evidence and reasoning.

With prompting and support, list and discuss group or individual actions to help address community problems.

With prompting and support, use deliberative and democratic procedures to take action about an issue in the community.

Compare life in the past to life today for different cultural groups within the community.

With prompting and support, generate compelling questions to explore national identity and culture.

Explore significant events that have shaped national identity.

Identify how individuals have made a difference in the communities in which they live.

Examine major events in U.S. history to understand how discrimination and oppression of various racial and ethnic

groups have contributed towards movements for social justice. Explain how people from different groups work through conflict when solving problems throughout U.S. history.

Identify and compare cultural practices and traditions in the U.S.

Discuss the contributions and positive impacts of culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse people in U.S. history.

Explain how diverse individuals have played important roles in developing the nation’s civic identity, including but not limited to: deliberative discussion, equality, freedom, liberty, and respect for individual rights.

Describe the role and responsibilities of the U.S. president.

Determine the civic dispositions and democratic principles that have influenced the U.S.

Describe the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

With prompting and support, generate supporting questions related to compelling questions.

Locate major historical events in national history on a map.

Identify major national landmarks associated with historical events.

Examine how environmental characteristics shape the development of the nation.

Describe why people made decisions to move in early U.S. history, including but not limited to: cultural, economic, environmental, political, social.

Identify times in the nation’s history when scarce resources led to conflict.

Identify how natural resources were used to produce goods and services in the past and present.

With prompting and support, analyze multiple primary sources to determine the author and time period, author’s perspective and main idea.

With prompting and support, construct responses to compelling questions using reasoning, examples, and relevant details.

With prompting and support, construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes.

With prompting and support, participate in a structured academic discussion using evidence and reasoning.

With prompting and support, list and discuss group or individual actions to help address local, regional, and/or national problems.

With prompting and support, use deliberative and democratic procedures to take action.

Identify major political leaders who have impacted U.S. history.

Generate compelling questions to explore movement around the world.

Use deliberative and democratic procedures to take action about an issue.

Investigate government responses to migration and immigration.

Compare and contrast conflicting historical perspectives about migration and immigration.

Analyze the cultural contributions that different migrant groups have made to Nevada’s history.

Explore the impact of migration and immigration on global conflicts.

Examine major events in world history to understand how discrimination and oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have contributed towards movements for social justice.

Analyze how migrants and immigrants interact with people in their new community.

Analyze the contributions and positive impacts of culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse people throughout the world.

Identify how democratic principles motivate individuals to migrate. SS.3.19 . Identify and discuss examples of rules, laws, and authorities that keep people safe and property secure in societies

Generate and answer supporting questions that help address compelling questions.

throughout the world. Use a map to explain how the unique characteristics of a place affect people’s decisions to relocate both nationally and globally.

Examine how environmental and cultural characteristics influence people’s choices to live in different areas around the world.

Explain how human settlements and movements relate to a location’s physical geography and natural resources.

Describe how various cultures have interacted with and influenced each other.

Identify how people use natural resources, human resources, and physical capital to produce goods and services to trade around the world.

Explain why people in one country trade goods and services with people in other countries.

Distinguish between needs and wants.

Describe the difference between saving and spending.

Define personal information and what is appropriate to share or keep private.

Determine the credibility of one source by comparing it to another source about the same topic (corroboration).

Identify the differences between primary and secondary sources and explain why both are important to constructing a narrative of the past.

Cite evidence that supports a response to supporting and compelling questions.

Construct responses to compelling questions using reasoning, examples, and relevant details.

Construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes using evidence and reasoning.

Participate in a structured academic discussion using evidence and reasoning to share and critique ideas.

List and discuss group or individual action to help address local, regional, or global problems.

Generate compelling questions to explore the history of Nevada.

Use deliberative and democratic procedures to take action about an issue.

Evaluate why Nevada became a state and its role in national politics.

Analyze how Nevada’s population and culture have changed over time.

Analyze the diverse population of Nevada’s Native Americans and settlers of this state and discuss their unique experiences and contributions.

Evaluate the development and evolution of Nevada’s symbols, mottoes, and slogans.

Analyze how racism and discriminatory practices have led to oppression in Nevada.

Analyze how diverse individuals and groups in Nevada led movements for social justice in response to discriminatory practices.

Analyze the impact of Native people on the culture of Nevada.

Identify and analyze the diversity and cultural traditions of Nevada’s people, including but not limited to: Native communities, Basque communities.

Identify the contributions of culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse individual Nevadans to the advancement of Nevada.

Generate and answer supporting questions that help address compelling questions.

Evaluate how core civic dispositions and democratic principles have guided and/or continue to guide local and state government in Nevada.

Identify and discuss examples of rules, laws, and authorities that keep people and property safe and secure in the state of Nevada.

Investigate how interest groups have influenced the political, social, and cultural landscape of Nevada.

Create maps that include human and physical features and that demonstrate spatial patterns in Nevada.

Examine how and why Nevada’s landscape has been impacted by humans.

Analyze how technological changes have impacted the environment and economy of Nevada.

Describe the differences in population distribution across Nevada.

Using historical and contemporary examples discuss the importance of major industries in Nevada’s economy.

Describe the intended and unintended consequences of decisions made regarding limited and shared resources in Nevada.

Investigate the role of Nevada’s economy in relation to the national economy.

Analyze primary and secondary sources and use them to construct arguments about the past.

Explain the benefits of saving and methods of saving, including but not limited to: financial institutions and saving at home.

Identify methods of payment for goods and services.

Determine the consequences of sharing personal information with others.

Examine jobs related to a career of interest.

Analyze the sourcing and context of sources through corroboration and close reading.

Cite evidence that supports a response to supporting and compelling questions.

Construct responses to compelling questions using reasoning, examples, and relevant details.

Construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes using evidence and reasoning.

Participate in a structured academic discussion using evidence and reasoning to share and critique ideas.

List and discuss group or individual action to help address local or regional problems.

Generate compelling questions to explore the creation of the United States.

Use deliberative and democratic procedures to take action about an issue.

Examine the development of political parties in American history.

Investigate what it meant to be an American for different groups of people in early American history.

Explore the development of colonial America and compare differences among the colonies.

Analyze the way in which Native, European, and African cultures were impacted by conflict and compromise in our nation’s early history.

Analyze how various political, religious, and intellectual ideas have influenced the development of early American society and government.

Evaluate the causes and effects of the American Revolution.

Analyze how and why racial, ethnic, and other groups were oppressed in early American history.

Evaluate how individuals and groups used ideas from foundational documents to create communities of respect, equity, and diversity throughout American history.

Discuss the contributions of culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse people to the advancement of the nation.

Generate and answer supporting questions that help address compelling questions.

Analyze how individuals, groups, and institutions have influenced the interpretation of foundational documents over

time. Describe representative government and explore debates that formed of the U.S. Constitution.

Analyze core civic dispositions and democratic principles and their influence on early American history.

Investigate how individuals exercise rights and responsibilities.

Investigate methods by which individuals can influence rules and laws in the classroom, school, government, and/or society.

Analyze how the Bill of Rights shaped the rights of Americans.

Explain the structures of constitutional government and the role of checks and balances.

Describe how the nation changed in the past and continues to change in order to limit and/or protect individual rights.

Analyze various maps to connect environmental, political, and cultural characteristics of a region and their influence on historical events in early American history.

Evaluate the relationship between humans and the environment in early American history.

Determine the credibility of multiple sources by using corroboration and close reading.

Analyze rules and laws that encouraged or restricted migration and immigration within regions of the early U.S.

Analyze how physical geography and natural resources affected exploration within the settlement of people, and the development of culture in early U.S. history.

Compare and contrast the similarities and differences of the economies of the colonial regions.

Investigate the development of the early U.S. economy.

Evaluate the role of slavery in the early U.S. economy.

Explain how trade was an important issue during the colonial period, the American Revolution, and the formation of the U.S.

Describe the importance of setting financial goals.

Compare interest rates in regard to credit and savings.

Identify methods of how to protect one’s identity from common threats.

Explain the standard of living in relationship to quality of life.

Gather primary and secondary sources and use them to construct responses to support compelling questions.

Cite evidence from multiple sources in response to supporting and compelling questions.

Construct an argument to answer a compelling question, using evidence and reasoning skills.

Construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes using evidence and reasoning.

Participate in a structured academic discussion using evidence and reasoning to share and critique ideas.

List and discuss group or individual action to help address local, regional, and/or national problems.

Construct compelling questions based upon disciplinary concepts.

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

Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action regarding important contemporary issues.

Grades 6-8: Early U.S. History & Civic Ideals Assess the influence of diverse ideologies on politics, society, and culture in early U.S. history.

Investigate the factors that shaped group and national identity in early U.S. history in relation to views of

American identity today. Interpret historical events from a variety of cultural perspectives, including but not limited to: Native Americans vs. settlers, Northerners vs. Southerners, and native citizens vs. immigrants

Evaluate the causes and effects of regional differences in early U.S. history.

Analyze the influence of diverse cultural traditions on early American society.

Analyze the influence of political, social, cultural, economic, religious, geographic, intellectual, and artistic changes throughout the course of U.S. history.

Explain how individuals and events in Nevada’s history both influence and are influenced by the larger national context.

Analyze the impact of westward expansion on the Native communities of Nevada.

Evaluate various interpretations in answer to compelling questions within and across disciplines.

Investigate migration and immigration patterns to Nevada as part of U.S. history.

Evaluate the use of conflict and diplomacy in international relations from a U.S. perspective.

Investigate the causes, effects, and attitudes towards conflict and war from various points of view throughout early U.S. history.

Analyze the causes, effects, and abolition of slavery in U.S. history.

Analyze the ways in which dominant cultures have oppressed groups through institutionalized discrimination within U.S. history.

Evaluate the impact of individuals and reform movements on the struggle for greater civil rights and liberties throughout early U.S. history.

Assess the influence of cultural diffusion when diverse groups interact within early U.S. history.

Investigate the ways in which individuals and groups build communities of respect, equity, and diversity throughout early U.S. history.

Discuss the contributions of racially and ethnically diverse leaders to the advancement of our community and

nation. Analyze the intellectual, cultural, religious, and artistic contributions of diverse individuals in early U.S. history.

Generate supporting documents that will lead to inquiry and research on compelling issues within the discipline.

Grades 6-8: Early U.S. History & Civic Ideals Examine the role the media has played in shaping public perception and policies throughout early U.S. history.

Describe the different political, civil, religious, and economic organizations throughout U.S. history.

Analyze the expansion of representative government throughout early U.S. history.

Compare a current national issue to a historical event from early U.S. history in order to propose a solution based upon past outcomes.

Evaluate the social, political, and economic changes that have impacted the evolution of laws throughout U.S. history.

Utilize and construct maps and images to explain and analyze regional, environmental, and cultural characteristics in early U.S history.

Explain how the human, physical, and environmental characteristics of early U.S. regions have influenced and impacted cultures.

Explain how changes in transportation, communication, and technology influenced the movement of people, goods, and ideas throughout early U.S. history.

Explore the causes, motivations, and consequences of migration and immigration, both voluntary and forced, in early U.S. history, including but not limited to: Trail of Tears, western movement, Great Migration, various waves of immigration.

Explain how global circumstances affect changes in immigration, land use, and population distribution in various regions across early U.S history.

Gather relevant information from multiple texts and evaluate the sourcing, context, and corroboration of the texts with close reading and disciplinary skills.

Analyze the role of innovations and entrepreneurship in institutions throughout early U.S history.

Evaluate how economic policies impacted individuals, businesses, and society, including but not limited to: Louisiana Purchase, the slave trade, plantation economy, and Reconstruction.

Assess the state of the early U.S. economy based on trade, resources, labor, monetary system, and other factors.

Investigate the effects of U.S. foreign economic policy both nationally and globally across early U.S. history.

Seek multiple media sources when investigating current issues and evaluate the credibility and reliability of each.

Use varied source materials, develop an argument based on substantive claims, with strong evidence, and clear reasoning.

Examine different arguments while pointing out the strengths and limitations of each.

Construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes using evidence and reasoning.

Participate in rigorous academic discussions, emphasizing multiple viewpoints in which claims and evidence is acknowledged and critiqued.

Construct compelling questions based upon disciplinary concepts.

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

Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action regarding important contemporary issues.

Grades 6-8: Early World Civilizations (prior to 1500) Compare the rise and fall of kingdoms and empires across the ancient world with attention to governmental systems and political developments.

Examine instances of conflict, oppression, human rights violations, and genocide across the ancient world as well as responses to these violations.

Describe the factors that shape identity - including institutions, religion, language, social class, geography, culture, and society in ancient civilizations.

Interpret events from a variety of historical and cultural perspectives, including but not limited to: Romans vs. “barbarians,” conquerors vs. conquered, Mongols vs. Ming Chinese.

Investigate cultural developments within and across human societies with attention to belief systems,

philosophies, ideologies, and the arts. Analyze the impact of technological developments on events, peoples, and cultures in the ancient world.

Analyze the use of conflict and/or diplomacy within the ancient world.

Analyze the ways in which dominant cultures oppressed conquered peoples or minority groups within early civilizations as well as the responses of those groups to the oppression.

Evaluate various interpretations to answer compelling questions within and across disciplines.

Assess the influence of cultural diffusion when diverse groups interact within and across early civilizations.

Investigate the ways civilizations build communities of respect, equity, and diversity throughout early world history.

Analyze the intellectual, cultural, religious, and artistic contributions of ancient civilizations to our modern world of racially and ethnically diverse people.

Describe the different political, civil, religious, and economic organization of early civilizations.

Compare a current global issue to a historical event from an ancient civilization in order to propose a solution based upon past outcomes.

Compare and contrast government structures, processes, and laws within and across early civilizations.

Grades 6-8: Early World Civilizations (prior to 1500) Utilize and construct maps and images to explain and analyze regional, environmental, and cultural characteristics in early civilizations.

Analyze and explain the cultural, physical, and environmental characteristics of places and regions and how these affected the lives of the people who lived here.

Explain how changes in transportation, communication, and technology influence the movement of people, goods, and ideas in various early civilizations.

Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use in early civilizations, including but not limited to: rural vs. urban, major waterways, pandemics, and slavery.

SS.6-8.EWC.30 Differentiate between economic systems and patterns of trade and how they impact civilizations. Assess the economies of ancient civilizations based on trade, resources, labor, monetary systems, and other factors.

Explain how trade impacted economic growth, labor markets, rights of citizens, the environment, resources, and income distribution in different ancient civilizations.

Gather relevant information from multiple texts and evaluate the sourcing, context, and corroboration of the texts through close reading and disciplinary skills.

Seek multiple media sources when investigating current issues and evaluate the credibility and reliability of each.

Using varied source material, develop an argument based on substantive claims, with strong evidence, and clear reasoning.

Examine different arguments while pointing out the strengths and limitations of each.

Construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes using evidence and reasoning.

Participate in rigorous academic discussions, emphasizing multiple viewpoints in which claims and evidence are acknowledged and critiqued.

Grades 6-8: Financial Literacy Prioritize and evaluate personal finance goals based on needs and wants.

Identify college and career options and their effect on income and unemployment.

Identify important academic requirements for financing postsecondary programs, including but not limited to: Governor Guinn Millennium Scholarship Program, Nevada Prepaid Tuition, and 529 College Savings Programs.

Investigate consequences of potential financial decisions to make reasoned financial choices.

Describe the services offered by various financial institutions, and government agencies, including but not limited to: Matching Grant Money for College, Prepaid College Tuition, and 529 College Savings Plan.

Discuss the components of a personal budget - including income, planned spending, expenses, and saving.

Explain how debit cards differ from credit cards.

Explain an individual’s rights and responsibilities as a consumer.

Discuss the cost of borrowing money for different types of goods and services, including but not limited to: consumables, vehicles, higher education, and housing.

Investigate ways to prevent and limit the consequences of identity theft and fraud.

Explain how some investments differ from traditional savings accounts in potential risks and returns.

st century Construct compelling questions based upon disciplinary concepts.

Draw on disciplinary concepts to explain the challenges people have faced, are facing, and opportunities they have created in addressing local, regional, and global problems.

Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action regarding important contemporary issues.

Grades 6-8: World Geography & Global Studies Compare rise and fall of governmental systems and political developments across the world.

Examine instances of conflict, oppression, human rights violations, and genocide, as well as responses to these violations.

Describe the factors that shape identity - including institutions, religion, language, social class, geography, culture, and society.

Interpret current events from a variety of cultural perspectives.

Investigate cultural developments within and across human societies with attention to belief systems, philosophies, ideologies, and the arts.

Analyze the impact of technological developments on events, peoples, and cultures across the world.

Investigate Nevada’s role in the world using the five themes of geography: place, location, human environment interaction, movement, and region.

Analyze the use of conflict and/or diplomacy in global interactions.

Evaluate various interpretations to answer compelling questions within and across disciplines.

Explore instances of oppression in the modern world as well as individual and group resistance movements for social justice which have developed in response. SS.6-8.WGGS.21 Investigate the ways in which individuals and nations build communities of respect, equity, and diversity across

the world today. Discuss the contributions of racially and ethnically diverse leaders to the advancement of communities and nations around the world.

Distinguish and apply the powers and responsibilities of global citizens, interest groups, and the media in a variety of governmental and nongovernmental contexts.

Describe the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations in shaping people’s lives.

Grades 6-8: World Geography & Global Studies Investigate a current global issue and propose a course of action to solve it.

Examine the origins, purposes, and impacts of laws, treaties, and international agreements.

Utilize and construct maps, charts, and other geographic representations to explain and analyze regional, environmental, and cultural characteristics of various places around the world.

Analyze and explain the cultural, physical, and environmental characteristics of places and regions and how these affect the lives of the people who live there.

Explain how changes in transportation, communication, and technology influence the movement of people, goods, and ideas.

Generate supporting questions that lead to inquiry and research on compelling issues within the discipline.

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

Explain how the relationship between the environmental characteristics of place and the production of goods influence the spatial patterns of world trade.

Explain how supply and demand, costs and competition influence market prices, wages, social, and environmental outcomes.

Explain and evaluate how economic policies impact individuals, businesses, government structures, and international organizations.

Assess the economies of various nations based on trade, resources, labor, monetary system, and other factors.

Investigate the impact of global trade policies on nations and their citizens.

Gather relevant information from multiple texts and evaluate the sourcing, context, and corroboration of the texts with close reading and discipline specific skills.

Seek multiple media sources when investigating current issues and evaluate the credibility and reliability of each.

Using varied source material, develop an argument based on substantive claims, with strong evidence and clear reasoning.

Examine different arguments while pointing out the strengths and limitations of each.

Construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes using evidence and reasoning.

Participate in rigorous academic discussions, emphasizing multiple viewpoints in which claims and evidence are acknowledged and critiqued.

EWC.3. Generate supporting questions that will lead to inquiry and research on compelling issues within the discipline in order to answer compelling questions.