Alaska

Civics

• 6 Civic and Political Institutions and Systems

  • SS.2.1.6.1 Identify local and state leaders and describe their roles and responsibilities.

    • Local government (2-D.2)
    • State government (2-D.3)

  • SS.2.2.6.1 Recognize that government leaders are elected through a voting process and participate as appropriate.

  • SS.2.3.6.1 Explain the need for and purposes of rules in various settings inside and outside of school.

    • Purpose of government (2-D.1)

  • SS.2.4.6.1 Explain what governments are and some of their functions.

    • Purpose of government (2-D.1)
    • Local government (2-D.2)
    • State government (2-D.3)
    • Federal government (2-D.4)

  • SS.2.5.6.1 Inspect how communities work together to fulfill roles of authority.

    • Local government (2-D.2)
    • State government (2-D.3)
    • Federal government (2-D.4)

• 7 Participation and Deliberation

  • SS.2.1.7.1 Apply civic virtues when participating in school settings.

    • Good citizenship (2)

  • SS.2.2.7.1 Define democratic principles of equality, fairness, and respect.

  • SS.2.3.7.1 Practice different roles and responsibilities within a group and/or in the classroom.

    • Good citizenship (2)

  • SS.2.4.7.1 Defend the student's own point of view on a topic with many differing perspectives.

• 8 Processes, Rules, and Laws

  • SS.2.1.8.1 Explain how people can work together to make decisions in the classroom.

  • SS.2.2.8.1 Identify and explain how rules function in public settings.

    • Purpose of government (2-D.1)
    • Local government (2-D.2)
    • State government (2-D.3)

  • SS.2.3.8.1 Describe how people have tried to improve the local community over time.

    • Good citizenship (2)
    • Jobs in the community (2-F.5)

• 9 Alaska's Governments

  • SS.2.1.9.1 Determine the meaning and importance of local and state symbols.

  • SS.2.2.9.1 Describe the government systems in place in the students' local community.

    • Local government (2-D.2)

• 10 Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities of Citizens

  • SS.2.1.10.1 Describe the responsibility of participation in the democratic process and participate in a grade-appropriate way.

    • Good citizenship (2)

Economics

• 11 Economic Systems, Models, and Markets

  • SS.2.1.11.1 Describe the skills and knowledge required to produce certain goods and services.

    • Producers and consumers (2-F.4)
    • Jobs in the community (2-F.5)

  • SS.2.2.11.1 Describe the goods and services that people in the local community produce and those that are produced in other communities.

    • Goods and services (2-F.3)

  • SS.2.3.11.1 Compare the prices of locally produced and non-locally produced goods in local markets.

  • SS.2.4.11.1 Explain how and why people earn money.

    • Trade and money (2)

  • SS.2.5.11.1 Describe examples of costs of production for local goods and services.

  • SS.2.6.11.1 Participate in discussions about the role of banks in the local economy.

• 12 Decision-Making and Personal Finance

  • SS.2.1.12.1 Define scarcity and explain how it affects decision-making.

    • Scarcity and choices (2-F.1)

  • SS.2.2.12.1 Identify the costs and benefits of personal decisions to the community, and vice versa.

• 13 The National Economy

  • SS.2.1.13.1 Classify savings goals as short-term or long-term.

  • SS.2.2.13.1 Identify examples of the goods and services that local governments provide.

    • Local government (2-D.2)

  • SS.2.3.13.1 Describe local examples of capital goods and human capital.

• 14 The Global Economy

  • SS.2.1.14.1 Explain why people in one country trade goods and services with people in other countries.

  • SS.2.2.14.1 Categorize and describe products that are produced abroad and sold domestically and products that are produced domestically and sold abroad.

• 15 Alaska Economies: State, Local, and Tribal

  • SS.2.1.15.1 Explore and be able to explain traditional economic practices of the local region.

Geography

• 16 Human-Environment Interaction: Place, Regions, and Culture

  • SS.2.1.16.1 Explain how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people's lives in the local region.

  • SS.2.2.16.1 Describe how human activities affect the cultural and environmental characteristics of the local region.

    • Identify urban, suburban, and rural areas (2-C.2)
    • Compare urban, suburban, and rural areas (2-C.3)

  • SS.2.3.16.1 Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of the local community.

    • Introduction to Earth's land features (2-B.1)
    • Identify Earth's land features using photographs (2-B.2)

• 17 Global Interconnections: Changing Spatial Patterns

  • SS.2.1.17.1 Describe changes in the physical and cultural characteristics of regions outside of Alaska.

  • SS.2.2.17.1 Describe how the consumption of products connects people in Alaska to other places.

    • Producers and consumers (2-F.4)

  • SS.2.3.17.1 Analyze ways that a catastrophic disaster may affect people living in the local region.

• 18 Geographic Representations and Reasoning

  • SS.2.1.18.1 Construct maps, graphs, and other representations of locations in the local community.

    • Read a letter-number grid (2-A.1)
    • Use a letter-number grid (2-A.2)
    • Introduction to cardinal directions (2-A.3)
    • Read a map: cardinal directions (2-A.4)
    • Use a map key (2-A.5)

  • SS.2.2.18.1 Use maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations to describe places and the relationships and interactions that shape them.

    • Introduction to Earth's land features (2-B.1)
    • Identify Earth's land features using photographs (2-B.2)
    • Major U.S. cities (2-C.1)
    • Identify urban, suburban, and rural areas (2-C.2)

  • SS.2.3.18.1 Identify broad environmental and cultural characteristics of regions on a globe.

    • Introduction to Earth's land features (2-B.1)
    • Identify Earth's land features using photographs (2-B.2)
    • Identify oceans and continents (2-B.3)
    • Select oceans and continents (2-B.4)

• 19 Human Population: Spatial Patterns and Movements

  • SS.2.1.19.1 Explain why and how people, goods, and ideas move from place to place, including into and out of the local community.

  • SS.2.2.19.1 Compare how different groups of people in the local community use local and distant environments to meet their daily needs.

  • SS.2.3.19.1 Explain the connections between the local physical environment and the economic activities found there.

    • Natural resources (2-F.2)

• 20 Geography of Alaska

  • SS.2.1.20.1 Explain the geographical and cultural features that make Alaska distinct from other places.

    • Introduction to Earth's land features (2-B.1)
    • Identify Earth's land features using photographs (2-B.2)

History

• 21 Perspectives

  • SS.2.1.21.1 Compare past and present perspectives on a situation, event, issue, or problem within the community.

    • Then and now: transportation and communication (2)
    • Then and now: home and school (2)
    • Then and now: work and play (2)

  • SS.2.2.21.1 Evaluate different accounts of the same historical event in the local community.

• 22 Historical Sources and Evidence

  • SS.2.1.22.1 Differentiate between primary and secondary sources.

  • SS.2.2.22.1 Explain how historical sources can be used to study the local community's past.

  • SS.2.3.22.1 Use a variety of sources to generate questions about events in the history of the local community.

• 23 Change, Continuity, and Context

  • SS.2.1.23.1 Create and explain a chronological sequence of multiple events.

  • SS.2.2.23.1 Compare life in the local community in the past to life in the local community today.

    • Then and now: transportation and communication (2)
    • Then and now: home and school (2)
    • Then and now: work and play (2)

  • SS.2.3.23.1 Generate questions about, and describe how, specific individuals and groups have shaped local historical events.

• 24 Historical Thinking

  • SS.2.1.24.1 Generate possible reasons for an event or development in the local community's past.

  • SS.2.2.24.1 Analyze likely reasons for an event or development in the local community's past and identify implausible options.

• 25 Alaskan History

  • SS.2.1.25.1 Compare and contrast the customs, practices, and traditions of two Alaska cultural groups, one of which is a local group.