Alaska

Civics

• 6 Civic and Political Institutions and Systems

  • SS.4.1.6.1 Compare and contrast the responsibilities and powers of government officials and various levels and branches of the current federal government.

    • Federal government (4-P.3)
    • The Constitution (4-P.4)
    • Checks and balances (4-P.6)

  • SS.4.2.6.1 Explain how democracies rely on responsible participation.

  • SS.4.3.6.1 Identify key civic documents at the local, state, and national levels, and describe their central principles.

    • The Constitution (4-P.4)
    • The Bill of Rights (4-P.5)

  • SS.4.4.6.1 Explain how groups of people make rules to create responsibilities.

  • SS.4.5.6.1 Describe the origins, functions, and structure of municipal and state governments in the United States.

    • Local government (4-P.1)
    • State government (4-P.2)

  • SS.4.6.6.1 Describe ways in which people benefit from and are challenged by working together in workplaces.

• 7 Participation and Deliberation

  • SS.4.1.7.1 Demonstrate civic virtues in school settings.

  • SS.4.2.7.1 Determine core civic virtues and democratic principles that guide society in Alaska and the United States.

    • The Constitution (4-P.4)
    • The Bill of Rights (4-P.5)
    • Checks and balances (4-P.6)
    • Presidential elections (4-P.7)

  • SS.4.3.7.1 With teacher guidance, create a process for group decision-making.

  • SS.4.4.7.1 Recognize the beliefs, experiences, perspectives, and values that underlie another person's point of view about a civic issue.

• 8 Processes, Rules, and Laws

  • SS.4.1.8.1 Describe procedures for making decisions at the federal level in the United States, including the impact individuals can have.

    • Federal government (4-P.3)
    • Presidential elections (4-P.7)

  • SS.4.2.8.1 Explain how laws are created at the federal level in the United States, including how change is brought forth by voting in government elections.

    • Federal government (4-P.3)
    • Presidential elections (4-P.7)

  • SS.3.4.8.1 Explain how policies are developed to address public problems.

  • SS.4.4.8.1 Illustrate historical and contemporary means of changing society in various regions of the United States.

• 9 Alaska's Governments

  • SS.4.1.9.1 Examine Indigenous land ownership, rights, and acknowledgement in Alaska and other areas.

• 10 Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities of Citizens

  • SS.4.1.10.1 Examine Indigenous land ownership, rights, and acknowledgement in Alaska and in other areas.

Economics

• 11 Economic Systems, Models, and Markets

  • SS.4.1.11.1 Compare examples of human capital, physical capital, and natural resources in various U.S. regions.

  • SS.4.2.11.1 Provide examples, within and outside of Alaska, of individuals and businesses that specialize and trade.

  • SS.4.3.11.1 Explain the role of money in making exchange easier.

    • Banks (4-U.1)

  • SS.4.4.11.1 Explain the relationship between investment in human capital, productivity, and future incomes using Indigenous and non-Indigenous examples from across the United States.

  • SS.4.5.11.1 Determine how profits influence sellers in markets.

• 12 Decision-Making and Personal Finance

  • SS.4.1.12.1 Explain how scarcity and abundance require a person to determine the benefits and costs of a particular choice.

    • What is economics? (4-S.1)
    • Costs and benefits (4-S.2)
    • Opportunity cost (4-S.3)
    • Understand overall supply and demand (4-T.2)
    • Identify shortage and surplus (4-T.4)

  • SS.4.2.12.1 Define positive and negative incentives.

• 13 The National Economy

  • SS.4.1.13.1 Explain the interest is the price of using someone else's money.

    • Banks (4-U.1)

  • SS.4.2.13.1 Determine the difference between inflation and deflation.

  • SS.4.3.13.1 Describe how people and businesses support federal government services through taxation.

  • SS.4.4.13.1 Explain the importance of improving capital goods and human capital over time.

• 14 The Global Economy

  • SS.4.1.14.1 Explain how trade contributes to economic interdependence among regions of the United States.

  • SS.4.2.14.1 Explain how geography, natural resources, climate, and available labor contribute to the interconnected regional economies of the United States.

• 15 Alaska Economies: State, Local, and Tribal

  • SS.4.1.15.1 Explore the significance of various industries in Alaska.

Geography

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

  • SS.4.1.16.1 Explain how culture influences the way people modify and adapt to their environments in each region of the United States.

  • SS.4.2.16.1 Explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of the United States change over time.

  • SS.4.3.16.1 Discuss how environmental and cultural characteristics influence population distribution in the United States.

• 17 Global Interconnections: Changing Spatial Patterns

  • SS.4.1.17.1 Discuss why environmental characteristics vary among different world regions.

  • SS.4.2.17.1 Discuss how the spatial patterns of economic activities in parts of the world have changed over time because of interactions with nearby and distant places.

  • SS.4.3.17.1 Discuss how natural and human-made catastrophic events in one region of the world affect people living in other regions of the world.

• 18 Geographic Representations and Reasoning

  • SS.4.1.18.1 Construct maps and other graphic representations of the various regions around the world.

  • SS.4.2.18.1 Use maps, artwork, and other representations to examine relationships between the locations of places in the world and their environmental characteristics.

    • Read a map: cardinal directions (4-J.1)
    • Use lines of latitude and longitude (4-J.3)
    • Identify Earth's land features using photographs (4-K.1)
    • Identify Earth's land features using satellite images (4-K.2)

  • SS.4.3.18.1 Use maps of different scales to identify and describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics in each region of the United States.

    • Region profile: the Northeast (4-L.1)
    • Region profile: the Southeast (4-L.2)
    • Region profile: the Great Lakes (4-L.3)
    • Region profile: the Plains (4-L.4)
    • Region profile: the Rocky Mountains (4-L.5)
    • Region profile: the Southwest (4-L.6)
    • Region profile: the Far West (4-L.7)

• 19 Human Populations: Spatial Patterns and Movements

  • SS.4.1.19.1 Discuss how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas in and among the regions of the United States.

    • Region profile: the Northeast (4-L.1)
    • Region profile: the Southeast (4-L.2)
    • Region profile: the Great Lakes (4-L.3)
    • Region profile: the Plains (4-L.4)
    • Region profile: the Rocky Mountains (4-L.5)
    • Region profile: the Southwest (4-L.6)
    • Region profile: the Far West (4-L.7)

  • SS.4.2.19.1 Discuss how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources in the United States.

  • SS.4.3.19.1 Explain the effects of catastrophic environmental and technological events on human settlements and migration in and among the regions of the United States.

• 20 Geography of Alaska

  • SS.4.1.20.1 Identify how each region of Alaska has grown through various economic activities.

  • SS.4.1.20.2 Explain how the geographic resources of Alaska led to the state's economic development.

History

• 21 Perspectives

  • SS.4.1.21.1 Recognize the multiple individual and group perspectives relating to important or major events in history.

  • SS.4.2.21.1 Explain how the events of U.S. history contributed to the differing perspectives of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples across the United States, including Alaska Native groups.

    • Jamestown: the early years (4-B.1)
    • Plymouth (4-B.3)
    • New England colonies: economy and conflict (4-C.2)
    • The Lewis and Clark Expedition (4-E.2)

  • SS.4.3.21.1 Describe how people's perspectives, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, shaped the historical sources they created.

    • Identify primary and secondary sources (4-V.2)

• 22 Historical Sources and Evidence

  • SS.4.1.22.1 Use a variety of primary and secondary sources to summarize key events in history from cultural regions across the United States.

    • Jamestown: the early years (4-B.1)
    • Jamestown: growth of a colony (4-B.2)
    • Plymouth (4-B.3)
    • New England colonies: religion and government (4-C.1)
    • New England colonies: economy and conflict (4-C.2)
    • Middle colonies: founding and government (4-C.3)
    • Middle colonies: economy and society (4-C.4)
    • Southern colonies: founding and government (4-C.5)
    • Southern colonies: economy and slavery (4-C.6)
    • The Louisiana Purchase (4-E.1)
    • The Lewis and Clark Expedition (4-E.2)
    • Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (4-E.5)
    • Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (4-E.6)
    • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part I (4-E.7)
    • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part II (4-E.8)

  • SS.4.2.22.1 Gather different kinds of historical sources and summarize how they are used to explain events in the past.

    • Identify primary and secondary sources (4-V.2)

  • SS.4.3.22.1 Analyze the relationships between multiple historical sources surrounding a single event of development in U.S. history.

  • SS.4.4.22.1 Infer the intended audience of a historical source.

  • SS.4.5.22.1 Use information about the maker, date, and place of origin of a source to determine whether a source is useful for studying a particular historical topic.

    • Identify primary and secondary sources (4-V.2)

• 23 Change, Continuity, and Context

  • SS.4.1.23.1 Use a timeline or other representation of related events to compare developments that happened at the same time.

    • Read and create timelines (4-W.1)
    • Read and create timelines with BCE and CE (4-W.2)

  • SS.4.2.23.1 Compare similarities and differences between a historic local cultural practice and a historic cultural practice from another region of the United States.

  • SS.4.3.23.1 Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped history across the United States.

    • Benjamin Franklin (4)
    • George Washington (4)
    • Thomas Jefferson (4)
    • Abraham Lincoln (4)
    • Frederick Douglass (4)
    • Harriet Tubman (4)
    • Susan B. Anthony (4)
    • Sitting Bull (4)
    • Theodore Roosevelt (4)
    • Thurgood Marshall (4)
    • Rosa Parks (4)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. (4)
    • Bill Gates (4)
    • The Lewis and Clark Expedition (4-E.2)

• 24 Historical Thinking

  • SS.4.1.24.1 Describe and explain probable causes and effects of an event or development in the United States, including its effect on Alaska.

  • SS.4.2.24.1 Gather evidence from multiple sources to support a claim about how contributions made by various cultural and ethnic groups have shaped the history of Alaska and the United States.

• 25 Alaskan History

  • SS.4.1.25.1 Explain how national and global events impact Alaska, both in the past and present.