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Skills available for Illinois seventh-grade social studies standards

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Illinois Social Science Standards (adopted in 2021) Illinois Social Science Standards (adopted in 2021)
Illinois Learning Standards: Grade 7 Disciplinary Concepts Illinois Learning Standards: Grade 7 Disciplinary Concepts
Illinois Learning Standards: Grade 7 Inquiry Skills Illinois Learning Standards: Grade 7 Inquiry Skills
Illinois Common Core State Standards: Grades 6-8 Literacy in History/Social Studies Illinois Common Core State Standards: Grades 6-8 Literacy in History/Social Studies

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SS.6-8.IS Inquiry

Constructing Essential Questions
- SS.6-8.IS.1 Create essential questions that consider multiple perspectives to guide inquiry about a topic.
Constructing Supporting Questions
- SS.6-8.IS.2 Ask essential and focused questions that consider multiple perspectives and will lead to independent research.
Determining Helpful Resources
- SS.6-8.IS.3 Determine sources representing multiple points of view and diversity of authorship that will assist in organizing a research plan.
Gathering and Evaluating Sources
- SS.6-8.IS.4.LC Determine the value of sources by evaluating their relevance and intended use.
- SS.6-8.IS.4.MdC Determine the credibility of sources based upon their origin, authority, and context.
- SS.6-8.IS.4.MC Gather relevant information from credible sources and determine whether they support each other.
  - Source analysis: the Boston Massacre (7-KK.9)
  - Identify primary and secondary sources (7-SS.1)
Developing Claims and Using Evidence
- SS.6-8.IS.5.LC Appropriately cite all the sources that are used.
- SS.IS.5.6-8.MdC Identify evidence from multiple sources to support claims, noting any limitations of the evidence.
- SS.6-8.IS.5.MC Develop claims and counterclaims using evidence from credible sources while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both.
Communicating Conclusions
- SS.6-8.IS.6.LC Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging the arguments' strengths and limitations.
- SS.6-8.IS.6.MdC Construct explanations for a specific audience using reasoning, correct sequences, examples, and details, while acknowledging their strengths and weaknesses.
- SS.6-8.IS.6.MC Present arguments and explanations that would appeal to audiences and venues outside of the classroom, using a variety of media.
Critiquing Conclusions
- SS.6-8.IS.7.LC Critique the structure and credibility of arguments and explanations (self and others) about a topic.
Taking Informed Action
- SS.6-8.IS.8.LC 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.
- SS.6-8.IS.8.MdC Assess individual and collective capacities within a given context to take action, address problems, and identify potential outcomes.
- SS.6-8.IS.8.MC Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action in schools and community contexts.
  - Rights and responsibilities of active citizenship (7-FF.2)

SS.6-8.CV Civics

Civic and Political Institutions
- SS.6-8.CV.1.LC 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.
- SS.6-8.CV.1.MdC Describe and analyze the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations from a national to local scale in impacting multiple individuals and communities.
- SS.6-8.CV.1.MC 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.
  - Rights and responsibilities of active citizenship (7-FF.2)
- SS.6-8.CV.2.LC 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.
- S.6-8.CV.2.MdC 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.
- SS.6-8.CV.2.MCa 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.
- SS.6-8.CV.2.MCb 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.
Participation and Deliberation: Applying Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles
- SS.6-8.CV.3.LC 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.
- SS.6-8.CV.3.MdC Analyze the origins, purposes, and processes connected to maintaining or changing powers and how individuals and societies protect, grant, or deny rights.
- SS 6-8.CV.3.MC Explain how granting rights for individuals or communities does not reduce the ability of other individuals or communities to exercise the same rights and evaluate how efforts to maintain systems or initiate change within societies have worked for or against the benefit or oppression of multiple groups.
- SS.6-8.CV.4.LC 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.
  - The Constitution: structure and principles (7-DD.1)
  - Rights and responsibilities of active citizenship (7-FF.2)
- SS.6-8.CV.4.MdC 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.
- SS.6-8.CV.4.MC Evaluate and critique deliberative processes regarding the development and application of governing documents and policies and how they have changed over time.
Processes, Rules, and Laws
- SS.6-8.CV.5.LC 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 cause-and-effect relationships of issues that resulted in specific rules and laws.
- SS.6-8.CV.5.MdC 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.
- SS.6-8.CV.5.MC Develop and evaluate procedures for making decisions in historic and contemporary settings (e.g., school; civil society; or local, state, or national governments).

SS.6-8.EC Economics/Financial Literacy

Economic Decision-Making
- SS.6-8.EC.1 Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.
- SS.6-8.EC.2 Explain how external benefits and costs influence choices.
  - Costs and benefits (7-GG.2)
  - Opportunity cost (7-GG.3)
- SS.6-8.EC.3 Evaluate alternative approaches or solutions to current economic issues in terms of benefits and costs for different groups and society as a whole.
  - Costs and benefits (7-GG.2)
Exchange and Markets
- SS.6-8.EC.4 Analyze the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in a market economy.
  - What is a market? (7-GG.5)
- SS.6-8.EC.5 Describe the roles of institutions, such as corporations, nonprofit organizations and labor unions, in a market economy.
  - International organizations (7-CC.7)
  - What is a market? (7-GG.5)
- SS.6-8.EC.6 Explain how changes in supply and demand cause changes in prices and quantities of goods and services, labor, credit, and foreign currencies.
The National and Global Economy
- SS.6-8.EC.7 Explain why standards of living increase as productivity improves.
- SS.6-8.EC.8 Explain barriers to trade and how those barriers influence trade among nations.
  - International organizations (7-CC.7)
  - Trade and specialization (7-GG.4)
- SS.6-8.EC.9 Evaluate employment, unemployment, inflation, total production, income, and economic growth data and how they affect different groups.
Financial Literacy
- SS.6-8.EC.FL.10 Analyze the relationship among skills, education, jobs, and income.
- SS.6-8.EC.FL.11 Explain the roles and relationships among savers, borrowers, interest, time, and the purposes for saving.
  - Banks (7-HH.1)
- SS.6-8.EC.FL.12 Identify how people choose to buy goods and services while still maintaining a budget based on income, taxes, savings, and fixed and variable expenses.
  - Costs and benefits (7-GG.2)
  - Opportunity cost (7-GG.3)
- SS.6-8.EC.FL.13 Explain the correlation among investors, investment options (and associated risks), and income/wealth.
- SS.6-8.EC.FL.14 Describe the connection among credit, credit options, interest, and credit history.
  - Banks (7-HH.1)
- SS.6-8.EC.FL.15 Analyze the relationship between financial risks and protection, insurance, and costs.

SS.6-8.G Geography

Geographic Representations: Spatial Views of the World
- SS.6-8.G.1 Use geographic representations (e.g., maps, photographs, satellite images) to explain relationships between the locations (places and regions) and changes in their environment.
- SS.6-8.G.2 Use mapping and graphing to represent and analyze spatial patterns of different environmental and cultural characteristics.
- SS.6-8.G.3 Construct different representations to explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.
Human-Environment Interaction: Place, Regions, and Culture
- SS.6-8.G.4 Explain how humans and their environment affect one another.
Place, Regions, and Culture
- SS.6-8.G.5 Compare and contrast the cultural and environmental characteristics of different places or regions.
- SS.6-8.G.6 Evaluate how cultural and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.
Human Population: Spatial Patterns and Movements
- SS.6-8.G.7 Explain how environmental characteristics affect human migration and settlement.
- SS.6-8.G.8 Explain how changes in transportation and communication influence the spatial connections among human settlements and affect the spread of ideas and culture.
- SS.6-8.G.9 Evaluate the influences of long-term, human-induced environmental change on spatial patterns of conflict and cooperation.
  - The Columbian Exchange (7-BB.6)
Global Interconnections: Changing Spatial Patterns
- SS.6-8.G.10 Identify how cultural and environmental characteristics vary among regions of the world.
- SS.6-8.G.11 Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use.
  - The Columbian Exchange (7-BB.6)
- SS.6-8.G.12 Analyze how the environmental characteristics of places and production of goods influence patterns of world trade.

SS.6-8.H History

Change, Continuity, and Context
Perspectives
Historical Sources and Evidence
- SS.6-8.H.3.LC Classify the kinds of historical sources used in a secondary interpretation to include sources representing multiple perspectives.
  - Identify primary and secondary sources (7-SS.1)
- SS.6-8.H.3.MdC 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.
- SS.6-8.H.3.MC 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.
Causation and Argumentation

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SS.6-8.IS Inquiry

Constructing Essential Questions

SS.6-8.IS.1 Create essential questions that consider multiple perspectives to guide inquiry about a topic.

Constructing Supporting Questions

SS.6-8.IS.2 Ask essential and focused questions that consider multiple perspectives and will lead to independent research.

Determining Helpful Resources

SS.6-8.IS.3 Determine sources representing multiple points of view and diversity of authorship that will assist in organizing a research plan.

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

SS.6-8.IS.4.LC Determine the value of sources by evaluating their relevance and intended use.

SS.6-8.IS.4.MdC Determine the credibility of sources based upon their origin, authority, and context.

SS.6-8.IS.4.MC Gather relevant information from credible sources and determine whether they support each other.

Developing Claims and Using Evidence

SS.6-8.IS.5.LC Appropriately cite all the sources that are used.

SS.IS.5.6-8.MdC Identify evidence from multiple sources to support claims, noting any limitations of the evidence.

SS.6-8.IS.5.MC Develop claims and counterclaims using evidence from credible sources while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both.

Communicating Conclusions

SS.6-8.IS.6.LC Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging the arguments' strengths and limitations.

SS.6-8.IS.6.MdC Construct explanations for a specific audience using reasoning, correct sequences, examples, and details, while acknowledging their strengths and weaknesses.

SS.6-8.IS.6.MC Present arguments and explanations that would appeal to audiences and venues outside of the classroom, using a variety of media.

Critiquing Conclusions

SS.6-8.IS.7.LC Critique the structure and credibility of arguments and explanations (self and others) about a topic.

Taking Informed Action

SS.6-8.IS.8.LC 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.

SS.6-8.IS.8.MdC Assess individual and collective capacities within a given context to take action, address problems, and identify potential outcomes.

SS.6-8.IS.8.MC Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action in schools and community contexts.

SS.6-8.CV Civics

Civic and Political Institutions

SS.6-8.CV.1.LC 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.

SS.6-8.CV.1.MdC Describe and analyze the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations from a national to local scale in impacting multiple individuals and communities.

SS.6-8.CV.1.MC 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.

S.6-8.CV.2.MdC 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.

SS.6-8.CV.2.MCa 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.

SS.6-8.CV.2.MCb 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.

Participation and Deliberation: Applying Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles

SS.6-8.CV.3.LC 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.

SS.6-8.CV.3.MdC Analyze the origins, purposes, and processes connected to maintaining or changing powers and how individuals and societies protect, grant, or deny rights.

SS.6-8.CV.4.LC 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.

SS.6-8.CV.4.MdC 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.

SS.6-8.CV.4.MC Evaluate and critique deliberative processes regarding the development and application of governing documents and policies and how they have changed over time.

Processes, Rules, and Laws

SS.6-8.CV.5.MdC 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.

SS.6-8.CV.5.MC Develop and evaluate procedures for making decisions in historic and contemporary settings (e.g., school; civil society; or local, state, or national governments).

SS.6-8.EC Economics/Financial Literacy

Economic Decision-Making

SS.6-8.EC.1 Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.

SS.6-8.EC.2 Explain how external benefits and costs influence choices.

SS.6-8.EC.3 Evaluate alternative approaches or solutions to current economic issues in terms of benefits and costs for different groups and society as a whole.

Exchange and Markets

SS.6-8.EC.4 Analyze the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in a market economy.

SS.6-8.EC.5 Describe the roles of institutions, such as corporations, nonprofit organizations and labor unions, in a market economy.

SS.6-8.EC.6 Explain how changes in supply and demand cause changes in prices and quantities of goods and services, labor, credit, and foreign currencies.

The National and Global Economy

SS.6-8.EC.7 Explain why standards of living increase as productivity improves.

SS.6-8.EC.8 Explain barriers to trade and how those barriers influence trade among nations.

SS.6-8.EC.9 Evaluate employment, unemployment, inflation, total production, income, and economic growth data and how they affect different groups.

Financial Literacy

SS.6-8.EC.FL.10 Analyze the relationship among skills, education, jobs, and income.

SS.6-8.EC.FL.11 Explain the roles and relationships among savers, borrowers, interest, time, and the purposes for saving.

SS.6-8.EC.FL.12 Identify how people choose to buy goods and services while still maintaining a budget based on income, taxes, savings, and fixed and variable expenses.

SS.6-8.EC.FL.13 Explain the correlation among investors, investment options (and associated risks), and income/wealth.

SS.6-8.EC.FL.14 Describe the connection among credit, credit options, interest, and credit history.

SS.6-8.EC.FL.15 Analyze the relationship between financial risks and protection, insurance, and costs.

SS.6-8.G Geography

Geographic Representations: Spatial Views of the World

SS.6-8.G.1 Use geographic representations (e.g., maps, photographs, satellite images) to explain relationships between the locations (places and regions) and changes in their environment.

SS.6-8.G.2 Use mapping and graphing to represent and analyze spatial patterns of different environmental and cultural characteristics.

SS.6-8.G.3 Construct different representations to explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.

Human-Environment Interaction: Place, Regions, and Culture

SS.6-8.G.4 Explain how humans and their environment affect one another.

Place, Regions, and Culture

SS.6-8.G.5 Compare and contrast the cultural and environmental characteristics of different places or regions.

SS.6-8.G.6 Evaluate how cultural and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.

Human Population: Spatial Patterns and Movements

SS.6-8.G.7 Explain how environmental characteristics affect human migration and settlement.

SS.6-8.G.8 Explain how changes in transportation and communication influence the spatial connections among human settlements and affect the spread of ideas and culture.

SS.6-8.G.9 Evaluate the influences of long-term, human-induced environmental change on spatial patterns of conflict and cooperation.

Global Interconnections: Changing Spatial Patterns