Kansas
Skills available for Kansas fourth-grade social studies standards
Standards are in black and IXL social studies skills are in dark green. Hold your mouse over the name of a skill to view a sample question. Click on the name of a skill to practice that skill.
Show alignments for:
- Kansas History, Government, and Social Studies Standards Kansas History, Government, and Social Studies Standards
- Kansas College and Career Ready Standards: Civics/Government Kansas College and Career Ready Standards: Civics/Government
- Kansas College and Career Ready Standards: Economic Kansas College and Career Ready Standards: Economic
- Kansas College and Career Ready Standards: Geography Kansas College and Career Ready Standards: Geography
- Kansas College and Career Ready Standards: History Kansas College and Career Ready Standards: History
Actions
1 Choices have consequences
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1.1 The student will recognize and evaluate significant choices and consequences that have impacted our lives and futures.
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1.2 The student will analyze the context and draw conclusions about choices and consequences.
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1.3 The student will investigate and connect examples of choices and consequences with contemporary issues.
- What is economics? (4-N.1)
- Costs and benefits (4-N.2)
- Opportunity cost (4-N.3)
- Understand quantity supplied and quantity demanded (4-P.1)
- Understand overall supply and demand (4-P.2)
- Create and use supply and demand curves (4-P.3)
- Identify shortage and surplus (4-P.4)
- Identify shortage and surplus with graphs (4-P.5)
- Identify shortage and surplus with data (4-P.6)
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1.4 The student will use their understanding of choices and consequences to make a claim or advance a thesis using evidence and argument.
2 Rights and responsibilities
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2.1 The student will recognize and evaluate the rights and responsibilities of people living in societies.
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2.2 The student will analyze the context and draw conclusions about rights and responsibilities.
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2.3 The student will investigate and connect the rights and responsibilities of individuals with contemporary issues.
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2.4 The student will use their understanding of rights and responsibilities to make a claim or advance a thesis using evidence and argument.
3 Identities, beliefs, and practices
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3.1 The student will recognize and evaluate how societies are shaped by the identities, beliefs, and practices of individuals and groups.
- Jamestown: the early years (4-A.1)
- Jamestown: growth of a colony (4-A.2)
- Plymouth (4-A.3)
- New England colonies: religion and government (4-A.4)
- New England colonies: economy and conflict (4-A.5)
- Middle colonies: founding and government (4-A.6)
- Middle colonies: economy and society (4-A.7)
- Southern colonies: founding and government (4-A.8)
- Southern colonies: economy and slavery (4-A.9)
- Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (4-C.5)
- Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (4-C.6)
- Reconstruction (4-D.5)
- The Great Depression: part I (4-E.5)
- The Great Depression: part II (4-E.6)
- The New Deal (4-E.7)
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3.2 The student will analyze context and draw conclusions of how societies are shaped by the identities, beliefs, and practices of individuals and groups.
- Jamestown: the early years (4-A.1)
- Jamestown: growth of a colony (4-A.2)
- Plymouth (4-A.3)
- New England colonies: religion and government (4-A.4)
- New England colonies: economy and conflict (4-A.5)
- Middle colonies: founding and government (4-A.6)
- Middle colonies: economy and society (4-A.7)
- Southern colonies: founding and government (4-A.8)
- Southern colonies: economy and slavery (4-A.9)
- Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (4-C.5)
- Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (4-C.6)
- Reconstruction (4-D.5)
- The Great Depression: part I (4-E.5)
- The Great Depression: part II (4-E.6)
- The New Deal (4-E.7)
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3.3 The student will investigate and connect how societies are shaped by the identities, beliefs, and practices of individuals and groups with contemporary issues.
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3.4 The student will use their understanding of how societies are shaped by the identities, beliefs, and practices of individuals and groups to make a claim or advance a thesis using evidence and argument.
4 Continuity and change
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4.1 The student will recognize and evaluate continuity and change over time.
- Jamestown: the early years (4-A.1)
- Jamestown: growth of a colony (4-A.2)
- Plymouth (4-A.3)
- New England colonies: religion and government (4-A.4)
- New England colonies: economy and conflict (4-A.5)
- Middle colonies: founding and government (4-A.6)
- Middle colonies: economy and society (4-A.7)
- Southern colonies: founding and government (4-A.8)
- Southern colonies: economy and slavery (4-A.9)
- Identify the Thirteen Colonies (4-A.10)
- Select the Thirteen Colonies (4-A.11)
- Name the Thirteen Colonies (4-A.12)
- The American Revolution: the Thirteen Colonies under British rule (4-B.1)
- The American Revolution: New British taxes (4-B.2)
- The American Revolution: struggle for independence (4-B.6)
- The American Revolution: conclusion and aftermath (4-B.8)
- Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (4-C.5)
- Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (4-C.6)
- Reconstruction (4-D.5)
- The Great Depression: part I (4-E.5)
- The Great Depression: part II (4-E.6)
- The New Deal (4-E.7)
- Identify Earth's land features using photographs (4-G.1)
- Identify Earth's land features using satellite images (4-G.2)
- Identify oceans and continents (4-G.3)
- Select oceans and continents (4-G.4)
- Name oceans and continents (4-G.5)
- The Constitution (4-K.4)
- The Bill of Rights (4-K.5)
- Identify American symbols (4-L.1)
- Identify American landmarks and monuments: part I (4-L.2)
- Identify American landmarks and monuments: part II (4-L.3)
- The American flag (4-L.4)
- The White House (4-L.5)
- The Washington Monument (4-L.6)
- The Lincoln Memorial (4-L.7)
- The Statue of Liberty (4-L.8)
- The Empire State Building (4-L.9)
- The Golden Gate Bridge (4-L.10)
- Mount Rushmore (4-L.11)
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4.2 The student will analyze the context and draw conclusions about continuity and change.
- Jamestown: the early years (4-A.1)
- Jamestown: growth of a colony (4-A.2)
- Plymouth (4-A.3)
- New England colonies: religion and government (4-A.4)
- New England colonies: economy and conflict (4-A.5)
- Middle colonies: founding and government (4-A.6)
- Middle colonies: economy and society (4-A.7)
- Southern colonies: founding and government (4-A.8)
- Southern colonies: economy and slavery (4-A.9)
- Identify the Thirteen Colonies (4-A.10)
- Select the Thirteen Colonies (4-A.11)
- Name the Thirteen Colonies (4-A.12)
- The American Revolution: the Thirteen Colonies under British rule (4-B.1)
- The American Revolution: New British taxes (4-B.2)
- The American Revolution: struggle for independence (4-B.6)
- The American Revolution: conclusion and aftermath (4-B.8)
- Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (4-C.5)
- Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (4-C.6)
- Reconstruction (4-D.5)
- The Great Depression: part I (4-E.5)
- The Great Depression: part II (4-E.6)
- The New Deal (4-E.7)
- Identify Earth's land features using photographs (4-G.1)
- Identify Earth's land features using satellite images (4-G.2)
- Identify oceans and continents (4-G.3)
- Select oceans and continents (4-G.4)
- Name oceans and continents (4-G.5)
- The Constitution (4-K.4)
- The Bill of Rights (4-K.5)
- Identify American symbols (4-L.1)
- Identify American landmarks and monuments: part I (4-L.2)
- Identify American landmarks and monuments: part II (4-L.3)
- The American flag (4-L.4)
- The White House (4-L.5)
- The Washington Monument (4-L.6)
- The Lincoln Memorial (4-L.7)
- The Statue of Liberty (4-L.8)
- The Empire State Building (4-L.9)
- The Golden Gate Bridge (4-L.10)
- Mount Rushmore (4-L.11)
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4.3 The student will investigate and connect continuity and change to a contemporary issue.
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4.4 The student will use their understanding of continuity and change to make a claim or advance a thesis using evidence and argument.
5 Dynamic relationships
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5.1 The student will recognize and evaluate dynamic relationships that impact lives in communities, states, and nations.
- Jamestown: the early years (4-A.1)
- Jamestown: growth of a colony (4-A.2)
- Plymouth (4-A.3)
- New England colonies: religion and government (4-A.4)
- New England colonies: economy and conflict (4-A.5)
- Middle colonies: founding and government (4-A.6)
- Middle colonies: economy and society (4-A.7)
- Southern colonies: founding and government (4-A.8)
- Southern colonies: economy and slavery (4-A.9)
- The Louisiana Purchase (4-C.1)
- The Lewis and Clark Expedition (4-C.2)
- Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part I (4-C.7)
- Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part II (4-C.8)
- The Civil War: the beginning of the war (4-D.1)
- The Civil War: the end of the war (4-D.4)
- Reconstruction (4-D.5)
- World War I: the road to war (4-E.1)
- World War I: the war begins (4-E.2)
- World War I: events of the war (4-E.3)
- World War I: the road to peace (4-E.4)
- The New Deal (4-E.7)
- World War II: lead-up to war in Europe, Asia (4-E.8)
- World War II: global events (4-E.9)
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5.2 The student will analyze the context and draw conclusions about dynamic relationships.
- Jamestown: the early years (4-A.1)
- Jamestown: growth of a colony (4-A.2)
- Plymouth (4-A.3)
- New England colonies: religion and government (4-A.4)
- New England colonies: economy and conflict (4-A.5)
- Middle colonies: founding and government (4-A.6)
- Middle colonies: economy and society (4-A.7)
- Southern colonies: founding and government (4-A.8)
- Southern colonies: economy and slavery (4-A.9)
- The Louisiana Purchase (4-C.1)
- The Lewis and Clark Expedition (4-C.2)
- Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (4-C.5)
- Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (4-C.6)
- Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part I (4-C.7)
- Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part II (4-C.8)
- The Civil War: the beginning of the war (4-D.1)
- The Civil War: the end of the war (4-D.4)
- Reconstruction (4-D.5)
- World War I: the road to war (4-E.1)
- World War I: the war begins (4-E.2)
- World War I: events of the war (4-E.3)
- World War I: the road to peace (4-E.4)
- The New Deal (4-E.7)
- World War II: lead-up to war in Europe, Asia (4-E.8)
- World War II: global events (4-E.9)
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5.3 The student will investigate and connect dynamic relationships to contemporary issues.
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5.4 The student will use their understanding of dynamic relationships to make a claim or advance a thesis using evidence and argument.