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Skills available for Minnesota fourth-grade social studies standards

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1 Citizenship and Government

  • Civic Skills

    • 1 Apply civic reasoning and demonstrate civic skills for the purpose of informed and engaged lifelong civic participation.

      • 4.1.1.1 Describe how consensus building is used to identify and respond to a community problem.

  • Democratic Values and Principles

    • 2 Explain democratic values and principles that guide governments, societies and communities. Analyze the tensions within the United States constitutional government.

      • 4.1.2.1 Describe how democratic values including fairness, equality, justice, rule of law, freedom and/or individual rights guide and impact the classroom.

  • Governmental Institutions and Political Processes

  • Public Policy

    • 5 Analyze how public policy is shaped by governmental and nongovernmental institutions. Analyze how people and communities take action to solve problems and shape public policy.

      • 4.1.5.1 Examine how identity shapes our perspectives about a local issue and describe ways particular community problems are addressed.

  • Tribal Nations

    • 6 Evaluate the unique political status, trust relationships and governing structures of sovereign Tribal Nations and the United States.

      • 4.1.6.1 Locate areas inhabited by Indigenous people united by language and similar ways of life in North America and understand the impact of permanent tribal homelands on Indigenous people of Minnesota.

2 Economics

  • Economic Inquiry

    • 7 Use economic models and reasoning and data analysis to construct an argument and propose a solution related to an economic question. Evaluate the impact of the proposed solution on various communities that would be affected.

  • Fundamental Economic Concepts

    • 8 Analyze how scarcity and artificial shortages force individuals, organizations, communities, and governments to make choices and incur opportunity costs. Analyze how the decisions of individuals, organizations, communities, and governments affect economic equity and efficiency.

  • Microeconomics

    • 10 Explain and evaluate how resources are used and how goods and services are distributed within different economic systems. Analyze how incentives influence the decisions of consumers, producers, and governments. Evaluate the intended and unintended consequences of these decisions from multiple perspectives.

3 Geography

4 History

  • Context, Change, and Continuity

    • 18 Ask historical questions about context, change and continuity in order to identify and analyze dominant and nondominant narratives about the past.

      • 4.4.18.1 Pose a question about an issue in the community and/or the contemporary world and investigate its history.

  • Historical Sources and Evidence

    • 20 Investigate a variety of historical sources by: a) analyzing primary and secondary sources; b) identifying perspectives and narratives that are absent from the available sources; and c) interpreting the historical context, intended audience, purpose, and author's point of view of these sources.

      • 4.4.20.1 Compare and contrast two historical sources to investigate a contemporary issue and its historical roots.

  • Causation and Argumentation

    • 21 Integrate evidence from multiple historical sources and interpretations into a reasoned argument or compelling narrative about the past.

5 Ethnic Studies