Nevada

DS Disciplinary Skills

• Constructing compelling questions

  • SS.4.1 Generate compelling questions to explore the history of Nevada.

• Creating supporting questions

  • SS.4.2 Generate and answer supporting questions that help address compelling questions.

    • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part I (4-C.7)
    • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part II (4-C.8)
    • Reconstruction (4-D.5)
    • World War I: the road to war (4-E.1)
    • World War I: the war begins (4-E.2)
    • The Great Depression: part I (4-E.5)
    • The Great Depression: part II (4-E.6)
    • What is economics? (4-N.1)

• Gathering and evaluating sources

  • SS.4.3 Analyze primary and secondary sources and use them to construct arguments about the past.

  • SS.4.4 Analyze the sourcing and context of sources through corroboration and close reading.

• Developing claims and using evidence

  • SS.4.5 Cite evidence that supports a response to supporting and compelling questions.

    • Identify facts and opinions (4-Q.1)

  • SS.4.6 Construct responses to compelling questions using reasoning, examples, and relevant details.

    • Identify facts and opinions (4-Q.1)

• Communicating and critiquing conclusions

  • SS.4.7 Construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes using evidence and reasoning.

  • SS.4.8 Participate in a structured academic discussion using evidence and reasoning to share and critique ideas.

• Taking informed action

  • SS.4.9 List and discuss group or individual action to help address local or regional problems.

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

  • SS.4.10 Use deliberative and democratic procedures to take action about an issue.

H History

• Power and politics

  • SS.4.11 Evaluate why Nevada became a state and its role in national politics.

    • State government (4-K.2)
    • Federal government (4-K.3)

• Identity

  • SS.4.12 Analyze how Nevada's population and culture have changed over time.

• People and ideas

  • SS.4.13 Analyze the diverse population of Nevada's Native Americans and settlers of this state and discuss their unique experiences and contributions.

• Nevada history

  • SS.4.14 Evaluate the development and evolution of Nevada's symbols, mottoes, and slogans.

    • Identify American symbols (4-L.1)
    • The American flag (4-L.4)

MC Multicultural

• Social justice, consciousness, and action

  • SS.4.15 Analyze how racism and discriminatory practices have led to oppression in Nevada.

  • SS.4.16 Analyze how diverse individuals and groups in Nevada led movements for social justice in response to discriminatory practices.

    • Frederick Douglass (3-D.7)
    • Susan B. Anthony (3-D.8)
    • Harriet Tubman (3-D.9)
    • Sitting Bull (3-D.10)
    • Thurgood Marshall (3-D.15)
    • Rosa Parks (3-D.16)
    • Cesar Chavez (3-D.18)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. (3-D.19)

• Respectful engagement with diverse people

  • SS.4.17 Analyze the impact of Native people on the culture of Nevada.

  • SS.4.18 Identify and analyze the diversity and cultural traditions of Nevada's people, including but not limited to: Native communities, Basque communities.

    • Día de los Muertos (3-G.1)
    • Thanksgiving (3-G.2)
    • Hanukkah (3-G.3)
    • Rosh Hashanah (3-G.4)
    • Kwanzaa (3-G.5)
    • Christmas (3-G.6)
    • Easter (3-G.7)
    • Lunar New Year (3-G.8)
    • Ramadan (3-G.9)
    • Holi (3-G.10)

• Diverse contributions made by men and women from various racial and ethnic backgrounds, including, without limitation, information relating to contributions and impact

  • SS.4.19 Identify the contributions of culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse individual Nevadans to the advancement of Nevada.

C Civics

• Civic dispositions and democratic principles

  • SS.4.20 Evaluate how core civic dispositions and democratic principles have guided and/or continue to guide local and state government in Nevada.

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

• Processes, rules, and laws

  • SS.4.21 Identify and discuss examples of rules, laws, and authorities that keep people and property safe and secure in the state of Nevada.

    • Local government (4-K.1)
    • State government (4-K.2)
    • Federal government (4-K.3)
    • The Constitution (4-K.4)
    • The Bill of Rights (4-K.5)

  • SS.4.22 Investigate how interest groups have influenced the political, social, and cultural landscape of Nevada.

G Geography

• Geographic representations

  • SS.4.23 Create maps that include human and physical features and that demonstrate spatial patterns in Nevada.

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

• Human environment interaction

  • SS.4.24 Examine how and why Nevada's landscape has been impacted by humans.

  • SS.4.25 Analyze how technological changes have impacted the environment and economy of Nevada.

    • Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (4-C.5)

• Human population, movement, and patterns

  • SS.4.26 Describe the differences in population distribution across Nevada.

E Economics

• Exchange and markets

  • SS.4.27 Using historical and contemporary examples discuss the importance of major industries to Nevada's economy.

    • 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)

  • SS.4.28 Describe the intended and unintended consequences of decisions made regarding limited and shared resources in Nevada.

    • What is economics? (4-N.1)
    • Costs and benefits (4-N.2)
    • Opportunity cost (4-N.3)

• National economy

  • SS.4.29 Investigate the role of Nevada's economy in relation to the national economy.

FL Financial Literacy

• Savings and spending

  • SS.4.30 Explain the benefits of saving and methods of saving, including but not limited to: financial institutions and saving at home.

    • Banks (4-O.1)

• Credit and debt

  • SS.4.31 Identify methods of payment for goods and services.

    • What is economics? (4-N.1)
    • Banks (4-O.1)

• Insurance, investing, and risk

  • SS.4.32 Determine the consequences of sharing personal information with others.

• College and career preparedness

  • SS.4.33 Examine jobs related to a career of interest.