Washington

SSS Social Studies Skills

• SSS1.4 Uses critical reasoning skills to analyze and evaluate claims.

  • SSS1.4.1 Identify the concepts used in documents and sources.

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

  • SSS1.4.2 Evaluate primary and secondary sources.

• SSS2.4 Uses inquiry-based research.

  • SSS2.4.1 Identify disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a compelling question or supporting questions that are open to different interpretations.

  • SSS2.4.2 Identify the main ideas from a variety of print and non-print texts.

• SSS3.4 Deliberates public issues.

  • SSS3.4.1 Draw on disciplinary concepts to explain the challenges people have faced and opportunities they have created in addressing local, regional, and global problems at various times and places.

    • Plymouth (4-A.3)
    • New England colonies: economy and conflict (4-A.5)
    • Southern colonies: economy and slavery (4-A.9)
    • The American Revolution: the Thirteen Colonies under British rule (4-B.1)
    • The American Revolution: New British taxes (4-B.2)
    • The American Revolution: the Boston Tea Party (4-B.3)
    • The War of 1812: causes (4-C.3)
    • The War of 1812: events and effects (4-C.4)
    • 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 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 Great Depression: part I (4-E.5)
    • The Great Depression: part II (4-E.6)
    • 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)

• SSS4.4 Creates a product that uses social studies content to support a claim and presents the product in a manner that meaningfully communicates with a key audience.

  • SSS4.4.1 Draw clear, well-reasoned conclusions with explanations that are supported by print and non-print texts in a paper or presentation.

  • SSS4.4.2 Prepare a works cited page that connects with in-text attributions that are aligned to a style of citation (i.e. MLA, APA, etc.).

  • SSS4.4.3 Identify relevant evidence that draws information from multiple sources in response to compelling questions.

C Civics

• C1.4 Understands key ideals and principles of the United States, including those in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and other foundational documents.

  • C1.4.1 Apply civic virtues and democratic principles within the classroom setting.

  • C1.4.2 Identify core virtues and democratic principles found in the Washington state constitution and foundational documents.

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

  • C1.4.3 Use deliberative processes when making decisions or reaching judgement as a group.

  • C1.4.4 Describe and apply the key ideals of unity and diversity within the context of the State of Washington.

  • C1.4.5 Describe the key ideals of rights set forth in Article I of the Washington state constitution.

• C2.4 Understands the purposes, organization, and function of governments, laws, and political systems.

  • C2.4.1 Distinguish the responsibilities and power of state, local, and tribal government.

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

  • C2.4.2 Describe how and why local, state, and tribal governments make, interpret, and carry out policies, rules, and laws.

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

  • C2.4.3 Explain how groups of people make rules to create responsibilities and to protect freedoms.

    • Purpose of government (3-E.1)

• C3.4 Understands the purposes and organization of tribal and international relationships and U.S. foreign policy.

  • C3.4.1 Recognize that tribes have lived in North America since time immemorial.

  • C3.4.2 Know and understand that tribes have organizational structures (councils, chairman, etc.) that are formed to benefit the entire tribe.

  • C3.4.3 Explain how tribes of Washington state and the government of the United States are on the same level (nation-to-nation).

  • C3.4.4 Demonstrate that tribal sovereignty is "a way that tribes govern themselves in order to keep and support their ways of life."

  • C3.4.5 Define the complexity of sovereignty for federally recognized tribes in Washington state. Identify ways in which the United States Constitution recognizes tribal sovereignty as unique from other types of sovereignty.

• C4.4 Understands civic involvement.

  • C4.4.1 Recognize that civic participation involves being informed about public issues, taking action, and voting in elections.

    • Presidential elections (4-K.7)

  • C4.4.2 Analyze and evaluate ways of influencing state governments to establish or preserve individual rights and promote the common good.

    • State government (4-K.2)

  • C4.4.3 Explain that the purpose of treaty-making is to create mutually beneficial agreements of responsibilities and freedoms.

  • C4.4.4 Explain that tribes work within specific structures of governments to create, manage, and enforce their own laws that are best for their people.

E Economics

• E1.4 Understands that people have to make choices between wants and needs and evaluate the outcomes of those choices.

  • E1.4.1 Analyze and explain the costs and benefits of people's decisions to move and relocate to meet their needs and wants.

    • Costs and benefits (4-N.2)

  • E1.4.2 Compare the costs and benefits of individual choices.

    • Costs and benefits (4-N.2)

  • E1.4.3 Compare positive and negative incentives that influence the decisions people make.

• E2.4 Understands the components of an economic system.

  • E2.4.1 Compare different historic economic systems in Washington state tribes.

  • E2.4.2 Identify the basic elements of Washington state's economic system, including agriculture, businesses, industry, natural resources, and labor.

    • What is economics? (4-N.1)

  • E2.4.3 Identify examples of the variety of resources (human capital, physical capital, and natural resources) that are used to produce goods and services in Washington state.

    • Natural resources (3-H.2)

  • E2.4.4 Explain why individuals and businesses specialize and trade in Washington state.

  • E2.4.5 Explain the relationship between investment in human capital, productivity, and future incomes.

• E3.4 Understands the government's role in the economy.

  • E3.4.1 Describe how people and businesses support Washington state government through taxation.

  • E3.4.2 Explain the meaning of inflation, deflation, and unemployment.

  • E3.4.3 Describe ways government can improve productivity by using capital goods and human capital.

• E4.4 Understands the economic issues and problems that all societies face.

  • E4.4.1 Explain how geography, natural resources, climate, and available labor contributed to the exploitation of resources in the Pacific Northwest.

    • Natural resources (3-H.2)

  • E4.4.2 Explain the economic issues that different communities within the Pacific Northwest faced.

  • E4.4.3 Explain how trade led to increasing economic interdependence among groups within the Pacific Northwest.

G Geography

• G1.4 Understands the physical characteristics, cultural characteristics, and location of places, regions, and spatial patterns on the Earth's surface.

  • G1.4.1 Construct and use maps to explain the movement of peoples.

    • 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)
    • Middle colonies: founding and government (4-A.6)
    • Southern colonies: founding and government (4-A.8)
    • The Louisiana Purchase (4-C.1)
    • The Lewis and Clark Expedition (4-C.2)
    • 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)

  • G1.4.2 Investigate the physical, political, and cultural characteristics of places, regions, and people in the Pacific Northwest, including the difference between cities, states, and countries.

    • Identify states of the West (4-H.1)
    • Select states of the West (4-H.2)
    • Name states of the West (4-H.3)
    • Identify state capitals of the West (4-I.1)
    • Name state capitals of the West (4-I.2)
    • Cities of the West (4-J.1)

• G2.4 Understands human interaction with the environment.

  • G2.4.1 Draw a conclusion that the geographic features of the Pacific Northwest have influenced the movement of people.

  • G2.4.2 Explain how the lands that the tribes were forced to move to, changed their interactions with the environment.

• G3.4 Understands the geographic context of global issues and events.

  • G3.4.1 Describe how the geography and natural resources of the Oregon Territory created trade with other countries.

H History

• H1.4 Understands historical chronology.

  • H1.4.1 Create timelines to show how historical events are organized into time periods and eras.

    • Reading and creating timelines with BCE and CE (4-Q.2)

  • H1.4.2 Examine how the following themes and developments help to define eras in Washington state history since time immemorial to 1889:
    • Growth of northwest coastal, Puget Sound, and plateau tribes prior to treaties (time immemorial to present)
    • Maritime and overland exploration, encounter, and trade (1774–1849)
    • Immigration and settlement (1811–1889)
    • Territory and treaty-making (1854–1889)

    • The Lewis and Clark Expedition (4-C.2)

  • H1.4.3 Explore and construct an explanation of how the growth of major tribes helps to define the history of the Pacific Northwest prior to 1889.

• H2.4 Understands and analyzes causal factors that have shaped major events in history.

  • H2.4.1 Analyze and explain how individuals have caused change in Washington state history.

  • H2.4.2 Analyze and explain how people from various cultural and ethnic groups have shaped Washington state history.

  • H2.4.3 Analyze and explain how technology and ideas have affected the way people live and change their values, beliefs, and attitudes in Washington.

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

• H3.4 Understands that there are multiple perspectives and interpretations of historical events.

  • H3.4.1 Explain why individuals and groups in Washington state history differed in their perspectives.

  • H3.4.2 Explain connections between historical context and people's perspective of Washington state history.

  • H3.4.3 Explain how the events of Washington state history contributed to the different perspectives between native and non-native people.

  • H3.4.4 Describe how people's perspectives shaped the historical sources they created.

• H4.4 Understands how historical events inform analysis of contemporary issues and events.

  • H4.4.1 Recognize and explain significant historical events in Washington state that have implications for current decisions.

  • H4.4.2 Use evidence to develop a claim about Washington state, and tribal nations and groups.

  • H4.4.3 Compare information provided by different historical sources.

  • H4.4.4 Generate questions about multiple historical sources and their relationships to particular historical events and developments.