Wyoming

1 Citizenship, Government, and Democracy

• SS5.1.1 Describe the basic rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

  • Presidential elections (5-K.7)

• SS5.1.2 Understand the basic local, tribal, state, and national political processes (e.g., campaigning and voting).

  • Local government (5-K.1)
  • State government (5-K.2)
  • Federal government (5-K.3)
  • Presidential elections (5-K.7)

• SS5.1.3 Understand the basic origins of the United States Constitution (e.g., Declaration of Independence).

  • The American Revolution: struggle for independence (5-G.6)
  • The Constitution (5-K.4)
  • The Bill of Rights (5-K.5)

• SS5.1.4 Understand the purpose of the U.S. legal system and that tribal governments have separate legal systems.

  • Checks and balances (5-K.6)

• SS5.1.5 Understand the purposes of the three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial).

  • Checks and balances (5-K.6)
  • Purposes of government (6-CC.1)
  • The Legislative Branch (6-CC.2)
  • The Executive Branch (6-CC.3)
  • The Judicial Branch (6-CC.4)

  • SS5.1.5.a Understand how the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone are sovereign nations with their own systems of governance (i.e., each has a General Council and a resolution form of government).

2 Culture and Cultural Diversity

• SS.5.2.1 Identify and describe the ways groups, including Indigenous Tribes of Wyoming (e.g., families, communities, schools, and social organizations) meet human needs and concerns (e.g., belonging, self-worth, and personal safety) and contribute to identity (e.g., personal, tribal, ethnic) and daily life (e.g., traditions, beliefs, language, customs).

  • Purposes of government (6-CC.1)

• SS5.2.2 Describe, compare and contrast ways in which unique expressions of culture (e.g., tribal affiliation, language, spirituality, stories, folktales, music, art, and dance) influence people.

• SS5.2.3 Identify and describe characteristics and contributions of local and state cultural groups, including Indigenous Tribes of Wyoming, in Wyoming and the region.

• SS5.2.4 Identify and describe positive and negative interactions (e.g., withholding of Native American U.S. citizenship until 1924), the tensions among cultural groups, social classes and/or significant individuals in Wyoming and the United States (e.g., Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, Sacagawea, Chief Washakie, Chief Black Coal, Chief Pocatello, Chief Sharp Nose, and Chief Friday).

  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition (5-H.2)
  • Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (5-H.5)
  • Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (5-H.6)
  • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part I (5-H.7)
  • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part II (5-H.8)
  • Reconstruction (5-I.5)

3 Production, Distribution, and Consumption

• SS5.3.1 Give examples of needs, wants, goods, services, scarcity, and choice.

  • What is economics? (5-N.1)
  • Opportunity cost (5-N.3)

• SS5.3.2 Identify basic economic concepts (e.g., supply, demand, price, and trade).

  • What is economics? (5-N.1)
  • Costs and benefits (5-N.2)
  • Opportunity cost (5-N.3)
  • Understand quantity supplied and quantity demanded (5-P.1)
  • Understand overall supply and demand (5-P.2)
  • Create and use supply and demand curves (5-P.3)
  • Identify shortage and surplus (5-P.4)
  • Identify shortage and surplus with graphs (5-P.5)
  • Identify shortage and surplus with data (5-P.6)

• SS5.3.3 Identify and describe how science and technology have affected production and distribution locally, nationally, and globally (e.g., trains and natural resources).

• SS5.3.4 Explain the roles and effect of money, banking, savings, and budgeting in personal life and society.

  • The Great Depression: part I (5-J.5)
  • The Great Depression: part II (5-J.6)
  • The New Deal (5-J.7)
  • Banks (5-O.1)

4 Time, Continuity, and Change

• SS5.4.1 Describe how small changes can lead to big changes (cause and effect) (e.g., introduction of horses to the Plains tribes, discovery of gold and minerals in the region, discovery of electricity, impact of the Homestead Act and Dawes Act, establishment of water rights and resource management).

  • Benjamin Franklin (3-D.1)
  • John Deere (3-D.5)
  • Thomas Edison (3-D.11)
  • George Washington Carver (3-D.13)
  • Bill Gates (3-D.21)

• SS5.4.2 Describe how tools and technology make life easier; describe how one tool or technology evolves into another (e.g., telegraph to telephone to cell phone or travois to horse-drawn wagon to railroad to car); identify a tool or technology that impacted history (e.g., ships allowed for discovery of new lands, boiling water prevented spread of disease, railroads and the industrial revolution led to devastation of bison population, and impact of mineral and oil development in the region).

  • Benjamin Franklin (3-D.1)
  • John Deere (3-D.5)
  • Thomas Edison (3-D.11)
  • Bill Gates (3-D.21)

• SS5.4.3 Select current events for relevance and apply understanding of cause and effect to determine how current events impact people or groups including Indigenous Tribes of Wyoming (e.g., energy development, water rights, new technology, and social issues).

• SS5.4.4 Discuss different groups that a person may belong to, including Indigenous Tribes of Wyoming, (e.g., family, neighborhood, cultural/ethnic, and workplace) and how those roles and/or groups have changed over time.

• SS5.4.5 Identify differences between primary (e.g., historical photographs, artifacts, and documents, including treaties) and secondary sources. Find primary and secondary sources about an historical event (e.g., creation of reservations, Sand Creek Massacre, and creation of national parks). Summarize central ideas in primary and secondary resources.

  • Identify primary and secondary sources (6-JJ.1)

5 People, Places, and Environments

• SS5.5.1 Apply mental mapping skills and use different representations of the Earth to demonstrate an understanding of human and physical patterns and how local decisions may create global impacts.

  • Read a map: cardinal directions (5-A.1)
  • Identify lines of latitude and longitude (5-A.2)
  • Use lines of latitude and longitude (5-A.3)
  • Identify oceans and continents (5-B.3)
  • Select oceans and continents (5-B.4)
  • Name oceans and continents (5-B.5)
  • Identify states of the West (5-C.1)
  • Select states of the West (5-C.2)
  • Name states of the West (5-C.3)
  • Identify state capitals of the West (5-D.1)
  • Name state capitals of the West (5-D.2)
  • Cities of the West (5-E.1)

  • SS5.5.1.a Identify boundaries of the Wind River Indian Reservation.

• SS5.5.2 Explain how physical features, patterns, and systems impact different regions and how these features may help us generalize and compare areas within the reservation, state, nation, or world.

• SS5.5.3 Describe the human features of an area (e.g., language, religion, political and economic systems, population distribution, and quality of life), past and present settlement patterns (e.g., Indigenous Tribes of Wyoming and the Oregon Trail), and how ideas, goods, and/or people move from one area to another.

  • Jamestown: the early years (5-F.1)
  • Jamestown: growth of a colony (5-F.2)
  • Plymouth (5-F.3)
  • New England colonies: religion and government (5-F.4)
  • New England colonies: economy and conflict (5-F.5)
  • Middle colonies: founding and government (5-F.6)
  • Middle colonies: economy and society (5-F.7)
  • Southern colonies: founding and government (5-F.8)
  • Southern colonies: economy and slavery (5-F.9)

  • SS5.5.3.a.i Describe how cultural values of the Indigenous Tribes of Wyoming influence the importance and preservation of place and sacred sites (e.g., Devils Tower/Bear Lodge, Hot Springs State Park, Vedauwoo, Crowheart Butte, Bighorn Medicine Wheel, Estes Park, Yellowstone, Heart Mountain, and Wind River Mountains).

  • SS5.5.3.a.ii Describe and identify a variety of place names and their connection to Indigenous Tribes of Wyoming.

    • Identify states of the West (5-C.1)
    • Select states of the West (5-C.2)
    • Name states of the West (5-C.3)

• SS5.5.4 Describe how the environment influences people in Wyoming and how we adjust to and/or change our environment in order to survive (e.g., natural resources, housing, and food).

  • SS5.5.4.a Discuss the ways in which the environment, including climate and seasons, influenced how the Indigenous Tribes of Wyoming adapted to their natural environment (e.g., how they obtained food, clothing, tools, and migration).

6 Technology, Literacy, and Global Connections

• SS5.6.1 Use various media resources in order to address a question or solve a problem.

• SS5.6.2 Identify validity of information (e.g., accuracy, relevancy, fact, or fiction).

  • Identify facts and opinions (5-Q.1)

• SS5.6.3 Use digital tools to research, design, and present social studies concepts (e.g., understand how individual responsibility applies in usage of digital media).

• SS5.6.4 Identify the difference between primary and secondary sources.

  • Identify primary and secondary sources (6-JJ.1)