Standards Index: National Council for the Social Studies C3 Framework

Construct compelling questions, and explain how a question represents key ideas in the field.

Construct compelling questions, and explain how a question reflects an enduring issue in the field.

Explain points of agreement and disagreement experts have about interpretations and applications of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a compelling question.

Explain points of agreement and disagreement experts have about interpretations and applications of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a supporting question.

Construct compelling questions, and explain how supporting questions help answer compelling questions in an inquiry.

Construct compelling questions, and explain how the relationship between supporting questions and compelling questions is mutually reinforcing.

Explain how supporting questions contribute to an inquiry and how, through engaging source work, new compelling and supporting questions emerge.

Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration the different opinions people have about how to answer the questions.

Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of views represented in the sources.

Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of view represented in the sources, the types of sources available, and the potential uses of the sources.

Distinguish the powers and responsibilities of local, state, tribal, national, and international civic and political institutions.

Explain the relevance of personal interests and perspectives, civic virtues, and democratic principles when people address issues and problems in government and civil society.

Analyze the impact and the appropriate roles of personal interests and perspectives on the application of civic virtues, democratic principles, constitutional rights, and human rights.

Evaluate multiple procedures for making governmental decisions at the local, state, national, and international levels in terms of the civic purposes achieved.

Assess specific rules and laws (both actual and proposed) as means of addressing public problems.

Analyze how people use and challenge local, state, national, and international laws to address a variety of public issues.

Evaluate public policies in terms of intended and unintended outcomes, and related consequences.

Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging means of changing societies, promoting the common good, and protecting rights.

Analyze the role of citizens in the U.S. political system, with attention to various theories of democracy, changes in Americans’ participation over time, and alternative models from other countries, past and present.

Analyze the impact of constitutions, laws, treaties, and interna-tional agreements on the maintenance of national and international order.

Explain how the U.S. Constitution establishes a system of government that has powers, responsibilities, and limits that have changed over time and that are still contested.

Evaluate citizens’ and institutions’ effectiveness in addressing social and political problems at the local, state, tribal, national, and/or international level.

Critique relationships among governments, civil societies, and economic markets.

Apply civic virtues and democratic principles in school and community

Apply civic virtues and democratic principles when working with others.

Apply civic virtues and democratic principles when working with others.

Evaluate social and political systems in different contexts, times, and places, that promote civic virtues and enact democratic principles.

Use appropriate deliberative processes in multiple settings.

Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.

Describe the roles of institutions such as corporations, non-profits, and labor unions in a market economy.

Use geospatial and related technologies to create maps to display and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.

Analyze the ways in which cultural and environmental characteristics vary among various regions of the world.

Analyze the ways in which cultural and environmental characteristics vary among various regions of the world.

Explain how the relationship between the environmental characteristics of places and production of goods influences the spatial patterns of world trade.

Evaluate the consequences of human-made and natural catastrophes on global trade, politics, and human migration.

Evaluate the consequences of human-made and natural catastrophes on global trade, politics, and human migration.

Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their political, cultural, and economic dynamics.

Use paper based and electronic mapping and graphing techniques to represent and analyze spatial patterns of different environmental and cultural characteristics.

D2.Geo.3.6-8. Use paper based and electronic mapping and graphing techniques to represent and analyze spatial patterns of different environmental and cultural characteristics.

Use geographic data to analyze variations in the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics at multiple scales.

Analyze relationships and interactions within and between human and physical systems to explain reciprocal influences that occur among them.

Evaluate how political and economic decisions throughout time have influenced cultural and environmental characteristics of various places and regions.

Evaluate how political and economic decisions have influenced cultural and environmental characteristics of various places and regions.

Evaluate how human settlement activities affect the physical and environmental characteristics of places and regions.

Analyze the reciprocal nature of how historical events and the spatial diffusion of ideas, technologies, and cultural practices have influenced migration patterns and the distribution of human population.

Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract spatial patterns of settlement and movement.

Evaluate the impact of economic activities and political decisions on spatial patterns within and among urban, suburban, and rural regions.

Evaluate the influences of long-term human-induced environmental change on spatial patterns of conflict and cooperation.

Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts.

Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts.

Detect possible limitations in various kinds of historical evidence and differing secondary interpretations.

Use questions generated about multiple historical sources to pursue further inquiry and investigate additional sources.

Critique the appropriateness of the historical sources used in a secondary interpretation.

Analyze multiple and complex causes and effect of events in the past.

Evaluate the relative influence of various causes of events and developments in the past.

Organize applicable evidence into a coherent argument about the past.

Integrate evidence from multiple relevant historical sources and interpretations into a reasoned argument about the past.

Critique the central arguments in secondary works of history in multi-media in terms of their historical accuracy.

Analyze change and continuity in historical eras.

Use questions generated about individuals and groups to assess how the significance of their actions changes over time and is shaped by the historical context.

Analyze complex and interacting factors that influenced the perspectives of people during different historical eras.

Explain how and why perspectives of people have changed over time.

Analyze how historical contexts shaped and continue to shape people’s perspectives.

Explain how the perspectives of people in the present shape interpretations of the past.

Analyze how current interpretations of the past are limited by the extent to which available historical sources represent perspec-tives of people at the time.

Analyze the relationship between historical sources and the secondary interpretations made from them.

Apply major theoretical approaches in psychology to social issues.

Describe how biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors influence behavior.

Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection.

Gather relevant information from multiple sources representing a wide range of views while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection.

Gather relevant information from multiple sources representing a wide range of views while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection.

Evaluate the credibility of a source by examining how experts value the source.

Identify evidence that draws information from multiple sources to support claims, noting evidentiary limitations

Identify evidence that draws information directly and substantively from multiple sources to detect inconsistencies in evidence in order to revise or strengthen claims.

Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of the arguments.

Construct arguments using precise and knowledgeable claims, with evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging counterclaims and evidentiary weaknesses.

Critique arguments for credibility.

Critique the use of claims and evidence in arguments for credibility.

Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning