Only Grade 10 social studies is shown here. Current and transition frameworks remain separate. A provisional target is not proof that every clause is taught or assessed.
Social studies · 2018 framework
American History · 33 / 33 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:1 | Provisional target; review pending | The use of primary and secondary sources of information includes an examination of the credibility of each source. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:2 | Provisional target; review pending | Historians develop theses and use evidence to support or refute positions. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:3 | Provisional target; review pending | Historians analyze cause, effect, sequence and correlation in historical events, including multiple causation and long- and short-term causal relations. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:4 | Provisional target; review pending | The Declaration of Independence elaborates on the rights and role of the people in building the foundations of the American nation through the principles of unalienable rights and consent of the people. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:5 | Provisional target; review pending | The Northwest Ordinance elaborates on the rights and role of the people in building the foundations of the American nation through its establishment of natural rights and setting up educational institutions. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:6 | Provisional target; review pending | The U.S. Constitution established the foundations of the American nation and the relationship between the people and their government. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:7 | Provisional target; review pending | The debate presented by the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers over protections for individuals and limits on government power resulted in the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights provides constitutional protections for individual liberties and limits on governmental power. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:8 | Provisional target; review pending | The rise of corporations, heavy industry, mechanized farming and technological innovations transformed the American economy from an agrarian to an increasingly urban industrial society. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:9 | Provisional target; review pending | The rise of industrialization led to a rapidly expanding workforce. Labor organizations grew amidst unregulated working conditions, laissez-faire policies toward big business, and violence toward supporters of organized labor. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:10 | Provisional target; review pending | Immigration, internal migration and urbanization transformed American life. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:11 | Provisional target; review pending | Continued settlement by Americans in the West intensified conflict with American Indians and reinforced the policy of the reservation system. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:12 | Provisional target; review pending | Following Reconstruction, old political and social structures reemerged and racial discrimination was institutionalized. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:13 | Provisional target; review pending | The Progressive era was an effort to address the ills of American society stemming from industrial capitalism, urbanization and political corruption. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:14 | Provisional target; review pending | As a result of overseas expansion, the Spanish-American War and World War I, the United States emerged as a world power. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:15 | Provisional target; review pending | After World War I, the United States pursued efforts to maintain peace in the world. However, as a result of the national debate over the Versailles Treaty ratification and the League of Nations, the United States moved away from the role of world peacekeeper and limited its involvement in international affairs. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:16 | Provisional target; review pending | Racial intolerance, anti-immigrant attitudes and the Red Scare contributed to social unrest after World War I. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:17 | Provisional target; review pending | An improved standard of living for many, combined with technological innovations in communication, transportation and industry, resulted in social and cultural changes and tensions. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:18 | Provisional target; review pending | Movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, African- American migration, women's suffrage and Prohibition all contributed to social change. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:19 | Provisional target; review pending | The Great Depression was caused, in part, by the federal government's monetary policies, stock market speculation, and increasing consumer debt. The role of the federal government expanded as a result of the Great Depression. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:20 | Provisional target; review pending | During the 1930s, the U.S. government attempted to distance the country from earlier interventionist policies in the Western Hemisphere as well as retain an isolationist approach to events in Europe and Asia until the beginning of World War II. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:21 | Provisional target; review pending | United States policy and mobilization of its economic and military resources during World War II affected American society. Despite mistreatment, marginalized groups played important roles in the war effort while continuing to protest unfair treatment. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:22 | Provisional target; review pending | Use of atomic weapons changed the nature of war, altered the balance of power and began the nuclear age. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:23 | Provisional target; review pending | The United States followed a policy of containment during the Cold War in response to the spread of communism. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:24 | Provisional target; review pending | The Second Red Scare and McCarthyism reflected Cold War fears in American society. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:25 | Provisional target; review pending | The Cold War and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam influenced domestic and international politics. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:26 | Provisional target; review pending | The collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R. brought an end to the Cold War. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:27 | Provisional target; review pending | Following World War II, the United States experienced a struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil rights. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:28 | Provisional target; review pending | The postwar economic boom and advances in science and technology, produced changes in American life. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:29 | Provisional target; review pending | The continuing population flow from cities to suburbs, the internal migrations from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt, and the increase in immigration resulting from passage of the 1965 Immigration Act have had social and political effects. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:30 | Provisional target; review pending | Political debates focused on the extent of the role of government in the economy, environmental protection, social welfare and national security. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:31 | Provisional target; review pending | Improved global communications, international trade, transnational business organizations, overseas competition and the shift from manufacturing to service industries have impacted the American economy. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:32 | Provisional target; review pending | The United States faced new political, national security and economic challenges in the post-Cold War world and following the attacks on September 11, 2001. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_HISTORY:33 | Provisional target; review pending | Focusing on foreign policy, the United States faces ongoing economic, political, military, and social challenges in the post- Cold War era and following the attacks of September 11, 2001. |
American Government · 21 / 21 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:1 | Provisional target; review pending | Opportunities for civic engagement within the structures of government are made possible through political and public policy processes. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:2 | Provisional target; review pending | Political parties, interest groups and the media provide opportunities for civic involvement through various means. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:3 | Provisional target; review pending | Issues can be analyzed through the critical use of credible sources. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:4 | Provisional target; review pending | The processes of persuasion, compromise, consensus building and negotiation contribute to the democratic process. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:5 | Provisional target; review pending | As the supreme law of the land, the U.S. Constitution incorporates basic principles that help define the government of the United States as a federal republic including its structure, powers and relationship with the governed. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:6 | Provisional target; review pending | The Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers framed the national debate over the basic principles of government encompassed by the Constitution of the United States. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:7 | Provisional target; review pending | Constitutional government in the United States has changed over time as a result of amendments to the U.S. Constitution, Supreme Court decisions, legislation and informal practices. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:8 | Provisional target; review pending | The Bill of Rights was drafted in response to the national debate over the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:9 | Provisional target; review pending | The constitutional amendments known collectively as the Reconstruction Amendments extended new constitutional protections to African Americans, though the struggle to fully achieve equality would continue. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:10 | Provisional target; review pending | Constitutional amendments have provided for civil rights such as suffrage for disenfranchised groups. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:11 | Provisional target; review pending | Constitutional amendments have altered provisions for the structure and functions of the federal government. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:12 | Provisional target; review pending | Law and public policy are created and implemented by three branches of government; each functions with its own set of powers and responsibilities. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:13 | Provisional target; review pending | The political process creates a dynamic interaction among the three branches of government in addressing current issues. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:14 | Provisional target; review pending | In the United States, people have rights that protect them from undue governmental interference. Rights carry responsibilities that help define how people use their rights and that require respect for the rights of others. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:15 | Provisional target; review pending | Historically, the United States has struggled with majority rule and the extension of minority rights. As a result of this struggle, the government has increasingly extended civil rights to marginalized groups and broadened opportunities for participation. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:16 | Provisional target; review pending | As a framework for the state, the Ohio Constitution has similarities and differences to the federal Constitution; it was changed in 1851 to address difficulties governing the state. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:17 | Provisional target; review pending | Individuals in Ohio have a responsibility to assist state and local governments as they address relevant and often controversial problems that directly affect their communities. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:18 | Provisional target; review pending | A variety of entities within the three branches of government, at all levels, address public policy issues that arise in domestic and international affairs. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:19 | Provisional target; review pending | Individuals and organizations play a role within federal, state and local governments in helping to determine public (domestic and foreign) policy. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:20 | Provisional target; review pending | The federal government uses spending and tax policy to maintain economic stability and foster economic growth. Regulatory actions carry economic costs and benefits. |
| ss-2018:AMERICAN_GOVERNMENT:21 | Provisional target; review pending | The Federal Reserve System uses monetary tools to regulate the nation's money supply and moderate the effects of expansion and contraction in the economy. |
Modern World History · 28 / 28 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:1 | Provisional target; review pending | The use of primary and secondary sources of information includes an examination of the credibility of each source. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:2 | Provisional target; review pending | Historians develop theses and use evidence to support or refute positions. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:3 | Provisional target; review pending | Historians analyze cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including multiple causation and long- and short-term causal relations. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:4 | Provisional target; review pending | The Scientific Revolution impacted religious, political, and cultural institutions by challenging how people viewed the world. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:5 | Provisional target; review pending | Enlightenment ideas regarding human nature and society challenged religious authority, absolute rule and mercantilism. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:6 | Provisional target; review pending | Enlightenment ideas on the relationship of the individual and the government influenced the American and French Revolutions. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:7 | Provisional target; review pending | The American and French Revolutions influenced Latin American revolutions for independence. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:8 | Provisional target; review pending | Industrialization had social, political and economic effects on Western Europe and the world. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:9 | Provisional target; review pending | Imperial expansion had political, economic and social roots. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:10 | Provisional target; review pending | Imperialism involved land acquisition, extraction of raw materials, spread of Western values and direct political control. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:11 | Provisional target; review pending | The consequences of imperialism were viewed differently by the colonizers and the colonized. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:12 | Provisional target; review pending | Advances in technology, communication and transportation improved lives, but also had negative consequences. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:13 | Provisional target; review pending | The causes of World War I included militarism, imperialism, nationalism and alliances. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:14 | Provisional target; review pending | The consequences of World War I and the worldwide depression set the stage for the Russian Revolution, the rise of totalitarianism, aggressive Axis expansion and the policy of appeasement which in turn led to World War II. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:15 | Provisional target; review pending | Oppression and discrimination resulted in the Armenian Genocide during World War I and the Holocaust during World War II. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:16 | Provisional target; review pending | World War II devastated most of Europe and Asia, led to the occupation of Eastern Europe and Japan, and began the atomic age. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:17 | Provisional target; review pending | The United States and the Soviet Union became superpowers and competed for global influence. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:18 | Provisional target; review pending | Treaties and agreements at the end of World War II changed national boundaries and created multinational organizations. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:19 | Provisional target; review pending | Religious diversity, the end of colonial rule and rising nationalism have led to regional conflicts in the Middle East. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:20 | Provisional target; review pending | Postwar global politics led to the rise of nationalist movements in Africa and Southeast Asia. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:21 | Provisional target; review pending | Political and social struggles have resulted in expanded rights and freedoms for women and indigenous peoples. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:22 | Provisional target; review pending | The break-up of the Soviet Union ended the Cold War and created challenges for its former allies, the former Soviet republics, Europe, the United States and the non-aligned world. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:23 | Provisional target; review pending | Regional and ethnic conflicts in the post-Cold War era have resulted in acts of terrorism, genocide and ethnic cleansing. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:24 | Provisional target; review pending | Political and cultural groups have struggled to achieve self-governance and self-determination. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:25 | Provisional target; review pending | Emerging economic powers and improvements in technology have created a more interdependent global economy. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:26 | Provisional target; review pending | Proliferation of nuclear weapons has created a challenge to world peace. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:27 | Provisional target; review pending | The rapid increase of global population, coupled with an increase in life expectancy and mass migrations have created societal and governmental challenges. |
| ss-2018:MODERN_WORLD_HISTORY:28 | Provisional target; review pending | Environmental concerns, impacted by population growth and heightened by international competition for the world's energy supplies, have resulted in a new environmental consciousness and a movement for the sustainability of the world's resources. |
Economics Financial Literacy · 25 / 25 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:1 | Provisional target; review pending | Economists analyze multiple sources of data to predict trends, make inferences and arrive at conclusions. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:2 | Provisional target; review pending | Reading financial reports (bank statements, stock market reports, mutual fund statements) enables individuals to make and analyze decisions about personal finances. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:3 | Provisional target; review pending | People cannot have all the goods and services they want and, as a result, must choose some things and give up others. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:4 | Provisional target; review pending | Different economic systems (traditional, market, command, and mixed) utilize different methods to allocate limited resources. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:5 | Provisional target; review pending | Markets exist when consumers and producers interact. When supply or demand changes, market prices adjust. Those adjustments send signals and provide incentives to consumers and producers to change their own decisions. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:6 | Provisional target; review pending | Competition among sellers lowers costs and prices, and encourages producers to produce more of what consumers are willing and able to buy. Competition among buyers increases prices and allocates goods and services to those people who are willing and able to pay the most for them. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:7 | Provisional target; review pending | A nation's overall level of economic well-being is determined by the interaction of spending and production decisions made by all households, firms, government agencies and others in the economy. Economic well-being can be assessed by analyzing economic indicators gathered by the government. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:8 | Provisional target; review pending | Economic policy decisions made by governments result in both intended and unintended consequences. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:9 | Provisional target; review pending | When regions and nations use comparative advantage to produce at the lowest cost and then trade with others, production, consumption and interdependence increase. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:10 | Provisional target; review pending | Government actions, such as tariffs, quotas, subsidies, trade agreements and membership in multinational economic organizations, significantly impact international trade. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:11 | Provisional target; review pending | Income is determined by many factors including individual skills and abilities, work ethic and market conditions. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:12 | Provisional target; review pending | Employee earning statements include information about gross wages, benefits, taxes and other deductions. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:13 | Provisional target; review pending | Financial decision-making involves considering alternatives by examining costs and benefits. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:14 | Provisional target; review pending | A personal financial plan includes financial goals and a budget, including spending on goods and services, savings and investments, insurance and philanthropy. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:15 | Provisional target; review pending | Different payment methods have advantages and disadvantages. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:16 | Provisional target; review pending | Saving and investing help to build wealth. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:17 | Provisional target; review pending | Savings can serve as a buffer against economic hardship. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:18 | Provisional target; review pending | Different costs and benefits are associated with saving and investing alternatives. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:19 | Provisional target; review pending | Banks, brokerages and insurance companies provide access to investments such as certificates of deposit, stocks, bonds and mutual funds. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:20 | Provisional target; review pending | There are costs and benefits associated with various sources of credit available from different types of financial institutions. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:21 | Provisional target; review pending | Credit and debt can be managed to maintain credit worthiness. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:22 | Provisional target; review pending | Consumer protection laws provide financial safeguards. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:23 | Provisional target; review pending | Property and liability insurance protect against risks associated with use of property. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:24 | Provisional target; review pending | Health, disability and life insurance protect against risks associated with increased expenses and loss of income. |
| ss-2018:ECONOMICS_FINANCIAL_LITERACY:25 | Provisional target; review pending | Steps can be taken to safeguard one's personal financial information and reduce the risk of loss. |
Contemporary World Issues · 22 / 22 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:1 | Provisional target; review pending | Trade, alliances, treaties and international organizations contribute to the increasing interconnectedness of nations and peoples in the 21st century. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:2 | Provisional target; review pending | Advances in communications technology have profound effects on the ability of governments, interest groups, individuals and the media to share information across national and cultural borders. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:3 | Provisional target; review pending | Individuals can evaluate media messages that are constructed using particular tools, characteristics and conventions for unique purposes. Different communication methods affect how people define and act on issues. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:4 | Provisional target; review pending | Individuals can assess how effective communicators address diverse audiences. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:5 | Provisional target; review pending | Individuals can identify, assess and evaluate world events, engage in deliberative civil debate and influence public processes to address global issues. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:6 | Provisional target; review pending | Effective civic participation involves identifying problems or dilemmas, proposing appropriate solutions, formulating action plans, and assessing the positive and negative results of actions taken. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:7 | Provisional target; review pending | Individuals can participate through non-governmental organizations to help address humanitarian needs. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:8 | Provisional target; review pending | Beliefs about civil and human rights vary among social and governmental systems. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:9 | Provisional target; review pending | Nations and international organizations pursue their own interests on issues related to civil and human rights, resulting in both conflict and cooperation particularly as it relates to injustices against minority groups. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:10 | Provisional target; review pending | Modern instances of genocide and ethnic cleansing present individual, organizational and national issues related to the responsibilities of participants and non-participants. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:11 | Provisional target; review pending | Decisions about human activities made by individuals and societies have implications for both current and future generations, including intended and unintended consequences. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:12 | Provisional target; review pending | Sustainability issues are interpreted and treated differently by people viewing them from various political, economic and cultural perspectives. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:13 | Provisional target; review pending | International associations and nongovernmental organizations offer means of collaboration to address sustainability issues on local, national and international levels. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:14 | Provisional target; review pending | The development and use of technology influences economic, political, ethical and social issues. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:15 | Provisional target; review pending | Technologies inevitably involve trade-offs between costs and benefits. Decisions about the use of products and systems can result in intended and unintended consequences. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:16 | Provisional target; review pending | Nations seek to ensure the security of their geographic territories, political institutions, economic systems and ways of life. Maintaining security has political, social and economic costs. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:17 | Provisional target; review pending | Economic, political and social differences between global entities can lead to conflict unless mitigated through diplomacy or cooperative efforts. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:18 | Provisional target; review pending | Individuals and organizations work within, or outside of, established systems of power, authority and governance to influence their own security and the security of others. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:19 | Provisional target; review pending | The global economy creates advantages and disadvantages for different segments of the world's population. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:20 | Provisional target; review pending | Trade agreements, multinational organizations, embargoes and protectionism impact markets. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:21 | Provisional target; review pending | The distribution of wealth and economic power among countries changes over time. |
| ss-2018:CONTEMPORARY_WORLD_ISSUES:22 | Provisional target; review pending | The global economy creates interdependence so that economic circumstances in one country impact events in other countries. |
World Geography · 19 / 19 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:1 | Provisional target; review pending | Properties and functions of geographic representations (e.g., maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, Internet-based mapping applications, geographic information systems, global positioning systems, remote sensing, and geographic visualizations) affect how they can be used to represent, analyze and interpret geographic patterns and processes. |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:2 | Provisional target; review pending | Geographic representations and geospatial technologies are used to investigate, analyze and communicate the results of geographic problem solving. |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:3 | Provisional target; review pending | Human modifications of the physical environment in one place often lead to changes in other places (e.g., construction of a dam provides downstream flood control, construction of a city by-pass reduces commercial activity in the city center, implementation of dry farming techniques in a region leads to new transportation links and hubs). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:4 | Provisional target; review pending | Human societies use a variety of strategies to adapt to the opportunities and constraints presented by the physical environment (e.g., farming in flood plains and terraced farming, building hydroelectric plants by waterfalls and constructing hydroelectric dams, using solar panels as heat source and using extra insulation to retain heat). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:5 | Provisional target; review pending | Physical processes influence the formation and distribution of renewable, nonrenewable, and flow resources (e.g., tectonic activity plays a role in the formation and location of fossil fuels, erosion plays a role in the formation of sedimentary rocks, rainfall patterns affect regional drainage patterns). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:6 | Provisional target; review pending | There are costs and benefits of using renewable, nonrenewable, and flow resources (e.g., availability, sustainability, environmental impact, expense). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:7 | Provisional target; review pending | Human interaction with the environment is affected by cultural characteristics (e.g., plowing with oxen or with tractors, development of water resources for industry or recreation, resource conservation or development) |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:8 | Provisional target; review pending | Physical, cultural, economic, and political factors contribute to human migrations (e.g., drought, religious conflicts, job opportunities, immigration laws). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:9 | Provisional target; review pending | Human migrations impact physical and human systems (e.g., stress on food supplies in refugee camps, removal of natural obstacles to movement, harvest productivity and migrant labor, calls for an official language in countries with high immigration, reduction in city tax revenues due to urban emigration). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:10 | Provisional target; review pending | Activities and patterns of trade and communication create interdependence among countries in different regions (e.g., seed corn grown in Iowa and planted in South America, high-definition televisions manufactured in Japan and viewed in the United States, news outlets from many countries available around the world via the Internet, instant access to data affects stock markets in different countries). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:11 | Provisional target; review pending | Criteria are used to organize regions and as the criteria change, the identified regions change (e.g., types of economic activities, ethnic groups, natural vegetation). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:12 | Provisional target; review pending | The characteristics of regions change over time and there are consequences related to those changes (e.g., industrial belt to rust belt, pristine locations to tourist attractions, colony to independent state). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:13 | Provisional target; review pending | There are interconnections within and among physical and human regions (e.g., river systems, transportation linkages, common currency). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:14 | Provisional target; review pending | Regions are used as a basis to analyze global geographic issues (e.g., desertification, political disputes, economic unions). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:15 | Provisional target; review pending | Patterns of settlement change over time in terms of functions, sizes, and spatial patterns (e.g., a canal town becomes an industrial city, a rural area becomes a transportation hub, cities merge into a megalopolis). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:16 | Provisional target; review pending | Urbanization provides opportunities and challenges for physical and human systems in cities and their surrounding regions (e.g., development of suburbs, loss of habitat, central markets, squatter settlements on city outskirts, regional specialization in services or products, creation of ethnic enclaves). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:17 | Provisional target; review pending | Globalization has shaped new cultural, economic, and political ideas and entities (e.g., universal human rights, European Union, terrorist networks). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:18 | Provisional target; review pending | Globalization has cultural, economic, physical and political consequences (e.g., Internet access increases availability of information, outsourcing leads to regional unemployment, development of infrastructure impacts local ecosystems and economies, computer hacking into sensitive data bases leads to insecurity). |
| ss-2018:WORLD_GEOGRAPHY:19 | Provisional target; review pending | Global trade and communication systems reduce the effect of time on the distribution of goods, services, and information (e.g., reliance on local foods versus global trade in perishable foods, online brokering versus personal brokers, Internet access versus library access). |