Social studies · 2018 framework
Lessons
- 01Check multiple sources and communicate a public issue with dataExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 02Compare government authority, citizen participation and limits on rulersExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 03Explain lasting effects of exploration and colonization in the AmericasExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 04Compare distinct Native communities without erasing their identitiesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 05Explain why people, products and ideas move and shape cultural diversityExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 06Use circle graphs to compare parts of a clearly defined wholeExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 07Evaluate present and future consequences of individual and public choicesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 08Investigate productive resources, division of labor and interdependenceExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 09Explain how learning and experience can expand earning opportunitiesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 10Choose geographic tools and evaluate what maps includeExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 11Use coordinates and multiple criteria to compare regionsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 12Explain two-way relationships between environments and human activitiesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 13Order dates across BCE and CE using an honest timelineExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 14Compare Maya and Mexica societies using identified evidenceExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 15Compare Inka and Mississippian organization, food systems and evidenceExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
Social studies · 2026 framework
Lessons
- 01Examine multiple perspectives on a historical event with primary and secondary sources, then communicate a claimExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 02Make an informed, reasoned civic decision by evaluating, using and discussing a line graph of change over timeExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 03Use continents and regions to organize the Western Hemisphere, then compare the languages, cuisines, belief systems and arts that nations share and that make each uniqueExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 04Trace how European exploration and colonization of Central and South America from the 1400s to the 1700s transformed the hemisphere and left impacts we can observe todayExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 05Answer the fundamental questions of economics and explain how growing cities and civilizations fostered markets and the move from barter to moneyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
- 06Compare the governments, social structures, religions, technologies and farming of the Maya, Inca, Aztec and Mississippian cultures, and explain what made each one uniqueExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers