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HSS-2.3 Students explain governmental institutions and practices in the United States and other countries.

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Explain how the United States and other countries make laws, carry out laws, determine whether laws have been violated, and punish wrongdoers.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-2.3 Students explain governmental institutions and practices in the United States and other countries.

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Describe the ways in which groups and nations interact with one another to try to resolve problems in such areas as trade, cultural contacts, treaties, diplomacy, and military force.

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Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

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HSS-2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

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Describe food production and consumption long ago and today, including the roles of farmers, processors, distributors, weather, and land and water resources.

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HSS-2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

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Understand the role and interdependence of buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) of goods and services.

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HSS-2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

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Understand how limits on resources affect production and consumption (what to produce and what to consume).

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Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride).

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Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

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HSS-PoAD.12.1 Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

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Analyze the influence of ancient Greek, Roman, English, and leading European political thinkers such as John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and William Blackstone on the development of American government.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.1 Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

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Discuss the character of American democracy and its promise and perils as articulated by Alexis de Tocqueville.