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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 analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.

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HSS-11.1 Students analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.

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Describe the Enlightenment and the rise of democratic ideas as the context in which the nation was founded.

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HSS-11.1 Students analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.

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Analyze the ideological origins of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers’ philosophy of divinely bestowed unalienable natural rights, the debates on the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, and the addition of the Bill of Rights.