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Overarching Standard:
HSS-3.4 Students understand the role of rules and laws in our daily lives and the basic structure of the U.S. government.

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Understand the three branches of government, with an emphasis on local government.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-3.4 Students understand the role of rules and laws in our daily lives and the basic structure of the U.S. government.

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Describe the ways in which California, the other states, and sovereign American Indian tribes contribute to the making of our nation and participate in the federal system of government.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-3.4 Students understand the role of rules and laws in our daily lives and the basic structure of the U.S. government.

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Describe the lives of American heroes who took risks to secure our freedoms (e.g., Anne Hutchinson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr.).

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Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

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Describe the ways in which local producers have used and are using natural resources, human resources, and capital resources to produce goods and services in the past and the present.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

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Understand that some goods are made locally, some elsewhere in the United States, and some abroad.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

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Understand that individual economic choices involve trade-offs and the evaluation of benefits and costs.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

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Discuss the relationship of students’ “work” in school and their personal human capital.

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Students describe the major pre-Columbian settlements, including the cliff dwellers and pueblo people of the desert Southwest, the American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the nomadic nations of the Great Plains, and the woodland peoples east of the Mississippi River.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.1 Students describe the major pre-Columbian settlements, including the cliff dwellers and pueblo people of the desert Southwest, the American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the nomadic nations of the Great Plains, and the woodland peoples east of the Mississippi River.

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Describe how geography and climate influenced the way various nations lived and adjusted to the natural environment, including locations of villages, the distinct structures that they built, and how they obtained food, clothing, tools, and utensils.