Standards Addressed

Social Studies, History, Geography

For specific performance standards and essential skills listed by grade level, please see Standards: District of Columbia Public Schools
Grades K – 5
Grades 6 – 9

Content Standards:

  • Students understand chronological order and spatial patterns of human experiences by placing the stories of people and events in the context of their own time and place.
  • Students use varied methods and sources in research and writing.
  • Students scientific, technological, and economic changes and understand how they have affected societies, culture, and politics through history.
  • Students understand how the origins, evolution, and diversity of societies, social classes and groups have been affected and changed by forces of geography, ideology, and economics.
  • Students explain the beliefs and principles of the major religions, ethical systems, philosophies and ideologies that have guided individual lives, shaped economic, social and political institutions, and influence the course of history.
  • Students understand the different ways individuals have expresses experiences, beliefs, and aspirations in art, architecture, music, and literature.
  • Students understand and analyze the relationship between people, places, and the environment.
  • Students understand economic, political, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human population, interdependence, cooperation, competition, compromise, and conflict in controlling the Earth’s surface.
  • Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and changes in the meaning, use distribution, and importance of resources.
  • Students understand the processes that shape the Earth’s surface that affect the spatial distribution of ecosystems.
  • Students understand the physical and human characteristics of places and regions and show patterns and consequences of change.

 

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