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DE Social Studies State Standards
The standards provided here have been abridged by the University of Delaware Social Studies Education Dept. For the unabridged DE Social Studies Standards, please go to the DE DOE site.
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Analyze the ways in which structure and purposes of different governments around the world reflect differing ideologies, cultures, values, and histories. |
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examine and analyze the extra-Constitutional role that political parties play in American politics. |
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Understand that the functioning of the government is a dynamic process which combines the formal balances of power incorporated in the Constitution with traditions, precedents, and interpretations which have evolved over the past 200 years. |
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Understand that citizens are individually responsible for keeping themselves informed about public policy issues on the local, state, and federal levels; participating in the civic process; and upholding the laws of the land. |
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Develop and employ the skills necessary to work with government programs and agencies. |
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Understand the process of working with a political party, a commission engaged in examining public policy, or a citizen's group. |
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Demonstrate how individual economic choices are made within the context of a market economy in which markets influence the production and distribution of goods and services. |
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Develop an understanding of how economics function as a whole, including the causes and effects of inflation, unemployment, business cycles, and monetary and fiscal policies. |
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Analyze the wide range of opportunities and consequences resulting from the current transitions from command to market economies in many countries. |
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Analyze and interpret the influence of the distribution of the world's resources, political stability, national efforts to encourage or discourage trade, and the flow of investment on patterns of international trade. |
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Identify geographic patterns which emerge when collected data is mapped, and analyze mapped patterns through the application of such common geographic principles as: Hierarchy, Accessibility, Diffusion, or Complimentarity. |
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Apply the analysis of mapped patterns to the solution of problems. |
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Understand the Earth's physical environment as a set of interconnected systems (ecosystems) and the ways humans have perceived, reacted to, and changed environments at local to global scales. |
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Understand the processes which result in distinctive cultures, economic activity, and settlement form in particular locations across the world. |
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Apply knowledge of the types of regions and methods of drawing boundaries to interpret the Earth's changing complexity. |
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Analyze historical materials to trace the development of an idea or trend across space or over a prolonged period of time in order to explain patterns of historical continuity and change. |
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Develop and implement effective research strategies for investigating a given historical topic. |
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Examine and analyze primary and secondary sources in order to differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations. |
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Compare competing historical narratives by contrasting different historians' choice of questions, use and choice of sources, perspectives, beliefs, and points of view, in order to demonstrate how these factors contribute to different interpretations. |
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Develop an understanding of modern United States history, its connections to both Delaware and world history. |
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Develop an understanding of recent and modern world history and its connections to United States history. |
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