STANDARD #1: HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES & NEW YORK
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points
in the history of the United States and New York.
Performance Indicators:
1. Understand how different experiences, beliefs, values, traditions, and
motives cause individuals and groups to interpret historic events and issues
from different perspectives
2. Describe historic events through the eyes and experiences of those who
were there.
STANDARD #3: GEOGRAPHY
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—
local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places,
and environments over the Earth’s surface.
Performance Indicators:
1.Map information about people, places, and environments
2.Use a number of research skills (e.g., computer databases, periodicals,
census reports, maps, standard reference works, interviews, surveys) to
locate and gather geographical information about issues and problems
3.Interpret geographic information by synthesizing data and developing
conclusions and generalizations about geographic issues and problems
STANDARD #5 CIVICS, CITIZENSHIP, AND GOVERNMENT
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the
governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United
States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional
democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship,
including avenues of participation.
Performance Indicators:
1. Value the principles, ideals, and core values of the American democratic
system based upon the premises of human dignity, liberty, justice, and
equality
2. Understand that the American legal and political systems guarantee and
protect the rights of citizens and assume that citizens will hold and
exercise certain civic values and fulfill certain civic responsibilities
