What does a student learn in StateWashington,GradeGrade 4,SubjectSocial Studies?

Identify the concepts used in documents and sources.

Evaluate primary and secondary sources.

Identify disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a compelling question or supporting questions that are open to different interpretations.

Identify the main ideas from a variety of print and non-print texts.

Draw on disciplinary concepts to explain the challenges people have faced and opportunities they have created in addressing local, regional, and global problems at various times and places.

Draw clear, well-reasoned conclusions with explanations that are supported by print and non-print texts in a paper or presentation.

Prepare a works cited page that connects with in-text attributions that are aligned to a style of citation (i.e. MLA, APA, etc.).

Identify relevant evidence that draws information from multiple sources in response to compelling questions.

Apply civic virtues and democratic principles within the classroom setting.

Identify core virtues and democratic principles found in the Washington state constitution and foundational documents.

Use deliberative processes when making decisions or reaching judgement as a group.

Describe and apply the key ideals of unity and diversity within the context of the State of Washington.

Describe the key ideals of rights set forth in Article I of the Washington state constitution.

Distinguish the responsibilities and power of state, local, and tribal government.

Describe how and why local, state, and tribal governments make, interpret, and carry out policies, rules, and laws.

Explain how groups of people make rules to create responsibilities and to protect freedoms.

Recognize that tribes have lived in North America since time immemorial.

Know and understand that tribes have organizational structures (councils, chairman, etc.) that are formed to benefit the entire tribe.

Explain how tribes of Washington state and the government of the United States are on the same level (nation-to-nation).

Demonstrate that tribal sovereignty is "a way that tribes govern themselves in order to keep and support their ways of life."

Define the complexity of sovereignty for federally recognized tribes in Washington state. Identify ways in which the United States Constitution recognizes tribal sovereignty as unique from other types of sovereignty.

Recognize that civic participation involves being informed about public issues, taking action, and voting in elections.

Analyze and evaluate ways of influencing state governments to establish or preserve individual rights and promote the common good.

Explain that the purpose of treaty-making is to create mutually beneficial agreements of responsibilities and freedoms.

Explain that tribes work within specific structures of governments to create, manage, and enforce their own laws that are best for their people.

Analyze and explain the costs and benefits of people's decisions to move and relocate to meet their needs and wants.

Compare the costs and benefits of individual choices.

Compare positive and negative incentives that influence the decisions people make.

Compare different historic economic systems in Washington state tribes.

Identify the basic elements of Washington state's economic system, including agriculture, businesses, industry, natural resources, and labor.

Identify examples of the variety of resources (human capital, physical capital, and natural resources) that are used to produce goods and services in Washington state.

Explain why individuals and businesses specialize and trade in Washington state.

Explain the relationship between investment in human capital, productivity, and future incomes.

Describe how people and businesses support Washington state government through taxation.

Explain the meaning of inflation, deflation, and unemployment.

Describe ways government can improve productivity by using capital goods and human capital.

Explain how geography, natural resources, climate, and available labor contributed to the exploitation of resources in the Pacific Northwest.

Explain the economic issues that different communities within the Pacific Northwest faced.

Explain how trade led to increasing economic interdependence among groups within the Pacific North-west.

Construct and use maps to explain the movement of peoples.

Investigate the physical, political, and cultural characteristics of places, regions, and people in the Pacific Northwest, including the difference between cities, states, and countries.

Draw a conclusion that the geographic features of the Pacific Northwest have influenced the movement of people.

Explain how the lands that the tribes were forced to move to, changed their interactions with the environment.

Describe how the geography and natural resources of the Oregon Territory created trade with other countries.

Create timelines to show how historical events are organized into time periods and eras.

Examine how the following themes and developments help to define eras in Washington state history since time immemorial to 1889:<ul><li>Growth of northwest coastal, Puget Sound, and plateau tribes prior to treaties (time immemorial to present)</li><li>Maritime and overland exploration, encounter, and trade (1774-1849)</li><li>Immigration and settlement (1811-1889)</li><li>Territory and treaty-making (1854-1889)</li></ul>

Explore and construct an explanation of how the growth of major tribes helps to define the history of the Pacific Northwest prior to 1889.

Analyze and explain how individuals have caused change in Washington state history.

Analyze and explain how people from various cultural and ethnic groups have shaped Washington state history.

Analyze and explain how technology and ideas have affected the way people live and change their values, beliefs, and attitudes in Washington.

Explain why individuals and groups in Washington state history differed in their perspectives.

Explain connections between historical context and people's perspective of Washington state history.

Explain how the events of Washington state history contributed to the different perspectives between native and non-native people.

Describe how people's perspectives shaped the historical sources they created.

Recognize and explain significant historical events in Washington state that have implications for current decisions.

Use evidence to develop a claim about Washing-ton state, and tribal nations and groups.

Compare information provided by different historical sources.

Generate questions about multiple historical sources and their relationships to particular historical events and developments.