Colorado Academic Standards (CAS)

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CO.1.History

History
1.2. The key concepts of continuity and change, cause and effect, complexity, unity and diversity over time. Students can:
World history (both East and West including modern world history):
1.2.a. Evaluate continuity and change over the course of world history
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1.2.b. Investigate causes and effects of significant events in world history
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1.2.c. Analyze the complexity of events in world history
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United States history (Reconstruction to the present):
1.2.e. Analyze continuity and change in eras over the course of United States history
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Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Great Depression
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1.2.f. Investigate causes and effects of significant events in United States history. Topics to include but not limited to WWI, Great Depression, Cold War
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Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Industrial Growth
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Progressive Era
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Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Cold War
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Great Depression
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The New Millennium
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Roaring Twenties
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1.2.g. Analyze the complexity of events in United States history. Topics to include but not limited to the suffrage movement and the Civil Rights Movement
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1.2.h. Examine and evaluate issues of unity and diversity from Reconstruction to present. Topics to include but not limited to the rise and fall of Jim Crow, role of patriotism, and the role of religion
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1.3. The significance of ideas as powerful forces throughout history. Students can:
World history (both East and West; to include but not be limited to modern world history):
1.3.a. Discuss the historical development and impact of major world religions and philosophies. Topics to include but not limited to the Enlightenment and modern changes in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism
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1.3.b. Investigate the historical development of and impact of major scientific and technological innovations. Topics to include but not limited to the Industrial Revolution
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1.3.d. Analyze the origins of fundamental political debates and how conflict, compromise, and cooperation have shaped national unity and diversity. Topics to include but not limited to suffrage, Civil Rights and the role of government
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1.3.e. Analyze ideas critical to the understanding of American history. Topics to include but not limited to populism, progressivism, isolationism, imperialism, anti-communism, environmentalism, liberalism, fundamentalism, and conservatism
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CO.2.Geography

Geography
2.2. Explain and interpret geographic variables that influence the interactions of people, places and environments. Students can:
2.2.a. Apply geography skills to help investigate issues and justify possible resolutions involving people, places, and environments. Topics to include but not limited to how people prepare for and respond to natural hazards
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2.2.c. Explain how altering the environment has brought prosperity to some places and created environmental dilemmas for others
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2.2.f. Define sustainability and explain how an individual's actions may influence sustainability
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2.3. The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places. Students can:
2.3.a. Explain how the uneven distribution of resources in the world can lead to conflict, competition, or cooperation among nations, regions, and cultural groups
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2.3.b. Explain that the world's population is increasingly connected to and dependent upon other people for both human and natural resources
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2.3.d. Analyze how cooperation and conflict influence the division and control of Earth
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CO.3.Economics

Economics
3.1. Productive resources -natural, human, capital- are scarce; therefore, choices are made about how individuals, businesses, governments, and societies allocate these resources. Students can:
3.1.a. Analyze the relationships between economic goals and the allocation of scarce resources
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3.1.b. Explain how economic choices by individuals, businesses, governments, and societies incur opportunity costs
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3.1.c. Understand that effective decision-making requires comparing the additional (marginal) costs of alternatives with the additional (marginal) benefits
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3.1.d. Identify influential entrepreneurs and describe how they have utilized resources to produce goods and services
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3.2. Economic policies affect markets. Students can:
3.2.a. Analyze how government activities influence the economy including taxation, monetary policy, and the Federal Reserve
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3.2.e. Analyze how positive and negative incentives influence the economic choices made by individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies
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3.3. Government and competition affect markets. Students can:
3.3.a. Analyze the role of government within different economies. Topics to include but not limited to command socialism, communism, and market capitalism
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3.3.c. Compare and contrast economic systems in terms of their ability to achieve economic goals
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3.3.d. Compare and contrast different types of taxing including but not limited to progressive, regressive, and proportional
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3.4. Design, analyze, and apply a financial plan based on short- and long-term financial goals (PFL). Students can:
3.4.a. Develop a financial plan including a budget based on short- and long- term goals
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3.4.d. Identify sources of personal income and likely deductions and expenditures as a basis for a financial plan
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3.4.e. Describe legal and ethical responsibilities regarding tax liabilities
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3.5. Analyze strategic spending, saving, and investment options to achieve the objectives of diversification, liquidity, income, and growth (PFL). Students can:
3.5.a. Compare and contrast the variety of investments available for a diversified portfolio
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3.5.b. Evaluate factors to consider when managing savings and investment accounts
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3.5.c. Explain how economic cycles affect personal financial decisions
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3.5.d. Describe the appropriate types of investments to achieve the objectives of liquidity, income and growth
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3.6. The components of personal credit to manage credit and debt(PFL). Students can:
3.6.c. Make connections between building and maintaining a credit history and its impact on lifestyle
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CO.4.Civics

Civics
4.1. Research, formulate positions, and engage in appropriate civic participation to address local, state, and national issues or policies. Students can:
4.1.b. Evaluate how individuals and groups can effectively use the structure and functions of various levels of government to shape policy
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4.1.d. Identify which level of government is appropriate for various policies and demonstrate an ability to appropriately engage with that level of government
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4.3. Analyze how public policy - domestic and foreign - is developed at the local, state, and national levels and compare how policy-making occurs in other forms of government. Students can:
4.3.d. Analyze goals and tools used by the United States in developing foreign policy
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4.3.e. Illustrate how various governments and leaders interact and evaluate how interactions among nations affect domestic and world events
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