Washington State K–12 Learning Standards and Guidelines

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WA.4.1.CIVICS - The student understands and applies knowledge of government, law, politics, and the nation’s fundamental documents to make decisions about local, national, and international issues and to demonstrate thoughtful, participatory citizenship.

CIVICS - The student understands and applies knowledge of government, law, politics, and the nation’s fundamental documents to make decisions about local, national, and international issues and to demonstrate thoughtful, participatory citizenship.
4.1.1. Understands key ideals and principles of the United States, including those in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and other fundamental documents.
4.1.1.1. Understands the key ideal of rights set forth in Article I of the Washington State Constitution.
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4.1.1.2. Evaluates the effectiveness of a law or policy by explaining how it promotes ideals.
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4.1.2. Understands the purposes, organization, and function of governments, laws, and political systems.
4.1.2.1. Understands that governments are organized into local, state, tribal, and national levels.
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4.1.2.2. Understands how and why state and tribal governments make, interpret, and carry out policies, rules, and laws.
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4.1.4. Understands civic involvement.
4.1.4.1. Understands that civic participation involves being informed about public issues and voting in elections.
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WA.4.2.ECONOMICS - The student applies understanding of economic concepts and systems to analyze decision-making and the interactions between individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies.

ECONOMICS - The student applies understanding of economic concepts and systems to analyze decision-making and the interactions between individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies.
4.2.4. Understands the economic issues and problems that all societies face.
4.2.4.1. Understands how geography, natural resources, climate, and available labor contribute to the sustainability of the economy of regions in Washington State.
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WA.4.3.GEOGRAPHY - The student uses a spatial perspective to make reasoned decisions by applying the concepts of location, region, and movement and demonstrating knowledge of how geographic features and human cultures impact environments.

GEOGRAPHY - The student uses a spatial perspective to make reasoned decisions by applying the concepts of location, region, and movement and demonstrating knowledge of how geographic features and human cultures impact environments.
4.3.1. Understands the physical characteristics, cultural characteristics, and location of places, regions, and spatial patterns on the Earth’s surface.
4.3.1.2. Understands the physical, political, and cultural characteristics of places, regions, and people in the Pacific Northwest, including the difference between cities, states, and countries.
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4.3.2. Understands human interaction with the environment.
4.3.2.1. Understands that the geographic features of the Pacific Northwest have influenced the movement of people.
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WA.4.4.HISTORY - The student understands and applies knowledge of historical thinking, chronology, eras, turning points, major ideas, individuals, and themes of local, Washington State, tribal, United States, and world history in order to evaluate how history sh

HISTORY - The student understands and applies knowledge of historical thinking, chronology, eras, turning points, major ideas, individuals, and themes of local, Washington State, tribal, United States, and world history in order to evaluate how history sh
4.4.1. Understands historical chronology.
4.4.1.1. Understands and creates timelines to show how historical events are organized into time periods and eras.
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4.4.1.2. Understands how the following themes and developments help to define eras in Washington State history from time immemorial to 1889:
4.4.1.2.a. Growth of northwest coastal and plateau tribes prior to treaties (time immemorial to 1854).
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4.4.3. Understands that there are multiple perspectives and interpretations of historical events.
4.4.3.1. Understands that there are multiple perspectives regarding the interpretation of historical events and creates an historical account using multiple sources.
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WA.4.5.SOCIAL STUDIES SKILLS - The student understands and applies reasoning skills to conduct research, deliberate, and form and evaluate positions through the processes of reading, writing, and communicating.

SOCIAL STUDIES SKILLS - The student understands and applies reasoning skills to conduct research, deliberate, and form and evaluate positions through the processes of reading, writing, and communicating.
4.5.1. Uses critical reasoning skills to analyze and evaluate positions.
4.5.1.1. Understands the concepts used in documents and sources.
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4.5.1.2. Evaluates the accuracy of primary and secondary sources.
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4.5.2. Uses inquiry-based research.
4.5.2.2. Understands the main ideas from an artifact, primary source, or secondary source describing an issue or event.
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