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WY.SS5.1.Citizenship, Government, and Democracy: Students analyze how people create and change structures of power, authority, and governance to understand the continuing evolution of governments and to demonstrate civic responsibility.
Citizenship, Government, and Democracy: Students analyze how people create and change structures of power, authority, and governance to understand the continuing evolution of governments and to demonstrate civic responsibility.
Students will:SS5.1.1. Describe the basic rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
SS5.1.2. Understand the basic local, state, and national political processes (e.g., campaigning and voting).
SS5.1.3. Understand the basic origins of the United States Constitution (e.g., Declaration of Independence).
SS5.1.4. Understand the purpose of the legal system.
SS5.1.5. Understand the purposes of the three branches of government.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide U.S. Senate
WY.SS5.2.Culture and Cultural Diversity: Students demonstrate an understanding of the contributions and impacts of human interaction and cultural diversity on societies.
Culture and Cultural Diversity: Students demonstrate an understanding of the contributions and impacts of human interaction and cultural diversity on societies.
Students will:SS5.2.4. Identify and describe the tensions between cultural groups, social classes and/or individuals in Wyoming and the United States (e.g., Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, Sacagawea, and Chief Washakie).Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Civil War
WY.SS5.3.Production, Distribution, and Consumption: Students describe the influence of economic factors on societies and make decisions based on economic principles.
Production, Distribution, and Consumption: Students describe the influence of economic factors on societies and make decisions based on economic principles.
Students will:SS5.3.1. Give examples of needs, wants, goods, services, scarcity, and choice.
SS5.3.2. Identify basic economic concepts (e.g., supply, demand, price, and trade).
SS5.3.3. Identify and describe how science and technology have affected production and distribution locally, nationally, and globally (e.g., trains and natural resources).
WY.SS5.4.Time, Continuity, and Change: Students analyze events, people, problems, and ideas within their historical contexts.
Time, Continuity, and Change: Students analyze events, people, problems, and ideas within their historical contexts.
Students will:SS5.4.1. Describe how small changes can lead to big changes (cause and effect) (e.g., discovery of electricity).Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Holocaust Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Urbanization Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War I Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War II
SS5.4.2. Describe how tools and technology makes life easier; describe how one tool or technology evolves into another (e.g., telegraph to telephone to cell phone or horse-drawn wagon to railroad to car); identify a tool or technology that impacted history (e.g., Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Inventors Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Urbanization
SS5.4.5. Identify differences between primary and secondary sources. Find primary and secondary sources about an historical event. Summarize central ideas in primary and secondary resources.
WY.SS5.5.People, Places, and Environments: Students apply their knowledge of the geographic themes (location, place, movement, region, and human/environment interactions) and skills to demonstrate an understanding of interrelationships among people, places, and en
People, Places, and Environments: Students apply their knowledge of the geographic themes (location, place, movement, region, and human/environment interactions) and skills to demonstrate an understanding of interrelationships among people, places, and en
Students will:SS5.5.1. Spatial: Apply mental mapping skills and use different representations of the Earth to demonstrate an understanding of human and physical patterns and how local decisions may create global impacts.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Geography
SS5.5.2. Physical Place and Region: Explain how physical features, patterns, and systems impact different regions and how these features may help us generalize and compare areas within the state, nation, or world.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Geography
SS5.5.3. Human Place and Movement: Describe the human features of an area (e.g., language, religion, political and economic systems, population distribution, and quality of life), past and present settlement patterns (e.g., American Indians and the Oregon Trail),
WY.SS5.6.Technology, Literacy, and Global Connections: Students use technology and literacy skills to access, synthesize, and evaluate information to communicate and apply social studies knowledge to global situations.
Technology, Literacy, and Global Connections: Students use technology and literacy skills to access, synthesize, and evaluate information to communicate and apply social studies knowledge to global situations.
Students will:SS5.6.4. Identify the difference between primary and secondary sources.