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Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
- Different forms of government have been
developed, practiced, and changed throughout history.
- Knowledge of government and its purposes
builds understanding of citizenship.
- Foreign policy influences the
interaction of nations.
- Civic participation involves roles,
rights, and responsibilities.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions
students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
- Why have laws? What is the purpose of
government?
- Why is the U.S. Constitution a primary
source?
- Why/how did the U.S. Government change
from confederation to federation?
- How was the plan for government
developed? (Constitution)
- What is the structure of the U.S.
Constitution?
- What is the structure and function of
national government?
- What are the rights, roles, and
responsibilities of citizens?
Standards and Benchmarks
History 5: Students understand political institutions and theories
that developed and changed over time.
Benchmark A: Students understand political institutions and
theories that developed and changed over time.
Civics 1: Students understand the purposes of government, and
the basic constitutional principles of the United States republican form of
government.
Benchmark C: Students understand the principles of the United States
Constitutional Government.
Civics 2: Students know the structure and function of local, state, and
national government and how citizen involvement shapes public policy.
Benchmark A: Students know the organization and functions of local, state,
and national governments.
Civics 3: Students know the political relationship of the
United States and its citizens to other nations and to world affairs.
Civics 4: Students understand how citizens exercise the
roles, rights, and responsibilities of participation in civic life at all
levels.
Benchmark A: Students know what citizenship is.
Benchmark D: Students know how citizens can participate in civic
life.
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