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Kansas College and Career Ready Standards
4th Grade Social Studies
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Process Skills |
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SS.04.1.01
Creates and uses historical timelines to gain and convey information.
SS.04.1.02
Uses research skills to analyze and synthesize a historical person or event in history and notes the source of information.
SS.04.1.03
Analyzes cause and effect in Social Studies.
SS.04.1.04
Identifies and compares information from primary and secondary sources.
SS.04.1.05
Applies geographic tools (grid systems including Latitude and Longitude, symbols, legends, scales, and a compass rose) to understand how geography impacts events. |
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Civics and Government |
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SS.04.2.06
Recognizes the United States Constitution as the document that defines the rights and responsibilities of citizens in the United States (right to vote, freedom of religion and speech).
SS.04.2.07
Recognizes how individuals have a civic responsibility for meeting the needs of communities (jury duty, voting, running for office, community service, etc.).
SS.04.2.08
Describes the function of state governments.
SS.04.2.09
Identify the three branches of state and federal government. |
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Economics |
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SS.04.3.10
Understands that the budget process has opportunity cost.
SS.04.3.11
Identifies examples of how natural, capital, and human resources are used in production of goods and services.
SS.04.3.12
Gives an example of economic specialization that leads to trade between regions of the United States.
SS.04.3.13
Defines market economy as an economic system in which buyers and sellers make major decisions about production and distribution, based on supply and demand.
SS.04.3.14
Discusses ways workers can improve their ability to earn income by gaining new knowledge, skills and experience. |
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Geography |
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SS.04.4.15
Identifies and gives examples of the difference between political and physical features (e.g., major landforms, bodies of water, state boundaries, territorial boundaries, major cities of a region, state capitals, etc.)
SS.04.4.16
Identifies and compares the physical characteristics of eastern and western Kansas and regions of the United States.
SS.04.4.17
Identifies the human characteristics of Kansas and regions of the United States.
SS.04.4.18
Identifies and describes the physical components, patterns, and processes of the Earth’s atmosphere, land, water, and biomes.
SS.04.4.19
Explains the functions and relationships of ecosystems in Kansas and across the United States.
SS.04.4.20
Examines the natural resource challenges and ways people have developed solutions as they use renewable and nonrenewable resources. |
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History |
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SS.04.5.21
Researches the contributions made by notable Kansans in History.
SS.04.5.22
Describes the observations of the explorers who came to what was to become Kansas.
SS.04.5.23
Describes how communication and transportation systems connect Kansas to other regions, past and present.
SS.04.5.24
Compares and contrasts the purposes and life on the Santa Fe and Oregon-California Trails.
SS.04.5.25
Explains the economic and cultural contributions made by immigrant groups who have settled in Kansas.
SS.04.5.26
Recognizes key concepts that have helped to distinguish the identity of the State of Kansas (e.g., origin names, traditional stories, state symbols, state song, etc.).
SS.04.5.27
Identify current events, and discuss how they are connected to our history, culture, and geography. |
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