Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

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analyze and evaluate the ideas and principles contained in the foundational documents of the United States, and explain how they establish a system of government that has powers, responsibilities, and limitsSS.CG.9-12.1

analyze the impact of constitutions, laws, treaties, and international agreements on the maintenance of domestic and international relationshipsSS.CG.9-12.2

evaluate the impact of international agreements on contemporary world issuesSS.CG.9-12.3

apply civic virtues and democratic principles when working with othersSS.CG.9-12.4

evaluate how citizens and institutions address social and political problems at the local, state, tribal, national, and/or international levelsSS.CG.9-12.5

evaluate the American governmental system compared to international governmental systemsSS.CG.9-12.6

explain the foundations and complexity of sovereignty for federally recognized tribes in MontanaSS.CG.9-12.7

evaluate appropriate deliberative processes in multiple settingsSS.CG.9-12.8

evaluate government procedures for making decisions at the local, state, national, tribal, and international levelsSS.CG.9-12.9

analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging means of changing societies, promoting the common good, and protecting rightsSS.CG.9-12.10

analyze the impact and roles of personal interests and perspectives, market, media, and group influences on the application of civic virtues, democratic principles, constitutional rights, and human rightsSS.CG.9-12.11

evaluate citizens' and institutions' effectiveness in ensuring civil rights at the local, state, tribal, national, and international levelsSS.CG.9-12.12

analyze how pressures and incentives impact economic choices and their costs and benefits for different groups, including American IndiansSS.E.9-12.1

explain how economic cycles affect personal financial decisionsSS.E.9-12.2

analyze the ways in which pressures and incentives influence what is produced and distributed in a market systemSS.E.9-12.3

evaluate the extent to which competition among producers, among consumers, and among laborers exists in specific marketsSS.E.9-12.4

describe the consequences of competition in specific marketsSS.E.9-12.5

evaluate benefits, costs, and possible outcomes of government policies to influence market outcomesSS.E.9-12.6

use current data to explain the influence of changes in spending, production, and the money supply on various economic conditionsSS.E.9-12.7

use economic indicators to analyze the current and future state of the economySS.E.9-12.8

evaluate the selection of monetary and fiscal policies in a variety of economic conditionsSS.E.9-12.9

use geospatial reasoning to create maps to display and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristicsSS.G.9-12.1

use geographic data to analyze variations in the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics at multiple scalesSS.G.9-12.2

use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their political, cultural, and economic dynamicsSS.G.9-12.3

analyze relationships and interactions within and between human and physical systems to explain reciprocal influences that occur among them, including American IndiansSS.G.9-12.4

evaluate the impact of human settlement activities on the environmental, political, and cultural characteristics of specific places and regionsSS.G.9-12.5

analyze the role of geography on interactions and conflicts between various cultures in Montana, the United States, and the worldSS.G.9-12.6

evaluate the influence of long-term climate variability on human migration and settlement patterns, resource use, and land uses at local-to-global scalesSS.G.9-12.7

evaluate the consequences of human-driven and natural catastrophes on global trade, politics, and human migrationSS.G.9-12.8

analyze how unique circumstances of time, place, and historical contexts shape individuals' livesSS.H.9-12.1

analyze change and continuity in historical eras in US and world historySS.H.9-12.2

identify ways in which people and groups exercise agency in difficult historical, contemporary, and tribal contextsSS.H.9-12.3

analyze multiple, and complex causal factors that have shaped major events in US and world history, including American Indian historySS.H.9-12.4

explain events in relation to both their intended and unintended consequences, including governmental policies impacting American IndiansSS.H.9-12.5

distinguish between long-term causes and triggering events in developing a historical argumentSS.H.9-12.6

analyze how historical, cultural, social, political, ideological, and economic contexts shape people's perspectivesSS.H.9-12.7

analyze the ways in which the perspectives of those writing history shaped the history they producedSS.H.9-12.8

evaluate how historiography is influenced by perspective and available historical sourcesSS.H.9-12.9

analyze perspectives of American Indians in US historySS.H.9-12.10

evaluate the limitations, biases, and credibility of various sources, especially regarding misinformation and stereotypesSS.H.9-12.11

analyze multiple historical sources to pursue further inquiry and investigate additional sourcesSS.H.9-12.12

integrate evidence from multiple relevant historical sources and interpretations into a reasoned argument about past and present people, events, and ideasSS.H.9-12.13

construct arguments which reflect understanding and analysis of multiple historical sources, perspectives, and contextsSS.H.9-12.14