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So what does that mean?

Let's start in the middle with citiztenship, career ready, and college ready.

These standards are aimed at creating citizens that are college and career ready for the nation.

Now let's move to the middle level of geography, economics, history, and civics.

These four things stand for:

• Responsible citizenship found in the Civics/Government standards.
• Spatial awareness found in the Geography standards
• Economic literacy found in the economics standards
• Historical analysis found in the history standards.

Geography, History, Economics, and Civics

• These standards are meant to guide the planning of instruction from kindergarten to senior year. The document provides a guide to the planning of Social Studies instruction The outcomes are to inform the students of content and assessment and provide information to both the student and teacher regarding progress towards mastery

For the final explanation, we will cover communication, critical thinking, inquiry, and problem solving.

What do these things mean?!

• This entire picture was mean to utilize elements from both the SD Standards and the C3 framework. The framework uses inquiry, communication, critical thinking and problem solving.

Break it Down

• Inquiry: developing questions and planning inquires
• Communication: Communicating conclusions and taking informed action
• Critical Thinking: analyzing and evaluating an issue
• Problem Solving: processing different solutions to a difficult/complex issue that they are faced with.