Content Standard 1
Wyoming Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade
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.
Grade5th Grade
SubjectSocial Studies
Levelstrand
Child standards (21)
- SS12.1.1Analyze unique freedoms, rights, and responsibilities of living in a democratic society and explain their interrelationships.
- SS12.1.2Explain and/or demonstrate how to participate in the political process and form personal opinions. (i.e., tribal, local, state, and national elections).
- SS12.1.3Analyze the historical development of the United States Constitution and treaties (e.g., 1868 Fort Bridger Treaty) and how they have shaped the United States and Wyoming Government (tribal, local, state, federal).
- SS12.1.4Demonstrate an understanding of the United States civil and criminal legal systems and distinguish differences between those systems. Distinguish the difference between civil and criminal legal systems and how they apply at the federal, state, and tribal levels.
- SS12.1.5Demonstrate an understanding of the structures of both the United States and Wyoming Constitutions.
- SS12.1.6Compare and contrast various world political systems (e.g., ideologies, structure, and institutions) with that of the United States.
- SS2.1.1Understand that schools, tribes, communities, and the United States have rules that have to be followed.
- SS2.1.2Identify the symbols and traditional practices, including those of Indigenous Tribes of Wyoming (e.g. Arapaho and Shoshone flags, songs, and pledges), that honor patriotism in the United States.
- SS2.1.3Identify people and events that are honored on United States holidays.
- SS2.1.4Understand that the rules in the United States are called laws.
- SS5.1.1Describe the basic rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
- SS5.1.2Understand the basic local, tribal, state, and national political processes (e.g., campaigning and voting).
- SS5.1.3Understand the basic origins of the United States Constitution (e.g., Declaration of Independence).
- SS5.1.4Understand the purpose of the U.S. legal system and that tribal governments have separate legal systems.
- SS5.1.5Understand the purposes of the three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial).
- SS8.1.1Explain the rights, duties, and responsibilities of a United States citizen.
- SS8.1.2Explain how to participate in the political process. (i.e., tribal, local, state, and national elections).
- SS8.1.3Explain the historical development of the United States Constitution and treaties (e.g., 1868 Fort Bridger Treaty) and how they have shaped the United States, and Wyoming, and tribal government.
- SS8.1.4Understand the difference between United States civil and criminal legal systems within the federal, state, and tribal levels.
- SS8.1.5Describe the structures of the United States and Wyoming Constitutions (e.g., Articles, Bill of Rights, amendments).
- SS8.1.6Understand the basic structures of various political systems (e.g., tribal, local, national, and world).