Delaware State Standards for Social Studies: Grade 4

DE.4.C1. Civics: Students will examine the structure and purposes of governments with specific emphasis on constitutional democracy.

4.C1.1. Students explain why people have created governments to rule societies. 18
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4.C1.2. Students explain why the U.S. Constitution separates powers between the federal and state governments. 5
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4.C1.3. Students understand that governments have a variety of structures and exist for many purposes and that in America these are explained in the United States and State constitutions. 10
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4.C1.4. Students explain why the U.S. Constitution separates powers in the federal government. 13
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4.C1.5. Students explain how each branch of the U.S. government serves as a check on the other branches. 8
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4.C1.6. Students understand that the United States government is divided into executive, legislative, and judicial branches, each with specific responsibilities and powers. 8
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DE.4.C2. Civics: Students will understand the principles and ideals underlying the American political system.

4.C2.1. Students explain the principle of 'due process.' 4
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4.C2.2. Students explain why the 'rule of law' is important to citizens. 5
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4.C2.3. Students understand that the principle of 'due process' means that the government must follow its own rules when taking actions against a citizen. 4
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4.C2.4. Students explain why citizens have responsibilities. 5
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4.C2.5. Students explain why personal civility is important to a society. 3
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4.C2.6. Students understand that a society based on the ideal of individual liberty requires a commitment on the part of its citizens to the principles of civic responsibility and personal civility. 7
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DE.4.C3. Civics: Students will understand the responsibilities, rights, and privileges of United States citizens.

4.C3.1. Students explain why the Bill of Rights is important to American citizens. 6
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4.C3.2. Students identify the fundamental rights of all American citizens as enumerated in the Bill of Rights. 6
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4.C3.3. Students identify controversial applications of the Bill of Rights in contemporary issues. 6
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4.C3.4. Students apply the protections guaranteed in the Bill of Rights to an analysis of everyday situations. 6
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DE.4.C4. Civics: Students will develop and employ the civic skills necessary for effective, participatory citizenship. 2
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4.C4.1. Students explain why it is important to become informed about candidates for public office and contemporary issues. 10
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4.C4.2. Students explain how a citizen can become informed about candidates for public office and contemporary issues. 10
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4.C4.3. Students understand that in order to select effective leaders, citizens have to become informed about candidates' qualifications and the issues of the day. 10
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4.C4.4. Students explain why different groups would choose to make decisions democratically. 9
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4.C4.5. Students explain how different democratic groups make decisions. 9
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4.C4.6. Students identify and employ the formal and informal methods by which democratic groups function. 9
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DE.4.E1. Economics: Students will analyze the potential costs and benefits of personal economic choices in a market economy.

4.E1.1. Students predict how choices by consumers and producers in a market economy will determine price of goods and services. 7
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4.E1.2. Students explain why price acts as an incentive for both consumers and producers in a market economy. 7
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4.E1.3. Students identify how shifts in supply or demand can change the price of goods and services. 7
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4.E1.4. Students explain how a government will use economic incentives to promote market efficiency and correct market failures. 2
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4.E1.5. Students understand that prices in a market economy are determined by the interaction of supply and demand, with governments intervening to deal with market failures. 7
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4.E1.6. Students understand that consumers and producers make economic choices based on supply, demand, access to markets, and the actions of government. 7
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DE.4.E2. Economics: Students will examine the interaction of individuals, families, communities, businesses, and governments in a market economy.

4.E2.1. Students explain why individuals might save, invest, or borrow money. 9
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4.E2.2. Students explain how saving or borrowing money benefits the economy. 11
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4.E2.3. Students understand the role of banks and other financial institutions in the economy. 2
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DE.4.E3. Economics: Students will understand different types of economic systems and how they change.

4.E3.1. Students explain the differences between types of economic systems. 3
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4.E3.2. Students identify different ways goods and services have been exchanged, characteristics of money, and functions of money. 5
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4.E3.3. Students identify different means of production, distribution, and exchange used within economic systems in different times and places. 7
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DE.4.E4. Economics: Students will examine the patterns and results of international trade.

4.E4.1. Students explain why people specialize and trade. 10
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4.E4.2. Students explain how trade creates interdependence. 2
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4.E4.3. Students demonstrate how international trade links countries around the world and can improve the economic welfare of nations. 5
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DE.4.G1. Geography: Students will develop a personal geographic framework, or 'mental map', and understand the uses of maps and other geographics.

4.G1.1. Students apply mental maps to ask and answer questions that require awareness of the relative location of places. 16
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4.G1.2. Students demonstrate the ability to locate places on maps and globes using a grid system such as latitude and longitude. 18
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4.G1.3. Students identify the contrasts between maps of different scales and projections. 18
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4.G1.4. Students demonstrate development of mental maps of Delaware and of the United States which include the relative location and characteristics of major physical features, political divisions, and human settlements. 2
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DE.4.G2. Geography: Students will develop a knowledge of the ways humans modify and respond to the natural environment.

4.G2.1. Students identify ways in which physical features can be altered by human activity. 2
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4.G2.2. Students explain how humans have adapted to different environments. 1
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4.G2.3. Students predict how an environmental change will affect humans and how human activity can cause environmental change. 42
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4.G2.4. Students apply a knowledge of topography, climate, soils and vegetation of Delaware and the United States to understand how human society alters, and is affected by, the physical environment. 7
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DE.4.G3. Geography: Students will develop an understanding of the diversity of human culture and the unique nature of places.

4.G3.1. Students explain the concepts of site and situation. 4
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4.G3.2. Students apply site and situation to explain why places are of different size and different levels of economic activity. 10
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4.G3.3. Students understand the reasons for the locations of human activities and settlements and the routes connecting them in Delaware and the United States. 7
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DE.4.G4. Geography: Students will develop an understanding of the character and use of regions and the connections between and among them.

4.G4.1. Students explain why a place is unique. 54
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4.G4.2. Students explain how a place changes over time. 8
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4.G4.3. Students explain how a place's distinctiveness is affected by its location relative to larger physical, cultural, political, and economic regions. 23
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4.G4.4. Students apply geographic skills to develop a profile of the local community by placing it in the context of physical, cultural and other types of regions. 2
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DE.4.H1. History: Students will employ chronological concepts in analyzing historical phenomena.

4.H1.1. Students create a chronology from selected historical materials. 28
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4.H1.2. Students predict cause or effect from a chronology and selected historical materials. 19
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4.H1.3. Students study historical events and persons within a given time-frame in order to create a chronology and identify related cause-and-effect factors. 9
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DE.4.H2. History: Students will gather, examine, and analyze historical data.

4.H2.1. Students explain why a historical source would be considered either a primary or secondary historical source. 18
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4.H2.2. Students explain how a specific historical source would be used to draw a historical conclusion. 12
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4.H2.3. Students identify artifacts and documents as either primary or secondary sources of historical data from which historical accounts are constructed. 19
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4.H2.4. Students arrange selected historical sources chronologically. 22
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4.H2.5. Students identify cause and effect from chronologically arranged historical sources. 19
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4.H2.6. Students examine historical materials relating to a particular region, society, or theme; chronologically arrange them, and analyze change over time. 20
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DE.4.H3. History: Students will interpret historical data.

4.H3.1. Students explain why point of view can alter historical accounts. 1
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4.H3.2. Students explain why using different historical evidence can alter historical accounts. 15
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4.H3.3. Students explain why historical accounts of the same event sometimes differ and will relate this explanation to the evidence presented or the point-of-view of the author. 14
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