Nevada State Standards for Social Studies:

NV.1.0. Economics: The Economic Way of Thinking: Students will use fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, and costs versus benefits to describe and analyze problems and opportunities, both individual and social.

1.2.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Cost: Give examples of what is given up when choices are made. 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.1

1.2.3 Cost versus Benefits: Give examples of an all-or-nothing choice such as choosing to have music on or off. 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.3

NV.2.0. Economics: Measuring U.S. Economic Performance: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of past and present U.S. economic performance, identify the economic indicators used to measure that performance, and use this knowledge to make individual decisions and discuss social issues.

NV.3.0. Economics: Functioning of Markets: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how markets work, including an understanding of why markets form, how supply and demand interact to determine market prices and interest rates, and how changes in prices act as signals to coordinate trade.

3.2.1 Trade Is Beneficial: Demonstrate an understanding of trade. 33
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.1

3.2.2 Markets Determine Prices: Give examples of prices people have paid when buying goods and services. 32
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.2

3.2.3 Prices as Signals: Give reasons why consumers choose to buy more of a good or service (including when its price is low) and when they choose to buy less (including when its price is high). 32
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.3

NV.4.0. Economics: Private U.S. Economic Institutions: Students will describe the roles played by U.S. economic institutions including financial institutions, labor unions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.

4.2.1 Financial Institutions: Identify reasons people use banks. 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.1

NV.5.0. Economics: Money: Students demonstrate an understanding of forms of money, how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services; and how the Federal Reserve System and its policies affect the U.S. money supply.

5.2.1 Functions of Money: Explain what money is and how it is used. 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.1

NV.6.0. Economics: The U.S. Economy as a Whole: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the U.S. economic system as a whole in terms of how it allocates resources; determines the nation's production, income, unemployment, and price levels; and leads to variations in individual income levels.

6.2.2 Resource Allocation: Explain what a consumer does. (G 4.2.8) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.2

6.2.6 Differences in Individual Incomes: Give examples of ways people earn money by working. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.6

NV.7.0. Economics: An Evolving Economy: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how investment, entrepreneurship, competition, and specialization lead to changes in an economy's structure and performance.

7.2.1 Investment: Explain how tools and machinery may help a person work faster or better, or make a person's work easier. (G 2.2.4) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.1

7.2.4 Entrepreneurship: Give examples of inventions. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.4

NV.8.0. Economics: The Role of Government in a Market Economy: Students will explain the role of government in a market economy.

NV.9.0. Economics: The International Economy: Students explore the characteristics of non-U.S. economic systems in order to demonstrate an understanding of how they are connected, through trade, to peoples and cultures throughout the world.

NV.1.0. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms: Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

1.2.1 Map Use: Identify the map titles and map symbols on a variety of maps. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.1

1.2.2 Map Section: Describe what a map or globe represents. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.2

1.2.3 Geographic Tools and Technologies: Recognize geographic information from maps, globes, photographs, and graphs. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.3

1.2.4 Map Construction: Choose a title and construct a key from given map symbols. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.4

1.2.6 Map Analysis: Recognize spatial patterns on a map. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.6

1.2.7 Map Concepts: Identify and locate land and water on a map or globe, using the terms continent and ocean. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.7

1.2.8 Map Locations: Locate Nevada and the United States on a map. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.8

NV.2.0. Geography: Places and Regions-Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of changes.

2.2.1 Characteristics of Places and Regions: Identify basic types of landforms and bodies of water, such as mountains, valleys, islands, lakes, and rivers. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.1

2.2.2 Cultural Identity: Identify traditions and customs that families practice. (E 3.2.3) 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.2

2.2.4 Impact of Technology: Give examples of how technology is used in the home and classroom. (Ec 7.2.1) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.4

2.2.5 History and Region: Identify changes that have occurred over time at home, at school, or in the neighborhood. (H 1.2.2) 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.5

2.2.7 Applying Concepts of Regions: Identify areas that have different purposes in the home or the classroom. 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.7

NV.3.0. Geography: Physical Systems-Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.

3.2.1 Physical Systems: Describe the weather conditions typical to each season in the community and in other places. 42
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.1

3.2.3 Characteristics of Ecosystems: Identify some basic elements of a simple ecosystem, such as plants and animals. 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.3

NV.4.0. Geography: Human Systems - Students understand how economic, political, and cultural processes interact to shape patterns of human migration and settlement, influence and interdependence, and conflict and cooperation.

4.2.1 Demographic Concepts: Use a school map to construct a visual model of population distribution. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.1

4.2.2 Migration and Settlement: Give oral directions from one location to another within their school or community. (E 4.2.6; E 8.2.4; E 9.2.5) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.2

4.2.3 Historical Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas: Categorize different ways to move people, goods, and ideas. 61
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.3

4.2.4 Patterns of Human Settlement: Compare and contrast rural and urban communities. 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.4

4.2.5 Economic Systems and Interdependence: Distinguish between goods and services. (Ec 1.3.1; Ec 6.2.2) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.5

4.2.6 Analysis of Economic Issues: Use a map or chart to display information about an economic product. (Ec 3.2.1) 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.6

4.2.7 Patterns of Human Development: Distinguish between wants and needs and describe how people fulfill them. (Ec 1.2.1; Ec 2.3.6; Ec 3.2.1; Ec 5.2.1; Ec 6.2.2; Ec 6.2.6) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.7

4.2.8 Human Organizations: List different groups to which people belong. 35
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.8

4.2.9 Cooperation and Conflict: Identify places where cooperation and conflict take place. 41
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.9

NV.5.0. Geography: Environment and Society-Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

5.2.4 Human Modification: Identify how people shape the physical environment at home and school. 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.4

NV.6.0. Geography: Geographic Applications-Students apply geographic knowledge of people, places, and environments to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future.

6.2.2 Applying Geography in Current Events: Recognize the location of major current events. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.2

6.2.4 Applying Geography to the Future: Plan a spatial change for a classroom or school such as redesigning the playground or changing the location of furniture. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.4

NV.7.0. Geography: Geographic Skills: Students ask and answer geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

7.2.1 Ask Geographic Questions: Ask questions about location. (E 4.2.3; E 10.2.3; E 11.2.1) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.1

7.2.2 Acquire Geographic Information: Gather geographic information from books and pictures. (E 4.2.1; E 11.2.2) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.2

7.2.3 Organize Geographic Information: Make simple lists and graphs and arrange visual materials to display geographic information. (E 6.2.2) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.3

7.2.4 Analyze Geographic Information: Identify and group information from several geographic sources. 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.4

7.2.5 Present Geographic Information: Display the results of a geographic inquiry. (E 11.2.5; H 1.3.2) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.5

NV.1.0. Civics: Rules and Law: Students know why society needs rules, laws, and governments.

1.2.1 Rules and Law: Identify and follow classroom and school rules that guide behavior and establish order to accomplish tasks. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.1

1.2.4 Democratic Participation: Participate in class decision-making. 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.4

NV.2.0. Civics: The U.S. Government: Students know the United States Constitution and the government it creates.

NV.3.0. Civics: National and State Government: Students can explain the relationship between the states and national government.

NV.4.0. Civics: The Political Process: Students describe the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public opinion in the democratic process.

NV.5.0. Civics: Citizenship: Students know the roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens and the symbols of our country.

5.2.3 Symbols: Name a traditional U.S. patriotic activity, holiday, or symbol, such as the Fourth of July. (H 6.2.4; H 6.2.13) 30
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.3

NV.6.0. Civics: State and Local Government: Students know the structure and functions of state and local governments.

NV.7.0. Civics: Political and Economic Systems: Students explain the different political and economic systems in the world.

NV.8.0. Civics: International Relations: Students know the political and economic relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations.

8.2.1 From Individual to the World: Name their school and community. 38
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.2.1

NV.1.0. History: Chronology: Students use chronology to organize and understand the sequence and relationship of events.

1.2.2 Chronology: Identify past, present, and future events. (E 9.2.4; G 2.2.5) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.2

NV.2.0. History: History Skills: Students will use social studies vocabulary and concepts to engage in inquiry, in research, in analysis, and in decision making.

NV.3.0. History: Prehistory to 400 CE: Students understand the development of human societies, civilizations, and empires through 400 CE.

NV.4.0. History: 1 CE to 1400: Students understand the characteristics, ideas, and significance of civilizations and religions from 1 CE to 1400.

NV.5.0. History: 1200 to 1750: Students understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.

5.2.6 United States and Nevada: Tell why Columbus Day is celebrated. (E 9.2.4) 20
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.6

5.2.8 World and United States: Tell why Thanksgiving Day is celebrated. (E 9.2.4) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.8

NV.6.0. History: 1700 to 1865: Students understand the people, events, ideas, and conflicts that led to the creation of new nations and distinctive cultures.

6.2.4 United States: Tell why the Fourth of July is celebrated. (C 5.2.3) 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.4

6.2.13 United States: Tell why Presidents' Day is celebrated. (C 5.2.3; Ec 9.2.4) 27
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.13

NV.7.0. History: 1860 to 1920: Students understand the importance and impact of political, economic, and social ideas.

7.2.11 United States and Nevada: Tell why Labor Day is celebrated. 35
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.11

7.2.17 World and United States: Tell why Memorial Day and Veterans Day are celebrated. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.17

NV.8.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1920 to 1945: Students understand the importance and effect of political, economic, technological, and social changes in the world from 1920 to 1945.

NV.9.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1945 to 1990: Students understand the shift of international relationships and power as well as the significant developments in American culture.

9.2.8 World, United States, and Nevada: Tell why Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated. 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.2.8

NV.10.0. History: New Challenges, 1990 to the Present: Students understand the political, economic, social, and technological issues challenging the world as it approaches and enters the new millennium.

NV.1.0. Economics: The Economic Way of Thinking: Students will use fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, and costs versus benefits to describe and analyze problems and opportunities, both individual and social.

1.2.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Cost: Give examples of what is given up when choices are made. 20
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.1

1.2.3 Cost versus Benefits: Give examples of an all-or-nothing choice such as choosing to have music on or off. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.3

NV.2.0. Economics: Measuring U.S. Economic Performance: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of past and present U.S. economic performance, identify the economic indicators used to measure that performance, and use this knowledge to make individual decisions and discuss social issues.

NV.3.0. Economics: Functioning of Markets: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how markets work, including an understanding of why markets form, how supply and demand interact to determine market prices and interest rates, and how changes in prices act as signals to coordinate trade.

3.2.1 Trade Is Beneficial: Demonstrate an understanding of trade. 33
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.1

3.2.2 Markets Determine Prices: Give examples of prices people have paid when buying goods and services. 32
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.2

3.2.3 Prices as Signals: Give reasons why consumers choose to buy more of a good or service (including when its price is low) and when they choose to buy less (including when its price is high). 32
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.3

NV.4.0. Economics: Private U.S. Economic Institutions: Students will describe the roles played by U.S. economic institutions including financial institutions, labor unions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.

4.2.1 Financial Institutions: Identify reasons people use banks. 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.1

NV.5.0. Economics: Money: Students demonstrate an understanding of forms of money, how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services; and how the Federal Reserve System and its policies affect the U.S. money supply.

5.2.1 Functions of Money: Explain what money is and how it is used. 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.1

NV.6.0. Economics: The U.S. Economy as a Whole: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the U.S. economic system as a whole in terms of how it allocates resources; determines the nation's production, income, unemployment, and price levels; and leads to variations in individual income levels.

6.2.2 Resource Allocation: Explain what a consumer does. (G 4.2.8) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.2

6.2.6 Differences in Individual Incomes: Give examples of ways people earn money by working. 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.6

NV.7.0. Economics: An Evolving Economy: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how investment, entrepreneurship, competition, and specialization lead to changes in an economy's structure and performance.

7.2.1 Investment: Explain how tools and machinery may help a person work faster or better, or make a person's work easier. (G 2.2.4) 20
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.1

7.2.4 Entrepreneurship: Give examples of inventions. 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.4

NV.8.0. Economics: The Role of Government in a Market Economy: Students will explain the role of government in a market economy.

NV.9.0. Economics: The International Economy: Students explore the characteristics of non-U.S. economic systems in order to demonstrate an understanding of how they are connected, through trade, to peoples and cultures throughout the world.

NV.1.0. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms: Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

1.2.1 Map Use: Identify the map titles and map symbols on a variety of maps. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.1

1.2.2 Map Section: Describe what a map or globe represents. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.2

1.2.3 Geographic Tools and Technologies: Recognize geographic information from maps, globes, photographs, and graphs. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.3

1.2.4 Map Construction: Choose a title and construct a key from given map symbols. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.4

1.2.6 Map Analysis: Recognize spatial patterns on a map. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.6

1.2.7 Map Concepts: Identify and locate land and water on a map or globe, using the terms continent and ocean. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.7

1.2.8 Map Locations: Locate Nevada and the United States on a map. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.8

NV.2.0. Geography: Places and Regions-Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of changes.

2.2.1 Characteristics of Places and Regions: Identify basic types of landforms and bodies of water, such as mountains, valleys, islands, lakes, and rivers. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.1

2.2.2 Cultural Identity: Identify traditions and customs that families practice. (E 3.2.3) 57
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.2

2.2.4 Impact of Technology: Give examples of how technology is used in the home and classroom. (Ec 7.2.1) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.4

2.2.5 History and Region: Identify changes that have occurred over time at home, at school, or in the neighborhood. (H 1.2.2) 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.5

2.2.7 Applying Concepts of Regions: Identify areas that have different purposes in the home or the classroom. 27
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.7

NV.3.0. Geography: Physical Systems-Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.

3.2.1 Physical Systems: Describe the weather conditions typical to each season in the community and in other places. 51
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.1

3.2.3 Characteristics of Ecosystems: Identify some basic elements of a simple ecosystem, such as plants and animals. 37
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.3

NV.4.0. Geography: Human Systems - Students understand how economic, political, and cultural processes interact to shape patterns of human migration and settlement, influence and interdependence, and conflict and cooperation.

4.2.1 Demographic Concepts: Use a school map to construct a visual model of population distribution. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.1

4.2.2 Migration and Settlement: Give oral directions from one location to another within their school or community. (E 4.2.6; E 8.2.4; E 9.2.5) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.2

4.2.3 Historical Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas: Categorize different ways to move people, goods, and ideas. 76
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.3

4.2.4 Patterns of Human Settlement: Compare and contrast rural and urban communities. 29
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.4

4.2.5 Economic Systems and Interdependence: Distinguish between goods and services. (Ec 1.3.1; Ec 6.2.2) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.5

4.2.6 Analysis of Economic Issues: Use a map or chart to display information about an economic product. (Ec 3.2.1) 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.6

4.2.7 Patterns of Human Development: Distinguish between wants and needs and describe how people fulfill them. (Ec 1.2.1; Ec 2.3.6; Ec 3.2.1; Ec 5.2.1; Ec 6.2.2; Ec 6.2.6) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.7

4.2.8 Human Organizations: List different groups to which people belong. 35
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.8

4.2.9 Cooperation and Conflict: Identify places where cooperation and conflict take place. 42
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.9

NV.5.0. Geography: Environment and Society-Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

5.2.4 Human Modification: Identify how people shape the physical environment at home and school. 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.4

NV.6.0. Geography: Geographic Applications-Students apply geographic knowledge of people, places, and environments to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future.

6.2.2 Applying Geography in Current Events: Recognize the location of major current events. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.2

6.2.4 Applying Geography to the Future: Plan a spatial change for a classroom or school such as redesigning the playground or changing the location of furniture. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.4

NV.7.0. Geography: Geographic Skills: Students ask and answer geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

7.2.1 Ask Geographic Questions: Ask questions about location. (E 4.2.3; E 10.2.3; E 11.2.1) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.1

7.2.2 Acquire Geographic Information: Gather geographic information from books and pictures. (E 4.2.1; E 11.2.2) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.2

7.2.3 Organize Geographic Information: Make simple lists and graphs and arrange visual materials to display geographic information. (E 6.2.2) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.3

7.2.4 Analyze Geographic Information: Identify and group information from several geographic sources. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.4

7.2.5 Present Geographic Information: Display the results of a geographic inquiry. (E 11.2.5; H 1.3.2) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.5

NV.1.0. Civics: Rules and Law: Students know why society needs rules, laws, and governments.

1.2.1 Rules and Law: Identify and follow classroom and school rules that guide behavior and establish order to accomplish tasks. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.1

1.2.4 Democratic Participation: Participate in class decision-making. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.4

NV.2.0. Civics: The U.S. Government: Students know the United States Constitution and the government it creates.

NV.3.0. Civics: National and State Government: Students can explain the relationship between the states and national government.

NV.4.0. Civics: The Political Process: Students describe the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public opinion in the democratic process.

NV.5.0. Civics: Citizenship: Students know the roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens and the symbols of our country.

5.2.3 Symbols: Name a traditional U.S. patriotic activity, holiday, or symbol, such as the Fourth of July. (H 6.2.4; H 6.2.13) 38
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.3

NV.6.0. Civics: State and Local Government: Students know the structure and functions of state and local governments.

NV.7.0. Civics: Political and Economic Systems: Students explain the different political and economic systems in the world.

NV.8.0. Civics: International Relations: Students know the political and economic relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations.

8.2.1 From Individual to the World: Name their school and community. 43
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.2.1

NV.1.0. History: Chronology: Students use chronology to organize and understand the sequence and relationship of events.

1.2.2 Chronology: Identify past, present, and future events. (E 9.2.4; G 2.2.5) 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.2

NV.2.0. History: History Skills: Students will use social studies vocabulary and concepts to engage in inquiry, in research, in analysis, and in decision making.

NV.3.0. History: Prehistory to 400 CE: Students understand the development of human societies, civilizations, and empires through 400 CE.

NV.4.0. History: 1 CE to 1400: Students understand the characteristics, ideas, and significance of civilizations and religions from 1 CE to 1400.

NV.5.0. History: 1200 to 1750: Students understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.

5.2.6 United States and Nevada: Tell why Columbus Day is celebrated. (E 9.2.4) 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.6

5.2.8 World and United States: Tell why Thanksgiving Day is celebrated. (E 9.2.4) 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.8

NV.6.0. History: 1700 to 1865: Students understand the people, events, ideas, and conflicts that led to the creation of new nations and distinctive cultures.

6.2.4 United States: Tell why the Fourth of July is celebrated. (C 5.2.3) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.4

6.2.13 United States: Tell why Presidents' Day is celebrated. (C 5.2.3; Ec 9.2.4) 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.13

NV.7.0. History: 1860 to 1920: Students understand the importance and impact of political, economic, and social ideas.

7.2.11 United States and Nevada: Tell why Labor Day is celebrated. 35
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.11

7.2.17 World and United States: Tell why Memorial Day and Veterans Day are celebrated. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.17

NV.8.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1920 to 1945: Students understand the importance and effect of political, economic, technological, and social changes in the world from 1920 to 1945.

NV.9.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1945 to 1990: Students understand the shift of international relationships and power as well as the significant developments in American culture.

9.2.8 World, United States, and Nevada: Tell why Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated. 18
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.2.8

NV.10.0. History: New Challenges, 1990 to the Present: Students understand the political, economic, social, and technological issues challenging the world as it approaches and enters the new millennium.

NV.1.0. Economics: The Economic Way of Thinking: Students will use fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, and costs versus benefits to describe and analyze problems and opportunities, both individual and social.

1.2.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Cost: Give examples of what is given up when choices are made. 54
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.1

1.2.3 Cost versus Benefits: Give examples of an all-or-nothing choice such as choosing to have music on or off. 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.3

NV.2.0. Economics: Measuring U.S. Economic Performance: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of past and present U.S. economic performance, identify the economic indicators used to measure that performance, and use this knowledge to make individual decisions and discuss social issues.

NV.3.0. Economics: Functioning of Markets: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how markets work, including an understanding of why markets form, how supply and demand interact to determine market prices and interest rates, and how changes in prices act as signals to coordinate trade.

3.2.1 Trade Is Beneficial: Demonstrate an understanding of trade. 40
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.1

3.2.2 Markets Determine Prices: Give examples of prices people have paid when buying goods and services. 40
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.2

3.2.3 Prices as Signals: Give reasons why consumers choose to buy more of a good or service (including when its price is low) and when they choose to buy less (including when its price is high). 40
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.3

NV.4.0. Economics: Private U.S. Economic Institutions: Students will describe the roles played by U.S. economic institutions including financial institutions, labor unions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.

4.2.1 Financial Institutions: Identify reasons people use banks. 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.1

NV.5.0. Economics: Money: Students demonstrate an understanding of forms of money, how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services; and how the Federal Reserve System and its policies affect the U.S. money supply.

5.2.1 Functions of Money: Explain what money is and how it is used. 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.1

NV.6.0. Economics: The U.S. Economy as a Whole: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the U.S. economic system as a whole in terms of how it allocates resources; determines the nation's production, income, unemployment, and price levels; and leads to variations in individual income levels.

6.2.2 Resource Allocation: Explain what a consumer does. (G 4.2.8) 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.2

6.2.6 Differences in Individual Incomes: Give examples of ways people earn money by working. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.6

NV.7.0. Economics: An Evolving Economy: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how investment, entrepreneurship, competition, and specialization lead to changes in an economy's structure and performance.

7.2.1 Investment: Explain how tools and machinery may help a person work faster or better, or make a person's work easier. (G 2.2.4) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.1

7.2.4 Entrepreneurship: Give examples of inventions. 33
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.4

NV.8.0. Economics: The Role of Government in a Market Economy: Students will explain the role of government in a market economy.

NV.9.0. Economics: The International Economy: Students explore the characteristics of non-U.S. economic systems in order to demonstrate an understanding of how they are connected, through trade, to peoples and cultures throughout the world.

NV.1.0. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms: Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

1.2.1 Map Use: Identify the map titles and map symbols on a variety of maps. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.1

1.2.2 Map Section: Describe what a map or globe represents. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.2

1.2.3 Geographic Tools and Technologies: Recognize geographic information from maps, globes, photographs, and graphs. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.3

1.2.4 Map Construction: Choose a title and construct a key from given map symbols. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.4

1.2.6 Map Analysis: Recognize spatial patterns on a map. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.6

1.2.7 Map Concepts: Identify and locate land and water on a map or globe, using the terms continent and ocean. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.7

1.2.8 Map Locations: Locate Nevada and the United States on a map. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.8

NV.2.0. Geography: Places and Regions-Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of changes.

2.2.1 Characteristics of Places and Regions: Identify basic types of landforms and bodies of water, such as mountains, valleys, islands, lakes, and rivers. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.1

2.2.2 Cultural Identity: Identify traditions and customs that families practice. (E 3.2.3) 81
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.2

2.2.4 Impact of Technology: Give examples of how technology is used in the home and classroom. (Ec 7.2.1) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.4

2.2.5 History and Region: Identify changes that have occurred over time at home, at school, or in the neighborhood. (H 1.2.2) 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.5

2.2.7 Applying Concepts of Regions: Identify areas that have different purposes in the home or the classroom. 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.2.7

NV.3.0. Geography: Physical Systems-Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.

3.2.1 Physical Systems: Describe the weather conditions typical to each season in the community and in other places. 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.1

3.2.3 Characteristics of Ecosystems: Identify some basic elements of a simple ecosystem, such as plants and animals. 63
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.2.3

NV.4.0. Geography: Human Systems - Students understand how economic, political, and cultural processes interact to shape patterns of human migration and settlement, influence and interdependence, and conflict and cooperation.

4.2.1 Demographic Concepts: Use a school map to construct a visual model of population distribution. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.1

4.2.2 Migration and Settlement: Give oral directions from one location to another within their school or community. (E 4.2.6; E 8.2.4; E 9.2.5) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.2

4.2.3 Historical Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas: Categorize different ways to move people, goods, and ideas. 45
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.3

4.2.4 Patterns of Human Settlement: Compare and contrast rural and urban communities. 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.4

4.2.5 Economic Systems and Interdependence: Distinguish between goods and services. (Ec 1.3.1; Ec 6.2.2) 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.5

4.2.6 Analysis of Economic Issues: Use a map or chart to display information about an economic product. (Ec 3.2.1) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.6

4.2.7 Patterns of Human Development: Distinguish between wants and needs and describe how people fulfill them. (Ec 1.2.1; Ec 2.3.6; Ec 3.2.1; Ec 5.2.1; Ec 6.2.2; Ec 6.2.6) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.7

4.2.8 Human Organizations: List different groups to which people belong. 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.8

4.2.9 Cooperation and Conflict: Identify places where cooperation and conflict take place. 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.2.9

NV.5.0. Geography: Environment and Society-Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

5.2.4 Human Modification: Identify how people shape the physical environment at home and school. 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.4

NV.6.0. Geography: Geographic Applications-Students apply geographic knowledge of people, places, and environments to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future.

6.2.2 Applying Geography in Current Events: Recognize the location of major current events. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.2

6.2.4 Applying Geography to the Future: Plan a spatial change for a classroom or school such as redesigning the playground or changing the location of furniture. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.4

NV.7.0. Geography: Geographic Skills: Students ask and answer geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

7.2.1 Ask Geographic Questions: Ask questions about location. (E 4.2.3; E 10.2.3; E 11.2.1) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.1

7.2.2 Acquire Geographic Information: Gather geographic information from books and pictures. (E 4.2.1; E 11.2.2) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.2

7.2.3 Organize Geographic Information: Make simple lists and graphs and arrange visual materials to display geographic information. (E 6.2.2) 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.3

7.2.4 Analyze Geographic Information: Identify and group information from several geographic sources. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.4

7.2.5 Present Geographic Information: Display the results of a geographic inquiry. (E 11.2.5; H 1.3.2) 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.5

NV.1.0. Civics: Rules and Law: Students know why society needs rules, laws, and governments.

1.2.1 Rules and Law: Identify and follow classroom and school rules that guide behavior and establish order to accomplish tasks. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.1

1.2.4 Democratic Participation: Participate in class decision-making. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.4

NV.2.0. Civics: The U.S. Government: Students know the United States Constitution and the government it creates.

NV.3.0. Civics: National and State Government: Students can explain the relationship between the states and national government.

NV.4.0. Civics: The Political Process: Students describe the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public opinion in the democratic process.

NV.5.0. Civics: Citizenship: Students know the roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens and the symbols of our country.

5.2.3 Symbols: Name a traditional U.S. patriotic activity, holiday, or symbol, such as the Fourth of July. (H 6.2.4; H 6.2.13) 51
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.3

NV.6.0. Civics: State and Local Government: Students know the structure and functions of state and local governments.

NV.7.0. Civics: Political and Economic Systems: Students explain the different political and economic systems in the world.

NV.8.0. Civics: International Relations: Students know the political and economic relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations.

8.2.1 From Individual to the World: Name their school and community. 37
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.2.1

NV.1.0. History: Chronology: Students use chronology to organize and understand the sequence and relationship of events.

1.2.2 Chronology: Identify past, present, and future events. (E 9.2.4; G 2.2.5) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.2.2

NV.2.0. History: History Skills: Students will use social studies vocabulary and concepts to engage in inquiry, in research, in analysis, and in decision making.

NV.3.0. History: Prehistory to 400 CE: Students understand the development of human societies, civilizations, and empires through 400 CE.

NV.4.0. History: 1 CE to 1400: Students understand the characteristics, ideas, and significance of civilizations and religions from 1 CE to 1400.

NV.5.0. History: 1200 to 1750: Students understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.

5.2.6 United States and Nevada: Tell why Columbus Day is celebrated. (E 9.2.4) 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.6

5.2.8 World and United States: Tell why Thanksgiving Day is celebrated. (E 9.2.4) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.2.8

NV.6.0. History: 1700 to 1865: Students understand the people, events, ideas, and conflicts that led to the creation of new nations and distinctive cultures.

6.2.4 United States: Tell why the Fourth of July is celebrated. (C 5.2.3) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.4

6.2.13 United States: Tell why Presidents' Day is celebrated. (C 5.2.3; Ec 9.2.4) 41
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.2.13

NV.7.0. History: 1860 to 1920: Students understand the importance and impact of political, economic, and social ideas.

7.2.11 United States and Nevada: Tell why Labor Day is celebrated. 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.11

7.2.17 World and United States: Tell why Memorial Day and Veterans Day are celebrated. 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.2.17

NV.8.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1920 to 1945: Students understand the importance and effect of political, economic, technological, and social changes in the world from 1920 to 1945.

NV.9.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1945 to 1990: Students understand the shift of international relationships and power as well as the significant developments in American culture.

9.2.8 World, United States, and Nevada: Tell why Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated. 18
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.2.8

NV.10.0. History: New Challenges, 1990 to the Present: Students understand the political, economic, social, and technological issues challenging the world as it approaches and enters the new millennium.

NV.1.0. Economics: The Economic Way of Thinking: Students will use fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, and costs versus benefits to describe and analyze problems and opportunities, both individual and social.

1.3.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Cost: Categorize wants as goods, services, or leisure activities. (E 6.3.2; G 4.3.5; G 4.2.5; G 4.3.7) 94
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.1

1.3.2 Incentives and Preferences: Give examples of incentives and determine whether they are positive or negative.

1.3.3 Cost versus Benefits: Identify the benefits and the costs of an all-or-nothing choice such as choosing to have music on or off. 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.3

NV.2.0. Economics: Measuring U.S. Economic Performance: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of past and present U.S. economic performance, identify the economic indicators used to measure that performance, and use this knowledge to make individual decisions and discuss social issues.

2.3.2 Measuring Economic Growth: Identify and use per capita measures in the classroom (such as the number of pencils per student). 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.3.2

2.3.6 Measuring Unemployment: Discuss why people seek work. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.3.6

NV.3.0. Economics: Functioning of Markets: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how markets work, including an understanding of why markets form, how supply and demand interact to determine market prices and interest rates, and how changes in prices act as signals to coordinate trade.

3.3.1 Trade Is Beneficial: Differentiate between barter and monetary trade. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.3.1

3.3.2 Markets Determine Prices: Give examples of prices received by a business for selling goods and services. 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.3.2

3.3.3 Prices as Signals: Give reasons why producers choose to sell more of a good or service (including when a price is high) and when they choose to sell less (including when its price is low). 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.3.3

NV.4.0. Economics: Private U.S. Economic Institutions: Students will describe the roles played by U.S. economic institutions including financial institutions, labor unions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.

4.3.1 Financial Institutions: Demonstrate an understanding of key banking terms, including saving, interest, and borrowing. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.1

4.3.3 For-profit Business Organizations: Identify a for-profit organization in the community and a service it provides. 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.3

4.3.4 Not-for-profit Organizations: Identify a not-for-profit organization in the community and a service it provides. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.4

4.3.5 Personal Economics: Identify reasons for saving money. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.5

NV.5.0. Economics: Money: Students demonstrate an understanding of forms of money, how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services; and how the Federal Reserve System and its policies affect the U.S. money supply.

5.3.1 Functions of Money: Identify forms of money. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.3.1

5.3.5 Personal Economics: Demonstrate an understanding that each family has a limited amount of money regardless of how it is accessed (through cash, check writing, or ATM). 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.3.5

NV.6.0. Economics: The U.S. Economy as a Whole: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the U.S. economic system as a whole in terms of how it allocates resources; determines the nation's production, income, unemployment, and price levels; and leads to variations in individual income levels.

6.3.2 Resource Allocation: Explain what a producer does. (G 4.3.5) 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.3.2

6.3.4 The Nation's Income Level: Demonstrate an understanding of and give examples of income. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.3.4

6.3.6 Differences in Individual Incomes: Demonstrate an understanding that different jobs require different skills and people receive different levels of income. 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.3.6

NV.7.0. Economics: An Evolving Economy: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how investment, entrepreneurship, competition, and specialization lead to changes in an economy's structure and performance.

7.3.1 Investment: Explain how skill training and education can enhance the ability to produce goods and services. 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.3.1

7.3.4 Entrepreneurship: List examples of entrepreneurs. 54
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.3.4

7.3.5 Competition: Describe what it means to compete. 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.3.5

NV.8.0. Economics: The Role of Government in a Market Economy: Students will explain the role of government in a market economy.

NV.9.0. Economics: The International Economy: Students explore the characteristics of non-U.S. economic systems in order to demonstrate an understanding of how they are connected, through trade, to peoples and cultures throughout the world.

9.3.1 International Trade: Give examples of goods the U.S. imports and exports. (E 6.3.2; G 4.3.6; G 5.3.7) 20
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.3.1

9.3.2 Interdependence: Identify the countries of origin of commonly used products. (G 4.3.6) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.3.2

9.3.4 Exchange Rates: Identify the currencies of other countries. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.3.4

NV.1.0. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms: Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

1.3.1 Map Use: Identify and use the cardinal directions (N,S,E,W) on a compass rose to locate places on a map. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.1

1.3.2 Map Section: Compare uses of maps and globes. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.2

1.3.3 Geographic Tools and Technologies: Use maps, globes, photographs, and graphs to collect geographic information. 20
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.3

1.3.4 Map Construction: Construct a simple map, including title, symbols, and directions. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.4

1.3.5 Map Applications: Recognize different types of maps. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.5

1.3.6 Map Analysis: Recognize different types of maps. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.6

1.3.7 Map Concepts: Explain the difference between a city and a state, using appropriate examples. 124
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.7

1.3.8 Map Locations: Locate and name states that border Nevada and countries that border the United States. 69
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.8

NV.2.0. Geography: Places and Regions-Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of changes.

2.3.1 Characteristics of Places and Regions: Identify differences between physical and human features. 52
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.3.1

2.3.2 Cultural Identity: Identify how language, music, stories, art, and customs express culture. (E 3.3.3) 195
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.3.2

2.3.3 Cultural Perspectives: Discuss how people view their own communities. 32
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.3.3

2.3.4 Impact of Technology: List examples of technology in their community. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.3.4

2.3.5 History and Region: Identify an historical landmark and describe the event that took place there. 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.3.5

2.3.6 Patterns of Change: Compare visual images of the same place over time. (H 1.3.2) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.3.6

2.3.7 Applying Concepts of Regions: Identify neighborhoods and communities as places where people live, work, and play. 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.3.7

NV.3.0. Geography: Physical Systems-Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.

3.3.1 Physical Systems: Recognize that plants and animals have habitats on both land and in water. 54
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.3.1

3.3.2 Natural Hazards: Identify various natural hazards such as floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. 46
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.3.2

3.3.3 Characteristics of Ecosystems: Identify different types of simple ecosystems, such as ponds, streams, or fields. 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.3.3

3.3.4 Distribution of Ecosystems: Locate different ecosystems in their community. 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.3.4

3.3.5 Analysis of Ecosystems: Identify the living and nonliving elements of an ecosystem. 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.3.5

NV.4.0. Geography: Human Systems - Students understand how economic, political, and cultural processes interact to shape patterns of human migration and settlement, influence and interdependence, and conflict and cooperation.

4.3.1 Demographic Concepts: Construct a graph or chart to compare population distribution in different areas. (Ec 2.3.2) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.1

4.3.2 Migration and Settlement: Draw a simple map that illustrates how to get from one location to another. 29
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.2

4.3.3 Historical Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas: Identify transportation and communication networks in daily life. 27
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.3

4.3.4 Patterns of Human Settlement: Describe the characteristics of rural, suburban, and urban communities. 30
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.4

4.3.5 Economic Systems and Interdependence: Locate sources of goods and services found in the community. (Ec 6.3.2) 43
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.5

4.3.6 Analysis of Economic Issues: Investigate an economic product by asking and answering questions about location. (Ec 9.3.1; Ec 9.3.2) 42
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.6

4.3.7 Patterns of Human Development: Compare the wants and needs of people in different communities and the means used to fulfill those wants and needs. 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.7

4.3.8 Human Organizations: Describe the different purposes of various organizations such as Scouts, organized sports, 4-H. (C 4.3.3; Ec 4.3.3; Ec 4.3.4) 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.8

4.3.9 Cooperation and Conflict: Describe how cooperation and conflict affect people and places. (C 5.3.6) 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.9

NV.5.0. Geography: Environment and Society-Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

5.3.3 Technology and the Physical Environment: List tools, machines, or technologies that have changed the physical environment. 59
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.3.3

5.3.4 Human Modification: Compare different ways in which people modify the physical environment. (H 5.3.6; H 6.3.17) 40
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.3.4

5.3.6 Earth's Resources: Describe ways humans depend on natural resources. (H 5.3.6; H 6.3.17) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.3.6

5.3.7 Management of Earth's Resources: List examples of how people use and manage natural resources within their communities. (Ec 9.3.1, H 5.3.6; H 6.3.17) 57
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.3.7

NV.6.0. Geography: Geographic Applications-Students apply geographic knowledge of people, places, and environments to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future.

6.3.1 Applying Geography in History: Use visual clues to determine when and where an event took place in the past. (H 1.3.2; H 2.3.1) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.3.1

6.3.2 Applying Geography in Current Events: Identify the location of current events on a map. (H 1.3.1) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.3.2

6.3.3 Applying Geography to Contemporary Issues: Recognize a geographic issue or theme that affects home, school, or community. 57
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.3.3

6.3.4 Applying Geography to the Future: Predict possible geographic changes that could take place in their neighborhood or community. 56
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.3.4

NV.7.0. Geography: Geographic Skills: Students ask and answer geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

7.3.1 Ask Geographic Questions: Ask questions about why things are located where they are. (E 4.3.3; E 10.3.2; E 11.3.1; Ec 9.3.1; Ec 9.3.2) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.3.1

7.3.2 Acquire Geographic Information: Gather geographic information from maps, globes, and atlases. (E 4.3.1; E 11.3.2) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.3.2

7.3.3 Organize Geographic Information: Construct simple maps and graphs to display geographic information. (E 6.3.2) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.3.3

7.3.4 Analyze Geographic Information: Select and explain information from several geographic sources. 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.3.4

7.3.5 Present Geographic Information: Create a visual model to illustrate the results of a geographic inquiry. (E 11.3.5) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.3.5

NV.1.0. Civics: Rules and Law: Students know why society needs rules, laws, and governments.

1.3.1 Rules and Law: Identify examples of rules, laws, and authorities that keep people safe and property secure. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.1

1.3.4 Democratic Participation: Explain that democracy involves voting, majority rule, and setting rules. (M 1.3.6) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.4

NV.2.0. Civics: The U.S. Government: Students know the United States Constitution and the government it creates.

2.3.4 The Executive Branch: Name the current President of the United States. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.3.4

NV.3.0. Civics: National and State Government: Students can explain the relationship between the states and national government.

NV.4.0. Civics: The Political Process: Students describe the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public opinion in the democratic process.

4.3.3 Interest Groups: Discuss why people form groups. (G 4.3.8) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.3.3

NV.5.0. Civics: Citizenship: Students know the roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens and the symbols of our country.

5.3.1 Citizenship: Recognize the Pledge of Allegiance. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.3.1

5.3.3 Symbols: Explain why we have patriotic holidays. (H 6.3.4; H 7.3.17) 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.3.3

5.3.4 Individual Rights: Identify an individual's rights within the classroom. 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.3.4

5.3.6 Conflict and Resolution: Identify conflicts in the school and discuss peaceful resolution. (G 4.3.9) 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.3.6

NV.6.0. Civics: State and Local Government: Students know the structure and functions of state and local governments.

6.3.1 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Name the current governor of Nevada. 105
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.3.1

NV.7.0. Civics: Political and Economic Systems: Students explain the different political and economic systems in the world.

NV.8.0. Civics: International Relations: Students know the political and economic relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations.

8.3.1 From Individual to the World: Identify their county, state, and country. 115
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.3.1

NV.1.0. History: Chronology: Students use chronology to organize and understand the sequence and relationship of events.

1.3.1 Current Events: Identify the source of information for a current event. 20
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.1

1.3.2 Chronology: Read a time line. (E 6.3.2; G 2.3.6; G 6.3.1; G 7.3.5) 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.3.2

NV.2.0. History: History Skills: Students will use social studies vocabulary and concepts to engage in inquiry, in research, in analysis, and in decision making.

2.3.1 Inquiry: Ask history-related questions. (E 4.3.3; E 10.3.2; E 11.3.1) 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.3.1

NV.3.0. History: Prehistory to 400 CE: Students understand the development of human societies, civilizations, and empires through 400 CE.

NV.4.0. History: 1 CE to 1400: Students understand the characteristics, ideas, and significance of civilizations and religions from 1 CE to 1400.

NV.5.0. History: 1200 to 1750: Students understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.

5.3.6 United States and Nevada: Identify Native North American life prior to European contact, such as: food; clothing; shelter. (Ec 3.3.1; Ec 5.3.1) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.3.6

NV.6.0. History: 1700 to 1865: Students understand the people, events, ideas, and conflicts that led to the creation of new nations and distinctive cultures.

6.3.4 United States: Identify the Declaration of Independence. (C 5.3.3) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.3.4

6.3.5 United States: Identify patriotic symbols, including: eagle; flag; Liberty Bell. 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.3.5

6.3.14 United States: Identify The Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem. 32
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.3.14

6.3.17 United States and Nevada: Describe the life of pioneers. 112
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.3.17

NV.7.0. History: 1860 to 1920: Students understand the importance and impact of political, economic, and social ideas.

7.3.9 Nevada and United States: Identify the Statue of Liberty as a patriotic symbol. 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.3.9

NV.8.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1920 to 1945: Students understand the importance and effect of political, economic, technological, and social changes in the world from 1920 to 1945.

NV.9.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1945 to 1990: Students understand the shift of international relationships and power as well as the significant developments in American culture.

NV.10.0. History: New Challenges, 1990 to the Present: Students understand the political, economic, social, and technological issues challenging the world as it approaches and enters the new millennium.

NV.1.0. Economics: The Economic Way of Thinking: Students will use fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, and costs versus benefits to describe and analyze problems and opportunities, both individual and social.

1.5.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Cost: Describe how scarcity requires a person to make a choice and identify a cost associated with the decision. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.1

1.5.2 Incentives and Preferences: Demonstrate an understanding that people may respond to the same incentive in different ways because they may have different preferences. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.2

1.5.3 Cost versus Benefits: Demonstrate an understanding that choosing a little more or a little less generates either a benefit or a cost. (E 4.3.2) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.3

1.5.4 Personal Economics: Identify the benefits and costs of spending now versus saving for later. (E.10.5.1) 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.4

NV.2.0. Economics: Measuring U.S. Economic Performance: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of past and present U.S. economic performance, identify the economic indicators used to measure that performance, and use this knowledge to make individual decisions and discuss social issues.

2.5.2 Measuring Economic Growth: Identify and compare per capita measures for the U.S. for different time periods. (H 1.5.2) 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.2

2.5.4 Measuring Inflation: Define inflation and deflation and explain how they affect individuals. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.4

2.5.6 Measuring Unemployment: Define employment and unemployment. 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.6

2.5.8 Measuring Interest: Identify and give examples of interest rates for borrowing and saving. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.8

NV.3.0. Economics: Functioning of Markets: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how markets work, including an understanding of why markets form, how supply and demand interact to determine market prices and interest rates, and how changes in prices act as signals to coordinate trade.

3.5.1 Trade Is Beneficial: Explain why trade must be mutually beneficial. 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.1

3.5.2 Markets Determine Prices: Demonstrate an understanding of supply and demand in a market. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.2

3.5.3 Prices as Signals: Contrast the effects of price changes on the behavior of buyers and sellers. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.3

NV.4.0. Economics: Private U.S. Economic Institutions: Students will describe the roles played by U.S. economic institutions including financial institutions, labor unions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.

4.5.1 Financial Institutions: Identify financial institutions. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.1

4.5.2 Labor Unions: Provide examples of labor unions. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.2

4.5.3 For-profit Business Organizations: Explain the purposes for establishing for-profit organizations. 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.3

4.5.4 Not-for-profit Organizations: Explain the purposes for establishing not-for-profit organizations. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.4

4.5.5 Personal Economics: Identify the rewards and risks of saving money in financial institutions. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.5

NV.5.0. Economics: Money: Students demonstrate an understanding of forms of money, how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services; and how the Federal Reserve System and its policies affect the U.S. money supply.

5.5.1 Functions of Money: Explain why it is easier for people to save and trade using money rather than using other commodities. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.1

5.5.4 History of Money: Identify forms of money used in the United States prior to the twentieth century. (H 5.5.11) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.4

5.5.5 Personal Economics: Give examples of purchases made using credit. 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.5

NV.6.0. Economics: The U.S. Economy as a Whole: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the U.S. economic system as a whole in terms of how it allocates resources; determines the nation's production, income, unemployment, and price levels; and leads to variations in individual income levels.

6.5.1 Resource Allocation: Identify the resources needed for production in households, schools, and community groups. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.1

6.5.2 Resource Allocation: Demonstrate an understanding that an individual can be both a consumer and a producer. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.2

6.5.3 The Nation's Production Level: Recognize the three types of productive resources: natural (such as minerals), human (such as educated workers), and capital (such as machinery). (E 6.5.2; G 5.5.6) 37
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.3

6.5.4 The Nation's Income Level: Illustrate how one person's spending becomes another person's income. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.4

6.5.5 The Nation's Unemployment Rate: Identify factors within an individual's control that can affect the likelihood of being employed. 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.5

6.5.6 Differences in Individual Incomes: Describe how income reflects choices people make about education, training, skill development, lifestyle, and careers. 96
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.6

NV.7.0. Economics: An Evolving Economy: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how investment, entrepreneurship, competition, and specialization lead to changes in an economy's structure and performance.

7.5.1 Investment: Provide an example of how purchasing a tool or acquiring education can be an investment. 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.1

7.5.4 Entrepreneurship: Describe the characteristics of an entrepreneur. 63
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.4

7.5.5 Competition: Give examples of ways sellers compete. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.5

7.5.6 Specialization: Explain why specialization increases productivity and interdependence. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.6

7.5.7 Personal Economics: Describe the steps an entrepreneur would take to start a business. 64
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.7

NV.8.0. Economics: The Role of Government in a Market Economy: Students will explain the role of government in a market economy.

8.5.7 Personal Economics: Give examples of items for which a sales tax is charged and items for which a sales tax is not charged. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.5.7

NV.9.0. Economics: The International Economy: Students explore the characteristics of non-U.S. economic systems in order to demonstrate an understanding of how they are connected, through trade, to peoples and cultures throughout the world.

9.5.1 International Trade: Explain why the U.S. imports and exports goods. (G 4.5.5) 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.5.1

9.5.2 Interdependence: Describe how the exchange of goods and services around the world creates interdependence among people in different places (such as the production of a candy bar requires ingredients from different countries around the world). (C 8.5.2; G 4.5.5; G 4.5.7) 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.5.2

9.5.4 Exchange Rates: Give the value of the U.S. dollar in terms of the currencies of other countries. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.5.4

NV.1.0. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms: Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

1.5.1 Map Use: Use maps and map features, including directional orientation, map symbols, and grid system, to identify and locate major geographic features in Nevada and the United States. 108
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.1

1.5.2 Map Section: Identify the characteristics and purposes of different maps and globes. 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.2

1.5.3 Geographic Tools and Technologies: Read and derive geo- graphic information from photographs, maps, graphs, and computer resources. (E 4.5.1; H 1.5.2) 20
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.3

1.5.4 Map Construction: Construct maps and charts to display information about human and physical features in the United States. (H 3.3.5; H 6.5.17) 151
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.4

1.5.5 Map Applications: Identify the purpose and content of various U.S. maps. 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.5

1.5.6 Map Analysis: Answer spatial questions about a map using basic geographic vocabulary. 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.6

1.5.7 Map Concepts: Recognize that states in the United States may be grouped into regions such as the West, Southwest, Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast. 116
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.7

1.5.8 Map Locations: Label a map of the United States with the names of the fifty states and major cities, such as Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, and New York. 108
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.8

NV.2.0. Geography: Places and Regions-Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of changes.

2.5.1 Characteristics of Places and Regions: Describe physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and regions in the United States. (H 3.5.5; H 5.5.5; H 5.5.6) 154
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.1

2.5.2 Cultural Identity: Identify examples in their community or region that reflect cultural identity. (C 4.5.3; E 3.5.3; E 8.5.3; H 3.5.5) 128
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.2

2.5.3 Cultural Perspectives: Describe the characteristics of their community and Nevada from different perspectives. (C 4.5.3; H 3.5.5; H 5.5.5; H 5.5.6; H 6.8.1; H 6.8.14; H 9.8.13; H 10.8.3) 125
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.3

2.5.4 Impact of Technology: Identify the effects of the use of technology in different communities in the United States. (H 9.5.5) 47
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.4

2.5.5 History and Region: Identify and describe the locations of selected historical events. (E 3.5.3; H 4.5.1; H 5.11; H 6.5.4; H 6.5.17; H 6.5.21) 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.5

2.5.6 Patterns of Change: Describe how their community and Nevada have changed over time. (H 3.5.5; H 5.5.5; H 5.5.36) 111
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.6

2.5.7 Applying Concepts of Regions: Identify the criteria used to define different types of regions. 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.7

NV.3.0. Geography: Physical Systems-Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.

3.5.1 Physical Systems: Identify the components of each of Earth's four basic physical systems including atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.1

3.5.2 Natural Hazards: Define and give examples of natural hazards, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and tsunamis. 37
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.2

3.5.3 Characteristics of Ecosystems: Identify the parts of different ecosystems, including soil, climate, plant life, and animal life. 55
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.3

3.5.4 Distribution of Ecosystems: Describe the biodiversity of different ecosystems on Earth. 55
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.4

3.5.5 Analysis of Ecosystems: Investigate an ecosystem by asking and answering geographic questions. 55
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.5

NV.4.0. Geography: Human Systems - Students understand how economic, political, and cultural processes interact to shape patterns of human migration and settlement, influence and interdependence, and conflict and cooperation.

4.5.1 Demographic Concepts: Explain differences in population distribution within Nevada and the United States. 106
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.1

4.5.2 Migration and Settlement: Identify the push-pull factors influencing human migration and settlement. (E 5.5.6; Ec 2.5.6) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.2

4.5.3 Historical Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas: List examples of historical movements of people, goods, and ideas. (H 4.5.1; H 5.5.7; H 5.5.8; H 5.5.11; H 6.5.17; H 7.5.9) 33
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.3

4.5.4 Patterns of Human Settlement: Describe the differences among rural, suburban, and urban migration and settlement. 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.4

4.5.5 Economic Systems and Interdependence: Identify the sources of various economic goods and describe their movement between states or countries. (C 8.5.2; Ec 9.5.1; Ec 9.5.2; Ec 9.5.4; Ec 6.5.3) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.5

4.5.6 Analysis of Economic Issues: Investigate an economic issue by asking and answering geographic questions about location. (H 6.5.21; H 10.5.3; Ec 9.5.01; Ec 9.5.2; Ec 9.5.4) 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.6

4.5.7 Patterns of Human Development: Compare differences in the economic development and quality of life among the countries in North America. (Ec 6.5.3; Ec 6.5.6; Ec 9.5.1; Ec 9.5.2; Ec 9.5.4; H 9.5.5) 40
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.7

4.5.8 Human Organizations: Describe why types of organizations may differ by geographic region. (H 5.5.5; H 5.5.6) 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.8

4.5.9 Cooperation and Conflict: Describe issues of cooperation and conflict within the United States. (C 5.5.6; H 6.5.21; H 10.5.3) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.9

NV.5.0. Geography: Environment and Society-Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

5.5.1 Changes in the Physical Environment: Describe ways in which changes in the physical environment affect humans. 43
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.1

5.5.3 Technology and the Physical Environment: Describe places in the United States whose physical environment has been altered by technology. 47
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.3

5.5.4 Human Modification: Explore the impact of human modification of the physical environment on the people who live in that location. 43
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.4

5.5.6 Earth's Resources: Describe the patterns of distribution and use of natural resources in the United States. (Ec 6.5.3) 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.6

5.5.7 Management of Earth's Resources: Compare the use of the same resource in the United States with another place in the world. (Ec 6.5.3) 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.7

NV.6.0. Geography: Geographic Applications-Students apply geographic knowledge of people, places, and environments to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future.

6.5.1 Applying Geography in History: Describe how the physical setting influenced an event in the past. (H 4.5.1; H 5.5.7; H 6.5.4; H 6.5.21) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.1

6.5.2 Applying Geography in Current Events: Use current events to ask and answer geographic questions. 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.2

6.5.3 Applying Geography to Contemporary Issues: Discuss a geographic issue from more than one point of view. (E 11.5.2; H 6.5.21) 69
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.3

6.5.4 Applying Geography to the Future: Describe a geographic issue and the possible impact it could have in the future. (E 5.5.6) 69
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.4

NV.7.0. Geography: Geographic Skills: Students ask and answer geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

7.5.1 Ask Geographic Questions: Ask geographic questions about the origin and significance of spatial patterns. (E 10.5.2) 18
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.1

7.5.2 Acquire Geographic Information: Locate and gather geographic information from a variety of sources. (E 11.5.2) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.2

7.5.3 Organize Geographic Information: Create complex maps, graphs, or charts to display geographic information. (E 11.5.5) 47
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.3

7.5.4 Analyze Geographic Information: Investigate and interpret information from a variety of geographic sources. (E 6.5.1; E 11.5.2; H 1.5.2) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.4

7.5.5 Present Geographic Information: Draw a conclusion by presenting geographic information in an oral or written report accompanied by maps or graphics. (E 6.5.3; E 6.5.7; E 10.5.3; E 11.5.5) 30
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.5

NV.1.0. Civics: Rules and Law: Students know why society needs rules, laws, and governments.

1.5.1 Rules and Law: Describe the effects on society of the absence of law. 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.1

1.5.2 Documents: Identify the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as written documents that are the foundation of the United States government. (H 6.5.4) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.2

1.5.4 Democratic Participation: Describe the operation of representative government, including the rights of political minorities. 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.4

NV.2.0. Civics: The U.S. Government: Students know the United States Constitution and the government it creates.

2.5.1 The U.S. Constitution: Identify the three branches of government (as set forth in the U.S. Constitution). (E 10.2.3) 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.1

2.5.2 The Legislative Structure and Process: Name the two houses of the U.S. Congress. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.2

2.5.3 Legislative Powers: Identify the powers of the U.S. Congress, such as power to tax, declare war, and impeach the President. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.3

2.5.4 The Executive Branch: Identify the duties of the President. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.4

2.5.5 The Judicial Branch: Identify the Supreme Court as the highest court in the land. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.5

2.5.6 The Jury System: Describe the purpose of a judge and jury in a trial as it relates to resolving disputes. 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.6

NV.3.0. Civics: National and State Government: Students can explain the relationship between the states and national government.

NV.4.0. Civics: The Political Process: Students describe the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public opinion in the democratic process.

4.5.1 Leaders and Elections: List the qualities of a leader. (H 6.5.5; H 7.5.7; H 9.5.8) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.1

4.5.2 Political Parties: Name the two major political parties. 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.2

4.5.3 Interest Groups: Give examples of interest groups. (G 2.5.2; G 2.5.3) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.3

4.5.4 Formation of Public Opinion: Identify sources of information people use to form an opinion. (E 11.5.2; E 11.5.3) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.4

NV.5.0. Civics: Citizenship: Students know the roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens and the symbols of our country.

5.5.1 Citizenship: Describe the difference between a natural-born and a naturalized citizen of the United States. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.1

5.5.3 Symbols: Describe the symbolic importance of the Fourth of July and the Pledge of Allegiance. (H 6.5.4; H 6.5.5) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.3

5.5.4 Individual Rights: Identify the Bill of Rights. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.4

5.5.6 Conflict and Resolution: Identify ways conflicts can be resolved in a peaceful manner that respects individual rights. (G 4.8.9; H 9.5.8; S 18.5.4) 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.6

NV.6.0. Civics: State and Local Government: Students know the structure and functions of state and local governments.

6.5.1 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Explain why local governments are created within states. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.1

6.5.3 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Name the three branches of state government. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.3

6.5.4 Court Systems: Know that there are different types of courts. 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.4

NV.7.0. Civics: Political and Economic Systems: Students explain the different political and economic systems in the world.

7.5.1 Comparative Political Systems: List the characteristics of a nation-state, including: self-rule; territory; population; organized government. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.1

NV.8.0. Civics: International Relations: Students know the political and economic relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations.

8.5.1 From Individual to the World: Identify the countries bordering the United States. 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.5.1

8.5.2 Foreign Policy: Explain ways in which nations interact. (Ec 9.5.2; G 4.5.5) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.5.2

NV.1.0. History: Chronology: Students use chronology to organize and understand the sequence and relationship of events.

1.5.1 Current Events: Identify current events from multiple sources. 27
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.1

1.5.2 Chronology: Record events on a graphic organizer, such as a calendar or time line. (G 7.5.4) 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.2

NV.2.0. History: History Skills: Students will use social studies vocabulary and concepts to engage in inquiry, in research, in analysis, and in decision making.

2.5.1 Inquiry: Ask a historical question and identify resources to be used in research. (E 11.5.1; E 11.5.2; E 11.5.3) 27
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.1

2.5.2 Research and Analysis: Organize historical information from a variety of sources. (E 6.5.2) 27
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.2

NV.3.0. History: Prehistory to 400 CE: Students understand the development of human societies, civilizations, and empires through 400 CE.

3.5.1 World, United States, and Nevada: Define hunter-gatherer. 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.1

3.5.5 Nevada: Locate Nevada's earliest Native American inhabitants, known as the Desert Archaic people. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.5

NV.4.0. History: 1 CE to 1400: Students understand the characteristics, ideas, and significance of civilizations and religions from 1 CE to 1400.

4.5.1 World: Identify explorations of the Vikings in North America. (G 2.5.5; G 4.5.3; G 6.5.1) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.1

NV.5.0. History: 1200 to 1750: Students understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.

5.5.5 Nevada: Identify Nevada's Native American cultures, including: Northern Paiute, Southern Paiute, Washoe, Western Shoshone. (G 2.5.3; G 2.5.6; G 4.5.8) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.5

5.5.6 United States and Nevada: Describe Native North American life prior to European contact, such as: Clothing; Communication; Family; Food; Shelter; Transportation; Tools. (G 2.5.1; G 4.5.8; G 5.5.4) 18
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.6

5.5.7 World and United States: Describe expeditions of early explorers, including: Christopher Columbus; Ferdinand Magellan. (G 4.5.3; G 6.5.1) 66
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.7

5.5.8 World and United States: Describe relationships among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans. (G 4.5.3; G 4.5.9) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.8

5.5.11 United States: Describe colonial life in North America. (Ec 5.5.4; G 2.5.5; G 4.5.3) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.11

NV.6.0. History: 1700 to 1865: Students understand the people, events, ideas, and conflicts that led to the creation of new nations and distinctive cultures.

6.5.4 United States: Identify the events that led to the Declaration of Independence. (C 1.5.2; G 2.5.5; G 6.5.1) 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.4

6.5.5 United States: Identify key people of the American Revolution, including: George Washington; Ben Franklin. 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.5

6.5.14 United States: Describe the relationship between the War of 1812 and the national anthem. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.14

6.5.17 United States and Nevada: Describe experiences of pioneers moving west, including: Donner Party; Oregon and California Trails. (E 3.5.3; G 1.5.4; G 2.5.5;G 4.5.3) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.17

6.5.18 Nevada: Identify explorers and settlers in pre-territorial Nevada, including: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont. 138
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.18

6.5.21 United States: Identify the Civil War and final outcome, including: Union and Confederacy, Generals Grant and Lee. (G 2.5.5; G 4.5.6; G 4.5.9; G 6.5.1; G 6.5.3) 38
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.21

6.5.22 Nevada: Explain the symbols, mottos, and slogans related to Nevada, including: 'Battle Born'; state seal; Silver State; state flag. 88
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.22

NV.7.0. History: 1860 to 1920: Students understand the importance and impact of political, economic, and social ideas.

7.5.7 United States: Identify the contributions of the inventors and discoverers, including: Thomas Edison; Wright brothers; Alexander Graham Bell; George Washington Carver. (C 4.5.1; E 3.5.3) 59
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.7

7.5.9 Nevada and United States: Describe the contributions of immigrant groups to the United States. (G 4.5.3) 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.9

7.5.11 United States and Nevada: Describe the significance of Labor Day. 35
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.11

7.5.17 World and United States: Describe the distinction between Veterans Day and Memorial Day. 18
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.17

NV.8.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1920 to 1945: Students understand the importance and effect of political, economic, technological, and social changes in the world from 1920 to 1945.

8.5.5 United States and Nevada: Identify the major events of the Great Depression, such as: stock market crash; Dust Bowl; migration; Hoover Dam. 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.5.5

8.5.6 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify the United States' participation in World War II, such as: Pearl Harbor; homefront; D-Day; atomic bomb. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.5.6

NV.9.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1945 to 1990: Students understand the shift of international relationships and power as well as the significant developments in American culture.

9.5.5 World and United States: Identify major advancements in science and technology, including: television, computers. (G 2.5.4; G 4.5.7) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.5.5

9.5.8 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify the major points in Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech. (C 4.5.1; C 5.5.6; E 8.5.1; E 8.5.2) 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.5.8

NV.10.0. History: New Challenges, 1990 to the Present: Students understand the political, economic, social, and technological issues challenging the world as it approaches and enters the new millennium.

10.5.3 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify major news events on the local, state, national, and world level. (G 4.5.6; G 4.5.9) 81
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 10.5.3

NV.1.0. Economics: The Economic Way of Thinking: Students will use fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, and costs versus benefits to describe and analyze problems and opportunities, both individual and social.

1.5.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Cost: Describe how scarcity requires a person to make a choice and identify a cost associated with the decision. 139
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.1

1.5.2 Incentives and Preferences: Demonstrate an understanding that people may respond to the same incentive in different ways because they may have different preferences. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.2

1.5.3 Cost versus Benefits: Demonstrate an understanding that choosing a little more or a little less generates either a benefit or a cost. (E 4.3.2) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.3

1.5.4 Personal Economics: Identify the benefits and costs of spending now versus saving for later. (E.10.5.1) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.4

NV.2.0. Economics: Measuring U.S. Economic Performance: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of past and present U.S. economic performance, identify the economic indicators used to measure that performance, and use this knowledge to make individual decisions and discuss social issues.

2.5.2 Measuring Economic Growth: Identify and compare per capita measures for the U.S. for different time periods. (H 1.5.2) 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.2

2.5.4 Measuring Inflation: Define inflation and deflation and explain how they affect individuals. 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.4

2.5.6 Measuring Unemployment: Define employment and unemployment. 18
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.6

2.5.8 Measuring Interest: Identify and give examples of interest rates for borrowing and saving. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.8

NV.3.0. Economics: Functioning of Markets: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how markets work, including an understanding of why markets form, how supply and demand interact to determine market prices and interest rates, and how changes in prices act as signals to coordinate trade.

3.5.1 Trade Is Beneficial: Explain why trade must be mutually beneficial. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.1

3.5.2 Markets Determine Prices: Demonstrate an understanding of supply and demand in a market. 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.2

3.5.3 Prices as Signals: Contrast the effects of price changes on the behavior of buyers and sellers. 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.3

NV.4.0. Economics: Private U.S. Economic Institutions: Students will describe the roles played by U.S. economic institutions including financial institutions, labor unions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.

4.5.1 Financial Institutions: Identify financial institutions. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.1

4.5.2 Labor Unions: Provide examples of labor unions. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.2

4.5.3 For-profit Business Organizations: Explain the purposes for establishing for-profit organizations. 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.3

4.5.4 Not-for-profit Organizations: Explain the purposes for establishing not-for-profit organizations. 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.4

4.5.5 Personal Economics: Identify the rewards and risks of saving money in financial institutions. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.5

NV.5.0. Economics: Money: Students demonstrate an understanding of forms of money, how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services; and how the Federal Reserve System and its policies affect the U.S. money supply.

5.5.1 Functions of Money: Explain why it is easier for people to save and trade using money rather than using other commodities. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.1

5.5.4 History of Money: Identify forms of money used in the United States prior to the twentieth century. (H 5.5.11) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.4

5.5.5 Personal Economics: Give examples of purchases made using credit. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.5

NV.6.0. Economics: The U.S. Economy as a Whole: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the U.S. economic system as a whole in terms of how it allocates resources; determines the nation's production, income, unemployment, and price levels; and leads to variations in individual income levels.

6.5.1 Resource Allocation: Identify the resources needed for production in households, schools, and community groups. 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.1

6.5.2 Resource Allocation: Demonstrate an understanding that an individual can be both a consumer and a producer. 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.2

6.5.3 The Nation's Production Level: Recognize the three types of productive resources: natural (such as minerals), human (such as educated workers), and capital (such as machinery). (E 6.5.2; G 5.5.6) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.3

6.5.4 The Nation's Income Level: Illustrate how one person's spending becomes another person's income. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.4

6.5.5 The Nation's Unemployment Rate: Identify factors within an individual's control that can affect the likelihood of being employed. 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.5

6.5.6 Differences in Individual Incomes: Describe how income reflects choices people make about education, training, skill development, lifestyle, and careers. 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.6

NV.7.0. Economics: An Evolving Economy: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how investment, entrepreneurship, competition, and specialization lead to changes in an economy's structure and performance.

7.5.1 Investment: Provide an example of how purchasing a tool or acquiring education can be an investment. 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.1

7.5.4 Entrepreneurship: Describe the characteristics of an entrepreneur. 72
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.4

7.5.5 Competition: Give examples of ways sellers compete. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.5

7.5.6 Specialization: Explain why specialization increases productivity and interdependence. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.6

7.5.7 Personal Economics: Describe the steps an entrepreneur would take to start a business. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.7

NV.8.0. Economics: The Role of Government in a Market Economy: Students will explain the role of government in a market economy.

8.5.7 Personal Economics: Give examples of items for which a sales tax is charged and items for which a sales tax is not charged. 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.5.7

NV.9.0. Economics: The International Economy: Students explore the characteristics of non-U.S. economic systems in order to demonstrate an understanding of how they are connected, through trade, to peoples and cultures throughout the world.

9.5.1 International Trade: Explain why the U.S. imports and exports goods. (G 4.5.5) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.5.1

9.5.2 Interdependence: Describe how the exchange of goods and services around the world creates interdependence among people in different places (such as the production of a candy bar requires ingredients from different countries around the world). (C 8.5.2; G 4.5.5; G 4.5.7) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.5.2

9.5.4 Exchange Rates: Give the value of the U.S. dollar in terms of the currencies of other countries. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.5.4

NV.1.0. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms: Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

1.5.1 Map Use: Use maps and map features, including directional orientation, map symbols, and grid system, to identify and locate major geographic features in Nevada and the United States. 209
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.1

1.5.2 Map Section: Identify the characteristics and purposes of different maps and globes. 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.2

1.5.3 Geographic Tools and Technologies: Read and derive geo- graphic information from photographs, maps, graphs, and computer resources. (E 4.5.1; H 1.5.2) 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.3

1.5.4 Map Construction: Construct maps and charts to display information about human and physical features in the United States. (H 3.3.5; H 6.5.17) 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.4

1.5.5 Map Applications: Identify the purpose and content of various U.S. maps. 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.5

1.5.6 Map Analysis: Answer spatial questions about a map using basic geographic vocabulary. 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.6

1.5.7 Map Concepts: Recognize that states in the United States may be grouped into regions such as the West, Southwest, Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast. 119
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.7

1.5.8 Map Locations: Label a map of the United States with the names of the fifty states and major cities, such as Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, and New York. 115
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.8

NV.2.0. Geography: Places and Regions-Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of changes.

2.5.1 Characteristics of Places and Regions: Describe physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and regions in the United States. (H 3.5.5; H 5.5.5; H 5.5.6) 70
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.1

2.5.2 Cultural Identity: Identify examples in their community or region that reflect cultural identity. (C 4.5.3; E 3.5.3; E 8.5.3; H 3.5.5) 49
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.2

2.5.3 Cultural Perspectives: Describe the characteristics of their community and Nevada from different perspectives. (C 4.5.3; H 3.5.5; H 5.5.5; H 5.5.6; H 6.8.1; H 6.8.14; H 9.8.13; H 10.8.3) 124
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.3

2.5.4 Impact of Technology: Identify the effects of the use of technology in different communities in the United States. (H 9.5.5) 50
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.4

2.5.5 History and Region: Identify and describe the locations of selected historical events. (E 3.5.3; H 4.5.1; H 5.11; H 6.5.4; H 6.5.17; H 6.5.21) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.5

2.5.6 Patterns of Change: Describe how their community and Nevada have changed over time. (H 3.5.5; H 5.5.5; H 5.5.36) 115
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.6

2.5.7 Applying Concepts of Regions: Identify the criteria used to define different types of regions. 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.7

NV.3.0. Geography: Physical Systems-Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.

3.5.1 Physical Systems: Identify the components of each of Earth's four basic physical systems including atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.1

3.5.2 Natural Hazards: Define and give examples of natural hazards, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and tsunamis. 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.2

3.5.3 Characteristics of Ecosystems: Identify the parts of different ecosystems, including soil, climate, plant life, and animal life. 32
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.3

3.5.4 Distribution of Ecosystems: Describe the biodiversity of different ecosystems on Earth. 32
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.4

3.5.5 Analysis of Ecosystems: Investigate an ecosystem by asking and answering geographic questions. 32
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.5

NV.4.0. Geography: Human Systems - Students understand how economic, political, and cultural processes interact to shape patterns of human migration and settlement, influence and interdependence, and conflict and cooperation.

4.5.1 Demographic Concepts: Explain differences in population distribution within Nevada and the United States. 100
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.1

4.5.2 Migration and Settlement: Identify the push-pull factors influencing human migration and settlement. (E 5.5.6; Ec 2.5.6) 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.2

4.5.3 Historical Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas: List examples of historical movements of people, goods, and ideas. (H 4.5.1; H 5.5.7; H 5.5.8; H 5.5.11; H 6.5.17; H 7.5.9) 36
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.3

4.5.4 Patterns of Human Settlement: Describe the differences among rural, suburban, and urban migration and settlement. 20
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.4

4.5.5 Economic Systems and Interdependence: Identify the sources of various economic goods and describe their movement between states or countries. (C 8.5.2; Ec 9.5.1; Ec 9.5.2; Ec 9.5.4; Ec 6.5.3) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.5

4.5.6 Analysis of Economic Issues: Investigate an economic issue by asking and answering geographic questions about location. (H 6.5.21; H 10.5.3; Ec 9.5.01; Ec 9.5.2; Ec 9.5.4) 39
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.6

4.5.7 Patterns of Human Development: Compare differences in the economic development and quality of life among the countries in North America. (Ec 6.5.3; Ec 6.5.6; Ec 9.5.1; Ec 9.5.2; Ec 9.5.4; H 9.5.5) 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.7

4.5.8 Human Organizations: Describe why types of organizations may differ by geographic region. (H 5.5.5; H 5.5.6) 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.8

4.5.9 Cooperation and Conflict: Describe issues of cooperation and conflict within the United States. (C 5.5.6; H 6.5.21; H 10.5.3) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.9

NV.5.0. Geography: Environment and Society-Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

5.5.1 Changes in the Physical Environment: Describe ways in which changes in the physical environment affect humans. 42
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.1

5.5.3 Technology and the Physical Environment: Describe places in the United States whose physical environment has been altered by technology. 80
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.3

5.5.4 Human Modification: Explore the impact of human modification of the physical environment on the people who live in that location. 42
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.4

5.5.6 Earth's Resources: Describe the patterns of distribution and use of natural resources in the United States. (Ec 6.5.3) 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.6

5.5.7 Management of Earth's Resources: Compare the use of the same resource in the United States with another place in the world. (Ec 6.5.3) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.7

NV.6.0. Geography: Geographic Applications-Students apply geographic knowledge of people, places, and environments to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future.

6.5.1 Applying Geography in History: Describe how the physical setting influenced an event in the past. (H 4.5.1; H 5.5.7; H 6.5.4; H 6.5.21) 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.1

6.5.2 Applying Geography in Current Events: Use current events to ask and answer geographic questions. 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.2

6.5.3 Applying Geography to Contemporary Issues: Discuss a geographic issue from more than one point of view. (E 11.5.2; H 6.5.21) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.3

6.5.4 Applying Geography to the Future: Describe a geographic issue and the possible impact it could have in the future. (E 5.5.6) 73
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.4

NV.7.0. Geography: Geographic Skills: Students ask and answer geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

7.5.1 Ask Geographic Questions: Ask geographic questions about the origin and significance of spatial patterns. (E 10.5.2) 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.1

7.5.2 Acquire Geographic Information: Locate and gather geographic information from a variety of sources. (E 11.5.2) 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.2

7.5.3 Organize Geographic Information: Create complex maps, graphs, or charts to display geographic information. (E 11.5.5) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.3

7.5.4 Analyze Geographic Information: Investigate and interpret information from a variety of geographic sources. (E 6.5.1; E 11.5.2; H 1.5.2) 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.4

7.5.5 Present Geographic Information: Draw a conclusion by presenting geographic information in an oral or written report accompanied by maps or graphics. (E 6.5.3; E 6.5.7; E 10.5.3; E 11.5.5) 44
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.5

NV.1.0. Civics: Rules and Law: Students know why society needs rules, laws, and governments.

1.5.1 Rules and Law: Describe the effects on society of the absence of law. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.1

1.5.2 Documents: Identify the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as written documents that are the foundation of the United States government. (H 6.5.4) 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.2

1.5.4 Democratic Participation: Describe the operation of representative government, including the rights of political minorities. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.4

NV.2.0. Civics: The U.S. Government: Students know the United States Constitution and the government it creates.

2.5.1 The U.S. Constitution: Identify the three branches of government (as set forth in the U.S. Constitution). (E 10.2.3) 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.1

2.5.2 The Legislative Structure and Process: Name the two houses of the U.S. Congress. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.2

2.5.3 Legislative Powers: Identify the powers of the U.S. Congress, such as power to tax, declare war, and impeach the President. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.3

2.5.4 The Executive Branch: Identify the duties of the President. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.4

2.5.5 The Judicial Branch: Identify the Supreme Court as the highest court in the land. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.5

2.5.6 The Jury System: Describe the purpose of a judge and jury in a trial as it relates to resolving disputes. 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.6

NV.3.0. Civics: National and State Government: Students can explain the relationship between the states and national government.

NV.4.0. Civics: The Political Process: Students describe the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public opinion in the democratic process.

4.5.1 Leaders and Elections: List the qualities of a leader. (H 6.5.5; H 7.5.7; H 9.5.8) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.1

4.5.2 Political Parties: Name the two major political parties. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.2

4.5.3 Interest Groups: Give examples of interest groups. (G 2.5.2; G 2.5.3) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.3

4.5.4 Formation of Public Opinion: Identify sources of information people use to form an opinion. (E 11.5.2; E 11.5.3) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.4

NV.5.0. Civics: Citizenship: Students know the roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens and the symbols of our country.

5.5.1 Citizenship: Describe the difference between a natural-born and a naturalized citizen of the United States. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.1

5.5.3 Symbols: Describe the symbolic importance of the Fourth of July and the Pledge of Allegiance. (H 6.5.4; H 6.5.5) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.3

5.5.4 Individual Rights: Identify the Bill of Rights. 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.4

5.5.6 Conflict and Resolution: Identify ways conflicts can be resolved in a peaceful manner that respects individual rights. (G 4.8.9; H 9.5.8; S 18.5.4) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.6

NV.6.0. Civics: State and Local Government: Students know the structure and functions of state and local governments.

6.5.1 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Explain why local governments are created within states. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.1

6.5.3 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Name the three branches of state government. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.3

6.5.4 Court Systems: Know that there are different types of courts. 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.4

NV.7.0. Civics: Political and Economic Systems: Students explain the different political and economic systems in the world.

7.5.1 Comparative Political Systems: List the characteristics of a nation-state, including: self-rule; territory; population; organized government. 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.1

NV.8.0. Civics: International Relations: Students know the political and economic relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations.

8.5.1 From Individual to the World: Identify the countries bordering the United States. 20
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.5.1

8.5.2 Foreign Policy: Explain ways in which nations interact. (Ec 9.5.2; G 4.5.5) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.5.2

NV.1.0. History: Chronology: Students use chronology to organize and understand the sequence and relationship of events.

1.5.1 Current Events: Identify current events from multiple sources. 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.1

1.5.2 Chronology: Record events on a graphic organizer, such as a calendar or time line. (G 7.5.4) 46
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.5.2

NV.2.0. History: History Skills: Students will use social studies vocabulary and concepts to engage in inquiry, in research, in analysis, and in decision making.

2.5.1 Inquiry: Ask a historical question and identify resources to be used in research. (E 11.5.1; E 11.5.2; E 11.5.3) 45
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.1

2.5.2 Research and Analysis: Organize historical information from a variety of sources. (E 6.5.2) 45
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.5.2

NV.3.0. History: Prehistory to 400 CE: Students understand the development of human societies, civilizations, and empires through 400 CE.

3.5.1 World, United States, and Nevada: Define hunter-gatherer. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.1

3.5.5 Nevada: Locate Nevada's earliest Native American inhabitants, known as the Desert Archaic people. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.5.5

NV.4.0. History: 1 CE to 1400: Students understand the characteristics, ideas, and significance of civilizations and religions from 1 CE to 1400.

4.5.1 World: Identify explorations of the Vikings in North America. (G 2.5.5; G 4.5.3; G 6.5.1) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.5.1

NV.5.0. History: 1200 to 1750: Students understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.

5.5.5 Nevada: Identify Nevada's Native American cultures, including: Northern Paiute, Southern Paiute, Washoe, Western Shoshone. (G 2.5.3; G 2.5.6; G 4.5.8) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.5

5.5.6 United States and Nevada: Describe Native North American life prior to European contact, such as: Clothing; Communication; Family; Food; Shelter; Transportation; Tools. (G 2.5.1; G 4.5.8; G 5.5.4) 41
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.6

5.5.7 World and United States: Describe expeditions of early explorers, including: Christopher Columbus; Ferdinand Magellan. (G 4.5.3; G 6.5.1) 72
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.7

5.5.8 World and United States: Describe relationships among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans. (G 4.5.3; G 4.5.9) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.8

5.5.11 United States: Describe colonial life in North America. (Ec 5.5.4; G 2.5.5; G 4.5.3) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.5.11

NV.6.0. History: 1700 to 1865: Students understand the people, events, ideas, and conflicts that led to the creation of new nations and distinctive cultures.

6.5.4 United States: Identify the events that led to the Declaration of Independence. (C 1.5.2; G 2.5.5; G 6.5.1) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.4

6.5.5 United States: Identify key people of the American Revolution, including: George Washington; Ben Franklin. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.5

6.5.14 United States: Describe the relationship between the War of 1812 and the national anthem. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.14

6.5.17 United States and Nevada: Describe experiences of pioneers moving west, including: Donner Party; Oregon and California Trails. (E 3.5.3; G 1.5.4; G 2.5.5;G 4.5.3) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.17

6.5.18 Nevada: Identify explorers and settlers in pre-territorial Nevada, including: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont. 93
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.18

6.5.21 United States: Identify the Civil War and final outcome, including: Union and Confederacy, Generals Grant and Lee. (G 2.5.5; G 4.5.6; G 4.5.9; G 6.5.1; G 6.5.3) 50
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.21

6.5.22 Nevada: Explain the symbols, mottos, and slogans related to Nevada, including: 'Battle Born'; state seal; Silver State; state flag. 88
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.5.22

NV.7.0. History: 1860 to 1920: Students understand the importance and impact of political, economic, and social ideas.

7.5.7 United States: Identify the contributions of the inventors and discoverers, including: Thomas Edison; Wright brothers; Alexander Graham Bell; George Washington Carver. (C 4.5.1; E 3.5.3) 18
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.7

7.5.9 Nevada and United States: Describe the contributions of immigrant groups to the United States. (G 4.5.3) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.9

7.5.11 United States and Nevada: Describe the significance of Labor Day. 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.11

7.5.17 World and United States: Describe the distinction between Veterans Day and Memorial Day. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.5.17

NV.8.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1920 to 1945: Students understand the importance and effect of political, economic, technological, and social changes in the world from 1920 to 1945.

8.5.5 United States and Nevada: Identify the major events of the Great Depression, such as: stock market crash; Dust Bowl; migration; Hoover Dam. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.5.5

8.5.6 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify the United States' participation in World War II, such as: Pearl Harbor; homefront; D-Day; atomic bomb. 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.5.6

NV.9.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1945 to 1990: Students understand the shift of international relationships and power as well as the significant developments in American culture.

9.5.5 World and United States: Identify major advancements in science and technology, including: television, computers. (G 2.5.4; G 4.5.7) 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.5.5

9.5.8 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify the major points in Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech. (C 4.5.1; C 5.5.6; E 8.5.1; E 8.5.2) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.5.8

NV.10.0. History: New Challenges, 1990 to the Present: Students understand the political, economic, social, and technological issues challenging the world as it approaches and enters the new millennium.

10.5.3 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify major news events on the local, state, national, and world level. (G 4.5.6; G 4.5.9) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 10.5.3

NV.1.0. Economics: The Economic Way of Thinking: Students will use fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, and costs versus benefits to describe and analyze problems and opportunities, both individual and social.

1.8.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Cost: Use the concept of opportunity cost to evaluate the tradeoffs when choices occur. 52
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.1

1.8.2 Incentives and Preferences: Recognize that self-interest is a motivational factor when people respond to incentives. (E 3.8.2) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.2

1.8.3 Cost versus Benefits: Identify the additional benefits and the additional costs that result from choosing a little more or a little less. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.3

1.8.4 Personal Economics: Evaluate career paths by comparing costs and benefits. 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.4

NV.2.0. Economics: Measuring U.S. Economic Performance: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of past and present U.S. economic performance, identify the economic indicators used to measure that performance, and use this knowledge to make individual decisions and discuss social issues.

2.8.1 Measuring Economic Growth: Explain gross domestic product (GDP) and how it is used to describe a country's economic output. (H 1.8.1) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.1

2.8.2 Measuring Economic Growth: Given data on population and GDP for several countries, determine their per capita GDP, and compare with the United States. (G 4.81; H 2.8.3) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.2

2.8.4 Measuring Inflation: Use the consumer price index (CPI) to compare the buying power of the U.S. dollar in one year with its buying power in another year. 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.4

2.8.6 Measuring Unemployment: Identify the unemployment rate as the percentage of people in the labor force who are not working, but who are actively pursuing work. 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.6

2.8.7 Measuring Unemployment: Distinguish between a high rate and a low rate of unemployment for the U.S. economy over time. (H 8.8.6) 30
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.7

2.8.8 Measuring Interest: Explain why riskier loans command higher interest rates than safer loans. 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.8

2.8.9 Measuring Interest: Distinguish between high and low interest rates for the U.S. economy over time. 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.9

2.8.10 Personal Economics: Identify career fields that are experiencing growth and career fields that are experiencing decline. (E 6.8.2) 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.10

NV.3.0. Economics: Functioning of Markets: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how markets work, including an understanding of why markets form, how supply and demand interact to determine market prices and interest rates, and how changes in prices act as signals to coordinate trade.

3.8.1 Trade Is Beneficial: Give examples of markets in which people benefit from trade. (H 6.8.12) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.1

3.8.2 Markets Determine Prices: Explain how supply and demand function to determine market prices. (H 2.8.3) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.2

3.8.3 Prices as Signals: Explain why buyers demand less yet sellers supply more when prices go up. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.3

3.8.4 Prices as Signals: Explain why buyers demand more yet sellers supply less when prices go down. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.4

3.8.6 Personal Economics: Identify instances in which people might pay interest or receive interest. 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.6

3.8.7 Personal Economics: Explain the factors that should be considered when making individual purchasing decisions, given changes in prices. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.7

NV.4.0. Economics: Private U.S. Economic Institutions: Students will describe the roles played by U.S. economic institutions including financial institutions, labor unions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.

4.8.1 Financial Institutions: Explain the purposes and functions of financial institutions (such as to channel funds from savers to borrowers). 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.1

4.8.2 Labor Unions: Explain the purposes and functions of labor unions (such as collective bargaining). (H 7.8.11) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.2

4.8.3 For-profit Business Organizations: Explain the advantages and disadvantages of each of the three primary forms of business organizations: sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation. (E 10.8.4) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.3

4.8.4 Not-for-profit Organizations: Explain why not-for-profit organizations are tax exempt. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.4

4.8.5 Personal Economics: Compare the rewards and risks of saving and borrowing money with several types of financial institutions. 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.5

4.8.6 Personal Economics: Investigate careers associated with financial institutions, labor unions, for-profit business organizations, and not-for-profit organizations. 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.6

NV.5.0. Economics: Money: Students demonstrate an understanding of forms of money, how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services; and how the Federal Reserve System and its policies affect the U.S. money supply.

5.8.1 Functions of Money: Illustrate how prices stated in money terms help people compare the value of products. 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.1

5.8.4 History of Money: Describe the transition from the use of commodities as money to the use of modern forms of money. (G 4.8.4) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.4

5.8.5 Personal Economics: Identify pros and cons of paying with cash versus using credit. (E 10.8.4) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.5

NV.6.0. Economics: The U.S. Economy as a Whole: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the U.S. economic system as a whole in terms of how it allocates resources; determines the nation's production, income, unemployment, and price levels; and leads to variations in individual income levels.

6.8.1 Resource Allocation: Explain ways in which households, schools, or community groups allocate resources. (G 4.8.5) 52
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.1

6.8.2 Resource Allocation: Explain how consumer and producer reactions to price changes affect resource allocation. 52
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.2

6.8.3 The Nation's Production Level: Explain how the current utilization of a productive resource affects the availability of that resource in the future. (G 5.8.6; H 7.8.7) 46
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.3

6.8.4 The Nation's Income Level: Explain the circular flow of economic activity. 29
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.4

6.8.5 The Nation's Unemployment Rate: Identify factors that can affect an individual's likelihood of being unemployed. (H 7.8.11) 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.5

6.8.6 Differences in Individual Incomes: Explain that the wage individual's earn is affected by their productivity and by the market value of the goods or services they produce 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.6

6.8.7 Personal Economics: Identify a career path of interest and explain how the associated earnings are affected by the market. 37
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.7

NV.7.0. Economics: An Evolving Economy: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how investment, entrepreneurship, competition, and specialization lead to changes in an economy's structure and performance.

7.8.1 Investment: Explain how investment improves standards of living by increasing productivity. (H 6.8.1; H 10.8.1) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.1

7.8.4 Entrepreneurship: Describe the advantages and disadvantages of being an entrepreneur. (E 10.8.4) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.4

7.8.5 Competition: Illustrate how competition among sellers decreases prices, while competition among buyers increases prices. (H 6.8.12) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.5

7.8.6 Specialization: Give examples of how specialization is facilitated by trade. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.6

7.8.7 Personal Economics: Give examples of ways investment can improve students' performance in school, sports, etc. 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.7

NV.8.0. Economics: The Role of Government in a Market Economy: Students will explain the role of government in a market economy.

8.8.1 Public Goods: Give examples of the kinds of goods and services that government provides. (C 6.8.1) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.1

8.8.2 Externalities: Give examples of activities that benefit participants, yet harm nonparticipants. 44
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.2

8.8.3 Redistributing Income: Identify methods by which government redistributes income. (C 2.5.3; H 8.8.6) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.3

8.8.4 Property Rights: Give examples of ways government protects property. (C 1.5.1) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.4

8.8.7 Personal Economics: Describe how paying sales, property, and income taxes affect the amount of money an individual has available for spending. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.7

NV.9.0. Economics: The International Economy: Students explore the characteristics of non-U.S. economic systems in order to demonstrate an understanding of how they are connected, through trade, to peoples and cultures throughout the world.

9.8.1 International Trade: Explain how governments use tariffs or quotas to restrict trade. (C 2.8.3; G 4.8.6) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.1

9.8.2 Interdependence: Describe how economic interdependence among countries affects standards of living in those countries. (C 8.8.1; G 4.5.5; G 4.8.7) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.2

9.8.4 Exchange Rates: Compute prices of U.S. products in terms of other countries' currencies. (G 4.8.7) 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.4

9.8.5 Personal Economics: Identify goods that would not be readily available in U.S. stores if there were no international trade. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.5

NV.1.0. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms: Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

1.8.1 Map Use: Use map elements including scale, latitude and longitude, and projection, to identify and locate physical and human features in the United States and the world. (H 2.8.3; H 4.8.1; H 4.8.2; H 6.8.17) 32
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.1

1.8.2 Map Section: Compare and contrast the characteristics and purposes of several types of maps, map projections, and other geographic representations. (H 2.8.3) 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.2

1.8.3 Geographic Tools and Technologies: Use maps, graphic representations, aerial photo-graphs, satellite images, and computer resources to compare Earth's physical and human features. (H 2.8.3) 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.3

1.8.4 Map Construction: Construct maps and charts to display information about human and physical features. (H 1.8.2) 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.4

1.8.5 Map Applications: Compare and contrast maps of similar areas for purpose, accuracy, content, and design. 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.5

1.8.6 Map Analysis: Make and defend a spatial decision using basic geographic vocabulary and concepts. (H 1.12.2) 32
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.6

1.8.7 Map Concepts: Recognize that countries may be grouped into both physical and political regions, such as Latin America, Oceania, East Asia, Indian subcontinent, and Europe. (H 2.8.3: H 3.8.3) 37
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.7

1.8.8 Map Locations: Identify prominent countries relative to region or continent and locate major cities of the world such as Beijing, Bombay (Mumbai), Buenos Aires, Cairo, Jakarta, London, Montreal, Moscow, Mexico City, Paris, Sydney, and Tokyo. (H 2.8.3; H 3.8.3) 33
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.8

NV.2.0. Geography: Places and Regions-Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of changes.

2.8.1 Characteristics of Places and Regions: Describe the relationship between physical and human features, such as landforms and political boundaries. (H 2.8.3; H 3.8.2) 39
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.1

2.8.2 Cultural Identity: Explain how places, regions, and belief systems are important to the expression of cultural identity. (E 3.8.3; E 8.8.3; H3.8.3; H 3.8.5; H 5.8.9; H 6.8.14; H 6.8.17; H 6.8.18, H 6.8.19) 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.2

2.8.3 Cultural Perspectives: Compare how cultural characteristics affect different points of view with regard to places and regions. (C 4.8.3; E 3.8.3; H 3.8.2; H 3.8.3) 89
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.3

2.8.4 Impact of Technology: Describe ways in which technology affects how cultural groups use places and regions. (H 6.8.1; H 6.8.14) 56
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.4

2.8.5 History and Region: Evaluate the role regions have played in historical events. (H 3.8.3; H 5.8.10; H 5.8.17; H 6.8.21; H 7.8.5; H 7.8.14; H 9.8.1) 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.5

2.8.6 Patterns of Change: Describe how and why regions change over time. (H 3.8.3; H 7.8.14; H 9.8.1) 29
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.6

2.8.7 Applying Concepts of Regions: Illustrate the relationship between the physical and cultural characteristics of a region. (H 3.8.3; H 3.8.5; H 5.8.5; H 5.8.6; H 5.8.10; H 6.8.19) 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.7

NV.3.0. Geography: Physical Systems-Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.

3.8.1 Physical Systems: Explain how the physical processes within each of the four basic systems influence the Earth's surface. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.1

3.8.2 Natural Hazards: Explain how natural hazards alter Earth's environments, such as avalanches, wildfires, and drought. 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.2

3.8.3 Characteristics of Ecosystems: Describe the interdependence among soil, climate, plant life, and animal life within different ecosystems. 29
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.3

3.8.4 Distribution of Ecosystems: Compare and contrast the biodiversity and productivity of different ecosystems on Earth. 29
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.4

3.8.5 Analysis of Ecosystems: Formulate a hypothesis about the changing nature of an ecosystem and use appropriate research skills to draw conclusions. 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.5

NV.4.0. Geography: Human Systems - Students understand how economic, political, and cultural processes interact to shape patterns of human migration and settlement, influence and interdependence, and conflict and cooperation.

4.8.1 Demographic Concepts: Describe the characteristics of developing and developed countries using key demographic concepts. (Ec 2.8.1; Ec 2.8.2; H 9.8.6; H 10.8.3) 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.1

4.8.2 Migration and Settlement: Describe the reasons for human migration and settlement and explain the effects on places and cultures. (H 3.8.1; H 3.8.2; H 3.8.3; H 4.8.3; H 5.8.7; H 6.8.19; H 9.8.6; H 10.8.3) 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.2

4.8.3 Historical Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas: Describe how a historical event was affected by the movement of people, goods, and ideas. (H 5.8.7; H 5.8.11; H 6.8.17; H 6.8.19; H 7.8.5;H 9.8.12) 42
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.3

4.8.4 Patterns of Human Settlement: Identify the different patterns of migration and settlement in developing and developed countries. (H 3.8.2; H 5.8.11; H 9.8.6; H 10.8.3) 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.4

4.8.5 Economic Systems and Interdependence: Explain how the physical and human geography of regions influences their economic activities. (C 8.8.2; Ec 6.8.1; H3.8.3; H 5.8.7; H 5.8.11; H 5.8.12; H 6.8.1; H 7.8.5; H 9.8.6; H 10.8.3) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.5

4.8.6 Analysis of Economic Issues: Identify a regional or international economic issue and explain it from a spatial perspective. (H 6.5.21; H 10.5.3; Ec 9.5.1; Ec 9.5.2; Ec 9.5.4) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.6

4.8.7 Patterns of Human Development: Compare the elements of economic development and quality of life between developing and developed countries. (Ec 2.8.1;Ec 2.8.2; Ec 5.8.4; Ec 7.8.1; Ec 9.8.2; Ec 9.8.4; H 10.8.3) 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.7

4.8.8 Human Organizations: Compare and contrast changes in cultural, political, and economic organizations over time. (C 4.8.2; C 4.8.3; C 7.8.1; C 7.8.2; Ec 2.8.9; Ec 2.8.10; H 3.8.2; H 3.8.3; H 5.8.12; H 7.8.14; H 9.8.6; H 9.8.12; H 10.8.3; H 10.8.7) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.8

4.8.9 Cooperation and Conflict: Compare how cooperation and conflict among people contribute to political, economic, and cultural divisions on Earth's surface. (C 7.8.1; Ec 9.8.2; H 6.8.21; H 7.8.14; H 9.8.3; H 9.8.9; H 9.8.12; H 10.8.3) 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.9

4.8.10 International Alliances and Organizations: Identify trans-regional alliances and international organizations that influence cooperation and conflict among countries. (C 8.8.4; H 9.8.3; H 9.8.9; H 9.8.12; H 10.8.3; H 10.8.4) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.10

NV.5.0. Geography: Environment and Society-Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

5.8.1 Changes in the Physical Environment: Describe and predict the regional or global impact of changes in the physical environment. (H 9.8.8) 50
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.1

5.8.2 Constraints of the Physical Environment: Compare and contrast the opportunities and constraints that the physical environment places on human activity. (H 3.8.1; H 3.8.2; H 3.8.3; H 3.8.5; H 4.8.1; H 4.8.2; H 6.8.1; H 7.8.7; H 8.8.6) 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.2

5.8.3 Technology and the Physical Environment: Evaluate the role of technology in the human modification of the physical environment. (C 4.8.6; H 3.8.2; H 4.8.2; H 6.8.1; H 7.8.5; H 7.8.7; H 8.8.2; H 8.8.6; H 9.8.7; H 9.8.8) 85
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.3

5.8.4 Human Modification: Describe the changes that result from human modification of the physical environment. (C 4.8.6; H 3.8.2; H 4.8.2; H 6.8.1; H 7.8.5; H 7.8.7; H 8.8.2; H 8.8.6; H 9.8.7; H 9.8.8) 43
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.4

5.8.5 Effects of Natural Hazards on Human Systems: Research a specific natural hazard and document its effects on human systems. 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.5

5.8.6 Earth's Resources: Identify and locate examples of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources. (Ec 6.8.3; H 9.9.8; H 10.8.3; H 10.8.4) 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.6

5.8.7 Management of Earth's Resources: Select a resource and evaluate different viewpoints regarding its use. (C 4.8.6; Ec 6.8.1; H 7.8.3) 39
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.7

NV.6.0. Geography: Geographic Applications-Students apply geographic knowledge of people, places, and environments to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future.

6.8.1 Applying Geography in History: Explain how different characteristics of people, places, and resources have affected events and conditions in the past. (H 3.8.2; H 3.8.2; H 4.8.1; H 4.8.2; H 5.8.5; H 5.8.6; H 5.8.8; H 5.8.9; H 5.8.1; H 6.8.21; H 6.8.22; H 7.8.5) 35
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.1

6.8.2 Applying Geography in Current Events: Explain how the physical geography of a place or region can influence current events. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.2

6.8.3 Applying Geography to Contemporary Issues: Examine a contemporary issue using geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives. (C 4.8.6) 75
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.3

6.8.4 Applying Geography to the Future: Describe several future outcomes of a geographic issue and defend one possible solution. (C 4.8.6) 73
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.4

NV.7.0. Geography: Geographic Skills: Students ask and answer geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

7.8.1 Ask Geographic Questions: Identify and define geographic problems and issues by asking geographic questions. 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.1

7.8.2 Acquire Geographic Information: Use a variety of research skills, including field work and computer resources, to collect geographic information. (E 11.8.2) 33
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.2

7.8.3 Organize Geographic Information: Create and prepare various forms of maps, graphs, diagrams, tables, or charts to organize geographic information. (E 11.8.5; H 4.8.4) 39
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.3

7.8.4 Analyze Geographic Information: Evaluate and analyze information obtained from a variety of geographic sources. (E 11.8.2; H 4.8.1) 33
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7.8.5 Present Geographic Information: Make generalizations by developing and presenting combinations of geographic information to answer geographic questions. (E 10.8.2) 43
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.5

NV.1.0. Civics: Rules and Law: Students know why society needs rules, laws, and governments.

1.8.1 Rules and Law: Explain the difference between the rule of law and the rule of man (such as divine right of monarchs, dictatorships). (H 6.12.7; H 8.8.1) 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.1

1.8.2 Documents: Describe the significance of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as foundations of U.S. democracy. (H 6.8.4; H 6.8.7; H 6.8.8) 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.2

1.8.4 Democratic Participation: Explain popular sovereignty and the need for citizen involvement at all levels of U.S. government. (H 6.8.3) 2
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1.8.5 The U.S. Constitution and Amendments: Describe how the U.S. Constitution serves as a device for preserving national principles and as a vehicle for change, including knowledge of the formal process of amending the U.S. Constitution. (H 6.8.7; H 6.8.8) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.5

NV.2.0. Civics: The U.S. Government: Students know the United States Constitution and the government it creates.

2.8.1 The U.S. Constitution: Explain the functions of the three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial) as found in the U.S. Constitution. (H 6.8.7) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.1

2.8.2 The Legislative Structure and Process: Explain the historic compromises that created a two-house Congress and identify the responsibilities of each. (H 6.8.7) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.2

2.8.3 Legislative Powers: Discuss enumerated and implied powers of the U.S. Congress. (Ec 8.8.1; H 6.8.7) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.3

2.8.4 The Executive Branch: Describe the duties of the President, such as presenting a budget proposal. (Ec 8.8.1; H 6.8.7) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.4

2.8.5 The Judicial Branch: List the ways the Supreme Court determines policy, including: judicial review, interpreting laws, overruling or revising its previous decisions. (H 6.8.7) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.5

2.8.6 The Jury System: Describe the trial process, including the selection and responsibilities of jurors. (H 6.8.7) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.6

2.8.7 Checks and Balances: Explain the system of checks and balances in the design of the U.S. Constitution. (H 6.8.7) 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.7

NV.3.0. Civics: National and State Government: Students can explain the relationship between the states and national government.

3.8.1 Division of Powers: Give examples of governmental powers (such as the power to tax, declare war, and issue drivers' licenses) that are distributed between the state and national governments. (Ec 8.8.1) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.1

3.8.2 Federalism: 'Define 'federalism.' 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.2

3.8.3 Constitutional Supremacy: Explain how the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution defines the relationship between state and national governments. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.3

NV.4.0. Civics: The Political Process: Students describe the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public opinion in the democratic process.

4.8.1 Leaders and Elections: Describe the election process. 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.1

4.8.2 Political Parties: Provide examples of how political parties changed. (H 6.8.13) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.2

4.8.3 Interest Groups: Identify the impact of interest groups on the political process. (G 4.8.8) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.3

4.8.4 Formation of Public Opinion: Identify the influence of the media in forming public opinion. (E 4.8.1; E 4.8.2; E 11.8.2; H 10.8.5) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.4

4.8.5 Propaganda: Identify propaganda and persuasion in political advertising and literature. (E 4.8.4) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.5

4.8.6 Public Policy: Provide examples of contemporary public issues that may require public solutions. (G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4; G 5.8.7; G 6.8.3) 44
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.6

NV.5.0. Civics: Citizenship: Students know the roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens and the symbols of our country.

5.8.1 Citizenship: Identify the rights, privileges, and responsibilities associated with U.S. citizenship, including voting, holding office, jury duty, or military, community, or public service. (H 7.8.1; H 7.8.13) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.1

5.8.3 Symbols: Explain the significance of mottoes and symbols including: E Pluribus Unum, National Anthem, Flag, Statue of Liberty, Great Seal, Oath of office, Pledge of Allegiance. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.3

5.8.4 Individual Rights: Explain the necessity of the Bill of Rights for a democratic society. (H 6.8.7) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.4

5.8.6 Conflict and Resolution: Identify examples of conflict resolution that respect individual rights at school and in the community, within the United States. (H 9.8.8; S 18.8.4) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.6

NV.6.0. Civics: State and Local Government: Students know the structure and functions of state and local governments.

6.8.1 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Compare the organization and purpose of state, local, and tribal government. (Ec 8.8.1) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.1

6.8.5 Court Systems: Describe the juvenile, civil, and criminal court systems. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.5

NV.7.0. Civics: Political and Economic Systems: Students explain the different political and economic systems in the world.

7.8.1 Comparative Political Systems: Define the world's major political systems, including: monarchy, totalitarian dictatorship, presidential system, communism. (H 8.8.1; H 9.8.12) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.1

7.8.2 Comparative Economic Systems: Define the world's major economic systems, including: capitalism, mixed economy, socialism, command economy. (H 6.8.12; S 16.8.5) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.2

NV.8.0. Civics: International Relations: Students know the political and economic relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations.

8.8.1 From Individual to the World: Identify nations that play a significant role in U.S. foreign policy. 33
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.1

8.8.2 Foreign Policy: Define foreign policy and describe ways nations interact diplomatically, including: treaties, trade, humanitarian aid, military intervention. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.2

8.8.3 International Organizations: Describe the purpose of the United Nations. (H 8.8.7) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.3

8.8.4 International Organizations: List and describe non-governmental international organizations, such as the World Bank, Amnesty International, and the International Red Cross. (G 4.8.10) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.4

NV.1.0. History: Chronology: Students use chronology to organize and understand the sequence and relationship of events.

1.8.1 Current Events: Describe how a current event is presented by multiple sources. (E 10.8.4; E 11.8.2) 53
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.1

1.8.2 Chronology: Create a tiered time line. (E 2.8.4; E 3.8.1; G 1.8.4) 50
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.2

NV.2.0. History: History Skills: Students will use social studies vocabulary and concepts to engage in inquiry, in research, in analysis, and in decision making.

2.8.1 Inquiry: Frame historical questions that examine multiple viewpoints. (E 11.8.1; E 11.8.2) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.1

2.8.2 Research and Analysis: Evaluate sources of historical information based on: bias; credibility; cultural context; reliability; time period. (E 4.8.4; E 8.8.1; E 11.8.2) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.2

2.8.3 Informational Tools: Read and use informational tools, including: charts; diagrams; graphs; maps; political cartoons; photographs; tables. (E 2.8.4; E 11.8.2; E 11.8.5; G 1.8.1; G 1.8.2; G 1.8.3; G 1.8.4; G 1.8.7; G 1.8.8) 41
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.3

NV.3.0. History: Prehistory to 400 CE: Students understand the development of human societies, civilizations, and empires through 400 CE.

3.8.1 World, United States, and Nevada: Explain the characteristics and environments of hunter-gatherer. 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.1

3.8.2 World: Identify significant characteristics of early agricultural societies, including: farming; domestication of animals. (G 4.8.5; G 5.8.2; G 5.8.4; G 6.8.1) 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.2

3.8.3 World: Locate ancient and classical civilizations in time and place, including: China; Egypt; Greece; India; Mesopotamia; Rome. (G 2.8.5; G 2.8.8; G 6.8.1) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.3

3.8.4 World: Describe achievements made by ancient and classical civilizations, including: the Americas; China ; Egypt; Greece; India; Mesopotamia; Rome. 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.4

3.8.5 Nevada: Describe the lifestyles of Nevada's Desert Archaic people. (G 5.8.2) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.5

NV.4.0. History: 1 CE to 1400: Students understand the characteristics, ideas, and significance of civilizations and religions from 1 CE to 1400.

4.8.1 World: Describe the Viking exploration of North America. (G 5.8.2; G 6.8.1; G 7.8.3; G 7.8.4) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.1

4.8.2 World: Describe contributions of and locate the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilizations. (G 1.8.1; G 5.8.2; G 5.8.4; G 6.8.1) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.2

4.8.3 World: Describe the origin, traditions, customs, and spread of western and eastern world religions, including: Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Islam; Judaism. 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.3

4.8.4 World: Identify the characteristics of European feudalism. 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.4

NV.5.0. History: 1200 to 1750: Students understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.

5.8.1 World: Define the Renaissance in terms of science and fine arts. 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.1

5.8.5 Nevada: Describe the lifestyles of Nevada's Native American cultures, including: Northern Paiute; Southern Paiute; Washoe; Western Shoshone. (G 2.8.7; G 6.8.1) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.5

5.8.6 United States and Nevada: Describe Native North American cultural regions, such as: Southwest; Southeast; Northeast; Northwest; California; Great Basin; Plains; Plateau; Arctic; Sub-Arctic. (G 2.8.7; G 6.8.1) 38
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.6

5.8.7 World and United States: Describe motivations for Scandinavian and European explorations, including: all-water routes to Asia; trade; religion. (G 4.8.2; G 4.8.3; G 4.8.5) 32
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.7

5.8.8 World and United States: Explain interactions among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans. (G 2.8.3; G 6.8.1) 39
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.8

5.8.9 World and United States: Compare the lifestyles of Native Americans with those of the colonists. (G 2.8.2; G 6.8.1) 57
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.9

5.8.10 World and United States: Explain where and why colonies were established in the Americas by European nations and how those colonies were governed. 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.10

5.8.11 United States: Describe lifestyles in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. (G 4.8.3; G 4.8.4; G 4.8.5; G6.8.1) 33
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.11

5.8.12 World and United States: Describe the African slave trade. (G 4.8.5; G 4.8.6; G 4.8.8) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.12

NV.6.0. History: 1700 to 1865: Students understand the people, events, ideas, and conflicts that led to the creation of new nations and distinctive cultures.

6.8.1 World and United States: Describe major inventions of the Industrial Revolution, including: steam engine; textile machines. (Ec 7.8.1; Ec 7.8.4; Ec 7.8.5; G 2.8.4; G 4.8.5; G 5.8.2; G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.1

6.8.3 United States: Describe the effect of laws and taxes enacted by the British on the American colonies, including: Stamp Act; Intolerable Acts; Quartering Act. (C 1.8.4; Ec 8.8.3) 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.3

6.8.4 United States: Explain the major ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence, including: Equality; Right to change government; Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. (C1.8.2; C1.8.4) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.4

6.8.5 United States: Describe key people and events of the American Revolution, including: King George III; George Washington; Lexington and Concord; Battle of Saratoga; Valley Forge. 38
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.5

6.8.6 United States: Identify the Articles of Confederation. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.6

6.8.7 United States: Explain why the Constitution was written. (C 1.8.2; C 1.8.5; C 2.8.1; C 2.8.2; C 2.8.3; C 2.8.4; C 2.8.5; C 2.8.6; C 2.8.7) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.7

6.8.8 United States: Identify the principles of the Bill of Rights. (C 1.8.5; C 2.8.6; C 5.8.4) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.8

6.8.12 World and United States: Define capitalism and free market economy. (C 7.8.2; Ec 3.8.1; Ec3.8.2; Ec 3.8.3; Ec 3.8.4; Ec6.8.2 Ec 6.8.6; Ec 7.8.5;Ec 9.8.5) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.12

6.8.13 United States: Describe the early development of the United States government, including: Washington's cabinet; Marbury v. Madison; political parties. (C 3.8.3; C 4.8.2) 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.13

6.8.14 United States: Describe contributing factors in the development of a national identity, such as: the cotton gin; Erie Canal; the factory system; immigration and nativism; Monroe Doctrine; railroads; telegraph; War of 1812. (G 2.8.4) 30
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.14

6.8.15 United States: Identify key people and events in the social reform movements of antebellum United States, including: Dorothea Dix; Horace Mann; Sojourner Truth; Seneca Falls Declaration. 83
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.15

6.8.16 United States: Recognize the development of an emerging United States culture, including contributions from: literature; language development; poetry; music. 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.16

6.8.17 United States and Nevada: Describe Manifest Destiny and the expansion of the United States, including: Lewis and Clark and the Louisiana Purchase; Trail of Tears; the Battle of the Alamo; Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo; Oregon and California Trails; Spanish Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Central Overland Trail, Mormon Trail; Donner Party; California Gold Rush. (G 1.8.1; G 2.8.5; G 4.8.3; G 6.8.1) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.17

6.8.18 Nevada: Describe the contributions of the explorers and settlers in pre-territorial Nevada and their influences on the future, including: Kit Carson; John C. Fremont; James Beckwourth; Peter Skene Ogden; Joseph Walker; Jedediah Smith. 35
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.18

6.8.19 Nevada: Describe the Mormon influence on the political and economic development of pre-territorial Nevada. (G 2.8.2; G 2.8.3; G 2.8.7; G 4.8.2; G 4.8.3) 47
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.19

6.8.20 United States: Define abolition and identify the key people and events of the movement, including: Frederick Douglass; Harriet Tubman; Underground Railroad; Sojourner Truth. 29
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.20

6.8.21 United States: Identify the causes, key people, events, and outcome of the Civil War, including: states' rights and slavery; President Lincoln; Emancipation Proclamation; Vicksburg and Gettysburg; Gettysburg Address; Generals Grant and Lee. (G 2.8.5; G 4.8.6; G 4.8.9; G 6.8.1) 59
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.21

6.8.22 Nevada: Explain the events that led to Nevada statehood, including: Comstock Lode; Election of 1864. (G 6.8.1) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.22

NV.7.0. History: 1860 to 1920: Students understand the importance and impact of political, economic, and social ideas.

7.8.1 United States: Identify the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. (C 5.8.1) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.1

7.8.2 United States: Identify the Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws. 56
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.2

7.8.3 United States: Discuss and analyze the interactions between settlers and Native Americans during the westward expansion, including: Ghost Dance/ Wounded Knee; Little Big Horn. (G 5.8.7) 40
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.3

7.8.4 Nevada: Describe the contributions of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins to Native Americans in Nevada and the United States. 36
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.4

7.8.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the western frontier, including: communication (Pony Express, telegraph); farming and water issues; mining; ranching; transportation. (G 2.8.5; G 4.8.3; G 4.8.5; G4.8.6; G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4; G 6.8.1) 30
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.5

7.8.7 United States: Describe effects of industrialization and new technologies on the transformation of the United States, including: steel industry; mass production; mechanized assembly line; communication. (G 5.8.2; G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.7

7.8.8 United States: Identify American industrialists and their contributions, including: Andrew Carnegie; Henry Ford; John D. Rockefeller. (Ec 7.8.4) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.8

7.8.9 Nevada and United States: Identify immigrant and native groups involved in mining, ranching, railroads, and commerce in Nevada and the United States. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.9

7.8.11 United States and Nevada: Describe the goals and accomplishments of labor unions in Nevada and the United States. (Ec 4.8.2; Ec 6.8.5) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.11

7.8.13 United States: Describe the women's suffrage movement and the 19th Amendment. (C 5.8.1) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.13

7.8.14 World and United States: Describe United States expansion, including: Alaska; Hawaii; Panama Canal; Spanish-American War. (G 1.8.1; G 2.8.5; G 2.8.6; G 4.8.8; G 4.8.9) 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.14

7.8.17 World and United States: Identify causes, outcome, and consequences of World War I, including: Sarajevo; alliances and nationalism; weapons and tactics; Treaty of Versailles. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.17

NV.8.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1920 to 1945: Students understand the importance and effect of political, economic, technological, and social changes in the world from 1920 to 1945.

8.8.1 World: Define totalitarianism. (C 1.8.1; C 7.8.1) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.1

8.8.2 World and United States: Identify scientific and technological advancements and their impacts, including: airplane; radio; automobile; household appliances. (G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 37
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.2

8.8.4 United States: Explain how literature, music, and visual arts were a reflection of the time. (E 3.8.3) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.4

8.8.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the causes and effects of the Great Depression and the New Deal on life in the United States and Nevada, including: stock market crash; family life; Hoover Dam; government programs. 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.5

8.8.6 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify causes, effects, and outcome of World War II, including: legacy of WWI; Pearl Harbor; Allies; Axis powers and leaders; atomic bomb; United Nations. (Ec 2.8.1; Ec 2.8.6; Ec 2.8.7; Ec 6.8.5;Ec 6.8.6; Ec 8.8.1; Ec 8.8.3; G 4.8.6; G 5.8.2; G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.6

8.8.7 World and United States: Identify key elements of the Holocaust, including: 'Aryan supremacy'; Kristallnacht; 'Final Solution'; concentration and death camps. (C 8.8.3) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.7

8.8.8 United States and Nevada: Identify the effects of WWII on the home front in the United States and Nevada, including: end of the Great Depression; internment camps; rationing; propaganda; 'Rosie the Riveter.' 18
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.8

NV.9.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1945 to 1990: Students understand the shift of international relationships and power as well as the significant developments in American culture.

9.8.1 World and United States: Identify the Cold War, including: Marshall Plan; Berlin Blockade; NATO. (C 8.8.1; C 8.8.2; G 2.8.5; G 2.8.6; G 4.8.6; G 4.8.7; G 4.8.8; G 4.8.9; G 4.8.10) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.1

9.8.2 United States: Identify the effects of the Cold War on the United States, including: arms race and nuclear testing; McCarthyism; space race; Cuban Missile Crisis. (C 8.8.1; C 8.8.2; C 8.8.3) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.2

9.8.3 World and United States: Explain why the United Nations was involved in the Korean War and the outcome of its involvement. (G 4.8.9; G 4.8.10) 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.3

9.8.5 World and United States: Discuss how science and technology changed life in the United States after WWII, including: television; electronics and computers; medical advances. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.5

9.8.6 United States: Summarize the changes in the United States' demographics. (G 4.8.1; G 4.8.2; G 4.8.4; G 4.8.5;G 4.8.6; G 4.8.8) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.6

9.8.7 Nevada: Describe the impact of the United States military and atomic testing in Nevada. (G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4)

9.8.8 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify the major issues, events, and people of the modern Civil Rights movement in the United States and Nevada, including: Rosa Parks; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Brown v. Board of Education; voting rights; integration; Grant Sawyer; Cesar Chavez. (C 5.8.6) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.8

9.8.9 World and United States: Identify the causes and effects of the Vietnam war, including: Tet Offensive; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; anti-war movement; draft and lottery; POWs and MIAs. (G 4.8.9; G 4.8.10) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.9

9.8.10 United States: Identify the significance to United States political culture of the following: Watergate; Iranian hostage crisis; Iran-contra Affair. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.10

9.8.11 World and United States: Identify key people and events that contributed to the end of the Cold War, including: recognition of China, detente; disarmament; Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.11

9.8.12 United States and World: Describe the significance of the breakup of the USSR, including: fall of the Berlin Wall. (C 7.8.1; G 4.8.8; G 4.8.10) 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.12

9.8.13 Nevada: Describe the effects of tourism and gaming on Nevada. (G 2.8.4) 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.13

9.8.14 United States: Identify examples of arts, music, literature, and the media in United States society. (E 3.8.3) 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.14

NV.10.0. History: New Challenges, 1990 to the Present: Students understand the political, economic, social, and technological issues challenging the world as it approaches and enters the new millennium.

10.8.1 World and United States: Describe scientific and technological developments, including: personal computers; Internet; satellites; medical advances. (Ec 7.8.1) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 10.8.1

10.8.3 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe major world, national, and local issues, including: ethnic and religious conflicts; environmental issues; gaming; health issues; water and resource allocation. (G 2.8.4; G 4.8.1; G 4.8.2; G 4.8.8;G 4.8.10; G 5.8.6) 46
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 10.8.3

10.8.4 World and United States: Identify the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf War. (G 4.8.6; G 4.8.10) 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 10.8.4

10.8.5 United States: Identify the role of the media in the changing political climate. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 10.8.5

10.8.6 World and United States: Identify how literature, music, and the visual arts are a reflection of the time. (E 3.8.3) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 10.8.6

NV.1.0. Economics: The Economic Way of Thinking: Students will use fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, and costs versus benefits to describe and analyze problems and opportunities, both individual and social.

1.8.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Cost: Use the concept of opportunity cost to evaluate the tradeoffs when choices occur. 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.1

1.8.2 Incentives and Preferences: Recognize that self-interest is a motivational factor when people respond to incentives. (E 3.8.2) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.2

1.8.3 Cost versus Benefits: Identify the additional benefits and the additional costs that result from choosing a little more or a little less. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.3

1.8.4 Personal Economics: Evaluate career paths by comparing costs and benefits. 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.4

NV.2.0. Economics: Measuring U.S. Economic Performance: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of past and present U.S. economic performance, identify the economic indicators used to measure that performance, and use this knowledge to make individual decisions and discuss social issues.

2.8.1 Measuring Economic Growth: Explain gross domestic product (GDP) and how it is used to describe a country's economic output. (H 1.8.1) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.1

2.8.2 Measuring Economic Growth: Given data on population and GDP for several countries, determine their per capita GDP, and compare with the United States. (G 4.81; H 2.8.3) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.2

2.8.4 Measuring Inflation: Use the consumer price index (CPI) to compare the buying power of the U.S. dollar in one year with its buying power in another year. 35
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.4

2.8.6 Measuring Unemployment: Identify the unemployment rate as the percentage of people in the labor force who are not working, but who are actively pursuing work. 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.6

2.8.7 Measuring Unemployment: Distinguish between a high rate and a low rate of unemployment for the U.S. economy over time. (H 8.8.6) 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.7

2.8.8 Measuring Interest: Explain why riskier loans command higher interest rates than safer loans. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.8

2.8.9 Measuring Interest: Distinguish between high and low interest rates for the U.S. economy over time. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.9

2.8.10 Personal Economics: Identify career fields that are experiencing growth and career fields that are experiencing decline. (E 6.8.2) 27
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.10

NV.3.0. Economics: Functioning of Markets: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how markets work, including an understanding of why markets form, how supply and demand interact to determine market prices and interest rates, and how changes in prices act as signals to coordinate trade.

3.8.1 Trade Is Beneficial: Give examples of markets in which people benefit from trade. (H 6.8.12) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.1

3.8.2 Markets Determine Prices: Explain how supply and demand function to determine market prices. (H 2.8.3) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.2

3.8.3 Prices as Signals: Explain why buyers demand less yet sellers supply more when prices go up. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.3

3.8.4 Prices as Signals: Explain why buyers demand more yet sellers supply less when prices go down. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.4

3.8.6 Personal Economics: Identify instances in which people might pay interest or receive interest. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.6

3.8.7 Personal Economics: Explain the factors that should be considered when making individual purchasing decisions, given changes in prices. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.7

NV.4.0. Economics: Private U.S. Economic Institutions: Students will describe the roles played by U.S. economic institutions including financial institutions, labor unions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.

4.8.1 Financial Institutions: Explain the purposes and functions of financial institutions (such as to channel funds from savers to borrowers). 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.1

4.8.2 Labor Unions: Explain the purposes and functions of labor unions (such as collective bargaining). (H 7.8.11) 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.2

4.8.3 For-profit Business Organizations: Explain the advantages and disadvantages of each of the three primary forms of business organizations: sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation. (E 10.8.4) 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.3

4.8.4 Not-for-profit Organizations: Explain why not-for-profit organizations are tax exempt. 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.4

4.8.5 Personal Economics: Compare the rewards and risks of saving and borrowing money with several types of financial institutions. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.5

4.8.6 Personal Economics: Investigate careers associated with financial institutions, labor unions, for-profit business organizations, and not-for-profit organizations. 29
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.6

NV.5.0. Economics: Money: Students demonstrate an understanding of forms of money, how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services; and how the Federal Reserve System and its policies affect the U.S. money supply.

5.8.1 Functions of Money: Illustrate how prices stated in money terms help people compare the value of products. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.1

5.8.4 History of Money: Describe the transition from the use of commodities as money to the use of modern forms of money. (G 4.8.4) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.4

5.8.5 Personal Economics: Identify pros and cons of paying with cash versus using credit. (E 10.8.4) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.5

NV.6.0. Economics: The U.S. Economy as a Whole: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the U.S. economic system as a whole in terms of how it allocates resources; determines the nation's production, income, unemployment, and price levels; and leads to variations in individual income levels.

6.8.1 Resource Allocation: Explain ways in which households, schools, or community groups allocate resources. (G 4.8.5) 105
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.1

6.8.2 Resource Allocation: Explain how consumer and producer reactions to price changes affect resource allocation. 76
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.2

6.8.3 The Nation's Production Level: Explain how the current utilization of a productive resource affects the availability of that resource in the future. (G 5.8.6; H 7.8.7) 79
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.3

6.8.4 The Nation's Income Level: Explain the circular flow of economic activity. 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.4

6.8.5 The Nation's Unemployment Rate: Identify factors that can affect an individual's likelihood of being unemployed. (H 7.8.11) 33
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.5

6.8.6 Differences in Individual Incomes: Explain that the wage individual's earn is affected by their productivity and by the market value of the goods or services they produce 33
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.6

6.8.7 Personal Economics: Identify a career path of interest and explain how the associated earnings are affected by the market. 57
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.7

NV.7.0. Economics: An Evolving Economy: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how investment, entrepreneurship, competition, and specialization lead to changes in an economy's structure and performance.

7.8.1 Investment: Explain how investment improves standards of living by increasing productivity. (H 6.8.1; H 10.8.1) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.1

7.8.4 Entrepreneurship: Describe the advantages and disadvantages of being an entrepreneur. (E 10.8.4) 29
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.4

7.8.5 Competition: Illustrate how competition among sellers decreases prices, while competition among buyers increases prices. (H 6.8.12) 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.5

7.8.6 Specialization: Give examples of how specialization is facilitated by trade. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.6

7.8.7 Personal Economics: Give examples of ways investment can improve students' performance in school, sports, etc. 29
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.7

NV.8.0. Economics: The Role of Government in a Market Economy: Students will explain the role of government in a market economy.

8.8.1 Public Goods: Give examples of the kinds of goods and services that government provides. (C 6.8.1) 29
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.1

8.8.2 Externalities: Give examples of activities that benefit participants, yet harm nonparticipants. 81
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.2

8.8.3 Redistributing Income: Identify methods by which government redistributes income. (C 2.5.3; H 8.8.6) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.3

8.8.4 Property Rights: Give examples of ways government protects property. (C 1.5.1) 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.4

8.8.7 Personal Economics: Describe how paying sales, property, and income taxes affect the amount of money an individual has available for spending. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.7

NV.9.0. Economics: The International Economy: Students explore the characteristics of non-U.S. economic systems in order to demonstrate an understanding of how they are connected, through trade, to peoples and cultures throughout the world.

9.8.1 International Trade: Explain how governments use tariffs or quotas to restrict trade. (C 2.8.3; G 4.8.6) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.1

9.8.2 Interdependence: Describe how economic interdependence among countries affects standards of living in those countries. (C 8.8.1; G 4.5.5; G 4.8.7) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.2

9.8.4 Exchange Rates: Compute prices of U.S. products in terms of other countries' currencies. (G 4.8.7) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.4

9.8.5 Personal Economics: Identify goods that would not be readily available in U.S. stores if there were no international trade. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.5

NV.1.0. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms: Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

1.8.1 Map Use: Use map elements including scale, latitude and longitude, and projection, to identify and locate physical and human features in the United States and the world. (H 2.8.3; H 4.8.1; H 4.8.2; H 6.8.17) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.1

1.8.2 Map Section: Compare and contrast the characteristics and purposes of several types of maps, map projections, and other geographic representations. (H 2.8.3) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.2

1.8.3 Geographic Tools and Technologies: Use maps, graphic representations, aerial photo-graphs, satellite images, and computer resources to compare Earth's physical and human features. (H 2.8.3) 83
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.3

1.8.4 Map Construction: Construct maps and charts to display information about human and physical features. (H 1.8.2) 5
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1.8.5 Map Applications: Compare and contrast maps of similar areas for purpose, accuracy, content, and design. 7
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1.8.6 Map Analysis: Make and defend a spatial decision using basic geographic vocabulary and concepts. (H 1.12.2) 13
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1.8.7 Map Concepts: Recognize that countries may be grouped into both physical and political regions, such as Latin America, Oceania, East Asia, Indian subcontinent, and Europe. (H 2.8.3: H 3.8.3) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.7

1.8.8 Map Locations: Identify prominent countries relative to region or continent and locate major cities of the world such as Beijing, Bombay (Mumbai), Buenos Aires, Cairo, Jakarta, London, Montreal, Moscow, Mexico City, Paris, Sydney, and Tokyo. (H 2.8.3; H 3.8.3) 37
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.8

NV.2.0. Geography: Places and Regions-Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of changes.

2.8.1 Characteristics of Places and Regions: Describe the relationship between physical and human features, such as landforms and political boundaries. (H 2.8.3; H 3.8.2) 45
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.1

2.8.2 Cultural Identity: Explain how places, regions, and belief systems are important to the expression of cultural identity. (E 3.8.3; E 8.8.3; H3.8.3; H 3.8.5; H 5.8.9; H 6.8.14; H 6.8.17; H 6.8.18, H 6.8.19) 50
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.2

2.8.3 Cultural Perspectives: Compare how cultural characteristics affect different points of view with regard to places and regions. (C 4.8.3; E 3.8.3; H 3.8.2; H 3.8.3) 48
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.3

2.8.4 Impact of Technology: Describe ways in which technology affects how cultural groups use places and regions. (H 6.8.1; H 6.8.14) 64
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.4

2.8.5 History and Region: Evaluate the role regions have played in historical events. (H 3.8.3; H 5.8.10; H 5.8.17; H 6.8.21; H 7.8.5; H 7.8.14; H 9.8.1) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.5

2.8.6 Patterns of Change: Describe how and why regions change over time. (H 3.8.3; H 7.8.14; H 9.8.1) 26
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.6

2.8.7 Applying Concepts of Regions: Illustrate the relationship between the physical and cultural characteristics of a region. (H 3.8.3; H 3.8.5; H 5.8.5; H 5.8.6; H 5.8.10; H 6.8.19) 79
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.7

NV.3.0. Geography: Physical Systems-Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.

3.8.1 Physical Systems: Explain how the physical processes within each of the four basic systems influence the Earth's surface. 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.1

3.8.2 Natural Hazards: Explain how natural hazards alter Earth's environments, such as avalanches, wildfires, and drought. 53
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.2

3.8.3 Characteristics of Ecosystems: Describe the interdependence among soil, climate, plant life, and animal life within different ecosystems. 31
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3.8.4 Distribution of Ecosystems: Compare and contrast the biodiversity and productivity of different ecosystems on Earth. 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.4

3.8.5 Analysis of Ecosystems: Formulate a hypothesis about the changing nature of an ecosystem and use appropriate research skills to draw conclusions. 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.5

NV.4.0. Geography: Human Systems - Students understand how economic, political, and cultural processes interact to shape patterns of human migration and settlement, influence and interdependence, and conflict and cooperation.

4.8.1 Demographic Concepts: Describe the characteristics of developing and developed countries using key demographic concepts. (Ec 2.8.1; Ec 2.8.2; H 9.8.6; H 10.8.3) 27
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.1

4.8.2 Migration and Settlement: Describe the reasons for human migration and settlement and explain the effects on places and cultures. (H 3.8.1; H 3.8.2; H 3.8.3; H 4.8.3; H 5.8.7; H 6.8.19; H 9.8.6; H 10.8.3) 40
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.2

4.8.3 Historical Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas: Describe how a historical event was affected by the movement of people, goods, and ideas. (H 5.8.7; H 5.8.11; H 6.8.17; H 6.8.19; H 7.8.5;H 9.8.12) 35
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.3

4.8.4 Patterns of Human Settlement: Identify the different patterns of migration and settlement in developing and developed countries. (H 3.8.2; H 5.8.11; H 9.8.6; H 10.8.3) 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.4

4.8.5 Economic Systems and Interdependence: Explain how the physical and human geography of regions influences their economic activities. (C 8.8.2; Ec 6.8.1; H3.8.3; H 5.8.7; H 5.8.11; H 5.8.12; H 6.8.1; H 7.8.5; H 9.8.6; H 10.8.3) 36
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.5

4.8.6 Analysis of Economic Issues: Identify a regional or international economic issue and explain it from a spatial perspective. (H 6.5.21; H 10.5.3; Ec 9.5.1; Ec 9.5.2; Ec 9.5.4) 40
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.6

4.8.7 Patterns of Human Development: Compare the elements of economic development and quality of life between developing and developed countries. (Ec 2.8.1;Ec 2.8.2; Ec 5.8.4; Ec 7.8.1; Ec 9.8.2; Ec 9.8.4; H 10.8.3) 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.7

4.8.8 Human Organizations: Compare and contrast changes in cultural, political, and economic organizations over time. (C 4.8.2; C 4.8.3; C 7.8.1; C 7.8.2; Ec 2.8.9; Ec 2.8.10; H 3.8.2; H 3.8.3; H 5.8.12; H 7.8.14; H 9.8.6; H 9.8.12; H 10.8.3; H 10.8.7) 64
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.8

4.8.9 Cooperation and Conflict: Compare how cooperation and conflict among people contribute to political, economic, and cultural divisions on Earth's surface. (C 7.8.1; Ec 9.8.2; H 6.8.21; H 7.8.14; H 9.8.3; H 9.8.9; H 9.8.12; H 10.8.3) 69
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.9

4.8.10 International Alliances and Organizations: Identify trans-regional alliances and international organizations that influence cooperation and conflict among countries. (C 8.8.4; H 9.8.3; H 9.8.9; H 9.8.12; H 10.8.3; H 10.8.4) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.10

NV.5.0. Geography: Environment and Society-Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

5.8.1 Changes in the Physical Environment: Describe and predict the regional or global impact of changes in the physical environment. (H 9.8.8) 87
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.1

5.8.2 Constraints of the Physical Environment: Compare and contrast the opportunities and constraints that the physical environment places on human activity. (H 3.8.1; H 3.8.2; H 3.8.3; H 3.8.5; H 4.8.1; H 4.8.2; H 6.8.1; H 7.8.7; H 8.8.6) 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.2

5.8.3 Technology and the Physical Environment: Evaluate the role of technology in the human modification of the physical environment. (C 4.8.6; H 3.8.2; H 4.8.2; H 6.8.1; H 7.8.5; H 7.8.7; H 8.8.2; H 8.8.6; H 9.8.7; H 9.8.8) 93
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.3

5.8.4 Human Modification: Describe the changes that result from human modification of the physical environment. (C 4.8.6; H 3.8.2; H 4.8.2; H 6.8.1; H 7.8.5; H 7.8.7; H 8.8.2; H 8.8.6; H 9.8.7; H 9.8.8) 72
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.4

5.8.5 Effects of Natural Hazards on Human Systems: Research a specific natural hazard and document its effects on human systems. 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.5

5.8.6 Earth's Resources: Identify and locate examples of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources. (Ec 6.8.3; H 9.9.8; H 10.8.3; H 10.8.4) 77
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.6

5.8.7 Management of Earth's Resources: Select a resource and evaluate different viewpoints regarding its use. (C 4.8.6; Ec 6.8.1; H 7.8.3) 79
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.7

NV.6.0. Geography: Geographic Applications-Students apply geographic knowledge of people, places, and environments to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future.

6.8.1 Applying Geography in History: Explain how different characteristics of people, places, and resources have affected events and conditions in the past. (H 3.8.2; H 3.8.2; H 4.8.1; H 4.8.2; H 5.8.5; H 5.8.6; H 5.8.8; H 5.8.9; H 5.8.1; H 6.8.21; H 6.8.22; H 7.8.5) 102
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.1

6.8.2 Applying Geography in Current Events: Explain how the physical geography of a place or region can influence current events. 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.2

6.8.3 Applying Geography to Contemporary Issues: Examine a contemporary issue using geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives. (C 4.8.6) 150
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.3

6.8.4 Applying Geography to the Future: Describe several future outcomes of a geographic issue and defend one possible solution. (C 4.8.6) 144
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.4

NV.7.0. Geography: Geographic Skills: Students ask and answer geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

7.8.1 Ask Geographic Questions: Identify and define geographic problems and issues by asking geographic questions. 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.1

7.8.2 Acquire Geographic Information: Use a variety of research skills, including field work and computer resources, to collect geographic information. (E 11.8.2) 39
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.2

7.8.3 Organize Geographic Information: Create and prepare various forms of maps, graphs, diagrams, tables, or charts to organize geographic information. (E 11.8.5; H 4.8.4) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.3

7.8.4 Analyze Geographic Information: Evaluate and analyze information obtained from a variety of geographic sources. (E 11.8.2; H 4.8.1) 45
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.4

7.8.5 Present Geographic Information: Make generalizations by developing and presenting combinations of geographic information to answer geographic questions. (E 10.8.2) 30
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.5

NV.1.0. Civics: Rules and Law: Students know why society needs rules, laws, and governments.

1.8.1 Rules and Law: Explain the difference between the rule of law and the rule of man (such as divine right of monarchs, dictatorships). (H 6.12.7; H 8.8.1) 41
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.1

1.8.2 Documents: Describe the significance of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as foundations of U.S. democracy. (H 6.8.4; H 6.8.7; H 6.8.8) 33
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.2

1.8.4 Democratic Participation: Explain popular sovereignty and the need for citizen involvement at all levels of U.S. government. (H 6.8.3) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.4

1.8.5 The U.S. Constitution and Amendments: Describe how the U.S. Constitution serves as a device for preserving national principles and as a vehicle for change, including knowledge of the formal process of amending the U.S. Constitution. (H 6.8.7; H 6.8.8) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.5

NV.2.0. Civics: The U.S. Government: Students know the United States Constitution and the government it creates.

2.8.1 The U.S. Constitution: Explain the functions of the three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial) as found in the U.S. Constitution. (H 6.8.7) 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.1

2.8.2 The Legislative Structure and Process: Explain the historic compromises that created a two-house Congress and identify the responsibilities of each. (H 6.8.7) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.2

2.8.3 Legislative Powers: Discuss enumerated and implied powers of the U.S. Congress. (Ec 8.8.1; H 6.8.7) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.3

2.8.4 The Executive Branch: Describe the duties of the President, such as presenting a budget proposal. (Ec 8.8.1; H 6.8.7) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.4

2.8.5 The Judicial Branch: List the ways the Supreme Court determines policy, including: judicial review, interpreting laws, overruling or revising its previous decisions. (H 6.8.7) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.5

2.8.6 The Jury System: Describe the trial process, including the selection and responsibilities of jurors. (H 6.8.7) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.6

2.8.7 Checks and Balances: Explain the system of checks and balances in the design of the U.S. Constitution. (H 6.8.7) 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.7

NV.3.0. Civics: National and State Government: Students can explain the relationship between the states and national government.

3.8.1 Division of Powers: Give examples of governmental powers (such as the power to tax, declare war, and issue drivers' licenses) that are distributed between the state and national governments. (Ec 8.8.1) 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.1

3.8.2 Federalism: 'Define 'federalism.' 24
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3.8.3 Constitutional Supremacy: Explain how the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution defines the relationship between state and national governments. 9
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NV.4.0. Civics: The Political Process: Students describe the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public opinion in the democratic process.

4.8.1 Leaders and Elections: Describe the election process. 30
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.1

4.8.2 Political Parties: Provide examples of how political parties changed. (H 6.8.13) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.2

4.8.3 Interest Groups: Identify the impact of interest groups on the political process. (G 4.8.8) 43
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.3

4.8.4 Formation of Public Opinion: Identify the influence of the media in forming public opinion. (E 4.8.1; E 4.8.2; E 11.8.2; H 10.8.5) 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.4

4.8.5 Propaganda: Identify propaganda and persuasion in political advertising and literature. (E 4.8.4) 37
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4.8.6 Public Policy: Provide examples of contemporary public issues that may require public solutions. (G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4; G 5.8.7; G 6.8.3) 81
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.6

NV.5.0. Civics: Citizenship: Students know the roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens and the symbols of our country.

5.8.1 Citizenship: Identify the rights, privileges, and responsibilities associated with U.S. citizenship, including voting, holding office, jury duty, or military, community, or public service. (H 7.8.1; H 7.8.13) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.1

5.8.3 Symbols: Explain the significance of mottoes and symbols including: E Pluribus Unum, National Anthem, Flag, Statue of Liberty, Great Seal, Oath of office, Pledge of Allegiance. 11
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5.8.4 Individual Rights: Explain the necessity of the Bill of Rights for a democratic society. (H 6.8.7) 10
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5.8.6 Conflict and Resolution: Identify examples of conflict resolution that respect individual rights at school and in the community, within the United States. (H 9.8.8; S 18.8.4) 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.6

NV.6.0. Civics: State and Local Government: Students know the structure and functions of state and local governments.

6.8.1 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Compare the organization and purpose of state, local, and tribal government. (Ec 8.8.1) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.1

6.8.5 Court Systems: Describe the juvenile, civil, and criminal court systems. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.5

NV.7.0. Civics: Political and Economic Systems: Students explain the different political and economic systems in the world.

7.8.1 Comparative Political Systems: Define the world's major political systems, including: monarchy, totalitarian dictatorship, presidential system, communism. (H 8.8.1; H 9.8.12) 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.1

7.8.2 Comparative Economic Systems: Define the world's major economic systems, including: capitalism, mixed economy, socialism, command economy. (H 6.8.12; S 16.8.5) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.2

NV.8.0. Civics: International Relations: Students know the political and economic relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations.

8.8.1 From Individual to the World: Identify nations that play a significant role in U.S. foreign policy. 43
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.1

8.8.2 Foreign Policy: Define foreign policy and describe ways nations interact diplomatically, including: treaties, trade, humanitarian aid, military intervention. 35
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.2

8.8.3 International Organizations: Describe the purpose of the United Nations. (H 8.8.7) 18
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.3

8.8.4 International Organizations: List and describe non-governmental international organizations, such as the World Bank, Amnesty International, and the International Red Cross. (G 4.8.10) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.4

NV.1.0. History: Chronology: Students use chronology to organize and understand the sequence and relationship of events.

1.8.1 Current Events: Describe how a current event is presented by multiple sources. (E 10.8.4; E 11.8.2) 100
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.1

1.8.2 Chronology: Create a tiered time line. (E 2.8.4; E 3.8.1; G 1.8.4) 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.2

NV.2.0. History: History Skills: Students will use social studies vocabulary and concepts to engage in inquiry, in research, in analysis, and in decision making.

2.8.1 Inquiry: Frame historical questions that examine multiple viewpoints. (E 11.8.1; E 11.8.2) 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.1

2.8.2 Research and Analysis: Evaluate sources of historical information based on: bias; credibility; cultural context; reliability; time period. (E 4.8.4; E 8.8.1; E 11.8.2) 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.2

2.8.3 Informational Tools: Read and use informational tools, including: charts; diagrams; graphs; maps; political cartoons; photographs; tables. (E 2.8.4; E 11.8.2; E 11.8.5; G 1.8.1; G 1.8.2; G 1.8.3; G 1.8.4; G 1.8.7; G 1.8.8) 18
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.3

NV.3.0. History: Prehistory to 400 CE: Students understand the development of human societies, civilizations, and empires through 400 CE.

3.8.1 World, United States, and Nevada: Explain the characteristics and environments of hunter-gatherer. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.1

3.8.2 World: Identify significant characteristics of early agricultural societies, including: farming; domestication of animals. (G 4.8.5; G 5.8.2; G 5.8.4; G 6.8.1) 162
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.2

3.8.3 World: Locate ancient and classical civilizations in time and place, including: China; Egypt; Greece; India; Mesopotamia; Rome. (G 2.8.5; G 2.8.8; G 6.8.1) 39
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.3

3.8.4 World: Describe achievements made by ancient and classical civilizations, including: the Americas; China ; Egypt; Greece; India; Mesopotamia; Rome. 47
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.4

3.8.5 Nevada: Describe the lifestyles of Nevada's Desert Archaic people. (G 5.8.2) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.5

NV.4.0. History: 1 CE to 1400: Students understand the characteristics, ideas, and significance of civilizations and religions from 1 CE to 1400.

4.8.1 World: Describe the Viking exploration of North America. (G 5.8.2; G 6.8.1; G 7.8.3; G 7.8.4) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.1

4.8.2 World: Describe contributions of and locate the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilizations. (G 1.8.1; G 5.8.2; G 5.8.4; G 6.8.1) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.2

4.8.3 World: Describe the origin, traditions, customs, and spread of western and eastern world religions, including: Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Islam; Judaism. 40
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.3

4.8.4 World: Identify the characteristics of European feudalism. 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.4

NV.5.0. History: 1200 to 1750: Students understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.

5.8.1 World: Define the Renaissance in terms of science and fine arts. 29
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.1

5.8.5 Nevada: Describe the lifestyles of Nevada's Native American cultures, including: Northern Paiute; Southern Paiute; Washoe; Western Shoshone. (G 2.8.7; G 6.8.1) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.5

5.8.6 United States and Nevada: Describe Native North American cultural regions, such as: Southwest; Southeast; Northeast; Northwest; California; Great Basin; Plains; Plateau; Arctic; Sub-Arctic. (G 2.8.7; G 6.8.1) 43
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.6

5.8.7 World and United States: Describe motivations for Scandinavian and European explorations, including: all-water routes to Asia; trade; religion. (G 4.8.2; G 4.8.3; G 4.8.5) 27
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.7

5.8.8 World and United States: Explain interactions among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans. (G 2.8.3; G 6.8.1) 52
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.8

5.8.9 World and United States: Compare the lifestyles of Native Americans with those of the colonists. (G 2.8.2; G 6.8.1) 81
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.9

5.8.10 World and United States: Explain where and why colonies were established in the Americas by European nations and how those colonies were governed. 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.10

5.8.11 United States: Describe lifestyles in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. (G 4.8.3; G 4.8.4; G 4.8.5; G6.8.1) 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.11

5.8.12 World and United States: Describe the African slave trade. (G 4.8.5; G 4.8.6; G 4.8.8) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.12

NV.6.0. History: 1700 to 1865: Students understand the people, events, ideas, and conflicts that led to the creation of new nations and distinctive cultures.

6.8.1 World and United States: Describe major inventions of the Industrial Revolution, including: steam engine; textile machines. (Ec 7.8.1; Ec 7.8.4; Ec 7.8.5; G 2.8.4; G 4.8.5; G 5.8.2; G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.1

6.8.3 United States: Describe the effect of laws and taxes enacted by the British on the American colonies, including: Stamp Act; Intolerable Acts; Quartering Act. (C 1.8.4; Ec 8.8.3) 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.3

6.8.4 United States: Explain the major ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence, including: Equality; Right to change government; Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. (C1.8.2; C1.8.4) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.4

6.8.5 United States: Describe key people and events of the American Revolution, including: King George III; George Washington; Lexington and Concord; Battle of Saratoga; Valley Forge. 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.5

6.8.6 United States: Identify the Articles of Confederation. 9
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6.8.7 United States: Explain why the Constitution was written. (C 1.8.2; C 1.8.5; C 2.8.1; C 2.8.2; C 2.8.3; C 2.8.4; C 2.8.5; C 2.8.6; C 2.8.7) 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.7

6.8.8 United States: Identify the principles of the Bill of Rights. (C 1.8.5; C 2.8.6; C 5.8.4) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.8

6.8.12 World and United States: Define capitalism and free market economy. (C 7.8.2; Ec 3.8.1; Ec3.8.2; Ec 3.8.3; Ec 3.8.4; Ec6.8.2 Ec 6.8.6; Ec 7.8.5;Ec 9.8.5) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.12

6.8.13 United States: Describe the early development of the United States government, including: Washington's cabinet; Marbury v. Madison; political parties. (C 3.8.3; C 4.8.2) 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.13

6.8.14 United States: Describe contributing factors in the development of a national identity, such as: the cotton gin; Erie Canal; the factory system; immigration and nativism; Monroe Doctrine; railroads; telegraph; War of 1812. (G 2.8.4) 39
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.14

6.8.15 United States: Identify key people and events in the social reform movements of antebellum United States, including: Dorothea Dix; Horace Mann; Sojourner Truth; Seneca Falls Declaration. 32
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.15

6.8.16 United States: Recognize the development of an emerging United States culture, including contributions from: literature; language development; poetry; music. 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.16

6.8.17 United States and Nevada: Describe Manifest Destiny and the expansion of the United States, including: Lewis and Clark and the Louisiana Purchase; Trail of Tears; the Battle of the Alamo; Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo; Oregon and California Trails; Spanish Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Central Overland Trail, Mormon Trail; Donner Party; California Gold Rush. (G 1.8.1; G 2.8.5; G 4.8.3; G 6.8.1) 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.17

6.8.18 Nevada: Describe the contributions of the explorers and settlers in pre-territorial Nevada and their influences on the future, including: Kit Carson; John C. Fremont; James Beckwourth; Peter Skene Ogden; Joseph Walker; Jedediah Smith.

6.8.19 Nevada: Describe the Mormon influence on the political and economic development of pre-territorial Nevada. (G 2.8.2; G 2.8.3; G 2.8.7; G 4.8.2; G 4.8.3) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.19

6.8.20 United States: Define abolition and identify the key people and events of the movement, including: Frederick Douglass; Harriet Tubman; Underground Railroad; Sojourner Truth. 13
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6.8.21 United States: Identify the causes, key people, events, and outcome of the Civil War, including: states' rights and slavery; President Lincoln; Emancipation Proclamation; Vicksburg and Gettysburg; Gettysburg Address; Generals Grant and Lee. (G 2.8.5; G 4.8.6; G 4.8.9; G 6.8.1) 70
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.21

6.8.22 Nevada: Explain the events that led to Nevada statehood, including: Comstock Lode; Election of 1864. (G 6.8.1)

NV.7.0. History: 1860 to 1920: Students understand the importance and impact of political, economic, and social ideas.

7.8.1 United States: Identify the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. (C 5.8.1) 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.1

7.8.2 United States: Identify the Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws. 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.2

7.8.3 United States: Discuss and analyze the interactions between settlers and Native Americans during the westward expansion, including: Ghost Dance/ Wounded Knee; Little Big Horn. (G 5.8.7) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.3

7.8.4 Nevada: Describe the contributions of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins to Native Americans in Nevada and the United States. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.4

7.8.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the western frontier, including: communication (Pony Express, telegraph); farming and water issues; mining; ranching; transportation. (G 2.8.5; G 4.8.3; G 4.8.5; G4.8.6; G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4; G 6.8.1) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.5

7.8.7 United States: Describe effects of industrialization and new technologies on the transformation of the United States, including: steel industry; mass production; mechanized assembly line; communication. (G 5.8.2; G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.7

7.8.8 United States: Identify American industrialists and their contributions, including: Andrew Carnegie; Henry Ford; John D. Rockefeller. (Ec 7.8.4) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.8

7.8.9 Nevada and United States: Identify immigrant and native groups involved in mining, ranching, railroads, and commerce in Nevada and the United States. 38
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.9

7.8.11 United States and Nevada: Describe the goals and accomplishments of labor unions in Nevada and the United States. (Ec 4.8.2; Ec 6.8.5) 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.11

7.8.13 United States: Describe the women's suffrage movement and the 19th Amendment. (C 5.8.1) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.13

7.8.14 World and United States: Describe United States expansion, including: Alaska; Hawaii; Panama Canal; Spanish-American War. (G 1.8.1; G 2.8.5; G 2.8.6; G 4.8.8; G 4.8.9) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.14

7.8.17 World and United States: Identify causes, outcome, and consequences of World War I, including: Sarajevo; alliances and nationalism; weapons and tactics; Treaty of Versailles. 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.17

NV.8.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1920 to 1945: Students understand the importance and effect of political, economic, technological, and social changes in the world from 1920 to 1945.

8.8.1 World: Define totalitarianism. (C 1.8.1; C 7.8.1) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.1

8.8.2 World and United States: Identify scientific and technological advancements and their impacts, including: airplane; radio; automobile; household appliances. (G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.2

8.8.4 United States: Explain how literature, music, and visual arts were a reflection of the time. (E 3.8.3) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.4

8.8.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the causes and effects of the Great Depression and the New Deal on life in the United States and Nevada, including: stock market crash; family life; Hoover Dam; government programs. 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.5

8.8.6 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify causes, effects, and outcome of World War II, including: legacy of WWI; Pearl Harbor; Allies; Axis powers and leaders; atomic bomb; United Nations. (Ec 2.8.1; Ec 2.8.6; Ec 2.8.7; Ec 6.8.5;Ec 6.8.6; Ec 8.8.1; Ec 8.8.3; G 4.8.6; G 5.8.2; G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 51
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.6

8.8.7 World and United States: Identify key elements of the Holocaust, including: 'Aryan supremacy'; Kristallnacht; 'Final Solution'; concentration and death camps. (C 8.8.3) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.7

8.8.8 United States and Nevada: Identify the effects of WWII on the home front in the United States and Nevada, including: end of the Great Depression; internment camps; rationing; propaganda; 'Rosie the Riveter.' 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.8

NV.9.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1945 to 1990: Students understand the shift of international relationships and power as well as the significant developments in American culture.

9.8.1 World and United States: Identify the Cold War, including: Marshall Plan; Berlin Blockade; NATO. (C 8.8.1; C 8.8.2; G 2.8.5; G 2.8.6; G 4.8.6; G 4.8.7; G 4.8.8; G 4.8.9; G 4.8.10) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.1

9.8.2 United States: Identify the effects of the Cold War on the United States, including: arms race and nuclear testing; McCarthyism; space race; Cuban Missile Crisis. (C 8.8.1; C 8.8.2; C 8.8.3) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.2

9.8.3 World and United States: Explain why the United Nations was involved in the Korean War and the outcome of its involvement. (G 4.8.9; G 4.8.10) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.3

9.8.5 World and United States: Discuss how science and technology changed life in the United States after WWII, including: television; electronics and computers; medical advances. 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.5

9.8.6 United States: Summarize the changes in the United States' demographics. (G 4.8.1; G 4.8.2; G 4.8.4; G 4.8.5;G 4.8.6; G 4.8.8) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.6

9.8.7 Nevada: Describe the impact of the United States military and atomic testing in Nevada. (G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.7

9.8.8 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify the major issues, events, and people of the modern Civil Rights movement in the United States and Nevada, including: Rosa Parks; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Brown v. Board of Education; voting rights; integration; Grant Sawyer; Cesar Chavez. (C 5.8.6) 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.8

9.8.9 World and United States: Identify the causes and effects of the Vietnam war, including: Tet Offensive; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; anti-war movement; draft and lottery; POWs and MIAs. (G 4.8.9; G 4.8.10) 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.9

9.8.10 United States: Identify the significance to United States political culture of the following: Watergate; Iranian hostage crisis; Iran-contra Affair. 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.10

9.8.11 World and United States: Identify key people and events that contributed to the end of the Cold War, including: recognition of China, detente; disarmament; Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.11

9.8.12 United States and World: Describe the significance of the breakup of the USSR, including: fall of the Berlin Wall. (C 7.8.1; G 4.8.8; G 4.8.10) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.12

9.8.13 Nevada: Describe the effects of tourism and gaming on Nevada. (G 2.8.4)

9.8.14 United States: Identify examples of arts, music, literature, and the media in United States society. (E 3.8.3) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.14

NV.10.0. History: New Challenges, 1990 to the Present: Students understand the political, economic, social, and technological issues challenging the world as it approaches and enters the new millennium.

10.8.1 World and United States: Describe scientific and technological developments, including: personal computers; Internet; satellites; medical advances. (Ec 7.8.1) 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 10.8.1

10.8.3 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe major world, national, and local issues, including: ethnic and religious conflicts; environmental issues; gaming; health issues; water and resource allocation. (G 2.8.4; G 4.8.1; G 4.8.2; G 4.8.8;G 4.8.10; G 5.8.6) 153
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 10.8.3

10.8.4 World and United States: Identify the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf War. (G 4.8.6; G 4.8.10) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 10.8.4

10.8.5 United States: Identify the role of the media in the changing political climate. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 10.8.5

10.8.6 World and United States: Identify how literature, music, and the visual arts are a reflection of the time. (E 3.8.3) 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 10.8.6

NV.1.0. Economics: The Economic Way of Thinking: Students will use fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, and costs versus benefits to describe and analyze problems and opportunities, both individual and social.

1.8.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Cost: Use the concept of opportunity cost to evaluate the tradeoffs when choices occur. 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.1

1.8.2 Incentives and Preferences: Recognize that self-interest is a motivational factor when people respond to incentives. (E 3.8.2) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.2

1.8.3 Cost versus Benefits: Identify the additional benefits and the additional costs that result from choosing a little more or a little less. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.3

1.8.4 Personal Economics: Evaluate career paths by comparing costs and benefits. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.4

NV.2.0. Economics: Measuring U.S. Economic Performance: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of past and present U.S. economic performance, identify the economic indicators used to measure that performance, and use this knowledge to make individual decisions and discuss social issues.

2.8.1 Measuring Economic Growth: Explain gross domestic product (GDP) and how it is used to describe a country's economic output. (H 1.8.1) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.1

2.8.2 Measuring Economic Growth: Given data on population and GDP for several countries, determine their per capita GDP, and compare with the United States. (G 4.81; H 2.8.3) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.2

2.8.4 Measuring Inflation: Use the consumer price index (CPI) to compare the buying power of the U.S. dollar in one year with its buying power in another year. 29
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.4

2.8.6 Measuring Unemployment: Identify the unemployment rate as the percentage of people in the labor force who are not working, but who are actively pursuing work. 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.6

2.8.7 Measuring Unemployment: Distinguish between a high rate and a low rate of unemployment for the U.S. economy over time. (H 8.8.6) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.7

2.8.8 Measuring Interest: Explain why riskier loans command higher interest rates than safer loans. 2
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2.8.9 Measuring Interest: Distinguish between high and low interest rates for the U.S. economy over time. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.9

2.8.10 Personal Economics: Identify career fields that are experiencing growth and career fields that are experiencing decline. (E 6.8.2) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.10

NV.3.0. Economics: Functioning of Markets: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how markets work, including an understanding of why markets form, how supply and demand interact to determine market prices and interest rates, and how changes in prices act as signals to coordinate trade.

3.8.1 Trade Is Beneficial: Give examples of markets in which people benefit from trade. (H 6.8.12) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.1

3.8.2 Markets Determine Prices: Explain how supply and demand function to determine market prices. (H 2.8.3) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.2

3.8.3 Prices as Signals: Explain why buyers demand less yet sellers supply more when prices go up. 2
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3.8.4 Prices as Signals: Explain why buyers demand more yet sellers supply less when prices go down. 2
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3.8.6 Personal Economics: Identify instances in which people might pay interest or receive interest. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.6

3.8.7 Personal Economics: Explain the factors that should be considered when making individual purchasing decisions, given changes in prices. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.7

NV.4.0. Economics: Private U.S. Economic Institutions: Students will describe the roles played by U.S. economic institutions including financial institutions, labor unions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.

4.8.1 Financial Institutions: Explain the purposes and functions of financial institutions (such as to channel funds from savers to borrowers). 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.1

4.8.2 Labor Unions: Explain the purposes and functions of labor unions (such as collective bargaining). (H 7.8.11) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.2

4.8.3 For-profit Business Organizations: Explain the advantages and disadvantages of each of the three primary forms of business organizations: sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation. (E 10.8.4) 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.3

4.8.4 Not-for-profit Organizations: Explain why not-for-profit organizations are tax exempt. 15
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4.8.5 Personal Economics: Compare the rewards and risks of saving and borrowing money with several types of financial institutions. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.5

4.8.6 Personal Economics: Investigate careers associated with financial institutions, labor unions, for-profit business organizations, and not-for-profit organizations. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.6

NV.5.0. Economics: Money: Students demonstrate an understanding of forms of money, how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services; and how the Federal Reserve System and its policies affect the U.S. money supply.

5.8.1 Functions of Money: Illustrate how prices stated in money terms help people compare the value of products. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.1

5.8.4 History of Money: Describe the transition from the use of commodities as money to the use of modern forms of money. (G 4.8.4) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.4

5.8.5 Personal Economics: Identify pros and cons of paying with cash versus using credit. (E 10.8.4) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.5

NV.6.0. Economics: The U.S. Economy as a Whole: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the U.S. economic system as a whole in terms of how it allocates resources; determines the nation's production, income, unemployment, and price levels; and leads to variations in individual income levels.

6.8.1 Resource Allocation: Explain ways in which households, schools, or community groups allocate resources. (G 4.8.5) 51
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.1

6.8.2 Resource Allocation: Explain how consumer and producer reactions to price changes affect resource allocation. 51
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.2

6.8.3 The Nation's Production Level: Explain how the current utilization of a productive resource affects the availability of that resource in the future. (G 5.8.6; H 7.8.7) 47
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6.8.4 The Nation's Income Level: Explain the circular flow of economic activity. 3
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6.8.5 The Nation's Unemployment Rate: Identify factors that can affect an individual's likelihood of being unemployed. (H 7.8.11) 20
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6.8.6 Differences in Individual Incomes: Explain that the wage individual's earn is affected by their productivity and by the market value of the goods or services they produce 20
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6.8.7 Personal Economics: Identify a career path of interest and explain how the associated earnings are affected by the market. 20
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.7

NV.7.0. Economics: An Evolving Economy: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how investment, entrepreneurship, competition, and specialization lead to changes in an economy's structure and performance.

7.8.1 Investment: Explain how investment improves standards of living by increasing productivity. (H 6.8.1; H 10.8.1) 20
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.1

7.8.4 Entrepreneurship: Describe the advantages and disadvantages of being an entrepreneur. (E 10.8.4) 5
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7.8.5 Competition: Illustrate how competition among sellers decreases prices, while competition among buyers increases prices. (H 6.8.12) 26
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7.8.6 Specialization: Give examples of how specialization is facilitated by trade. 2
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7.8.7 Personal Economics: Give examples of ways investment can improve students' performance in school, sports, etc. 27
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.7

NV.8.0. Economics: The Role of Government in a Market Economy: Students will explain the role of government in a market economy.

8.8.1 Public Goods: Give examples of the kinds of goods and services that government provides. (C 6.8.1) 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.1

8.8.2 Externalities: Give examples of activities that benefit participants, yet harm nonparticipants. 60
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8.8.3 Redistributing Income: Identify methods by which government redistributes income. (C 2.5.3; H 8.8.6) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.3

8.8.4 Property Rights: Give examples of ways government protects property. (C 1.5.1) 22
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.4

8.8.7 Personal Economics: Describe how paying sales, property, and income taxes affect the amount of money an individual has available for spending. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.7

NV.9.0. Economics: The International Economy: Students explore the characteristics of non-U.S. economic systems in order to demonstrate an understanding of how they are connected, through trade, to peoples and cultures throughout the world.

9.8.1 International Trade: Explain how governments use tariffs or quotas to restrict trade. (C 2.8.3; G 4.8.6) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.1

9.8.2 Interdependence: Describe how economic interdependence among countries affects standards of living in those countries. (C 8.8.1; G 4.5.5; G 4.8.7) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.2

9.8.4 Exchange Rates: Compute prices of U.S. products in terms of other countries' currencies. (G 4.8.7) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.4

9.8.5 Personal Economics: Identify goods that would not be readily available in U.S. stores if there were no international trade. 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.5

NV.1.0. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms: Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

1.8.1 Map Use: Use map elements including scale, latitude and longitude, and projection, to identify and locate physical and human features in the United States and the world. (H 2.8.3; H 4.8.1; H 4.8.2; H 6.8.17) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.1

1.8.2 Map Section: Compare and contrast the characteristics and purposes of several types of maps, map projections, and other geographic representations. (H 2.8.3) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.2

1.8.3 Geographic Tools and Technologies: Use maps, graphic representations, aerial photo-graphs, satellite images, and computer resources to compare Earth's physical and human features. (H 2.8.3) 62
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.3

1.8.4 Map Construction: Construct maps and charts to display information about human and physical features. (H 1.8.2) 2
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1.8.5 Map Applications: Compare and contrast maps of similar areas for purpose, accuracy, content, and design. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.5

1.8.6 Map Analysis: Make and defend a spatial decision using basic geographic vocabulary and concepts. (H 1.12.2) 5
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1.8.7 Map Concepts: Recognize that countries may be grouped into both physical and political regions, such as Latin America, Oceania, East Asia, Indian subcontinent, and Europe. (H 2.8.3: H 3.8.3) 11
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.7

1.8.8 Map Locations: Identify prominent countries relative to region or continent and locate major cities of the world such as Beijing, Bombay (Mumbai), Buenos Aires, Cairo, Jakarta, London, Montreal, Moscow, Mexico City, Paris, Sydney, and Tokyo. (H 2.8.3; H 3.8.3) 30
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.8

NV.2.0. Geography: Places and Regions-Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of changes.

2.8.1 Characteristics of Places and Regions: Describe the relationship between physical and human features, such as landforms and political boundaries. (H 2.8.3; H 3.8.2) 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.1

2.8.2 Cultural Identity: Explain how places, regions, and belief systems are important to the expression of cultural identity. (E 3.8.3; E 8.8.3; H3.8.3; H 3.8.5; H 5.8.9; H 6.8.14; H 6.8.17; H 6.8.18, H 6.8.19) 45
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.2

2.8.3 Cultural Perspectives: Compare how cultural characteristics affect different points of view with regard to places and regions. (C 4.8.3; E 3.8.3; H 3.8.2; H 3.8.3) 41
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.3

2.8.4 Impact of Technology: Describe ways in which technology affects how cultural groups use places and regions. (H 6.8.1; H 6.8.14) 66
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.4

2.8.5 History and Region: Evaluate the role regions have played in historical events. (H 3.8.3; H 5.8.10; H 5.8.17; H 6.8.21; H 7.8.5; H 7.8.14; H 9.8.1) 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.5

2.8.6 Patterns of Change: Describe how and why regions change over time. (H 3.8.3; H 7.8.14; H 9.8.1) 30
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.6

2.8.7 Applying Concepts of Regions: Illustrate the relationship between the physical and cultural characteristics of a region. (H 3.8.3; H 3.8.5; H 5.8.5; H 5.8.6; H 5.8.10; H 6.8.19) 53
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.7

NV.3.0. Geography: Physical Systems-Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.

3.8.1 Physical Systems: Explain how the physical processes within each of the four basic systems influence the Earth's surface. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.1

3.8.2 Natural Hazards: Explain how natural hazards alter Earth's environments, such as avalanches, wildfires, and drought. 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.2

3.8.3 Characteristics of Ecosystems: Describe the interdependence among soil, climate, plant life, and animal life within different ecosystems. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.3

3.8.4 Distribution of Ecosystems: Compare and contrast the biodiversity and productivity of different ecosystems on Earth. 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.4

3.8.5 Analysis of Ecosystems: Formulate a hypothesis about the changing nature of an ecosystem and use appropriate research skills to draw conclusions. 21
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.5

NV.4.0. Geography: Human Systems - Students understand how economic, political, and cultural processes interact to shape patterns of human migration and settlement, influence and interdependence, and conflict and cooperation.

4.8.1 Demographic Concepts: Describe the characteristics of developing and developed countries using key demographic concepts. (Ec 2.8.1; Ec 2.8.2; H 9.8.6; H 10.8.3) 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.1

4.8.2 Migration and Settlement: Describe the reasons for human migration and settlement and explain the effects on places and cultures. (H 3.8.1; H 3.8.2; H 3.8.3; H 4.8.3; H 5.8.7; H 6.8.19; H 9.8.6; H 10.8.3) 37
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.2

4.8.3 Historical Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas: Describe how a historical event was affected by the movement of people, goods, and ideas. (H 5.8.7; H 5.8.11; H 6.8.17; H 6.8.19; H 7.8.5;H 9.8.12) 50
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.3

4.8.4 Patterns of Human Settlement: Identify the different patterns of migration and settlement in developing and developed countries. (H 3.8.2; H 5.8.11; H 9.8.6; H 10.8.3) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.4

4.8.5 Economic Systems and Interdependence: Explain how the physical and human geography of regions influences their economic activities. (C 8.8.2; Ec 6.8.1; H3.8.3; H 5.8.7; H 5.8.11; H 5.8.12; H 6.8.1; H 7.8.5; H 9.8.6; H 10.8.3) 13
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.5

4.8.6 Analysis of Economic Issues: Identify a regional or international economic issue and explain it from a spatial perspective. (H 6.5.21; H 10.5.3; Ec 9.5.1; Ec 9.5.2; Ec 9.5.4) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.6

4.8.7 Patterns of Human Development: Compare the elements of economic development and quality of life between developing and developed countries. (Ec 2.8.1;Ec 2.8.2; Ec 5.8.4; Ec 7.8.1; Ec 9.8.2; Ec 9.8.4; H 10.8.3) 12
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.7

4.8.8 Human Organizations: Compare and contrast changes in cultural, political, and economic organizations over time. (C 4.8.2; C 4.8.3; C 7.8.1; C 7.8.2; Ec 2.8.9; Ec 2.8.10; H 3.8.2; H 3.8.3; H 5.8.12; H 7.8.14; H 9.8.6; H 9.8.12; H 10.8.3; H 10.8.7) 59
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.8

4.8.9 Cooperation and Conflict: Compare how cooperation and conflict among people contribute to political, economic, and cultural divisions on Earth's surface. (C 7.8.1; Ec 9.8.2; H 6.8.21; H 7.8.14; H 9.8.3; H 9.8.9; H 9.8.12; H 10.8.3) 57
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.9

4.8.10 International Alliances and Organizations: Identify trans-regional alliances and international organizations that influence cooperation and conflict among countries. (C 8.8.4; H 9.8.3; H 9.8.9; H 9.8.12; H 10.8.3; H 10.8.4) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.10

NV.5.0. Geography: Environment and Society-Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

5.8.1 Changes in the Physical Environment: Describe and predict the regional or global impact of changes in the physical environment. (H 9.8.8) 63
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.1

5.8.2 Constraints of the Physical Environment: Compare and contrast the opportunities and constraints that the physical environment places on human activity. (H 3.8.1; H 3.8.2; H 3.8.3; H 3.8.5; H 4.8.1; H 4.8.2; H 6.8.1; H 7.8.7; H 8.8.6) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.2

5.8.3 Technology and the Physical Environment: Evaluate the role of technology in the human modification of the physical environment. (C 4.8.6; H 3.8.2; H 4.8.2; H 6.8.1; H 7.8.5; H 7.8.7; H 8.8.2; H 8.8.6; H 9.8.7; H 9.8.8) 67
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.3

5.8.4 Human Modification: Describe the changes that result from human modification of the physical environment. (C 4.8.6; H 3.8.2; H 4.8.2; H 6.8.1; H 7.8.5; H 7.8.7; H 8.8.2; H 8.8.6; H 9.8.7; H 9.8.8) 56
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.4

5.8.5 Effects of Natural Hazards on Human Systems: Research a specific natural hazard and document its effects on human systems. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.5

5.8.6 Earth's Resources: Identify and locate examples of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources. (Ec 6.8.3; H 9.9.8; H 10.8.3; H 10.8.4) 47
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.6

5.8.7 Management of Earth's Resources: Select a resource and evaluate different viewpoints regarding its use. (C 4.8.6; Ec 6.8.1; H 7.8.3) 47
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.7

NV.6.0. Geography: Geographic Applications-Students apply geographic knowledge of people, places, and environments to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future.

6.8.1 Applying Geography in History: Explain how different characteristics of people, places, and resources have affected events and conditions in the past. (H 3.8.2; H 3.8.2; H 4.8.1; H 4.8.2; H 5.8.5; H 5.8.6; H 5.8.8; H 5.8.9; H 5.8.1; H 6.8.21; H 6.8.22; H 7.8.5) 69
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.1

6.8.2 Applying Geography in Current Events: Explain how the physical geography of a place or region can influence current events. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.2

6.8.3 Applying Geography to Contemporary Issues: Examine a contemporary issue using geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives. (C 4.8.6) 102
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.3

6.8.4 Applying Geography to the Future: Describe several future outcomes of a geographic issue and defend one possible solution. (C 4.8.6) 98
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.4

NV.7.0. Geography: Geographic Skills: Students ask and answer geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

7.8.1 Ask Geographic Questions: Identify and define geographic problems and issues by asking geographic questions. 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.1

7.8.2 Acquire Geographic Information: Use a variety of research skills, including field work and computer resources, to collect geographic information. (E 11.8.2) 18
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.2

7.8.3 Organize Geographic Information: Create and prepare various forms of maps, graphs, diagrams, tables, or charts to organize geographic information. (E 11.8.5; H 4.8.4) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.3

7.8.4 Analyze Geographic Information: Evaluate and analyze information obtained from a variety of geographic sources. (E 11.8.2; H 4.8.1) 31
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.4

7.8.5 Present Geographic Information: Make generalizations by developing and presenting combinations of geographic information to answer geographic questions. (E 10.8.2) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.5

NV.1.0. Civics: Rules and Law: Students know why society needs rules, laws, and governments.

1.8.1 Rules and Law: Explain the difference between the rule of law and the rule of man (such as divine right of monarchs, dictatorships). (H 6.12.7; H 8.8.1) 34
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.1

1.8.2 Documents: Describe the significance of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as foundations of U.S. democracy. (H 6.8.4; H 6.8.7; H 6.8.8) 20
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.2

1.8.4 Democratic Participation: Explain popular sovereignty and the need for citizen involvement at all levels of U.S. government. (H 6.8.3) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.4

1.8.5 The U.S. Constitution and Amendments: Describe how the U.S. Constitution serves as a device for preserving national principles and as a vehicle for change, including knowledge of the formal process of amending the U.S. Constitution. (H 6.8.7; H 6.8.8) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.5

NV.2.0. Civics: The U.S. Government: Students know the United States Constitution and the government it creates.

2.8.1 The U.S. Constitution: Explain the functions of the three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial) as found in the U.S. Constitution. (H 6.8.7) 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.1

2.8.2 The Legislative Structure and Process: Explain the historic compromises that created a two-house Congress and identify the responsibilities of each. (H 6.8.7) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.2

2.8.3 Legislative Powers: Discuss enumerated and implied powers of the U.S. Congress. (Ec 8.8.1; H 6.8.7) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.3

2.8.4 The Executive Branch: Describe the duties of the President, such as presenting a budget proposal. (Ec 8.8.1; H 6.8.7) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.4

2.8.5 The Judicial Branch: List the ways the Supreme Court determines policy, including: judicial review, interpreting laws, overruling or revising its previous decisions. (H 6.8.7) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.5

2.8.6 The Jury System: Describe the trial process, including the selection and responsibilities of jurors. (H 6.8.7) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.6

2.8.7 Checks and Balances: Explain the system of checks and balances in the design of the U.S. Constitution. (H 6.8.7) 23
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.7

NV.3.0. Civics: National and State Government: Students can explain the relationship between the states and national government.

3.8.1 Division of Powers: Give examples of governmental powers (such as the power to tax, declare war, and issue drivers' licenses) that are distributed between the state and national governments. (Ec 8.8.1) 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.1

3.8.2 Federalism: 'Define 'federalism.' 24
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3.8.3 Constitutional Supremacy: Explain how the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution defines the relationship between state and national governments. 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.3

NV.4.0. Civics: The Political Process: Students describe the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public opinion in the democratic process.

4.8.1 Leaders and Elections: Describe the election process. 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.1

4.8.2 Political Parties: Provide examples of how political parties changed. (H 6.8.13) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.2

4.8.3 Interest Groups: Identify the impact of interest groups on the political process. (G 4.8.8) 36
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.3

4.8.4 Formation of Public Opinion: Identify the influence of the media in forming public opinion. (E 4.8.1; E 4.8.2; E 11.8.2; H 10.8.5) 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.4

4.8.5 Propaganda: Identify propaganda and persuasion in political advertising and literature. (E 4.8.4) 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.5

4.8.6 Public Policy: Provide examples of contemporary public issues that may require public solutions. (G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4; G 5.8.7; G 6.8.3) 60
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.6

NV.5.0. Civics: Citizenship: Students know the roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens and the symbols of our country.

5.8.1 Citizenship: Identify the rights, privileges, and responsibilities associated with U.S. citizenship, including voting, holding office, jury duty, or military, community, or public service. (H 7.8.1; H 7.8.13) 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.1

5.8.3 Symbols: Explain the significance of mottoes and symbols including: E Pluribus Unum, National Anthem, Flag, Statue of Liberty, Great Seal, Oath of office, Pledge of Allegiance. 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.3

5.8.4 Individual Rights: Explain the necessity of the Bill of Rights for a democratic society. (H 6.8.7) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.4

5.8.6 Conflict and Resolution: Identify examples of conflict resolution that respect individual rights at school and in the community, within the United States. (H 9.8.8; S 18.8.4) 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.6

NV.6.0. Civics: State and Local Government: Students know the structure and functions of state and local governments.

6.8.1 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Compare the organization and purpose of state, local, and tribal government. (Ec 8.8.1) 1
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.1

6.8.5 Court Systems: Describe the juvenile, civil, and criminal court systems. 8
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.5

NV.7.0. Civics: Political and Economic Systems: Students explain the different political and economic systems in the world.

7.8.1 Comparative Political Systems: Define the world's major political systems, including: monarchy, totalitarian dictatorship, presidential system, communism. (H 8.8.1; H 9.8.12) 25
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.1

7.8.2 Comparative Economic Systems: Define the world's major economic systems, including: capitalism, mixed economy, socialism, command economy. (H 6.8.12; S 16.8.5) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.2

NV.8.0. Civics: International Relations: Students know the political and economic relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations.

8.8.1 From Individual to the World: Identify nations that play a significant role in U.S. foreign policy. 28
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.1

8.8.2 Foreign Policy: Define foreign policy and describe ways nations interact diplomatically, including: treaties, trade, humanitarian aid, military intervention. 24
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.2

8.8.3 International Organizations: Describe the purpose of the United Nations. (H 8.8.7) 14
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.3

8.8.4 International Organizations: List and describe non-governmental international organizations, such as the World Bank, Amnesty International, and the International Red Cross. (G 4.8.10) 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.4

NV.1.0. History: Chronology: Students use chronology to organize and understand the sequence and relationship of events.

1.8.1 Current Events: Describe how a current event is presented by multiple sources. (E 10.8.4; E 11.8.2) 75
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.1

1.8.2 Chronology: Create a tiered time line. (E 2.8.4; E 3.8.1; G 1.8.4) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 1.8.2

NV.2.0. History: History Skills: Students will use social studies vocabulary and concepts to engage in inquiry, in research, in analysis, and in decision making.

2.8.1 Inquiry: Frame historical questions that examine multiple viewpoints. (E 11.8.1; E 11.8.2) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.1

2.8.2 Research and Analysis: Evaluate sources of historical information based on: bias; credibility; cultural context; reliability; time period. (E 4.8.4; E 8.8.1; E 11.8.2) 17
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.2

2.8.3 Informational Tools: Read and use informational tools, including: charts; diagrams; graphs; maps; political cartoons; photographs; tables. (E 2.8.4; E 11.8.2; E 11.8.5; G 1.8.1; G 1.8.2; G 1.8.3; G 1.8.4; G 1.8.7; G 1.8.8) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 2.8.3

NV.3.0. History: Prehistory to 400 CE: Students understand the development of human societies, civilizations, and empires through 400 CE.

3.8.1 World, United States, and Nevada: Explain the characteristics and environments of hunter-gatherer. 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.1

3.8.2 World: Identify significant characteristics of early agricultural societies, including: farming; domestication of animals. (G 4.8.5; G 5.8.2; G 5.8.4; G 6.8.1) 4
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.2

3.8.3 World: Locate ancient and classical civilizations in time and place, including: China; Egypt; Greece; India; Mesopotamia; Rome. (G 2.8.5; G 2.8.8; G 6.8.1) 36
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.3

3.8.4 World: Describe achievements made by ancient and classical civilizations, including: the Americas; China ; Egypt; Greece; India; Mesopotamia; Rome. 38
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.4

3.8.5 Nevada: Describe the lifestyles of Nevada's Desert Archaic people. (G 5.8.2) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 3.8.5

NV.4.0. History: 1 CE to 1400: Students understand the characteristics, ideas, and significance of civilizations and religions from 1 CE to 1400.

4.8.1 World: Describe the Viking exploration of North America. (G 5.8.2; G 6.8.1; G 7.8.3; G 7.8.4) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.1

4.8.2 World: Describe contributions of and locate the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilizations. (G 1.8.1; G 5.8.2; G 5.8.4; G 6.8.1) 3
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4.8.3 World: Describe the origin, traditions, customs, and spread of western and eastern world religions, including: Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Islam; Judaism. 41
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.3

4.8.4 World: Identify the characteristics of European feudalism. 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 4.8.4

NV.5.0. History: 1200 to 1750: Students understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.

5.8.1 World: Define the Renaissance in terms of science and fine arts. 10
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.1

5.8.5 Nevada: Describe the lifestyles of Nevada's Native American cultures, including: Northern Paiute; Southern Paiute; Washoe; Western Shoshone. (G 2.8.7; G 6.8.1) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.5

5.8.6 United States and Nevada: Describe Native North American cultural regions, such as: Southwest; Southeast; Northeast; Northwest; California; Great Basin; Plains; Plateau; Arctic; Sub-Arctic. (G 2.8.7; G 6.8.1) 15
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.6

5.8.7 World and United States: Describe motivations for Scandinavian and European explorations, including: all-water routes to Asia; trade; religion. (G 4.8.2; G 4.8.3; G 4.8.5) 9
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.7

5.8.8 World and United States: Explain interactions among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans. (G 2.8.3; G 6.8.1) 39
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.8

5.8.9 World and United States: Compare the lifestyles of Native Americans with those of the colonists. (G 2.8.2; G 6.8.1) 44
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.9

5.8.10 World and United States: Explain where and why colonies were established in the Americas by European nations and how those colonies were governed. 18
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.10

5.8.11 United States: Describe lifestyles in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. (G 4.8.3; G 4.8.4; G 4.8.5; G6.8.1) 18
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.11

5.8.12 World and United States: Describe the African slave trade. (G 4.8.5; G 4.8.6; G 4.8.8) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 5.8.12

NV.6.0. History: 1700 to 1865: Students understand the people, events, ideas, and conflicts that led to the creation of new nations and distinctive cultures.

6.8.1 World and United States: Describe major inventions of the Industrial Revolution, including: steam engine; textile machines. (Ec 7.8.1; Ec 7.8.4; Ec 7.8.5; G 2.8.4; G 4.8.5; G 5.8.2; G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 3
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.1

6.8.3 United States: Describe the effect of laws and taxes enacted by the British on the American colonies, including: Stamp Act; Intolerable Acts; Quartering Act. (C 1.8.4; Ec 8.8.3) 10
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6.8.4 United States: Explain the major ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence, including: Equality; Right to change government; Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. (C1.8.2; C1.8.4) 5
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6.8.5 United States: Describe key people and events of the American Revolution, including: King George III; George Washington; Lexington and Concord; Battle of Saratoga; Valley Forge. 7
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6.8.6 United States: Identify the Articles of Confederation. 6
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6.8.7 United States: Explain why the Constitution was written. (C 1.8.2; C 1.8.5; C 2.8.1; C 2.8.2; C 2.8.3; C 2.8.4; C 2.8.5; C 2.8.6; C 2.8.7) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.7

6.8.8 United States: Identify the principles of the Bill of Rights. (C 1.8.5; C 2.8.6; C 5.8.4) 5
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6.8.12 World and United States: Define capitalism and free market economy. (C 7.8.2; Ec 3.8.1; Ec3.8.2; Ec 3.8.3; Ec 3.8.4; Ec6.8.2 Ec 6.8.6; Ec 7.8.5;Ec 9.8.5) 15
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6.8.13 United States: Describe the early development of the United States government, including: Washington's cabinet; Marbury v. Madison; political parties. (C 3.8.3; C 4.8.2) 19
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.13

6.8.14 United States: Describe contributing factors in the development of a national identity, such as: the cotton gin; Erie Canal; the factory system; immigration and nativism; Monroe Doctrine; railroads; telegraph; War of 1812. (G 2.8.4) 47
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.14

6.8.15 United States: Identify key people and events in the social reform movements of antebellum United States, including: Dorothea Dix; Horace Mann; Sojourner Truth; Seneca Falls Declaration. 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 6.8.15

6.8.16 United States: Recognize the development of an emerging United States culture, including contributions from: literature; language development; poetry; music. 22
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6.8.17 United States and Nevada: Describe Manifest Destiny and the expansion of the United States, including: Lewis and Clark and the Louisiana Purchase; Trail of Tears; the Battle of the Alamo; Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo; Oregon and California Trails; Spanish Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Central Overland Trail, Mormon Trail; Donner Party; California Gold Rush. (G 1.8.1; G 2.8.5; G 4.8.3; G 6.8.1) 8
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6.8.18 Nevada: Describe the contributions of the explorers and settlers in pre-territorial Nevada and their influences on the future, including: Kit Carson; John C. Fremont; James Beckwourth; Peter Skene Ogden; Joseph Walker; Jedediah Smith.

6.8.19 Nevada: Describe the Mormon influence on the political and economic development of pre-territorial Nevada. (G 2.8.2; G 2.8.3; G 2.8.7; G 4.8.2; G 4.8.3)

6.8.20 United States: Define abolition and identify the key people and events of the movement, including: Frederick Douglass; Harriet Tubman; Underground Railroad; Sojourner Truth. 28
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6.8.21 United States: Identify the causes, key people, events, and outcome of the Civil War, including: states' rights and slavery; President Lincoln; Emancipation Proclamation; Vicksburg and Gettysburg; Gettysburg Address; Generals Grant and Lee. (G 2.8.5; G 4.8.6; G 4.8.9; G 6.8.1) 64
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6.8.22 Nevada: Explain the events that led to Nevada statehood, including: Comstock Lode; Election of 1864. (G 6.8.1)

NV.7.0. History: 1860 to 1920: Students understand the importance and impact of political, economic, and social ideas.

7.8.1 United States: Identify the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. (C 5.8.1) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.1

7.8.2 United States: Identify the Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws. 11
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7.8.3 United States: Discuss and analyze the interactions between settlers and Native Americans during the westward expansion, including: Ghost Dance/ Wounded Knee; Little Big Horn. (G 5.8.7) 3
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7.8.4 Nevada: Describe the contributions of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins to Native Americans in Nevada and the United States. 3
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7.8.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the western frontier, including: communication (Pony Express, telegraph); farming and water issues; mining; ranching; transportation. (G 2.8.5; G 4.8.3; G 4.8.5; G4.8.6; G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4; G 6.8.1) 3
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7.8.7 United States: Describe effects of industrialization and new technologies on the transformation of the United States, including: steel industry; mass production; mechanized assembly line; communication. (G 5.8.2; G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 4
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7.8.8 United States: Identify American industrialists and their contributions, including: Andrew Carnegie; Henry Ford; John D. Rockefeller. (Ec 7.8.4) 3
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7.8.9 Nevada and United States: Identify immigrant and native groups involved in mining, ranching, railroads, and commerce in Nevada and the United States. 34
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7.8.11 United States and Nevada: Describe the goals and accomplishments of labor unions in Nevada and the United States. (Ec 4.8.2; Ec 6.8.5) 11
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7.8.13 United States: Describe the women's suffrage movement and the 19th Amendment. (C 5.8.1) 6
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7.8.14 World and United States: Describe United States expansion, including: Alaska; Hawaii; Panama Canal; Spanish-American War. (G 1.8.1; G 2.8.5; G 2.8.6; G 4.8.8; G 4.8.9) 2
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 7.8.14

7.8.17 World and United States: Identify causes, outcome, and consequences of World War I, including: Sarajevo; alliances and nationalism; weapons and tactics; Treaty of Versailles. 14
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NV.8.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1920 to 1945: Students understand the importance and effect of political, economic, technological, and social changes in the world from 1920 to 1945.

8.8.1 World: Define totalitarianism. (C 1.8.1; C 7.8.1) 8
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8.8.2 World and United States: Identify scientific and technological advancements and their impacts, including: airplane; radio; automobile; household appliances. (G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 3
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8.8.4 United States: Explain how literature, music, and visual arts were a reflection of the time. (E 3.8.3) 12
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8.8.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the causes and effects of the Great Depression and the New Deal on life in the United States and Nevada, including: stock market crash; family life; Hoover Dam; government programs. 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.5

8.8.6 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify causes, effects, and outcome of World War II, including: legacy of WWI; Pearl Harbor; Allies; Axis powers and leaders; atomic bomb; United Nations. (Ec 2.8.1; Ec 2.8.6; Ec 2.8.7; Ec 6.8.5;Ec 6.8.6; Ec 8.8.1; Ec 8.8.3; G 4.8.6; G 5.8.2; G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 41
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8.8.7 World and United States: Identify key elements of the Holocaust, including: 'Aryan supremacy'; Kristallnacht; 'Final Solution'; concentration and death camps. (C 8.8.3) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.7

8.8.8 United States and Nevada: Identify the effects of WWII on the home front in the United States and Nevada, including: end of the Great Depression; internment camps; rationing; propaganda; 'Rosie the Riveter.' 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 8.8.8

NV.9.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1945 to 1990: Students understand the shift of international relationships and power as well as the significant developments in American culture.

9.8.1 World and United States: Identify the Cold War, including: Marshall Plan; Berlin Blockade; NATO. (C 8.8.1; C 8.8.2; G 2.8.5; G 2.8.6; G 4.8.6; G 4.8.7; G 4.8.8; G 4.8.9; G 4.8.10) 5
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.1

9.8.2 United States: Identify the effects of the Cold War on the United States, including: arms race and nuclear testing; McCarthyism; space race; Cuban Missile Crisis. (C 8.8.1; C 8.8.2; C 8.8.3) 6
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.2

9.8.3 World and United States: Explain why the United Nations was involved in the Korean War and the outcome of its involvement. (G 4.8.9; G 4.8.10) 7
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 9.8.3

9.8.5 World and United States: Discuss how science and technology changed life in the United States after WWII, including: television; electronics and computers; medical advances. 1
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9.8.6 United States: Summarize the changes in the United States' demographics. (G 4.8.1; G 4.8.2; G 4.8.4; G 4.8.5;G 4.8.6; G 4.8.8) 12
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9.8.7 Nevada: Describe the impact of the United States military and atomic testing in Nevada. (G 5.8.3; G 5.8.4) 8
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9.8.8 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify the major issues, events, and people of the modern Civil Rights movement in the United States and Nevada, including: Rosa Parks; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Brown v. Board of Education; voting rights; integration; Grant Sawyer; Cesar Chavez. (C 5.8.6) 21
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9.8.9 World and United States: Identify the causes and effects of the Vietnam war, including: Tet Offensive; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; anti-war movement; draft and lottery; POWs and MIAs. (G 4.8.9; G 4.8.10) 22
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9.8.10 United States: Identify the significance to United States political culture of the following: Watergate; Iranian hostage crisis; Iran-contra Affair. 12
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9.8.11 World and United States: Identify key people and events that contributed to the end of the Cold War, including: recognition of China, detente; disarmament; Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). 5
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9.8.12 United States and World: Describe the significance of the breakup of the USSR, including: fall of the Berlin Wall. (C 7.8.1; G 4.8.8; G 4.8.10) 5
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9.8.13 Nevada: Describe the effects of tourism and gaming on Nevada. (G 2.8.4)

9.8.14 United States: Identify examples of arts, music, literature, and the media in United States society. (E 3.8.3) 3
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NV.10.0. History: New Challenges, 1990 to the Present: Students understand the political, economic, social, and technological issues challenging the world as it approaches and enters the new millennium.

10.8.1 World and United States: Describe scientific and technological developments, including: personal computers; Internet; satellites; medical advances. (Ec 7.8.1) 16
Suggested Titles for Nevada Social Studies State Standard 10.8.1

10.8.3 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe major world, national, and local issues, including: ethnic and religious conflicts; environmental issues; gaming; health issues; water and resource allocation. (G 2.8.4; G 4.8.1; G 4.8.2; G 4.8.8;G 4.8.10; G 5.8.6) 120
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10.8.4 World and United States: Identify the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf War. (G 4.8.6; G 4.8.10) 5
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10.8.5 United States: Identify the role of the media in the changing political climate. 1
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10.8.6 World and United States: Identify how literature, music, and the visual arts are a reflection of the time. (E 3.8.3) 10
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NV.1.0. Economics: The Economic Way of Thinking: Students will use fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, and costs versus benefits to describe and analyze problems and opportunities, both individual and social.

1.12.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Cost: Explain why choices and their costs may differ across individuals and societies.

1.12.2 Incentives and Preferences: Recognize that people act out of self-interest and predict how a change in the economic environment will affect the choices made by consumers, producers, and savers.

1.12.3 Cost versus Benefits: Examine decisions made by individuals, businesses, and government by comparing the marginal benefits and marginal costs.

1.12.4 Personal Economics: Give examples of and evaluate the effectiveness of incentive systems used by parents, teachers, and employers. (E10.12.4)

NV.2.0. Economics: Measuring U.S. Economic Performance: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of past and present U.S. economic performance, identify the economic indicators used to measure that performance, and use this knowledge to make individual decisions and discuss social issues.

2.12.1 Measuring Economic Growth: Explain the difference between nominal GDP and real GDP.

2.12.2 Measuring Economic Growth: Using real GDP per capita as a measure of the standard of living, describe how living standards have changed over time. (H 1.12.2; H 2.12.3)

2.12.3 Measuring Economic Growth: Using the change in real GDP, examine the U.S. economy over time, identifying recessions and high and low rates of growth. (H 1.12.2; H 2.12.3; H 8.8.6; H 8.12.6)

2.12.4 Measuring Inflation: Using a price index to measure inflation, identify when the U.S. economy has experienced high and low rates of inflation and discuss their effects. (H 1.12.2; H 2.12.3)

2.12.5 Measuring Inflation: Use various price indexes to determine how the prices of different types of goods and services have changed.

2.12.6 Measuring Unemployment: Explain and give examples of the costs of unemployment to the economy as a whole (such as lost income, lost tax revenue, and additional welfare burdens). (H 8.12.6)

2.12.7 Measuring Unemployment: Compare the unemployment rates for groups of people who differ by age, gender, ethnic origin, occupation, and educational attainment.

2.12.8 Measuring Interest: Explain why a real interest rate accurately measures the benefit of saving or the cost of borrowing.

2.12.9 Measuring Interest: Demonstrate knowledge of when interest rate levels have experienced relative highs and relative lows throughout U.S. history and discuss their effects. (H 1.12.2; H 8.12.6)

2.12.10 Personal Economics: Characterize different career paths according to the rates of job growth and employment opportunities.

2.12.11 Personal Economics: Explain ways a high interest rate could be detrimental or beneficial.

2.12.12 Personal Economics: Evaluate saving and borrowing options in terms of interest and compare long- and short-term costs and benefits.

NV.3.0. Economics: Functioning of Markets: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how markets work, including an understanding of why markets form, how supply and demand interact to determine market prices and interest rates, and how changes in prices act as signals to coordinate trade.

3.12.1 Trade Is Beneficial: Demonstrate an understanding that all voluntary trade, by definition, benefits both parties.

3.12.2 Markets Determine Prices: Use the concepts of supply and demand to analyze and predict the price changes occurring in markets for goods and services. (H 2.12.3)

3.12.3 Prices as Signals: Use the concept of price elasticity to analyze how buyers and sellers might adjust their purchase and sales decisions in response to price changes.

3.12.4 Prices as Signals: Discuss the effects of price controls (price ceilings and price floors) (such as minimum wage, rent control). (E 10.12.4)

3.12.5 Determining Interest Rates: Use supply and demand to explain how interest rates are determined.

3.12.6 Personal Economics: Analyze and predict instances in which people pay high and low interest rates (such as car loans and credit cards).

3.12.7 Personal Economics: Analyze family spending decisions, drawing conclusions about the desirability of making substitutions, given the relative prices of various substitutes.

NV.4.0. Economics: Private U.S. Economic Institutions: Students will describe the roles played by U.S. economic institutions including financial institutions, labor unions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.

4.12.1 Financial Institutions: Analyze the roles of financial institutions in creating credit.

4.12.2 Labor Unions: Discuss how labor unions affect employees and employers. (C 5.12.6; E 10.12.4)

4.12.3 For-profit Business Organizations: Identify current or historical mergers, buyouts, and acquisitions. (H 7.12.8)

4.12.4 Not-for-profit Organizations: Explain how the services of not-for-profit organizations impact other economic institutions.

4.12.5 Personal Economics: Compare and contrast the services offered by financial institutions, evaluating their usefulness to borrowers and lenders.

4.12.6 Personal Economics: Compare and contrast careers associated with financial institutions, labor unions, for-profit business organizations, and not-for-profit organizations.

NV.5.0. Economics: Money: Students demonstrate an understanding of forms of money, how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services; and how the Federal Reserve System and its policies affect the U.S. money supply.

5.12.1 Functions of Money: Explain the three functions of money: medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account.

5.12.2 The Federal Reserve and the Banking System: Explain why the money supply increases when banks make loans.

5.12.3 The Federal Reserve and the Banking System: Explain how the Federal Reserve influences bank loan activity using the reserve requirement, discount rate, and open market operations.

5.12.4 History of Money: Describe the nation's current money supply measures, including M1 and M2.

5.12.5 Personal Economics: Explain what a credit rating is and how it affects access to money.

NV.6.0. Economics: The U.S. Economy as a Whole: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the U.S. economic system as a whole in terms of how it allocates resources; determines the nation's production, income, unemployment, and price levels; and leads to variations in individual income levels.

6.12.1 Resource Allocation: Compare the benefits and costs of allocating resources through markets or government. (C 7.12.2; H 6.8.12; H 6.12.12)

6.12.2 Resource Allocation: Discuss how an economy determines what goods and services will be produced, how they will be produced, and who will receive them. (H 6.12.12)

6.12.3 The Nation's Production Level: Analyze the potential production of goods and services for a nation as determined by its resources and technology. (H 6.12.1; H 7.12.7; H 9.12.5)

6.12.4 The Nation's Income Level: Explain how the multiplier can affect the nation's income.

6.12.5 The Nation's Unemployment Rate: Make connections between the nation's unemployment rate and changes in seasons, changes in an industry, and changes in demographics. (E 11.12.2)

6.12.6 Differences in Individual Incomes: Explain how and why changes in product demand can affect the price of the product, which, in turn, can affect the wages paid to a worker.

6.12.7 Personal Economics: Assess the attractiveness of career paths of interest and how they might be affected by changes in the national economy.

NV.7.0. Economics: An Evolving Economy: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how investment, entrepreneurship, competition, and specialization lead to changes in an economy's structure and performance.

7.12.1 Investment: Describe the past, present, and future role of investment in enhancing economic growth and raising living standards. (H 7.12.7)

7.12.2 Investment: Identify the benefits and the costs of investing in new physical capital and new human capital.

7.12.3 Investment: Examine government's impact on investment through taxes, fees, government regulation, enterprise zones, and subsidies. (C 3.8.1)

7.12.4 Entrepreneurship: Discuss how entrepreneurs affect the economy by solving problems, taking risks, and taking advantage of opportunities to earn profits.

7.12.5 Competition: Explain how individual self-interest, channeled through the marketplace, can increase the overall standard of living. (H 6.12.12)

7.12.6 Specialization: Discuss the pros and cons of specialization and interdependence. (E 10.12.14)

7.12.7 Personal Economics: Explain why top performers in any field are specialists.

NV.8.0. Economics: The Role of Government in a Market Economy: Students will explain the role of government in a market economy.

8.12.1 Public Goods: Explain why government provides public goods rather than allowing the market to provide them.

8.12.2 Externalities: Explain why government intervenes in markets in response to externalities.

8.12.3 Redistributing Income: Discuss whether redistributing income is an appropriate role of government. (C 2.12.3; E 10.12.1; E 10.12.4; H 8.12.6)

8.12.4 Property Rights: Demonstrate an under-standing that government must define, establish, and enforce property rights in order for markets to function. (C 1.12.1)

8.12.5 Political Decisions: Explain why it is possible that a government decision may impose costs on many, but only benefit a few. (C 4.12.2; C 4.12.3)

8.12.6 Fiscal Policy: Explain how fiscal policy affects production, employment, and price levels. (C 4.12.6; H 8.12.6; H 8.12.9)

8.12.7 Personal Economics: Give examples of mandates that increase prices of goods and services in Nevada.

NV.9.0. Economics: The International Economy: Students explore the characteristics of non-U.S. economic systems in order to demonstrate an understanding of how they are connected, through trade, to peoples and cultures throughout the world.

9.12.1 International Trade: Analyze the pros and cons of foreign trade, comparing free trade with restricted trade. (E10.12.4; G 4.12.6; H 10.12.2)

9.12.2 Interdependence: Describe how foreign economic events can impact the U.S. economy. (C 8.12.2; G 4.12.7; H 7.12.17; H 10.12.3)

9.12.3 Characteristics of Non-U.S. Economic Systems: Describe some characteristics of non-U.S. economies that affect international trade. (C 7.12.2; G 4.12.7; G 6.12.1)

9.12.4 Exchange Rates: Determine how a change in exchange rates affects the ability of residents of one country to consume products from other countries.

9.12.5 Personal Economics: Draw conclusions about how the prices of goods you purchase would change if imports were restricted.

9.12.6 Personal Economics: Discuss how potential career paths could be affected by changes in foreign demand for U.S. products.

NV.1.0. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms: Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

1.12.1 Map Use: Use a variety of complex maps to acquire geographic information such as topographic, demographic, and land use. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.2 Map Section: Select appropriate maps, map projections, and other representations to analyze and interpret geographic information. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.3 Geographic Tools and Technologies: Use appropriate geo- graphic tools and technologies to analyze and interpret Earth's physical and human features. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.4 Map Construction: Construct complex, accurate maps and models from memory to answer questions about the location of human and physical features. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.5 Map Applications: Analyze maps for similarities and differences in purpose, accuracy, content, and design. (H 2.12.5)

1.12.6 Map Analysis: Apply concepts and models of spatial organization to make decisions about geographic information.

NV.2.0. Geography: Places and Regions-Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of changes.

2.12.1 Characteristics of Places and Regions: Determine how relationships between humans and the physical environment lead to the development of and connections among places and regions. (H 3.12.3; H 4.12.1; H 4.12.2; H 4.12.5)

2.12.2 Cultural Identity: Explain why places and regions are important to cultural identity and can serve as forces for both unification and fragmentation. (E 3.12.1;E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3; H 4.12.2)

2.12.3 Cultural Perspectives: Compare and contrast the characteristics of places and regions from different points of view. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

2.12.4 Impact of Technology: Determine how technology affects the way cultural groups perceive and use places and regions. (H 3.12.3; H 3.12.4)

2.12.5 History and Region: Analyze selected historical issues and questions using the geographic concept of regions. (H 3.12.3;H 3.12.4; H 4.12.1; H 4.12.2; H 6.12.17)

2.12.6 Patterns of Change: Analyze why places and regions once characterized by one set of criteria may be defined by a different set of criteria today, and evaluate these changes. (H 3.12.3;H 3.12.4; H 4.12.1)

2.12.7 Applying Concepts of Regions: Apply the concept of region to organize and study a geographic issue.

NV.3.0. Geography: Physical Systems-Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.

3.12.1 Physical Systems: Describe and analyze how interactions of the four basic physical systems affect different regions of the United States and the world.

3.12.2 Natural Hazards: Describe the causes and consequences of natural hazards that shape features and patterns on the Earth.

3.12.3 Characteristics of Ecosystems: Analyze the effects of physical and human forces on interdependence within different ecosystems.

3.12.4 Distribution of Ecosystems: Analyze the biodiversity, distribution, and productivity of ecosystems across Earth's surface.

3.12.5 Analysis of Ecosystems: Propose solutions to environmental problems using the concept of ecosystems.

NV.4.0. Geography: Human Systems - Students understand how economic, political, and cultural processes interact to shape patterns of human migration and settlement, influence and interdependence, and conflict and cooperation.

4.12.1 Demographic Concepts: Analyze demographic trends in world population.

4.12.2 Migration and Settlement: Evaluate the impact of migration and settlement on physical and human systems. (H 3.12.3)

4.12.3 Historical Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas: Analyze how history has been affected by the movement of people, goods, and ideas.

4.12.4 Patterns of Human Settlement: Compare the characteristics and patterns of migration and settlement in developing and developed countries.

4.12.5 Economic Systems and Interdependence: Analyze how location and distance connect and influence economic systems at local, national, and international levels. (C 8.12.2; H 3.12.3; H 4.12.5)

4.12.6 Analysis of Economic Issues: Analyze and evaluate international economic issues from a spatial perspective. (E 5.12.6; Ec 9.12.1; H 4.12.5)

4.12.7 Patterns of Human Development: Predict the impact of changes in the level of economic development on the quality of life in developing and developed countries. (Ec 2.12.2; M 5.12.1)

4.12.8 Human Organizations: Evaluate the changes that occur in the size and structure of cultural, political, and economic organizations. (C 4.12.2)

4.12.9 Cooperation and Conflict: Analyze how different cultures, points of view, and self-interests influence cooperation and conflict over territory and resources. (C 5.12.6; C 4.12.3)

4.12.10 International Alliances and Organizations: Describe the forces of cooperation and conflict as they affect the way the world is divided among countries.

NV.5.0. Geography: Environment and Society-Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

5.12.1 Changes in the Physical Environment: Compare and contrast how changes in the physical environment can increase or diminish its capacity to support human activity. (H 3.12.2; H 4.12.2)

5.12.2 Constraints of the Physical Environment: Evaluate strategies to respond to constraints placed on human systems by the physical environment.

5.12.3 Technology and the Physical Environment: Describe the ways in which technology has affected the human capacity to modify the physical environment and evaluate the possible regional or global impact. (C 4.12.6; C 5.12.6)

5.12.4 Human Modification: Develop possible responses to changes caused by human modification of the physical environment. (C 4.12.6; C 5.12.6)

5.12.5 Effects of Natural Hazards on Human Systems: Analyze human perception of and response to natural hazards.

5.12.6 Earth's Resources: Analyze the patterns of use, the changing distribution, and the relative importance of Earth's resources. (C 5.12.6; H 3.12.3; H 4.12.2; H 4.12.5)

5.12.7 Management of Earth's Resources: Develop policies for the use and management of Earth's resources that consider the various interests involved. (C 4.12.6; C 5.12.6; E 9.12.3)

NV.6.0. Geography: Geographic Applications-Students apply geographic knowledge of people, places, and environments to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future.

6.12.1 Applying Geography in History: Analyze the ways in which physical features and human characteristics of places and regions have influenced the evolution of significant historical events. (C 5.12.6; H 3.12.3; H 4.12.1; H 4.12.2; H 4.12.5)

6.12.2 Applying Geography in Current Events: Relate current events to the physical features and human characteristics of places and regions. (C 5.12.6)

6.12.3 Applying Geography to Contemporary Issues: Analyze a contemporary issue using geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives. (C 5.12.6; E 4.12.4)

6.12.4 Applying Geography to the Future: Predict possible outcomes and develop future policies for local or regional issues that have spatial dimensions. (C 5.12.6)

NV.7.0. Geography: Geographic Skills: Students ask and answer geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

7.12.1 Ask Geographic Questions: Plan and organize a geographic research project by asking appropriate geographic questions.

7.12.2 Acquire Geographic Information: Locate and acquire a variety of primary and secondary information sources and assess the value of each. (E 11.12.2)

7.12.3 Organize Geographic Information: Use a variety of tools and technologies to select and design appropriate forms of maps, graphs, diagrams, tables, or charts to organize geographic information. (E 11.12.2)

7.12.4 Analyze Geographic Information: Use quantitative methods of analysis to make inferences and draw conclusions from maps and other geographic representations.

7.12.5 Present Geographic Information: Complete a geographic inquiry by applying geographic models, generalizations, and theories to the analysis, interpretation, and presentation of information. (E 10.12.2; H 1.12.2)

NV.1.0. Civics: Rules and Law: Students know why society needs rules, laws, and governments.

1.12.1 Rules and Law: Explain the concept of the rule of law in the establishment of the U.S. Constitution.

1.12.2 Documents: Explain the influence of social contract theory, natural rights philosophy and republicanism in the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution. (H 6.12.4; H 6.12.8; H 6.12.3; H 6.12.7)

1.12.3 Documents: Describe the historic influences on early U.S. documents, such as: Greek law, Magna Carta, Iroquois League. (H 6.12.4; H 6.12.7)

1.12.4 Democratic Participation: Analyze the role of citizen participation in U.S. civic life.

1.12.5 The U.S. Constitution and Amendments: Identify and explain changes in the interpretation and application of the U.S. Constitution.

NV.2.0. Civics: The U.S. Government: Students know the United States Constitution and the government it creates.

2.12.1 The U.S. Constitution: Examine the organization of the U.S. Constitution and describe the structure it creates, including the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. (H 6.12.4; H 6.12.7)

2.12.2 The Legislative Structure and Process: Describe the creation of laws through the legislative process.

2.12.3 Legislative Powers: Analyze and give examples of the expansion of the national government through the application of the enumerated and implied powers. (Ec 8.12.3; H 6.12.7)

2.12.4 The Executive Branch: Describe the duties of the executive branch, including: Cabinet/departments; regulatory commissions; White House staff

2.12.5 The Judicial Branch: Describe the structure and jurisdiction of the federal court system and analyze the power of judicial review. (H 6.12.13)

2.12.6 The Jury System: Explain the importance of the jury process in a democratic society. (H 6.8.8)

2.12.7 Checks and Balances: Analyze the effectiveness of checks and balances in maintaining the equal division of power. (H 6.12.7)

NV.3.0. Civics: National and State Government: Students can explain the relationship between the states and national government.

3.12.1 Division of Powers: Explain the U.S. Constitutional provisions for division of powers between the state and national governments (delegated, reserved, concurrent powers). (H 6.12.7; H 6.12.8)

3.12.2 Federalism: Provide contemporary examples of federalism. (H 6.12.7)

3.12.3 Constitutional Supremacy: Use examples to illustrate the supremacy clause in defining the relationship between state and national governments. (H 6.12.7)

NV.4.0. Civics: The Political Process: Students describe the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public opinion in the democratic process.

4.12.1 Leaders and Elections: Assess the processes by which leaders are selected in the U.S. political system and analyze the role of the electoral college system in the election of the President.

4.12.2 Political Parties: Analyze the roles and function of factions within political parties and the role of parties in public policy and politics. (E 8.12.5; H 6.12.3)

4.12.3 Interest Groups: Evaluate the significance of interest groups in the political process of a democratic society. (Ec 8.12.5; G 4.12.2)

4.12.4 Formation of Public Opinion: Analyze the role that television and other media play in the process of political persuasion. (E 4.12.1; E 4.12.2; E 11.12.2; H 10.12.5)

4.12.5 Propaganda: Evaluate propaganda in both historic and current political communication (E 4.12.4; E 4.12.5; H 9.12.9)

4.12.6 Public Policy: Describe the process by which public policy is formed and carried out. (Ec 8.12.6; E 4.12.1; E 4.12.2; G 5.12.7)

NV.5.0. Civics: Citizenship: Students know the roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens and the symbols of our country.

5.12.1 Citizenship: Examine the rights of citizens and how these rights may be restricted. (H 6.12.13; H 7.12.2; H 7.12.3; H 7.12.13; H 8.12.9; H 9.12. 8)

5.12.2 Citizenship: Examine the responsibilities of U.S. citizens.

5.12.3 Symbols: Explain symbols and documents of a nation and how they represent its identity.

5.12.4 Individual Rights: Describe the development of the Bill of Rights and provide a contemporary application. (H 6.12.8)

5.12.5 Individual Rights: Analyze the United States Constitution and its amendments in protecting individual rights, including the Fourteenth Amendment's provisions for due process and equal protection. (H 7.8.1)

5.12.6 Conflict and Resolution: Identify major conflicts in social, political, and economic life and analyze the role of compromise in the resolution of these issues. (G 4.12.9; G 6.12.2; H 8.12.7; H 9.12.1; H 9.12.8)

5.12.7 The Supreme Court and Individual Rights Cases: Describe the role of the United States Supreme Court as guardian of individual rights through the examination of landmark cases, including: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; Gideon v. Wainwright; Miranda v. Arizona; Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (H 9.12.8)

NV.6.0. Civics: State and Local Government: Students know the structure and functions of state and local governments.

6.12.1 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Explain the structure and function of state and local governments.

6.12.2 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Describe the unique role of tribal governments within the United States. (H 7.12.3)

6.12.3 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Compare and contrast the structure of the Nevada and United States Constitutions.

6.12.4 Court Systems: Describe the differences between the local, state, and federal court systems.

NV.7.0. Civics: Political and Economic Systems: Students explain the different political and economic systems in the world.

7.12.1 Comparative Political Systems: Summarize and evaluate the significant characteristics of the world's major political systems, including: monarchy; totalitarian dictatorship; presidential system; parliamentary system ; communism (H 5.12.2; H 7.12.17; H 7.12.18; H 8.8.1)

7.12.2 Comparative Economic Systems: Define and analyze the major economic systems of the world, including: capitalism; mixed economy; socialism; command economy (Ec 9.12.3; H 6.12.12)

NV.8.0. Civics: International Relations: Students know the political and economic relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations.

8.12.1 From Individual to the World: Analyze the conflict between U.S. policies of isolationism versus intervention in world affairs. (H 7.12.14; H 8.12.7; H 9.12.1)

8.12.2 Foreign Policy: Identify and analyze the effectiveness of U.S. foreign policy in dealing with international problems and concerns including: diplomacy; economic policy; humanitarian aid; military intervention

8.12.3 International Organizations: Critique the role of international organizations, such as the United Nations and non-governmental organizations, in world affairs. (H 8.12.7)

NV.1.0. History: Chronology: Students use chronology to organize and understand the sequence and relationship of events.

1.12.1 Current Events: Analyze and develop a position on a current event. (E 10.12.4)

1.12.2 Chronology: Explain the sequence and relationship of events on a tiered time line. (G 7.12.5)

NV.2.0. History: History Skills: Students will use social studies vocabulary and concepts to engage in inquiry, in research, in analysis, and in decision making.

2.12.1 Inquiry: Frame and evaluate historical questions from multiple viewpoints. (E 4.12.3; E 11.12.1)

2.12.2 Research and Analysis: Integrate, analyze, and organize historical information from a variety of sources. (E 4.12.3; E 4.12.5; E 11.12.2; E 11.12.5)

2.12.3 Informational Tools: Analyze and interpret historical content from informational tools, including: charts; diagrams; graphs; maps; political cartoons; photographs; tables. (G 1.12.1; G 1.12.2; G 1.12.3; G 1.12.4 )

NV.3.0. History: Prehistory to 400 CE: Students understand the development of human societies, civilizations, and empires through 400 CE.

3.12.1 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify and describe the characteristics of pre-agricultural societies.

3.12.2 World: Describe technological innovations of early agricultural societies, including: development of agriculture; domestication of animals; development of permanent communities.

3.12.3 World: Explain and demonstrate how geography influenced the political, social, and economic growth of ancient classical civilizations, including: Africa; China; Greece; India; Mesopotamia; Rome. (G 2.12.1; G 2.12.5; G 2.12.6; G 4.12.3; G 5.12.1; G 6.12.1)

3.12.4 World: Describe the unique political, economic, religious, social, technological, and cultural contributions of ancient and classical civilizations, including: Africa; the Americas; China; Greece; Hebrew kingdoms; India; Mesopotamia; Phoenicia; Rome. (C 1.12.3; G 2.12.4; G 2.12.5)

NV.4.0. History: 1 CE to 1400: Students understand the characteristics, ideas, and significance of civilizations and religions from 1 CE to 1400.

4.12.1 World: Locate and describe civilizations in terms of geography, social structure, religion, political systems, and contributions, including: African; Byzantine; Chinese; Indian; Japanese; Scandinavian. (G 2.12.1; G 2.12.5; G 6.12.1)

4.12.2 World: Describe the characteristics of the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilizations, including: contributions; geography; political systems; religion; social structure. (G 2.12.1; G 2.12.2; G 2.12.5; G 5.12.1; G 5.12.6; G 6.12.1)

4.12.3 World: Describe the origin, traditions, customs, and spread of western and eastern world religions, including: Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Islam; Judaism.

4.12.4 World: Describe the characteristics of European feudalism.

4.12.5 World: Describe the rise of commercial trading centers and their effects on social, political, and economic institutions. (G 2.12.1; G 4.12.3; G 6.12.1)

NV.5.0. History: 1200 to 1750: Students understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.

5.12.1 World: Examine the impact of technological, mathematical, cultural, and artistic developments of the Renaissance.

5.12.2 World: Explain the development of European hereditary monarchies and their effects on: centralized government; commerce and trade; religion. (C 7.12.1)

5.12.3 World and United States: Explain the causes of the Reformation and its effects in Europe and the Americas.

5.12.4 World: Identify the influence of the Enlightenment on the Western World, including: fine arts; government; literature; philosophy; science. (G 2.5.3; G 2.5.6; G 4.5.8)

5.12.6 United States and Nevada: Compare common elements of Native North American societies, including: Communication; economic systems; housing; political systems; social systems; traditions.

5.12.7 World and United States: Examine the roles of nationalism, economics, and religious rivalries in the Age of Exploration.

5.12.8 World and United States: Analyze interactions among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.

5.12.9 World and United States: Analyze how the interactions among Native Americans, Africans, Europeans, and their descendants resulted in unique American economic, social, and political institutions.

5.12.10 World and United States: Describe the similarities and differences of European colonial communities in North America in terms of politics, religion, language, economics, and social customs.

5.12.11 United States: Compare and contrast life in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.

5.12.12 World and United States: Explain the impact of world commerce, including the African slave trade on Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

5.12.13 World: Describe the contributions and social, political, and economic characteristics of African, Chinese, Indian, and Japanese civilizations.

5.12.14 World: Describe how Islamic empires were a link between Africa, Europe, and Asia.

NV.6.0. History: 1700 to 1865: Students understand the people, events, ideas, and conflicts that led to the creation of new nations and distinctive cultures.

6.12.1 World and United States: Explain the causes and results of the Industrial Revolution. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 7.12.1; Ec 7.12.2; Ec 7.12.4; Ec 7.12.5)

6.12.2 World and United States: Describe the causes and effects of wars with Europeans, including the French and Indian War.

6.12.3 United States: Explain the political and economic causes and effects of the American Revolution. (C 1.12.2)

6.12.4 United States: Describe the ideas of John Locke, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson and their influences on the American Revolution and the formation of the United States.

6.12.5 United States: Describe the events, course, and results of the American Revolutionary War, including the contributions of African Americans and Native Americans.

6.12.6 United States: Explain the issues of the Confederation period, including: war debts and finance; western land; trade; taxation. (Ec 6.12.1)

6.12.7 United States: Describe the Constitution's underlying principles, including: checks and balances; federalism; limited government; popular sovereignty; separation of powers. (C 1.12.1; C 1.12.2; C 1.12.3; C 2.12.1; C 2.12.3; C 3.12.1; C 3.12.2; C 3.12 3)

6.12.8 United States: Describe the issues involved in the ratification of the Constitution, including: main ideas of The Federalist Papers; main ideas of the Anti-Federalists; the Bill of Rights. (C 1.12.2; C 3.12.1; C 5.12.4)

6.12.9 World and United States: Describe the influence of the American Revolution on Europe and the Americas.

6.12.10 World: Discuss the political events, people, and ideas that influenced European politics, including: Napoleon; Metternich; Marx; Congress of Vienna. (Ec 8.12.3)

6.12.11 World: Describe achievements in European fine arts and literature. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

6.12.12 World and United States: Describe the rise of national economies, the emergence of capitalism, and the free market economy. (C 7.12.2; Ec 6.12.1; Ec 6.12.2 Ec 7.12.3; Ec 9.12.1;Ec 9.12.3)

6.12.13 United States: Explain issues, events, and the roles of key people related to the development of United States political institutions, including: Washington's administration: The Marshall Court; judicial review; extension of suffrage; political parties. (C 2.12.5; C 4.12.2; C 5.12.1)

6.12.14 United States: Explain issues, events, and the roles of key individuals associated with the development of a national economic identity and foreign policy, including: development of the factory system and impacts of significant inventions such as the cotton gin and interchangeable parts; territorial, trade, & shipping issues with Great Britain; War of 1812; the creation of a national transportation system; Monroe Doctrine; growth and impact of immigration. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 9.12.1; Ec 9.12.2; Ec 9.12.3)

6.12.15 United States: Describe the social reform and religious movements of antebellum United States which attempted to enhance life, including: education reform; prison and mental health reform; religious revival; Utopian movement; women's rights.

6.12.16 United States: Describe the contributions in language, literature, art, and music that led to the development of an emerging culture in the United States, including: Stephen Foster; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Hudson River School of Art; Henry David Thoreau.

6.12.17 United States and Nevada: Explain the issue of Manifest Destiny and the events related to the expansion of the United States, including: Louisiana Purchase; removal of the Eastern tribes; Oregon and California Trails; Mexican War and Mexican War acquisitions; California Gold Rush; Homestead Act. (G 2.12.5; G 4.12.3)

6.12.20 United States: Explain abolitionism and describe the importance of abolitionists and slave revolts, including: John Brown; Frederick Douglass; William Lloyd Garrison; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Nat Turner.

6.12.21 United States: Describe the causes, key people, events, and outcome of the Civil War, including: states' rights and slavery; election of 1860; Frederick Douglass/ African American troops; President Lincoln; Emancipation Proclamation; Antietam, Vicksburg and Gettysburg; Gettysburg Address; Generals Grant and Lee.

NV.7.0. History: 1860 to 1920: Students understand the importance and impact of political, economic, and social ideas.

7.12.1 United States: Summarize the successes and failures of the Reconstruction period.

7.12.2 United States: Describe the key people and significant issues concerning African American rights, including: Booker T. Washington & the Tuskegee Institute; Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws; Plessy v. Ferguson; W.E.B. DuBois and the NAACP; Ida B. Wells and the NACW. (C 5.12.1)

7.12.3 United States: Describe federal policy toward Native Americans including: Dawes Act/Indian Reorganization Act of 1934; Indian Boarding Schools; Indian Citizenship Act of 1924; Plains Wars; reservation system. (C 5.12.1; C 6.12.2)

7.12.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the role of farming, railroads, mining in the settlement of the West. (Ec 6.12.3)

7.12.6 United States: Describe the causes, issues, and effects of the Populist Movement.

7.12.7 United States: Describe the effect of industrial technology innovations and urbanization on United States social and economic development. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 6.12.6; Ec 7.12.1)

7.12.8 United States: Describe the development of corporate capitalism, including: J.P. Morgan; mass production; vertical and horizontal integration/consolidation. (Ec 1.12.2; Ec 4.12.2; Ec 4.12.3; Ec 6.12.2; Ec 7.12.2)

7.12.9 Nevada and United States: Examine the motivations for groups coming to the United States and describe their contributions to United States society.

7.12.10 United States: Describe nativism and explain the response to immigration into the United States. (C 5.12.6)

7.12.11 United States and Nevada: Explain the origins and issues involved in the labor movement. (Ec 1.12.4; Ec 4.12.2; Ec 6.12.5)

7.12.12 United States: Describe the development and impact of the Progressive Movement, including: government reform; Prohibition; 'trust busting'.

7.12.13 United States: Describe the development of the women's suffrage movement and the passage of the 19th Amendment. (C 5.12.1)

7.12.14 World and United States: Discuss the causes, characteristics, and consequences of United States expansion and diplomacy, including: Alaska; Hawaii; Open Door Policy; Spanish-American War; Panama Canal; T. Roosevelt's foreign policy; Dollar Diplomacy.

7.12.15 World and United States: Explain the causes and effects of the Mexican Revolution of 1911.

7.12.16 World: Discuss the causes, characteristics, and consequences of European and Japanese expansion.

7.12.17 World and United States: Describe the causes, course, character, and effects of World War I, including: imperialism; arms race and alliances; nationalism; weapons/tactics; Fourteen Points; Treaty of Versailles.

7.12.18 World: Describe the causes and effects of the Russian Revolution: Romanovs; Lenin; Bolsheviks; Russian Civil War. (C 7.12.1)

7.12.20 World and United States: Explain how fine arts, literature, and leisure activities were a reflection of the time. (E3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

NV.8.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1920 to 1945: Students understand the importance and effect of political, economic, technological, and social changes in the world from 1920 to 1945.

8.12.1 World: Describe the rise of totalitarian societies in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. (C 7.12.1)

8.12.2 World and United States: Discuss the effects on society of new technologies of this era, including: communication; transportation; manufacturing. (Ec 6.12.3)

8.12.3 United States: Examine social tensions in the postwar era, including: radical politics; immigration restrictions; religious fundamentalism; racism.

8.12.4 United States: Describe how cultural developments in the arts, education, media, and leisure activities reflected and changed United States society. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

8.12.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the causes of the Great Depression and the policies and programs of the New Deal and their effects on social, political, economic, and diplomatic institutions.

8.12.6 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe the causes, course, character, and effects of World War II, including: legacy of WWI; campaigns and strategies; atomic bomb; significant military, political, and scientific leaders; the Big Four; United Nations; U.S. changing world status; war crimes trials. (Ec 2.12.3; Ec 2.12.6; Ec 2.12.7; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 7.12.1; Ec 7.12.3; Ec 8.12.1; Ec 8.12.3; Ec 8.12.6)

8.12.7 World and United States: Describe the causes, course, and effects of the Holocaust, including: 'Aryan supremacy', Nuremburg Laws; Kristallnacht; 'Final Solution'; concentration and death camps; creation of Israel. (C 8.12.1; C 8.12.3)

8.12.8 United States and Nevada: Analyze the effects of WWII on the homefront in the United States, including: internment camps; technologies; economic developments; propaganda; women/minority contributions; GI Bill. (C 5.12; C 5.12.1; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 8.12.6; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 8.12.6)

NV.9.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1945 to 1990: Students understand the shift of international relationships and power as well as the significant developments in American culture.

9.12.1 World and United States: Describe the causes and effects of the Cold War, including: Europe: Marshall Plan, Berlin, NATO; Middle East: Egypt, Israel, Afghanistan; Asia: Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam; Americas: Cuba, United States. (C 8.12.1)

9.12.2 United States: Describe the effects of the Cold War on the United States, including: arms race and nuclear testing; McCarthyism; space race; Cuban Missile Crisis. (C 8.12.1)

9.12.3 World and United States: Describe the cause, course, and character of the Korean War, including: United Nations Security Council; Pusan Perimeter; General MacArthur; Inchon; Yalu River; 38th Parallel.

9.12.4 World: Explain how and why African and Asian peoples achieved independence from colonial rule.

9.12.5 World and United States: Analyze how postwar science and technology augmented United States economic strength, transformed daily life, and influenced the world economy and politics. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 7.12.2; Ec 7.12.5)

9.12.6 United States: Describe the causes and effects of changing demographics and developing suburbanization in the United States. (Ec 6.12.5)

9.12.8 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe the major issues, events, and key people of the Civil Rights and minority rights movements, including: Black Power Movement; United Farm Workers; American Indian Movement; Viva La Raza; Women's Rights Movement; Americans with Disabilities Act; Civil Rights Act of 1964. (C 5.12.1; C 5.12.6; C 5.12.7)

9.12.9 World and United States: Describe the causes, course, character, and effects of the Vietnam war, including: Ho Chi Minh; Dien Bien Phu; Ngo Dinh Diem; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; draft and lottery; Tet Offensive; anti-war movement; Paris Peace Accord; POWs and MIAs; Imperialism. (C 4.12.5)

9.12.10 United States: Describe the changes in United States political culture, including: the role of the media; the role of women and minorities; Watergate; Iranian hostage crisis; Iran-contra affair; Grenada and Panama.

9.12.11 World and United States: Describe how international policies contributed to the end of the Cold War, including: recognition of China; detente; disarmament treaties; 'Star Wars' (SDI); solidarity. (C 5.12.6)

9.12.12 United States and World: Describe the geopolitical changes in the world due to the disintegration of the USSR.

9.12.14 United States: Summarize the influence of art, music, literature, and the media on United States society. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

NV.10.0. History: New Challenges, 1990 to the Present: Students understand the political, economic, social, and technological issues challenging the world as it approaches and enters the new millennium.

10.12.1 World and United States: Identify and explain the implications of scientific and technological achievements, including: personal computers; Internet; Satellites; Biotechnology.

10.12.2 World and United States: Describe the regional and global effects of political and economic alliances. (Ec 9.12.1; Ec 9.12.2)

10.12.3 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe how global issues affect nations differently, including: human rights; the environment; world and U.S. regional conflicts; medical concerns.

10.12.4 World and United States: Explain the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf War, including: Kuwait invasion; world oil supply; changing alliances.

10.12.5 United States: Describe the changing political climate in the United States, including: the role of the media; the Clinton impeachment.

10.12.6 World and United States: Explain how literature, music, and the visual arts are reflections of the time. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

NV.1.0. Economics: The Economic Way of Thinking: Students will use fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, and costs versus benefits to describe and analyze problems and opportunities, both individual and social.

1.12.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Cost: Explain why choices and their costs may differ across individuals and societies.

1.12.2 Incentives and Preferences: Recognize that people act out of self-interest and predict how a change in the economic environment will affect the choices made by consumers, producers, and savers.

1.12.3 Cost versus Benefits: Examine decisions made by individuals, businesses, and government by comparing the marginal benefits and marginal costs.

1.12.4 Personal Economics: Give examples of and evaluate the effectiveness of incentive systems used by parents, teachers, and employers. (E10.12.4)

NV.2.0. Economics: Measuring U.S. Economic Performance: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of past and present U.S. economic performance, identify the economic indicators used to measure that performance, and use this knowledge to make individual decisions and discuss social issues.

2.12.1 Measuring Economic Growth: Explain the difference between nominal GDP and real GDP.

2.12.2 Measuring Economic Growth: Using real GDP per capita as a measure of the standard of living, describe how living standards have changed over time. (H 1.12.2; H 2.12.3)

2.12.3 Measuring Economic Growth: Using the change in real GDP, examine the U.S. economy over time, identifying recessions and high and low rates of growth. (H 1.12.2; H 2.12.3; H 8.8.6; H 8.12.6)

2.12.4 Measuring Inflation: Using a price index to measure inflation, identify when the U.S. economy has experienced high and low rates of inflation and discuss their effects. (H 1.12.2; H 2.12.3)

2.12.5 Measuring Inflation: Use various price indexes to determine how the prices of different types of goods and services have changed.

2.12.6 Measuring Unemployment: Explain and give examples of the costs of unemployment to the economy as a whole (such as lost income, lost tax revenue, and additional welfare burdens). (H 8.12.6)

2.12.7 Measuring Unemployment: Compare the unemployment rates for groups of people who differ by age, gender, ethnic origin, occupation, and educational attainment.

2.12.8 Measuring Interest: Explain why a real interest rate accurately measures the benefit of saving or the cost of borrowing.

2.12.9 Measuring Interest: Demonstrate knowledge of when interest rate levels have experienced relative highs and relative lows throughout U.S. history and discuss their effects. (H 1.12.2; H 8.12.6)

2.12.10 Personal Economics: Characterize different career paths according to the rates of job growth and employment opportunities.

2.12.11 Personal Economics: Explain ways a high interest rate could be detrimental or beneficial.

2.12.12 Personal Economics: Evaluate saving and borrowing options in terms of interest and compare long- and short-term costs and benefits.

NV.3.0. Economics: Functioning of Markets: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how markets work, including an understanding of why markets form, how supply and demand interact to determine market prices and interest rates, and how changes in prices act as signals to coordinate trade.

3.12.1 Trade Is Beneficial: Demonstrate an understanding that all voluntary trade, by definition, benefits both parties.

3.12.2 Markets Determine Prices: Use the concepts of supply and demand to analyze and predict the price changes occurring in markets for goods and services. (H 2.12.3)

3.12.3 Prices as Signals: Use the concept of price elasticity to analyze how buyers and sellers might adjust their purchase and sales decisions in response to price changes.

3.12.4 Prices as Signals: Discuss the effects of price controls (price ceilings and price floors) (such as minimum wage, rent control). (E 10.12.4)

3.12.5 Determining Interest Rates: Use supply and demand to explain how interest rates are determined.

3.12.6 Personal Economics: Analyze and predict instances in which people pay high and low interest rates (such as car loans and credit cards).

3.12.7 Personal Economics: Analyze family spending decisions, drawing conclusions about the desirability of making substitutions, given the relative prices of various substitutes.

NV.4.0. Economics: Private U.S. Economic Institutions: Students will describe the roles played by U.S. economic institutions including financial institutions, labor unions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.

4.12.1 Financial Institutions: Analyze the roles of financial institutions in creating credit.

4.12.2 Labor Unions: Discuss how labor unions affect employees and employers. (C 5.12.6; E 10.12.4)

4.12.3 For-profit Business Organizations: Identify current or historical mergers, buyouts, and acquisitions. (H 7.12.8)

4.12.4 Not-for-profit Organizations: Explain how the services of not-for-profit organizations impact other economic institutions.

4.12.5 Personal Economics: Compare and contrast the services offered by financial institutions, evaluating their usefulness to borrowers and lenders.

4.12.6 Personal Economics: Compare and contrast careers associated with financial institutions, labor unions, for-profit business organizations, and not-for-profit organizations.

NV.5.0. Economics: Money: Students demonstrate an understanding of forms of money, how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services; and how the Federal Reserve System and its policies affect the U.S. money supply.

5.12.1 Functions of Money: Explain the three functions of money: medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account.

5.12.2 The Federal Reserve and the Banking System: Explain why the money supply increases when banks make loans.

5.12.3 The Federal Reserve and the Banking System: Explain how the Federal Reserve influences bank loan activity using the reserve requirement, discount rate, and open market operations.

5.12.4 History of Money: Describe the nation's current money supply measures, including M1 and M2.

5.12.5 Personal Economics: Explain what a credit rating is and how it affects access to money.

NV.6.0. Economics: The U.S. Economy as a Whole: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the U.S. economic system as a whole in terms of how it allocates resources; determines the nation's production, income, unemployment, and price levels; and leads to variations in individual income levels.

6.12.1 Resource Allocation: Compare the benefits and costs of allocating resources through markets or government. (C 7.12.2; H 6.8.12; H 6.12.12)

6.12.2 Resource Allocation: Discuss how an economy determines what goods and services will be produced, how they will be produced, and who will receive them. (H 6.12.12)

6.12.3 The Nation's Production Level: Analyze the potential production of goods and services for a nation as determined by its resources and technology. (H 6.12.1; H 7.12.7; H 9.12.5)

6.12.4 The Nation's Income Level: Explain how the multiplier can affect the nation's income.

6.12.5 The Nation's Unemployment Rate: Make connections between the nation's unemployment rate and changes in seasons, changes in an industry, and changes in demographics. (E 11.12.2)

6.12.6 Differences in Individual Incomes: Explain how and why changes in product demand can affect the price of the product, which, in turn, can affect the wages paid to a worker.

6.12.7 Personal Economics: Assess the attractiveness of career paths of interest and how they might be affected by changes in the national economy.

NV.7.0. Economics: An Evolving Economy: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how investment, entrepreneurship, competition, and specialization lead to changes in an economy's structure and performance.

7.12.1 Investment: Describe the past, present, and future role of investment in enhancing economic growth and raising living standards. (H 7.12.7)

7.12.2 Investment: Identify the benefits and the costs of investing in new physical capital and new human capital.

7.12.3 Investment: Examine government's impact on investment through taxes, fees, government regulation, enterprise zones, and subsidies. (C 3.8.1)

7.12.4 Entrepreneurship: Discuss how entrepreneurs affect the economy by solving problems, taking risks, and taking advantage of opportunities to earn profits.

7.12.5 Competition: Explain how individual self-interest, channeled through the marketplace, can increase the overall standard of living. (H 6.12.12)

7.12.6 Specialization: Discuss the pros and cons of specialization and interdependence. (E 10.12.14)

7.12.7 Personal Economics: Explain why top performers in any field are specialists.

NV.8.0. Economics: The Role of Government in a Market Economy: Students will explain the role of government in a market economy.

8.12.1 Public Goods: Explain why government provides public goods rather than allowing the market to provide them.

8.12.2 Externalities: Explain why government intervenes in markets in response to externalities.

8.12.3 Redistributing Income: Discuss whether redistributing income is an appropriate role of government. (C 2.12.3; E 10.12.1; E 10.12.4; H 8.12.6)

8.12.4 Property Rights: Demonstrate an under-standing that government must define, establish, and enforce property rights in order for markets to function. (C 1.12.1)

8.12.5 Political Decisions: Explain why it is possible that a government decision may impose costs on many, but only benefit a few. (C 4.12.2; C 4.12.3)

8.12.6 Fiscal Policy: Explain how fiscal policy affects production, employment, and price levels. (C 4.12.6; H 8.12.6; H 8.12.9)

8.12.7 Personal Economics: Give examples of mandates that increase prices of goods and services in Nevada.

NV.9.0. Economics: The International Economy: Students explore the characteristics of non-U.S. economic systems in order to demonstrate an understanding of how they are connected, through trade, to peoples and cultures throughout the world.

9.12.1 International Trade: Analyze the pros and cons of foreign trade, comparing free trade with restricted trade. (E10.12.4; G 4.12.6; H 10.12.2)

9.12.2 Interdependence: Describe how foreign economic events can impact the U.S. economy. (C 8.12.2; G 4.12.7; H 7.12.17; H 10.12.3)

9.12.3 Characteristics of Non-U.S. Economic Systems: Describe some characteristics of non-U.S. economies that affect international trade. (C 7.12.2; G 4.12.7; G 6.12.1)

9.12.4 Exchange Rates: Determine how a change in exchange rates affects the ability of residents of one country to consume products from other countries.

9.12.5 Personal Economics: Draw conclusions about how the prices of goods you purchase would change if imports were restricted.

9.12.6 Personal Economics: Discuss how potential career paths could be affected by changes in foreign demand for U.S. products.

NV.1.0. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms: Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

1.12.1 Map Use: Use a variety of complex maps to acquire geographic information such as topographic, demographic, and land use. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.2 Map Section: Select appropriate maps, map projections, and other representations to analyze and interpret geographic information. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.3 Geographic Tools and Technologies: Use appropriate geo- graphic tools and technologies to analyze and interpret Earth's physical and human features. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.4 Map Construction: Construct complex, accurate maps and models from memory to answer questions about the location of human and physical features. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.5 Map Applications: Analyze maps for similarities and differences in purpose, accuracy, content, and design. (H 2.12.5)

1.12.6 Map Analysis: Apply concepts and models of spatial organization to make decisions about geographic information.

NV.2.0. Geography: Places and Regions-Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of changes.

2.12.1 Characteristics of Places and Regions: Determine how relationships between humans and the physical environment lead to the development of and connections among places and regions. (H 3.12.3; H 4.12.1; H 4.12.2; H 4.12.5)

2.12.2 Cultural Identity: Explain why places and regions are important to cultural identity and can serve as forces for both unification and fragmentation. (E 3.12.1;E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3; H 4.12.2)

2.12.3 Cultural Perspectives: Compare and contrast the characteristics of places and regions from different points of view. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

2.12.4 Impact of Technology: Determine how technology affects the way cultural groups perceive and use places and regions. (H 3.12.3; H 3.12.4)

2.12.5 History and Region: Analyze selected historical issues and questions using the geographic concept of regions. (H 3.12.3;H 3.12.4; H 4.12.1; H 4.12.2; H 6.12.17)

2.12.6 Patterns of Change: Analyze why places and regions once characterized by one set of criteria may be defined by a different set of criteria today, and evaluate these changes. (H 3.12.3;H 3.12.4; H 4.12.1)

2.12.7 Applying Concepts of Regions: Apply the concept of region to organize and study a geographic issue.

NV.3.0. Geography: Physical Systems-Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.

3.12.1 Physical Systems: Describe and analyze how interactions of the four basic physical systems affect different regions of the United States and the world.

3.12.2 Natural Hazards: Describe the causes and consequences of natural hazards that shape features and patterns on the Earth.

3.12.3 Characteristics of Ecosystems: Analyze the effects of physical and human forces on interdependence within different ecosystems.

3.12.4 Distribution of Ecosystems: Analyze the biodiversity, distribution, and productivity of ecosystems across Earth's surface.

3.12.5 Analysis of Ecosystems: Propose solutions to environmental problems using the concept of ecosystems.

NV.4.0. Geography: Human Systems - Students understand how economic, political, and cultural processes interact to shape patterns of human migration and settlement, influence and interdependence, and conflict and cooperation.

4.12.1 Demographic Concepts: Analyze demographic trends in world population.

4.12.2 Migration and Settlement: Evaluate the impact of migration and settlement on physical and human systems. (H 3.12.3)

4.12.3 Historical Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas: Analyze how history has been affected by the movement of people, goods, and ideas.

4.12.4 Patterns of Human Settlement: Compare the characteristics and patterns of migration and settlement in developing and developed countries.

4.12.5 Economic Systems and Interdependence: Analyze how location and distance connect and influence economic systems at local, national, and international levels. (C 8.12.2; H 3.12.3; H 4.12.5)

4.12.6 Analysis of Economic Issues: Analyze and evaluate international economic issues from a spatial perspective. (E 5.12.6; Ec 9.12.1; H 4.12.5)

4.12.7 Patterns of Human Development: Predict the impact of changes in the level of economic development on the quality of life in developing and developed countries. (Ec 2.12.2; M 5.12.1)

4.12.8 Human Organizations: Evaluate the changes that occur in the size and structure of cultural, political, and economic organizations. (C 4.12.2)

4.12.9 Cooperation and Conflict: Analyze how different cultures, points of view, and self-interests influence cooperation and conflict over territory and resources. (C 5.12.6; C 4.12.3)

4.12.10 International Alliances and Organizations: Describe the forces of cooperation and conflict as they affect the way the world is divided among countries.

NV.5.0. Geography: Environment and Society-Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

5.12.1 Changes in the Physical Environment: Compare and contrast how changes in the physical environment can increase or diminish its capacity to support human activity. (H 3.12.2; H 4.12.2)

5.12.2 Constraints of the Physical Environment: Evaluate strategies to respond to constraints placed on human systems by the physical environment.

5.12.3 Technology and the Physical Environment: Describe the ways in which technology has affected the human capacity to modify the physical environment and evaluate the possible regional or global impact. (C 4.12.6; C 5.12.6)

5.12.4 Human Modification: Develop possible responses to changes caused by human modification of the physical environment. (C 4.12.6; C 5.12.6)

5.12.5 Effects of Natural Hazards on Human Systems: Analyze human perception of and response to natural hazards.

5.12.6 Earth's Resources: Analyze the patterns of use, the changing distribution, and the relative importance of Earth's resources. (C 5.12.6; H 3.12.3; H 4.12.2; H 4.12.5)

5.12.7 Management of Earth's Resources: Develop policies for the use and management of Earth's resources that consider the various interests involved. (C 4.12.6; C 5.12.6; E 9.12.3)

NV.6.0. Geography: Geographic Applications-Students apply geographic knowledge of people, places, and environments to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future.

6.12.1 Applying Geography in History: Analyze the ways in which physical features and human characteristics of places and regions have influenced the evolution of significant historical events. (C 5.12.6; H 3.12.3; H 4.12.1; H 4.12.2; H 4.12.5)

6.12.2 Applying Geography in Current Events: Relate current events to the physical features and human characteristics of places and regions. (C 5.12.6)

6.12.3 Applying Geography to Contemporary Issues: Analyze a contemporary issue using geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives. (C 5.12.6; E 4.12.4)

6.12.4 Applying Geography to the Future: Predict possible outcomes and develop future policies for local or regional issues that have spatial dimensions. (C 5.12.6)

NV.7.0. Geography: Geographic Skills: Students ask and answer geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

7.12.1 Ask Geographic Questions: Plan and organize a geographic research project by asking appropriate geographic questions.

7.12.2 Acquire Geographic Information: Locate and acquire a variety of primary and secondary information sources and assess the value of each. (E 11.12.2)

7.12.3 Organize Geographic Information: Use a variety of tools and technologies to select and design appropriate forms of maps, graphs, diagrams, tables, or charts to organize geographic information. (E 11.12.2)

7.12.4 Analyze Geographic Information: Use quantitative methods of analysis to make inferences and draw conclusions from maps and other geographic representations.

7.12.5 Present Geographic Information: Complete a geographic inquiry by applying geographic models, generalizations, and theories to the analysis, interpretation, and presentation of information. (E 10.12.2; H 1.12.2)

NV.1.0. Civics: Rules and Law: Students know why society needs rules, laws, and governments.

1.12.1 Rules and Law: Explain the concept of the rule of law in the establishment of the U.S. Constitution.

1.12.2 Documents: Explain the influence of social contract theory, natural rights philosophy and republicanism in the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution. (H 6.12.4; H 6.12.8; H 6.12.3; H 6.12.7)

1.12.3 Documents: Describe the historic influences on early U.S. documents, such as: Greek law, Magna Carta, Iroquois League. (H 6.12.4; H 6.12.7)

1.12.4 Democratic Participation: Analyze the role of citizen participation in U.S. civic life.

1.12.5 The U.S. Constitution and Amendments: Identify and explain changes in the interpretation and application of the U.S. Constitution.

NV.2.0. Civics: The U.S. Government: Students know the United States Constitution and the government it creates.

2.12.1 The U.S. Constitution: Examine the organization of the U.S. Constitution and describe the structure it creates, including the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. (H 6.12.4; H 6.12.7)

2.12.2 The Legislative Structure and Process: Describe the creation of laws through the legislative process.

2.12.3 Legislative Powers: Analyze and give examples of the expansion of the national government through the application of the enumerated and implied powers. (Ec 8.12.3; H 6.12.7)

2.12.4 The Executive Branch: Describe the duties of the executive branch, including: Cabinet/departments; regulatory commissions; White House staff

2.12.5 The Judicial Branch: Describe the structure and jurisdiction of the federal court system and analyze the power of judicial review. (H 6.12.13)

2.12.6 The Jury System: Explain the importance of the jury process in a democratic society. (H 6.8.8)

2.12.7 Checks and Balances: Analyze the effectiveness of checks and balances in maintaining the equal division of power. (H 6.12.7)

NV.3.0. Civics: National and State Government: Students can explain the relationship between the states and national government.

3.12.1 Division of Powers: Explain the U.S. Constitutional provisions for division of powers between the state and national governments (delegated, reserved, concurrent powers). (H 6.12.7; H 6.12.8)

3.12.2 Federalism: Provide contemporary examples of federalism. (H 6.12.7)

3.12.3 Constitutional Supremacy: Use examples to illustrate the supremacy clause in defining the relationship between state and national governments. (H 6.12.7)

NV.4.0. Civics: The Political Process: Students describe the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public opinion in the democratic process.

4.12.1 Leaders and Elections: Assess the processes by which leaders are selected in the U.S. political system and analyze the role of the electoral college system in the election of the President.

4.12.2 Political Parties: Analyze the roles and function of factions within political parties and the role of parties in public policy and politics. (E 8.12.5; H 6.12.3)

4.12.3 Interest Groups: Evaluate the significance of interest groups in the political process of a democratic society. (Ec 8.12.5; G 4.12.2)

4.12.4 Formation of Public Opinion: Analyze the role that television and other media play in the process of political persuasion. (E 4.12.1; E 4.12.2; E 11.12.2; H 10.12.5)

4.12.5 Propaganda: Evaluate propaganda in both historic and current political communication (E 4.12.4; E 4.12.5; H 9.12.9)

4.12.6 Public Policy: Describe the process by which public policy is formed and carried out. (Ec 8.12.6; E 4.12.1; E 4.12.2; G 5.12.7)

NV.5.0. Civics: Citizenship: Students know the roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens and the symbols of our country.

5.12.1 Citizenship: Examine the rights of citizens and how these rights may be restricted. (H 6.12.13; H 7.12.2; H 7.12.3; H 7.12.13; H 8.12.9; H 9.12. 8)

5.12.2 Citizenship: Examine the responsibilities of U.S. citizens.

5.12.3 Symbols: Explain symbols and documents of a nation and how they represent its identity.

5.12.4 Individual Rights: Describe the development of the Bill of Rights and provide a contemporary application. (H 6.12.8)

5.12.5 Individual Rights: Analyze the United States Constitution and its amendments in protecting individual rights, including the Fourteenth Amendment's provisions for due process and equal protection. (H 7.8.1)

5.12.6 Conflict and Resolution: Identify major conflicts in social, political, and economic life and analyze the role of compromise in the resolution of these issues. (G 4.12.9; G 6.12.2; H 8.12.7; H 9.12.1; H 9.12.8)

5.12.7 The Supreme Court and Individual Rights Cases: Describe the role of the United States Supreme Court as guardian of individual rights through the examination of landmark cases, including: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; Gideon v. Wainwright; Miranda v. Arizona; Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (H 9.12.8)

NV.6.0. Civics: State and Local Government: Students know the structure and functions of state and local governments.

6.12.1 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Explain the structure and function of state and local governments.

6.12.2 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Describe the unique role of tribal governments within the United States. (H 7.12.3)

6.12.3 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Compare and contrast the structure of the Nevada and United States Constitutions.

6.12.4 Court Systems: Describe the differences between the local, state, and federal court systems.

NV.7.0. Civics: Political and Economic Systems: Students explain the different political and economic systems in the world.

7.12.1 Comparative Political Systems: Summarize and evaluate the significant characteristics of the world's major political systems, including: monarchy; totalitarian dictatorship; presidential system; parliamentary system ; communism (H 5.12.2; H 7.12.17; H 7.12.18; H 8.8.1)

7.12.2 Comparative Economic Systems: Define and analyze the major economic systems of the world, including: capitalism; mixed economy; socialism; command economy (Ec 9.12.3; H 6.12.12)

NV.8.0. Civics: International Relations: Students know the political and economic relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations.

8.12.1 From Individual to the World: Analyze the conflict between U.S. policies of isolationism versus intervention in world affairs. (H 7.12.14; H 8.12.7; H 9.12.1)

8.12.2 Foreign Policy: Identify and analyze the effectiveness of U.S. foreign policy in dealing with international problems and concerns including: diplomacy; economic policy; humanitarian aid; military intervention

8.12.3 International Organizations: Critique the role of international organizations, such as the United Nations and non-governmental organizations, in world affairs. (H 8.12.7)

NV.1.0. History: Chronology: Students use chronology to organize and understand the sequence and relationship of events.

1.12.1 Current Events: Analyze and develop a position on a current event. (E 10.12.4)

1.12.2 Chronology: Explain the sequence and relationship of events on a tiered time line. (G 7.12.5)

NV.2.0. History: History Skills: Students will use social studies vocabulary and concepts to engage in inquiry, in research, in analysis, and in decision making.

2.12.1 Inquiry: Frame and evaluate historical questions from multiple viewpoints. (E 4.12.3; E 11.12.1)

2.12.2 Research and Analysis: Integrate, analyze, and organize historical information from a variety of sources. (E 4.12.3; E 4.12.5; E 11.12.2; E 11.12.5)

2.12.3 Informational Tools: Analyze and interpret historical content from informational tools, including: charts; diagrams; graphs; maps; political cartoons; photographs; tables. (G 1.12.1; G 1.12.2; G 1.12.3; G 1.12.4 )

NV.3.0. History: Prehistory to 400 CE: Students understand the development of human societies, civilizations, and empires through 400 CE.

3.12.1 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify and describe the characteristics of pre-agricultural societies.

3.12.2 World: Describe technological innovations of early agricultural societies, including: development of agriculture; domestication of animals; development of permanent communities.

3.12.3 World: Explain and demonstrate how geography influenced the political, social, and economic growth of ancient classical civilizations, including: Africa; China; Greece; India; Mesopotamia; Rome. (G 2.12.1; G 2.12.5; G 2.12.6; G 4.12.3; G 5.12.1; G 6.12.1)

3.12.4 World: Describe the unique political, economic, religious, social, technological, and cultural contributions of ancient and classical civilizations, including: Africa; the Americas; China; Greece; Hebrew kingdoms; India; Mesopotamia; Phoenicia; Rome. (C 1.12.3; G 2.12.4; G 2.12.5)

NV.4.0. History: 1 CE to 1400: Students understand the characteristics, ideas, and significance of civilizations and religions from 1 CE to 1400.

4.12.1 World: Locate and describe civilizations in terms of geography, social structure, religion, political systems, and contributions, including: African; Byzantine; Chinese; Indian; Japanese; Scandinavian. (G 2.12.1; G 2.12.5; G 6.12.1)

4.12.2 World: Describe the characteristics of the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilizations, including: contributions; geography; political systems; religion; social structure. (G 2.12.1; G 2.12.2; G 2.12.5; G 5.12.1; G 5.12.6; G 6.12.1)

4.12.3 World: Describe the origin, traditions, customs, and spread of western and eastern world religions, including: Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Islam; Judaism.

4.12.4 World: Describe the characteristics of European feudalism.

4.12.5 World: Describe the rise of commercial trading centers and their effects on social, political, and economic institutions. (G 2.12.1; G 4.12.3; G 6.12.1)

NV.5.0. History: 1200 to 1750: Students understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.

5.12.1 World: Examine the impact of technological, mathematical, cultural, and artistic developments of the Renaissance.

5.12.2 World: Explain the development of European hereditary monarchies and their effects on: centralized government; commerce and trade; religion. (C 7.12.1)

5.12.3 World and United States: Explain the causes of the Reformation and its effects in Europe and the Americas.

5.12.4 World: Identify the influence of the Enlightenment on the Western World, including: fine arts; government; literature; philosophy; science. (G 2.5.3; G 2.5.6; G 4.5.8)

5.12.6 United States and Nevada: Compare common elements of Native North American societies, including: Communication; economic systems; housing; political systems; social systems; traditions.

5.12.7 World and United States: Examine the roles of nationalism, economics, and religious rivalries in the Age of Exploration.

5.12.8 World and United States: Analyze interactions among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.

5.12.9 World and United States: Analyze how the interactions among Native Americans, Africans, Europeans, and their descendants resulted in unique American economic, social, and political institutions.

5.12.10 World and United States: Describe the similarities and differences of European colonial communities in North America in terms of politics, religion, language, economics, and social customs.

5.12.11 United States: Compare and contrast life in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.

5.12.12 World and United States: Explain the impact of world commerce, including the African slave trade on Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

5.12.13 World: Describe the contributions and social, political, and economic characteristics of African, Chinese, Indian, and Japanese civilizations.

5.12.14 World: Describe how Islamic empires were a link between Africa, Europe, and Asia.

NV.6.0. History: 1700 to 1865: Students understand the people, events, ideas, and conflicts that led to the creation of new nations and distinctive cultures.

6.12.1 World and United States: Explain the causes and results of the Industrial Revolution. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 7.12.1; Ec 7.12.2; Ec 7.12.4; Ec 7.12.5)

6.12.2 World and United States: Describe the causes and effects of wars with Europeans, including the French and Indian War.

6.12.3 United States: Explain the political and economic causes and effects of the American Revolution. (C 1.12.2)

6.12.4 United States: Describe the ideas of John Locke, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson and their influences on the American Revolution and the formation of the United States.

6.12.5 United States: Describe the events, course, and results of the American Revolutionary War, including the contributions of African Americans and Native Americans.

6.12.6 United States: Explain the issues of the Confederation period, including: war debts and finance; western land; trade; taxation. (Ec 6.12.1)

6.12.7 United States: Describe the Constitution's underlying principles, including: checks and balances; federalism; limited government; popular sovereignty; separation of powers. (C 1.12.1; C 1.12.2; C 1.12.3; C 2.12.1; C 2.12.3; C 3.12.1; C 3.12.2; C 3.12 3)

6.12.8 United States: Describe the issues involved in the ratification of the Constitution, including: main ideas of The Federalist Papers; main ideas of the Anti-Federalists; the Bill of Rights. (C 1.12.2; C 3.12.1; C 5.12.4)

6.12.9 World and United States: Describe the influence of the American Revolution on Europe and the Americas.

6.12.10 World: Discuss the political events, people, and ideas that influenced European politics, including: Napoleon; Metternich; Marx; Congress of Vienna. (Ec 8.12.3)

6.12.11 World: Describe achievements in European fine arts and literature. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

6.12.12 World and United States: Describe the rise of national economies, the emergence of capitalism, and the free market economy. (C 7.12.2; Ec 6.12.1; Ec 6.12.2 Ec 7.12.3; Ec 9.12.1;Ec 9.12.3)

6.12.13 United States: Explain issues, events, and the roles of key people related to the development of United States political institutions, including: Washington's administration: The Marshall Court; judicial review; extension of suffrage; political parties. (C 2.12.5; C 4.12.2; C 5.12.1)

6.12.14 United States: Explain issues, events, and the roles of key individuals associated with the development of a national economic identity and foreign policy, including: development of the factory system and impacts of significant inventions such as the cotton gin and interchangeable parts; territorial, trade, & shipping issues with Great Britain; War of 1812; the creation of a national transportation system; Monroe Doctrine; growth and impact of immigration. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 9.12.1; Ec 9.12.2; Ec 9.12.3)

6.12.15 United States: Describe the social reform and religious movements of antebellum United States which attempted to enhance life, including: education reform; prison and mental health reform; religious revival; Utopian movement; women's rights.

6.12.16 United States: Describe the contributions in language, literature, art, and music that led to the development of an emerging culture in the United States, including: Stephen Foster; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Hudson River School of Art; Henry David Thoreau.

6.12.17 United States and Nevada: Explain the issue of Manifest Destiny and the events related to the expansion of the United States, including: Louisiana Purchase; removal of the Eastern tribes; Oregon and California Trails; Mexican War and Mexican War acquisitions; California Gold Rush; Homestead Act. (G 2.12.5; G 4.12.3)

6.12.20 United States: Explain abolitionism and describe the importance of abolitionists and slave revolts, including: John Brown; Frederick Douglass; William Lloyd Garrison; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Nat Turner.

6.12.21 United States: Describe the causes, key people, events, and outcome of the Civil War, including: states' rights and slavery; election of 1860; Frederick Douglass/ African American troops; President Lincoln; Emancipation Proclamation; Antietam, Vicksburg and Gettysburg; Gettysburg Address; Generals Grant and Lee.

NV.7.0. History: 1860 to 1920: Students understand the importance and impact of political, economic, and social ideas.

7.12.1 United States: Summarize the successes and failures of the Reconstruction period.

7.12.2 United States: Describe the key people and significant issues concerning African American rights, including: Booker T. Washington & the Tuskegee Institute; Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws; Plessy v. Ferguson; W.E.B. DuBois and the NAACP; Ida B. Wells and the NACW. (C 5.12.1)

7.12.3 United States: Describe federal policy toward Native Americans including: Dawes Act/Indian Reorganization Act of 1934; Indian Boarding Schools; Indian Citizenship Act of 1924; Plains Wars; reservation system. (C 5.12.1; C 6.12.2)

7.12.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the role of farming, railroads, mining in the settlement of the West. (Ec 6.12.3)

7.12.6 United States: Describe the causes, issues, and effects of the Populist Movement.

7.12.7 United States: Describe the effect of industrial technology innovations and urbanization on United States social and economic development. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 6.12.6; Ec 7.12.1)

7.12.8 United States: Describe the development of corporate capitalism, including: J.P. Morgan; mass production; vertical and horizontal integration/consolidation. (Ec 1.12.2; Ec 4.12.2; Ec 4.12.3; Ec 6.12.2; Ec 7.12.2)

7.12.9 Nevada and United States: Examine the motivations for groups coming to the United States and describe their contributions to United States society.

7.12.10 United States: Describe nativism and explain the response to immigration into the United States. (C 5.12.6)

7.12.11 United States and Nevada: Explain the origins and issues involved in the labor movement. (Ec 1.12.4; Ec 4.12.2; Ec 6.12.5)

7.12.12 United States: Describe the development and impact of the Progressive Movement, including: government reform; Prohibition; 'trust busting'.

7.12.13 United States: Describe the development of the women's suffrage movement and the passage of the 19th Amendment. (C 5.12.1)

7.12.14 World and United States: Discuss the causes, characteristics, and consequences of United States expansion and diplomacy, including: Alaska; Hawaii; Open Door Policy; Spanish-American War; Panama Canal; T. Roosevelt's foreign policy; Dollar Diplomacy.

7.12.15 World and United States: Explain the causes and effects of the Mexican Revolution of 1911.

7.12.16 World: Discuss the causes, characteristics, and consequences of European and Japanese expansion.

7.12.17 World and United States: Describe the causes, course, character, and effects of World War I, including: imperialism; arms race and alliances; nationalism; weapons/tactics; Fourteen Points; Treaty of Versailles.

7.12.18 World: Describe the causes and effects of the Russian Revolution: Romanovs; Lenin; Bolsheviks; Russian Civil War. (C 7.12.1)

7.12.20 World and United States: Explain how fine arts, literature, and leisure activities were a reflection of the time. (E3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

NV.8.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1920 to 1945: Students understand the importance and effect of political, economic, technological, and social changes in the world from 1920 to 1945.

8.12.1 World: Describe the rise of totalitarian societies in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. (C 7.12.1)

8.12.2 World and United States: Discuss the effects on society of new technologies of this era, including: communication; transportation; manufacturing. (Ec 6.12.3)

8.12.3 United States: Examine social tensions in the postwar era, including: radical politics; immigration restrictions; religious fundamentalism; racism.

8.12.4 United States: Describe how cultural developments in the arts, education, media, and leisure activities reflected and changed United States society. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

8.12.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the causes of the Great Depression and the policies and programs of the New Deal and their effects on social, political, economic, and diplomatic institutions.

8.12.6 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe the causes, course, character, and effects of World War II, including: legacy of WWI; campaigns and strategies; atomic bomb; significant military, political, and scientific leaders; the Big Four; United Nations; U.S. changing world status; war crimes trials. (Ec 2.12.3; Ec 2.12.6; Ec 2.12.7; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 7.12.1; Ec 7.12.3; Ec 8.12.1; Ec 8.12.3; Ec 8.12.6)

8.12.7 World and United States: Describe the causes, course, and effects of the Holocaust, including: 'Aryan supremacy', Nuremburg Laws; Kristallnacht; 'Final Solution'; concentration and death camps; creation of Israel. (C 8.12.1; C 8.12.3)

8.12.8 United States and Nevada: Analyze the effects of WWII on the homefront in the United States, including: internment camps; technologies; economic developments; propaganda; women/minority contributions; GI Bill. (C 5.12; C 5.12.1; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 8.12.6; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 8.12.6)

NV.9.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1945 to 1990: Students understand the shift of international relationships and power as well as the significant developments in American culture.

9.12.1 World and United States: Describe the causes and effects of the Cold War, including: Europe: Marshall Plan, Berlin, NATO; Middle East: Egypt, Israel, Afghanistan; Asia: Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam; Americas: Cuba, United States. (C 8.12.1)

9.12.2 United States: Describe the effects of the Cold War on the United States, including: arms race and nuclear testing; McCarthyism; space race; Cuban Missile Crisis. (C 8.12.1)

9.12.3 World and United States: Describe the cause, course, and character of the Korean War, including: United Nations Security Council; Pusan Perimeter; General MacArthur; Inchon; Yalu River; 38th Parallel.

9.12.4 World: Explain how and why African and Asian peoples achieved independence from colonial rule.

9.12.5 World and United States: Analyze how postwar science and technology augmented United States economic strength, transformed daily life, and influenced the world economy and politics. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 7.12.2; Ec 7.12.5)

9.12.6 United States: Describe the causes and effects of changing demographics and developing suburbanization in the United States. (Ec 6.12.5)

9.12.8 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe the major issues, events, and key people of the Civil Rights and minority rights movements, including: Black Power Movement; United Farm Workers; American Indian Movement; Viva La Raza; Women's Rights Movement; Americans with Disabilities Act; Civil Rights Act of 1964. (C 5.12.1; C 5.12.6; C 5.12.7)

9.12.9 World and United States: Describe the causes, course, character, and effects of the Vietnam war, including: Ho Chi Minh; Dien Bien Phu; Ngo Dinh Diem; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; draft and lottery; Tet Offensive; anti-war movement; Paris Peace Accord; POWs and MIAs; Imperialism. (C 4.12.5)

9.12.10 United States: Describe the changes in United States political culture, including: the role of the media; the role of women and minorities; Watergate; Iranian hostage crisis; Iran-contra affair; Grenada and Panama.

9.12.11 World and United States: Describe how international policies contributed to the end of the Cold War, including: recognition of China; detente; disarmament treaties; 'Star Wars' (SDI); solidarity. (C 5.12.6)

9.12.12 United States and World: Describe the geopolitical changes in the world due to the disintegration of the USSR.

9.12.14 United States: Summarize the influence of art, music, literature, and the media on United States society. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

NV.10.0. History: New Challenges, 1990 to the Present: Students understand the political, economic, social, and technological issues challenging the world as it approaches and enters the new millennium.

10.12.1 World and United States: Identify and explain the implications of scientific and technological achievements, including: personal computers; Internet; Satellites; Biotechnology.

10.12.2 World and United States: Describe the regional and global effects of political and economic alliances. (Ec 9.12.1; Ec 9.12.2)

10.12.3 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe how global issues affect nations differently, including: human rights; the environment; world and U.S. regional conflicts; medical concerns.

10.12.4 World and United States: Explain the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf War, including: Kuwait invasion; world oil supply; changing alliances.

10.12.5 United States: Describe the changing political climate in the United States, including: the role of the media; the Clinton impeachment.

10.12.6 World and United States: Explain how literature, music, and the visual arts are reflections of the time. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

NV.1.0. Economics: The Economic Way of Thinking: Students will use fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, and costs versus benefits to describe and analyze problems and opportunities, both individual and social.

1.12.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Cost: Explain why choices and their costs may differ across individuals and societies.

1.12.2 Incentives and Preferences: Recognize that people act out of self-interest and predict how a change in the economic environment will affect the choices made by consumers, producers, and savers.

1.12.3 Cost versus Benefits: Examine decisions made by individuals, businesses, and government by comparing the marginal benefits and marginal costs.

1.12.4 Personal Economics: Give examples of and evaluate the effectiveness of incentive systems used by parents, teachers, and employers. (E10.12.4)

NV.2.0. Economics: Measuring U.S. Economic Performance: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of past and present U.S. economic performance, identify the economic indicators used to measure that performance, and use this knowledge to make individual decisions and discuss social issues.

2.12.1 Measuring Economic Growth: Explain the difference between nominal GDP and real GDP.

2.12.2 Measuring Economic Growth: Using real GDP per capita as a measure of the standard of living, describe how living standards have changed over time. (H 1.12.2; H 2.12.3)

2.12.3 Measuring Economic Growth: Using the change in real GDP, examine the U.S. economy over time, identifying recessions and high and low rates of growth. (H 1.12.2; H 2.12.3; H 8.8.6; H 8.12.6)

2.12.4 Measuring Inflation: Using a price index to measure inflation, identify when the U.S. economy has experienced high and low rates of inflation and discuss their effects. (H 1.12.2; H 2.12.3)

2.12.5 Measuring Inflation: Use various price indexes to determine how the prices of different types of goods and services have changed.

2.12.6 Measuring Unemployment: Explain and give examples of the costs of unemployment to the economy as a whole (such as lost income, lost tax revenue, and additional welfare burdens). (H 8.12.6)

2.12.7 Measuring Unemployment: Compare the unemployment rates for groups of people who differ by age, gender, ethnic origin, occupation, and educational attainment.

2.12.8 Measuring Interest: Explain why a real interest rate accurately measures the benefit of saving or the cost of borrowing.

2.12.9 Measuring Interest: Demonstrate knowledge of when interest rate levels have experienced relative highs and relative lows throughout U.S. history and discuss their effects. (H 1.12.2; H 8.12.6)

2.12.10 Personal Economics: Characterize different career paths according to the rates of job growth and employment opportunities.

2.12.11 Personal Economics: Explain ways a high interest rate could be detrimental or beneficial.

2.12.12 Personal Economics: Evaluate saving and borrowing options in terms of interest and compare long- and short-term costs and benefits.

NV.3.0. Economics: Functioning of Markets: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how markets work, including an understanding of why markets form, how supply and demand interact to determine market prices and interest rates, and how changes in prices act as signals to coordinate trade.

3.12.1 Trade Is Beneficial: Demonstrate an understanding that all voluntary trade, by definition, benefits both parties.

3.12.2 Markets Determine Prices: Use the concepts of supply and demand to analyze and predict the price changes occurring in markets for goods and services. (H 2.12.3)

3.12.3 Prices as Signals: Use the concept of price elasticity to analyze how buyers and sellers might adjust their purchase and sales decisions in response to price changes.

3.12.4 Prices as Signals: Discuss the effects of price controls (price ceilings and price floors) (such as minimum wage, rent control). (E 10.12.4)

3.12.5 Determining Interest Rates: Use supply and demand to explain how interest rates are determined.

3.12.6 Personal Economics: Analyze and predict instances in which people pay high and low interest rates (such as car loans and credit cards).

3.12.7 Personal Economics: Analyze family spending decisions, drawing conclusions about the desirability of making substitutions, given the relative prices of various substitutes.

NV.4.0. Economics: Private U.S. Economic Institutions: Students will describe the roles played by U.S. economic institutions including financial institutions, labor unions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.

4.12.1 Financial Institutions: Analyze the roles of financial institutions in creating credit.

4.12.2 Labor Unions: Discuss how labor unions affect employees and employers. (C 5.12.6; E 10.12.4)

4.12.3 For-profit Business Organizations: Identify current or historical mergers, buyouts, and acquisitions. (H 7.12.8)

4.12.4 Not-for-profit Organizations: Explain how the services of not-for-profit organizations impact other economic institutions.

4.12.5 Personal Economics: Compare and contrast the services offered by financial institutions, evaluating their usefulness to borrowers and lenders.

4.12.6 Personal Economics: Compare and contrast careers associated with financial institutions, labor unions, for-profit business organizations, and not-for-profit organizations.

NV.5.0. Economics: Money: Students demonstrate an understanding of forms of money, how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services; and how the Federal Reserve System and its policies affect the U.S. money supply.

5.12.1 Functions of Money: Explain the three functions of money: medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account.

5.12.2 The Federal Reserve and the Banking System: Explain why the money supply increases when banks make loans.

5.12.3 The Federal Reserve and the Banking System: Explain how the Federal Reserve influences bank loan activity using the reserve requirement, discount rate, and open market operations.

5.12.4 History of Money: Describe the nation's current money supply measures, including M1 and M2.

5.12.5 Personal Economics: Explain what a credit rating is and how it affects access to money.

NV.6.0. Economics: The U.S. Economy as a Whole: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the U.S. economic system as a whole in terms of how it allocates resources; determines the nation's production, income, unemployment, and price levels; and leads to variations in individual income levels.

6.12.1 Resource Allocation: Compare the benefits and costs of allocating resources through markets or government. (C 7.12.2; H 6.8.12; H 6.12.12)

6.12.2 Resource Allocation: Discuss how an economy determines what goods and services will be produced, how they will be produced, and who will receive them. (H 6.12.12)

6.12.3 The Nation's Production Level: Analyze the potential production of goods and services for a nation as determined by its resources and technology. (H 6.12.1; H 7.12.7; H 9.12.5)

6.12.4 The Nation's Income Level: Explain how the multiplier can affect the nation's income.

6.12.5 The Nation's Unemployment Rate: Make connections between the nation's unemployment rate and changes in seasons, changes in an industry, and changes in demographics. (E 11.12.2)

6.12.6 Differences in Individual Incomes: Explain how and why changes in product demand can affect the price of the product, which, in turn, can affect the wages paid to a worker.

6.12.7 Personal Economics: Assess the attractiveness of career paths of interest and how they might be affected by changes in the national economy.

NV.7.0. Economics: An Evolving Economy: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how investment, entrepreneurship, competition, and specialization lead to changes in an economy's structure and performance.

7.12.1 Investment: Describe the past, present, and future role of investment in enhancing economic growth and raising living standards. (H 7.12.7)

7.12.2 Investment: Identify the benefits and the costs of investing in new physical capital and new human capital.

7.12.3 Investment: Examine government's impact on investment through taxes, fees, government regulation, enterprise zones, and subsidies. (C 3.8.1)

7.12.4 Entrepreneurship: Discuss how entrepreneurs affect the economy by solving problems, taking risks, and taking advantage of opportunities to earn profits.

7.12.5 Competition: Explain how individual self-interest, channeled through the marketplace, can increase the overall standard of living. (H 6.12.12)

7.12.6 Specialization: Discuss the pros and cons of specialization and interdependence. (E 10.12.14)

7.12.7 Personal Economics: Explain why top performers in any field are specialists.

NV.8.0. Economics: The Role of Government in a Market Economy: Students will explain the role of government in a market economy.

8.12.1 Public Goods: Explain why government provides public goods rather than allowing the market to provide them.

8.12.2 Externalities: Explain why government intervenes in markets in response to externalities.

8.12.3 Redistributing Income: Discuss whether redistributing income is an appropriate role of government. (C 2.12.3; E 10.12.1; E 10.12.4; H 8.12.6)

8.12.4 Property Rights: Demonstrate an under-standing that government must define, establish, and enforce property rights in order for markets to function. (C 1.12.1)

8.12.5 Political Decisions: Explain why it is possible that a government decision may impose costs on many, but only benefit a few. (C 4.12.2; C 4.12.3)

8.12.6 Fiscal Policy: Explain how fiscal policy affects production, employment, and price levels. (C 4.12.6; H 8.12.6; H 8.12.9)

8.12.7 Personal Economics: Give examples of mandates that increase prices of goods and services in Nevada.

NV.9.0. Economics: The International Economy: Students explore the characteristics of non-U.S. economic systems in order to demonstrate an understanding of how they are connected, through trade, to peoples and cultures throughout the world.

9.12.1 International Trade: Analyze the pros and cons of foreign trade, comparing free trade with restricted trade. (E10.12.4; G 4.12.6; H 10.12.2)

9.12.2 Interdependence: Describe how foreign economic events can impact the U.S. economy. (C 8.12.2; G 4.12.7; H 7.12.17; H 10.12.3)

9.12.3 Characteristics of Non-U.S. Economic Systems: Describe some characteristics of non-U.S. economies that affect international trade. (C 7.12.2; G 4.12.7; G 6.12.1)

9.12.4 Exchange Rates: Determine how a change in exchange rates affects the ability of residents of one country to consume products from other countries.

9.12.5 Personal Economics: Draw conclusions about how the prices of goods you purchase would change if imports were restricted.

9.12.6 Personal Economics: Discuss how potential career paths could be affected by changes in foreign demand for U.S. products.

NV.1.0. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms: Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

1.12.1 Map Use: Use a variety of complex maps to acquire geographic information such as topographic, demographic, and land use. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.2 Map Section: Select appropriate maps, map projections, and other representations to analyze and interpret geographic information. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.3 Geographic Tools and Technologies: Use appropriate geo- graphic tools and technologies to analyze and interpret Earth's physical and human features. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.4 Map Construction: Construct complex, accurate maps and models from memory to answer questions about the location of human and physical features. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.5 Map Applications: Analyze maps for similarities and differences in purpose, accuracy, content, and design. (H 2.12.5)

1.12.6 Map Analysis: Apply concepts and models of spatial organization to make decisions about geographic information.

NV.2.0. Geography: Places and Regions-Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of changes.

2.12.1 Characteristics of Places and Regions: Determine how relationships between humans and the physical environment lead to the development of and connections among places and regions. (H 3.12.3; H 4.12.1; H 4.12.2; H 4.12.5)

2.12.2 Cultural Identity: Explain why places and regions are important to cultural identity and can serve as forces for both unification and fragmentation. (E 3.12.1;E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3; H 4.12.2)

2.12.3 Cultural Perspectives: Compare and contrast the characteristics of places and regions from different points of view. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

2.12.4 Impact of Technology: Determine how technology affects the way cultural groups perceive and use places and regions. (H 3.12.3; H 3.12.4)

2.12.5 History and Region: Analyze selected historical issues and questions using the geographic concept of regions. (H 3.12.3;H 3.12.4; H 4.12.1; H 4.12.2; H 6.12.17)

2.12.6 Patterns of Change: Analyze why places and regions once characterized by one set of criteria may be defined by a different set of criteria today, and evaluate these changes. (H 3.12.3;H 3.12.4; H 4.12.1)

2.12.7 Applying Concepts of Regions: Apply the concept of region to organize and study a geographic issue.

NV.3.0. Geography: Physical Systems-Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.

3.12.1 Physical Systems: Describe and analyze how interactions of the four basic physical systems affect different regions of the United States and the world.

3.12.2 Natural Hazards: Describe the causes and consequences of natural hazards that shape features and patterns on the Earth.

3.12.3 Characteristics of Ecosystems: Analyze the effects of physical and human forces on interdependence within different ecosystems.

3.12.4 Distribution of Ecosystems: Analyze the biodiversity, distribution, and productivity of ecosystems across Earth's surface.

3.12.5 Analysis of Ecosystems: Propose solutions to environmental problems using the concept of ecosystems.

NV.4.0. Geography: Human Systems - Students understand how economic, political, and cultural processes interact to shape patterns of human migration and settlement, influence and interdependence, and conflict and cooperation.

4.12.1 Demographic Concepts: Analyze demographic trends in world population.

4.12.2 Migration and Settlement: Evaluate the impact of migration and settlement on physical and human systems. (H 3.12.3)

4.12.3 Historical Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas: Analyze how history has been affected by the movement of people, goods, and ideas.

4.12.4 Patterns of Human Settlement: Compare the characteristics and patterns of migration and settlement in developing and developed countries.

4.12.5 Economic Systems and Interdependence: Analyze how location and distance connect and influence economic systems at local, national, and international levels. (C 8.12.2; H 3.12.3; H 4.12.5)

4.12.6 Analysis of Economic Issues: Analyze and evaluate international economic issues from a spatial perspective. (E 5.12.6; Ec 9.12.1; H 4.12.5)

4.12.7 Patterns of Human Development: Predict the impact of changes in the level of economic development on the quality of life in developing and developed countries. (Ec 2.12.2; M 5.12.1)

4.12.8 Human Organizations: Evaluate the changes that occur in the size and structure of cultural, political, and economic organizations. (C 4.12.2)

4.12.9 Cooperation and Conflict: Analyze how different cultures, points of view, and self-interests influence cooperation and conflict over territory and resources. (C 5.12.6; C 4.12.3)

4.12.10 International Alliances and Organizations: Describe the forces of cooperation and conflict as they affect the way the world is divided among countries.

NV.5.0. Geography: Environment and Society-Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

5.12.1 Changes in the Physical Environment: Compare and contrast how changes in the physical environment can increase or diminish its capacity to support human activity. (H 3.12.2; H 4.12.2)

5.12.2 Constraints of the Physical Environment: Evaluate strategies to respond to constraints placed on human systems by the physical environment.

5.12.3 Technology and the Physical Environment: Describe the ways in which technology has affected the human capacity to modify the physical environment and evaluate the possible regional or global impact. (C 4.12.6; C 5.12.6)

5.12.4 Human Modification: Develop possible responses to changes caused by human modification of the physical environment. (C 4.12.6; C 5.12.6)

5.12.5 Effects of Natural Hazards on Human Systems: Analyze human perception of and response to natural hazards.

5.12.6 Earth's Resources: Analyze the patterns of use, the changing distribution, and the relative importance of Earth's resources. (C 5.12.6; H 3.12.3; H 4.12.2; H 4.12.5)

5.12.7 Management of Earth's Resources: Develop policies for the use and management of Earth's resources that consider the various interests involved. (C 4.12.6; C 5.12.6; E 9.12.3)

NV.6.0. Geography: Geographic Applications-Students apply geographic knowledge of people, places, and environments to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future.

6.12.1 Applying Geography in History: Analyze the ways in which physical features and human characteristics of places and regions have influenced the evolution of significant historical events. (C 5.12.6; H 3.12.3; H 4.12.1; H 4.12.2; H 4.12.5)

6.12.2 Applying Geography in Current Events: Relate current events to the physical features and human characteristics of places and regions. (C 5.12.6)

6.12.3 Applying Geography to Contemporary Issues: Analyze a contemporary issue using geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives. (C 5.12.6; E 4.12.4)

6.12.4 Applying Geography to the Future: Predict possible outcomes and develop future policies for local or regional issues that have spatial dimensions. (C 5.12.6)

NV.7.0. Geography: Geographic Skills: Students ask and answer geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

7.12.1 Ask Geographic Questions: Plan and organize a geographic research project by asking appropriate geographic questions.

7.12.2 Acquire Geographic Information: Locate and acquire a variety of primary and secondary information sources and assess the value of each. (E 11.12.2)

7.12.3 Organize Geographic Information: Use a variety of tools and technologies to select and design appropriate forms of maps, graphs, diagrams, tables, or charts to organize geographic information. (E 11.12.2)

7.12.4 Analyze Geographic Information: Use quantitative methods of analysis to make inferences and draw conclusions from maps and other geographic representations.

7.12.5 Present Geographic Information: Complete a geographic inquiry by applying geographic models, generalizations, and theories to the analysis, interpretation, and presentation of information. (E 10.12.2; H 1.12.2)

NV.1.0. Civics: Rules and Law: Students know why society needs rules, laws, and governments.

1.12.1 Rules and Law: Explain the concept of the rule of law in the establishment of the U.S. Constitution.

1.12.2 Documents: Explain the influence of social contract theory, natural rights philosophy and republicanism in the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution. (H 6.12.4; H 6.12.8; H 6.12.3; H 6.12.7)

1.12.3 Documents: Describe the historic influences on early U.S. documents, such as: Greek law, Magna Carta, Iroquois League. (H 6.12.4; H 6.12.7)

1.12.4 Democratic Participation: Analyze the role of citizen participation in U.S. civic life.

1.12.5 The U.S. Constitution and Amendments: Identify and explain changes in the interpretation and application of the U.S. Constitution.

NV.2.0. Civics: The U.S. Government: Students know the United States Constitution and the government it creates.

2.12.1 The U.S. Constitution: Examine the organization of the U.S. Constitution and describe the structure it creates, including the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. (H 6.12.4; H 6.12.7)

2.12.2 The Legislative Structure and Process: Describe the creation of laws through the legislative process.

2.12.3 Legislative Powers: Analyze and give examples of the expansion of the national government through the application of the enumerated and implied powers. (Ec 8.12.3; H 6.12.7)

2.12.4 The Executive Branch: Describe the duties of the executive branch, including: Cabinet/departments; regulatory commissions; White House staff

2.12.5 The Judicial Branch: Describe the structure and jurisdiction of the federal court system and analyze the power of judicial review. (H 6.12.13)

2.12.6 The Jury System: Explain the importance of the jury process in a democratic society. (H 6.8.8)

2.12.7 Checks and Balances: Analyze the effectiveness of checks and balances in maintaining the equal division of power. (H 6.12.7)

NV.3.0. Civics: National and State Government: Students can explain the relationship between the states and national government.

3.12.1 Division of Powers: Explain the U.S. Constitutional provisions for division of powers between the state and national governments (delegated, reserved, concurrent powers). (H 6.12.7; H 6.12.8)

3.12.2 Federalism: Provide contemporary examples of federalism. (H 6.12.7)

3.12.3 Constitutional Supremacy: Use examples to illustrate the supremacy clause in defining the relationship between state and national governments. (H 6.12.7)

NV.4.0. Civics: The Political Process: Students describe the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public opinion in the democratic process.

4.12.1 Leaders and Elections: Assess the processes by which leaders are selected in the U.S. political system and analyze the role of the electoral college system in the election of the President.

4.12.2 Political Parties: Analyze the roles and function of factions within political parties and the role of parties in public policy and politics. (E 8.12.5; H 6.12.3)

4.12.3 Interest Groups: Evaluate the significance of interest groups in the political process of a democratic society. (Ec 8.12.5; G 4.12.2)

4.12.4 Formation of Public Opinion: Analyze the role that television and other media play in the process of political persuasion. (E 4.12.1; E 4.12.2; E 11.12.2; H 10.12.5)

4.12.5 Propaganda: Evaluate propaganda in both historic and current political communication (E 4.12.4; E 4.12.5; H 9.12.9)

4.12.6 Public Policy: Describe the process by which public policy is formed and carried out. (Ec 8.12.6; E 4.12.1; E 4.12.2; G 5.12.7)

NV.5.0. Civics: Citizenship: Students know the roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens and the symbols of our country.

5.12.1 Citizenship: Examine the rights of citizens and how these rights may be restricted. (H 6.12.13; H 7.12.2; H 7.12.3; H 7.12.13; H 8.12.9; H 9.12. 8)

5.12.2 Citizenship: Examine the responsibilities of U.S. citizens.

5.12.3 Symbols: Explain symbols and documents of a nation and how they represent its identity.

5.12.4 Individual Rights: Describe the development of the Bill of Rights and provide a contemporary application. (H 6.12.8)

5.12.5 Individual Rights: Analyze the United States Constitution and its amendments in protecting individual rights, including the Fourteenth Amendment's provisions for due process and equal protection. (H 7.8.1)

5.12.6 Conflict and Resolution: Identify major conflicts in social, political, and economic life and analyze the role of compromise in the resolution of these issues. (G 4.12.9; G 6.12.2; H 8.12.7; H 9.12.1; H 9.12.8)

5.12.7 The Supreme Court and Individual Rights Cases: Describe the role of the United States Supreme Court as guardian of individual rights through the examination of landmark cases, including: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; Gideon v. Wainwright; Miranda v. Arizona; Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (H 9.12.8)

NV.6.0. Civics: State and Local Government: Students know the structure and functions of state and local governments.

6.12.1 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Explain the structure and function of state and local governments.

6.12.2 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Describe the unique role of tribal governments within the United States. (H 7.12.3)

6.12.3 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Compare and contrast the structure of the Nevada and United States Constitutions.

6.12.4 Court Systems: Describe the differences between the local, state, and federal court systems.

NV.7.0. Civics: Political and Economic Systems: Students explain the different political and economic systems in the world.

7.12.1 Comparative Political Systems: Summarize and evaluate the significant characteristics of the world's major political systems, including: monarchy; totalitarian dictatorship; presidential system; parliamentary system ; communism (H 5.12.2; H 7.12.17; H 7.12.18; H 8.8.1)

7.12.2 Comparative Economic Systems: Define and analyze the major economic systems of the world, including: capitalism; mixed economy; socialism; command economy (Ec 9.12.3; H 6.12.12)

NV.8.0. Civics: International Relations: Students know the political and economic relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations.

8.12.1 From Individual to the World: Analyze the conflict between U.S. policies of isolationism versus intervention in world affairs. (H 7.12.14; H 8.12.7; H 9.12.1)

8.12.2 Foreign Policy: Identify and analyze the effectiveness of U.S. foreign policy in dealing with international problems and concerns including: diplomacy; economic policy; humanitarian aid; military intervention

8.12.3 International Organizations: Critique the role of international organizations, such as the United Nations and non-governmental organizations, in world affairs. (H 8.12.7)

NV.1.0. History: Chronology: Students use chronology to organize and understand the sequence and relationship of events.

1.12.1 Current Events: Analyze and develop a position on a current event. (E 10.12.4)

1.12.2 Chronology: Explain the sequence and relationship of events on a tiered time line. (G 7.12.5)

NV.2.0. History: History Skills: Students will use social studies vocabulary and concepts to engage in inquiry, in research, in analysis, and in decision making.

2.12.1 Inquiry: Frame and evaluate historical questions from multiple viewpoints. (E 4.12.3; E 11.12.1)

2.12.2 Research and Analysis: Integrate, analyze, and organize historical information from a variety of sources. (E 4.12.3; E 4.12.5; E 11.12.2; E 11.12.5)

2.12.3 Informational Tools: Analyze and interpret historical content from informational tools, including: charts; diagrams; graphs; maps; political cartoons; photographs; tables. (G 1.12.1; G 1.12.2; G 1.12.3; G 1.12.4 )

NV.3.0. History: Prehistory to 400 CE: Students understand the development of human societies, civilizations, and empires through 400 CE.

3.12.1 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify and describe the characteristics of pre-agricultural societies.

3.12.2 World: Describe technological innovations of early agricultural societies, including: development of agriculture; domestication of animals; development of permanent communities.

3.12.3 World: Explain and demonstrate how geography influenced the political, social, and economic growth of ancient classical civilizations, including: Africa; China; Greece; India; Mesopotamia; Rome. (G 2.12.1; G 2.12.5; G 2.12.6; G 4.12.3; G 5.12.1; G 6.12.1)

3.12.4 World: Describe the unique political, economic, religious, social, technological, and cultural contributions of ancient and classical civilizations, including: Africa; the Americas; China; Greece; Hebrew kingdoms; India; Mesopotamia; Phoenicia; Rome. (C 1.12.3; G 2.12.4; G 2.12.5)

NV.4.0. History: 1 CE to 1400: Students understand the characteristics, ideas, and significance of civilizations and religions from 1 CE to 1400.

4.12.1 World: Locate and describe civilizations in terms of geography, social structure, religion, political systems, and contributions, including: African; Byzantine; Chinese; Indian; Japanese; Scandinavian. (G 2.12.1; G 2.12.5; G 6.12.1)

4.12.2 World: Describe the characteristics of the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilizations, including: contributions; geography; political systems; religion; social structure. (G 2.12.1; G 2.12.2; G 2.12.5; G 5.12.1; G 5.12.6; G 6.12.1)

4.12.3 World: Describe the origin, traditions, customs, and spread of western and eastern world religions, including: Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Islam; Judaism.

4.12.4 World: Describe the characteristics of European feudalism.

4.12.5 World: Describe the rise of commercial trading centers and their effects on social, political, and economic institutions. (G 2.12.1; G 4.12.3; G 6.12.1)

NV.5.0. History: 1200 to 1750: Students understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.

5.12.1 World: Examine the impact of technological, mathematical, cultural, and artistic developments of the Renaissance.

5.12.2 World: Explain the development of European hereditary monarchies and their effects on: centralized government; commerce and trade; religion. (C 7.12.1)

5.12.3 World and United States: Explain the causes of the Reformation and its effects in Europe and the Americas.

5.12.4 World: Identify the influence of the Enlightenment on the Western World, including: fine arts; government; literature; philosophy; science. (G 2.5.3; G 2.5.6; G 4.5.8)

5.12.6 United States and Nevada: Compare common elements of Native North American societies, including: Communication; economic systems; housing; political systems; social systems; traditions.

5.12.7 World and United States: Examine the roles of nationalism, economics, and religious rivalries in the Age of Exploration.

5.12.8 World and United States: Analyze interactions among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.

5.12.9 World and United States: Analyze how the interactions among Native Americans, Africans, Europeans, and their descendants resulted in unique American economic, social, and political institutions.

5.12.10 World and United States: Describe the similarities and differences of European colonial communities in North America in terms of politics, religion, language, economics, and social customs.

5.12.11 United States: Compare and contrast life in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.

5.12.12 World and United States: Explain the impact of world commerce, including the African slave trade on Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

5.12.13 World: Describe the contributions and social, political, and economic characteristics of African, Chinese, Indian, and Japanese civilizations.

5.12.14 World: Describe how Islamic empires were a link between Africa, Europe, and Asia.

NV.6.0. History: 1700 to 1865: Students understand the people, events, ideas, and conflicts that led to the creation of new nations and distinctive cultures.

6.12.1 World and United States: Explain the causes and results of the Industrial Revolution. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 7.12.1; Ec 7.12.2; Ec 7.12.4; Ec 7.12.5)

6.12.2 World and United States: Describe the causes and effects of wars with Europeans, including the French and Indian War.

6.12.3 United States: Explain the political and economic causes and effects of the American Revolution. (C 1.12.2)

6.12.4 United States: Describe the ideas of John Locke, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson and their influences on the American Revolution and the formation of the United States.

6.12.5 United States: Describe the events, course, and results of the American Revolutionary War, including the contributions of African Americans and Native Americans.

6.12.6 United States: Explain the issues of the Confederation period, including: war debts and finance; western land; trade; taxation. (Ec 6.12.1)

6.12.7 United States: Describe the Constitution's underlying principles, including: checks and balances; federalism; limited government; popular sovereignty; separation of powers. (C 1.12.1; C 1.12.2; C 1.12.3; C 2.12.1; C 2.12.3; C 3.12.1; C 3.12.2; C 3.12 3)

6.12.8 United States: Describe the issues involved in the ratification of the Constitution, including: main ideas of The Federalist Papers; main ideas of the Anti-Federalists; the Bill of Rights. (C 1.12.2; C 3.12.1; C 5.12.4)

6.12.9 World and United States: Describe the influence of the American Revolution on Europe and the Americas.

6.12.10 World: Discuss the political events, people, and ideas that influenced European politics, including: Napoleon; Metternich; Marx; Congress of Vienna. (Ec 8.12.3)

6.12.11 World: Describe achievements in European fine arts and literature. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

6.12.12 World and United States: Describe the rise of national economies, the emergence of capitalism, and the free market economy. (C 7.12.2; Ec 6.12.1; Ec 6.12.2 Ec 7.12.3; Ec 9.12.1;Ec 9.12.3)

6.12.13 United States: Explain issues, events, and the roles of key people related to the development of United States political institutions, including: Washington's administration: The Marshall Court; judicial review; extension of suffrage; political parties. (C 2.12.5; C 4.12.2; C 5.12.1)

6.12.14 United States: Explain issues, events, and the roles of key individuals associated with the development of a national economic identity and foreign policy, including: development of the factory system and impacts of significant inventions such as the cotton gin and interchangeable parts; territorial, trade, & shipping issues with Great Britain; War of 1812; the creation of a national transportation system; Monroe Doctrine; growth and impact of immigration. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 9.12.1; Ec 9.12.2; Ec 9.12.3)

6.12.15 United States: Describe the social reform and religious movements of antebellum United States which attempted to enhance life, including: education reform; prison and mental health reform; religious revival; Utopian movement; women's rights.

6.12.16 United States: Describe the contributions in language, literature, art, and music that led to the development of an emerging culture in the United States, including: Stephen Foster; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Hudson River School of Art; Henry David Thoreau.

6.12.17 United States and Nevada: Explain the issue of Manifest Destiny and the events related to the expansion of the United States, including: Louisiana Purchase; removal of the Eastern tribes; Oregon and California Trails; Mexican War and Mexican War acquisitions; California Gold Rush; Homestead Act. (G 2.12.5; G 4.12.3)

6.12.20 United States: Explain abolitionism and describe the importance of abolitionists and slave revolts, including: John Brown; Frederick Douglass; William Lloyd Garrison; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Nat Turner.

6.12.21 United States: Describe the causes, key people, events, and outcome of the Civil War, including: states' rights and slavery; election of 1860; Frederick Douglass/ African American troops; President Lincoln; Emancipation Proclamation; Antietam, Vicksburg and Gettysburg; Gettysburg Address; Generals Grant and Lee.

NV.7.0. History: 1860 to 1920: Students understand the importance and impact of political, economic, and social ideas.

7.12.1 United States: Summarize the successes and failures of the Reconstruction period.

7.12.2 United States: Describe the key people and significant issues concerning African American rights, including: Booker T. Washington & the Tuskegee Institute; Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws; Plessy v. Ferguson; W.E.B. DuBois and the NAACP; Ida B. Wells and the NACW. (C 5.12.1)

7.12.3 United States: Describe federal policy toward Native Americans including: Dawes Act/Indian Reorganization Act of 1934; Indian Boarding Schools; Indian Citizenship Act of 1924; Plains Wars; reservation system. (C 5.12.1; C 6.12.2)

7.12.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the role of farming, railroads, mining in the settlement of the West. (Ec 6.12.3)

7.12.6 United States: Describe the causes, issues, and effects of the Populist Movement.

7.12.7 United States: Describe the effect of industrial technology innovations and urbanization on United States social and economic development. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 6.12.6; Ec 7.12.1)

7.12.8 United States: Describe the development of corporate capitalism, including: J.P. Morgan; mass production; vertical and horizontal integration/consolidation. (Ec 1.12.2; Ec 4.12.2; Ec 4.12.3; Ec 6.12.2; Ec 7.12.2)

7.12.9 Nevada and United States: Examine the motivations for groups coming to the United States and describe their contributions to United States society.

7.12.10 United States: Describe nativism and explain the response to immigration into the United States. (C 5.12.6)

7.12.11 United States and Nevada: Explain the origins and issues involved in the labor movement. (Ec 1.12.4; Ec 4.12.2; Ec 6.12.5)

7.12.12 United States: Describe the development and impact of the Progressive Movement, including: government reform; Prohibition; 'trust busting'.

7.12.13 United States: Describe the development of the women's suffrage movement and the passage of the 19th Amendment. (C 5.12.1)

7.12.14 World and United States: Discuss the causes, characteristics, and consequences of United States expansion and diplomacy, including: Alaska; Hawaii; Open Door Policy; Spanish-American War; Panama Canal; T. Roosevelt's foreign policy; Dollar Diplomacy.

7.12.15 World and United States: Explain the causes and effects of the Mexican Revolution of 1911.

7.12.16 World: Discuss the causes, characteristics, and consequences of European and Japanese expansion.

7.12.17 World and United States: Describe the causes, course, character, and effects of World War I, including: imperialism; arms race and alliances; nationalism; weapons/tactics; Fourteen Points; Treaty of Versailles.

7.12.18 World: Describe the causes and effects of the Russian Revolution: Romanovs; Lenin; Bolsheviks; Russian Civil War. (C 7.12.1)

7.12.20 World and United States: Explain how fine arts, literature, and leisure activities were a reflection of the time. (E3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

NV.8.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1920 to 1945: Students understand the importance and effect of political, economic, technological, and social changes in the world from 1920 to 1945.

8.12.1 World: Describe the rise of totalitarian societies in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. (C 7.12.1)

8.12.2 World and United States: Discuss the effects on society of new technologies of this era, including: communication; transportation; manufacturing. (Ec 6.12.3)

8.12.3 United States: Examine social tensions in the postwar era, including: radical politics; immigration restrictions; religious fundamentalism; racism.

8.12.4 United States: Describe how cultural developments in the arts, education, media, and leisure activities reflected and changed United States society. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

8.12.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the causes of the Great Depression and the policies and programs of the New Deal and their effects on social, political, economic, and diplomatic institutions.

8.12.6 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe the causes, course, character, and effects of World War II, including: legacy of WWI; campaigns and strategies; atomic bomb; significant military, political, and scientific leaders; the Big Four; United Nations; U.S. changing world status; war crimes trials. (Ec 2.12.3; Ec 2.12.6; Ec 2.12.7; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 7.12.1; Ec 7.12.3; Ec 8.12.1; Ec 8.12.3; Ec 8.12.6)

8.12.7 World and United States: Describe the causes, course, and effects of the Holocaust, including: 'Aryan supremacy', Nuremburg Laws; Kristallnacht; 'Final Solution'; concentration and death camps; creation of Israel. (C 8.12.1; C 8.12.3)

8.12.8 United States and Nevada: Analyze the effects of WWII on the homefront in the United States, including: internment camps; technologies; economic developments; propaganda; women/minority contributions; GI Bill. (C 5.12; C 5.12.1; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 8.12.6; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 8.12.6)

NV.9.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1945 to 1990: Students understand the shift of international relationships and power as well as the significant developments in American culture.

9.12.1 World and United States: Describe the causes and effects of the Cold War, including: Europe: Marshall Plan, Berlin, NATO; Middle East: Egypt, Israel, Afghanistan; Asia: Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam; Americas: Cuba, United States. (C 8.12.1)

9.12.2 United States: Describe the effects of the Cold War on the United States, including: arms race and nuclear testing; McCarthyism; space race; Cuban Missile Crisis. (C 8.12.1)

9.12.3 World and United States: Describe the cause, course, and character of the Korean War, including: United Nations Security Council; Pusan Perimeter; General MacArthur; Inchon; Yalu River; 38th Parallel.

9.12.4 World: Explain how and why African and Asian peoples achieved independence from colonial rule.

9.12.5 World and United States: Analyze how postwar science and technology augmented United States economic strength, transformed daily life, and influenced the world economy and politics. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 7.12.2; Ec 7.12.5)

9.12.6 United States: Describe the causes and effects of changing demographics and developing suburbanization in the United States. (Ec 6.12.5)

9.12.8 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe the major issues, events, and key people of the Civil Rights and minority rights movements, including: Black Power Movement; United Farm Workers; American Indian Movement; Viva La Raza; Women's Rights Movement; Americans with Disabilities Act; Civil Rights Act of 1964. (C 5.12.1; C 5.12.6; C 5.12.7)

9.12.9 World and United States: Describe the causes, course, character, and effects of the Vietnam war, including: Ho Chi Minh; Dien Bien Phu; Ngo Dinh Diem; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; draft and lottery; Tet Offensive; anti-war movement; Paris Peace Accord; POWs and MIAs; Imperialism. (C 4.12.5)

9.12.10 United States: Describe the changes in United States political culture, including: the role of the media; the role of women and minorities; Watergate; Iranian hostage crisis; Iran-contra affair; Grenada and Panama.

9.12.11 World and United States: Describe how international policies contributed to the end of the Cold War, including: recognition of China; detente; disarmament treaties; 'Star Wars' (SDI); solidarity. (C 5.12.6)

9.12.12 United States and World: Describe the geopolitical changes in the world due to the disintegration of the USSR.

9.12.14 United States: Summarize the influence of art, music, literature, and the media on United States society. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

NV.10.0. History: New Challenges, 1990 to the Present: Students understand the political, economic, social, and technological issues challenging the world as it approaches and enters the new millennium.

10.12.1 World and United States: Identify and explain the implications of scientific and technological achievements, including: personal computers; Internet; Satellites; Biotechnology.

10.12.2 World and United States: Describe the regional and global effects of political and economic alliances. (Ec 9.12.1; Ec 9.12.2)

10.12.3 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe how global issues affect nations differently, including: human rights; the environment; world and U.S. regional conflicts; medical concerns.

10.12.4 World and United States: Explain the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf War, including: Kuwait invasion; world oil supply; changing alliances.

10.12.5 United States: Describe the changing political climate in the United States, including: the role of the media; the Clinton impeachment.

10.12.6 World and United States: Explain how literature, music, and the visual arts are reflections of the time. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

NV.1.0. Economics: The Economic Way of Thinking: Students will use fundamental economic concepts, including scarcity, choice, cost, incentives, and costs versus benefits to describe and analyze problems and opportunities, both individual and social.

1.12.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Cost: Explain why choices and their costs may differ across individuals and societies.

1.12.2 Incentives and Preferences: Recognize that people act out of self-interest and predict how a change in the economic environment will affect the choices made by consumers, producers, and savers.

1.12.3 Cost versus Benefits: Examine decisions made by individuals, businesses, and government by comparing the marginal benefits and marginal costs.

1.12.4 Personal Economics: Give examples of and evaluate the effectiveness of incentive systems used by parents, teachers, and employers. (E10.12.4)

NV.2.0. Economics: Measuring U.S. Economic Performance: Students will demonstrate a knowledge of past and present U.S. economic performance, identify the economic indicators used to measure that performance, and use this knowledge to make individual decisions and discuss social issues.

2.12.1 Measuring Economic Growth: Explain the difference between nominal GDP and real GDP.

2.12.2 Measuring Economic Growth: Using real GDP per capita as a measure of the standard of living, describe how living standards have changed over time. (H 1.12.2; H 2.12.3)

2.12.3 Measuring Economic Growth: Using the change in real GDP, examine the U.S. economy over time, identifying recessions and high and low rates of growth. (H 1.12.2; H 2.12.3; H 8.8.6; H 8.12.6)

2.12.4 Measuring Inflation: Using a price index to measure inflation, identify when the U.S. economy has experienced high and low rates of inflation and discuss their effects. (H 1.12.2; H 2.12.3)

2.12.5 Measuring Inflation: Use various price indexes to determine how the prices of different types of goods and services have changed.

2.12.6 Measuring Unemployment: Explain and give examples of the costs of unemployment to the economy as a whole (such as lost income, lost tax revenue, and additional welfare burdens). (H 8.12.6)

2.12.7 Measuring Unemployment: Compare the unemployment rates for groups of people who differ by age, gender, ethnic origin, occupation, and educational attainment.

2.12.8 Measuring Interest: Explain why a real interest rate accurately measures the benefit of saving or the cost of borrowing.

2.12.9 Measuring Interest: Demonstrate knowledge of when interest rate levels have experienced relative highs and relative lows throughout U.S. history and discuss their effects. (H 1.12.2; H 8.12.6)

2.12.10 Personal Economics: Characterize different career paths according to the rates of job growth and employment opportunities.

2.12.11 Personal Economics: Explain ways a high interest rate could be detrimental or beneficial.

2.12.12 Personal Economics: Evaluate saving and borrowing options in terms of interest and compare long- and short-term costs and benefits.

NV.3.0. Economics: Functioning of Markets: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how markets work, including an understanding of why markets form, how supply and demand interact to determine market prices and interest rates, and how changes in prices act as signals to coordinate trade.

3.12.1 Trade Is Beneficial: Demonstrate an understanding that all voluntary trade, by definition, benefits both parties.

3.12.2 Markets Determine Prices: Use the concepts of supply and demand to analyze and predict the price changes occurring in markets for goods and services. (H 2.12.3)

3.12.3 Prices as Signals: Use the concept of price elasticity to analyze how buyers and sellers might adjust their purchase and sales decisions in response to price changes.

3.12.4 Prices as Signals: Discuss the effects of price controls (price ceilings and price floors) (such as minimum wage, rent control). (E 10.12.4)

3.12.5 Determining Interest Rates: Use supply and demand to explain how interest rates are determined.

3.12.6 Personal Economics: Analyze and predict instances in which people pay high and low interest rates (such as car loans and credit cards).

3.12.7 Personal Economics: Analyze family spending decisions, drawing conclusions about the desirability of making substitutions, given the relative prices of various substitutes.

NV.4.0. Economics: Private U.S. Economic Institutions: Students will describe the roles played by U.S. economic institutions including financial institutions, labor unions, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations.

4.12.1 Financial Institutions: Analyze the roles of financial institutions in creating credit.

4.12.2 Labor Unions: Discuss how labor unions affect employees and employers. (C 5.12.6; E 10.12.4)

4.12.3 For-profit Business Organizations: Identify current or historical mergers, buyouts, and acquisitions. (H 7.12.8)

4.12.4 Not-for-profit Organizations: Explain how the services of not-for-profit organizations impact other economic institutions.

4.12.5 Personal Economics: Compare and contrast the services offered by financial institutions, evaluating their usefulness to borrowers and lenders.

4.12.6 Personal Economics: Compare and contrast careers associated with financial institutions, labor unions, for-profit business organizations, and not-for-profit organizations.

NV.5.0. Economics: Money: Students demonstrate an understanding of forms of money, how money makes it easier to trade, borrow, save, invest, and compare the value of goods and services; and how the Federal Reserve System and its policies affect the U.S. money supply.

5.12.1 Functions of Money: Explain the three functions of money: medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account.

5.12.2 The Federal Reserve and the Banking System: Explain why the money supply increases when banks make loans.

5.12.3 The Federal Reserve and the Banking System: Explain how the Federal Reserve influences bank loan activity using the reserve requirement, discount rate, and open market operations.

5.12.4 History of Money: Describe the nation's current money supply measures, including M1 and M2.

5.12.5 Personal Economics: Explain what a credit rating is and how it affects access to money.

NV.6.0. Economics: The U.S. Economy as a Whole: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the U.S. economic system as a whole in terms of how it allocates resources; determines the nation's production, income, unemployment, and price levels; and leads to variations in individual income levels.

6.12.1 Resource Allocation: Compare the benefits and costs of allocating resources through markets or government. (C 7.12.2; H 6.8.12; H 6.12.12)

6.12.2 Resource Allocation: Discuss how an economy determines what goods and services will be produced, how they will be produced, and who will receive them. (H 6.12.12)

6.12.3 The Nation's Production Level: Analyze the potential production of goods and services for a nation as determined by its resources and technology. (H 6.12.1; H 7.12.7; H 9.12.5)

6.12.4 The Nation's Income Level: Explain how the multiplier can affect the nation's income.

6.12.5 The Nation's Unemployment Rate: Make connections between the nation's unemployment rate and changes in seasons, changes in an industry, and changes in demographics. (E 11.12.2)

6.12.6 Differences in Individual Incomes: Explain how and why changes in product demand can affect the price of the product, which, in turn, can affect the wages paid to a worker.

6.12.7 Personal Economics: Assess the attractiveness of career paths of interest and how they might be affected by changes in the national economy.

NV.7.0. Economics: An Evolving Economy: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how investment, entrepreneurship, competition, and specialization lead to changes in an economy's structure and performance.

7.12.1 Investment: Describe the past, present, and future role of investment in enhancing economic growth and raising living standards. (H 7.12.7)

7.12.2 Investment: Identify the benefits and the costs of investing in new physical capital and new human capital.

7.12.3 Investment: Examine government's impact on investment through taxes, fees, government regulation, enterprise zones, and subsidies. (C 3.8.1)

7.12.4 Entrepreneurship: Discuss how entrepreneurs affect the economy by solving problems, taking risks, and taking advantage of opportunities to earn profits.

7.12.5 Competition: Explain how individual self-interest, channeled through the marketplace, can increase the overall standard of living. (H 6.12.12)

7.12.6 Specialization: Discuss the pros and cons of specialization and interdependence. (E 10.12.14)

7.12.7 Personal Economics: Explain why top performers in any field are specialists.

NV.8.0. Economics: The Role of Government in a Market Economy: Students will explain the role of government in a market economy.

8.12.1 Public Goods: Explain why government provides public goods rather than allowing the market to provide them.

8.12.2 Externalities: Explain why government intervenes in markets in response to externalities.

8.12.3 Redistributing Income: Discuss whether redistributing income is an appropriate role of government. (C 2.12.3; E 10.12.1; E 10.12.4; H 8.12.6)

8.12.4 Property Rights: Demonstrate an under-standing that government must define, establish, and enforce property rights in order for markets to function. (C 1.12.1)

8.12.5 Political Decisions: Explain why it is possible that a government decision may impose costs on many, but only benefit a few. (C 4.12.2; C 4.12.3)

8.12.6 Fiscal Policy: Explain how fiscal policy affects production, employment, and price levels. (C 4.12.6; H 8.12.6; H 8.12.9)

8.12.7 Personal Economics: Give examples of mandates that increase prices of goods and services in Nevada.

NV.9.0. Economics: The International Economy: Students explore the characteristics of non-U.S. economic systems in order to demonstrate an understanding of how they are connected, through trade, to peoples and cultures throughout the world.

9.12.1 International Trade: Analyze the pros and cons of foreign trade, comparing free trade with restricted trade. (E10.12.4; G 4.12.6; H 10.12.2)

9.12.2 Interdependence: Describe how foreign economic events can impact the U.S. economy. (C 8.12.2; G 4.12.7; H 7.12.17; H 10.12.3)

9.12.3 Characteristics of Non-U.S. Economic Systems: Describe some characteristics of non-U.S. economies that affect international trade. (C 7.12.2; G 4.12.7; G 6.12.1)

9.12.4 Exchange Rates: Determine how a change in exchange rates affects the ability of residents of one country to consume products from other countries.

9.12.5 Personal Economics: Draw conclusions about how the prices of goods you purchase would change if imports were restricted.

9.12.6 Personal Economics: Discuss how potential career paths could be affected by changes in foreign demand for U.S. products.

NV.1.0. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms: Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

1.12.1 Map Use: Use a variety of complex maps to acquire geographic information such as topographic, demographic, and land use. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.2 Map Section: Select appropriate maps, map projections, and other representations to analyze and interpret geographic information. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.3 Geographic Tools and Technologies: Use appropriate geo- graphic tools and technologies to analyze and interpret Earth's physical and human features. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.4 Map Construction: Construct complex, accurate maps and models from memory to answer questions about the location of human and physical features. (H 2.12.3)

1.12.5 Map Applications: Analyze maps for similarities and differences in purpose, accuracy, content, and design. (H 2.12.5)

1.12.6 Map Analysis: Apply concepts and models of spatial organization to make decisions about geographic information.

NV.2.0. Geography: Places and Regions-Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of changes.

2.12.1 Characteristics of Places and Regions: Determine how relationships between humans and the physical environment lead to the development of and connections among places and regions. (H 3.12.3; H 4.12.1; H 4.12.2; H 4.12.5)

2.12.2 Cultural Identity: Explain why places and regions are important to cultural identity and can serve as forces for both unification and fragmentation. (E 3.12.1;E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3; H 4.12.2)

2.12.3 Cultural Perspectives: Compare and contrast the characteristics of places and regions from different points of view. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

2.12.4 Impact of Technology: Determine how technology affects the way cultural groups perceive and use places and regions. (H 3.12.3; H 3.12.4)

2.12.5 History and Region: Analyze selected historical issues and questions using the geographic concept of regions. (H 3.12.3;H 3.12.4; H 4.12.1; H 4.12.2; H 6.12.17)

2.12.6 Patterns of Change: Analyze why places and regions once characterized by one set of criteria may be defined by a different set of criteria today, and evaluate these changes. (H 3.12.3;H 3.12.4; H 4.12.1)

2.12.7 Applying Concepts of Regions: Apply the concept of region to organize and study a geographic issue.

NV.3.0. Geography: Physical Systems-Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and ecosystems.

3.12.1 Physical Systems: Describe and analyze how interactions of the four basic physical systems affect different regions of the United States and the world.

3.12.2 Natural Hazards: Describe the causes and consequences of natural hazards that shape features and patterns on the Earth.

3.12.3 Characteristics of Ecosystems: Analyze the effects of physical and human forces on interdependence within different ecosystems.

3.12.4 Distribution of Ecosystems: Analyze the biodiversity, distribution, and productivity of ecosystems across Earth's surface.

3.12.5 Analysis of Ecosystems: Propose solutions to environmental problems using the concept of ecosystems.

NV.4.0. Geography: Human Systems - Students understand how economic, political, and cultural processes interact to shape patterns of human migration and settlement, influence and interdependence, and conflict and cooperation.

4.12.1 Demographic Concepts: Analyze demographic trends in world population.

4.12.2 Migration and Settlement: Evaluate the impact of migration and settlement on physical and human systems. (H 3.12.3)

4.12.3 Historical Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas: Analyze how history has been affected by the movement of people, goods, and ideas.

4.12.4 Patterns of Human Settlement: Compare the characteristics and patterns of migration and settlement in developing and developed countries.

4.12.5 Economic Systems and Interdependence: Analyze how location and distance connect and influence economic systems at local, national, and international levels. (C 8.12.2; H 3.12.3; H 4.12.5)

4.12.6 Analysis of Economic Issues: Analyze and evaluate international economic issues from a spatial perspective. (E 5.12.6; Ec 9.12.1; H 4.12.5)

4.12.7 Patterns of Human Development: Predict the impact of changes in the level of economic development on the quality of life in developing and developed countries. (Ec 2.12.2; M 5.12.1)

4.12.8 Human Organizations: Evaluate the changes that occur in the size and structure of cultural, political, and economic organizations. (C 4.12.2)

4.12.9 Cooperation and Conflict: Analyze how different cultures, points of view, and self-interests influence cooperation and conflict over territory and resources. (C 5.12.6; C 4.12.3)

4.12.10 International Alliances and Organizations: Describe the forces of cooperation and conflict as they affect the way the world is divided among countries.

NV.5.0. Geography: Environment and Society-Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

5.12.1 Changes in the Physical Environment: Compare and contrast how changes in the physical environment can increase or diminish its capacity to support human activity. (H 3.12.2; H 4.12.2)

5.12.2 Constraints of the Physical Environment: Evaluate strategies to respond to constraints placed on human systems by the physical environment.

5.12.3 Technology and the Physical Environment: Describe the ways in which technology has affected the human capacity to modify the physical environment and evaluate the possible regional or global impact. (C 4.12.6; C 5.12.6)

5.12.4 Human Modification: Develop possible responses to changes caused by human modification of the physical environment. (C 4.12.6; C 5.12.6)

5.12.5 Effects of Natural Hazards on Human Systems: Analyze human perception of and response to natural hazards.

5.12.6 Earth's Resources: Analyze the patterns of use, the changing distribution, and the relative importance of Earth's resources. (C 5.12.6; H 3.12.3; H 4.12.2; H 4.12.5)

5.12.7 Management of Earth's Resources: Develop policies for the use and management of Earth's resources that consider the various interests involved. (C 4.12.6; C 5.12.6; E 9.12.3)

NV.6.0. Geography: Geographic Applications-Students apply geographic knowledge of people, places, and environments to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future.

6.12.1 Applying Geography in History: Analyze the ways in which physical features and human characteristics of places and regions have influenced the evolution of significant historical events. (C 5.12.6; H 3.12.3; H 4.12.1; H 4.12.2; H 4.12.5)

6.12.2 Applying Geography in Current Events: Relate current events to the physical features and human characteristics of places and regions. (C 5.12.6)

6.12.3 Applying Geography to Contemporary Issues: Analyze a contemporary issue using geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives. (C 5.12.6; E 4.12.4)

6.12.4 Applying Geography to the Future: Predict possible outcomes and develop future policies for local or regional issues that have spatial dimensions. (C 5.12.6)

NV.7.0. Geography: Geographic Skills: Students ask and answer geographic questions by acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

7.12.1 Ask Geographic Questions: Plan and organize a geographic research project by asking appropriate geographic questions.

7.12.2 Acquire Geographic Information: Locate and acquire a variety of primary and secondary information sources and assess the value of each. (E 11.12.2)

7.12.3 Organize Geographic Information: Use a variety of tools and technologies to select and design appropriate forms of maps, graphs, diagrams, tables, or charts to organize geographic information. (E 11.12.2)

7.12.4 Analyze Geographic Information: Use quantitative methods of analysis to make inferences and draw conclusions from maps and other geographic representations.

7.12.5 Present Geographic Information: Complete a geographic inquiry by applying geographic models, generalizations, and theories to the analysis, interpretation, and presentation of information. (E 10.12.2; H 1.12.2)

NV.1.0. Civics: Rules and Law: Students know why society needs rules, laws, and governments.

1.12.1 Rules and Law: Explain the concept of the rule of law in the establishment of the U.S. Constitution.

1.12.2 Documents: Explain the influence of social contract theory, natural rights philosophy and republicanism in the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution. (H 6.12.4; H 6.12.8; H 6.12.3; H 6.12.7)

1.12.3 Documents: Describe the historic influences on early U.S. documents, such as: Greek law, Magna Carta, Iroquois League. (H 6.12.4; H 6.12.7)

1.12.4 Democratic Participation: Analyze the role of citizen participation in U.S. civic life.

1.12.5 The U.S. Constitution and Amendments: Identify and explain changes in the interpretation and application of the U.S. Constitution.

NV.2.0. Civics: The U.S. Government: Students know the United States Constitution and the government it creates.

2.12.1 The U.S. Constitution: Examine the organization of the U.S. Constitution and describe the structure it creates, including the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. (H 6.12.4; H 6.12.7)

2.12.2 The Legislative Structure and Process: Describe the creation of laws through the legislative process.

2.12.3 Legislative Powers: Analyze and give examples of the expansion of the national government through the application of the enumerated and implied powers. (Ec 8.12.3; H 6.12.7)

2.12.4 The Executive Branch: Describe the duties of the executive branch, including: Cabinet/departments; regulatory commissions; White House staff

2.12.5 The Judicial Branch: Describe the structure and jurisdiction of the federal court system and analyze the power of judicial review. (H 6.12.13)

2.12.6 The Jury System: Explain the importance of the jury process in a democratic society. (H 6.8.8)

2.12.7 Checks and Balances: Analyze the effectiveness of checks and balances in maintaining the equal division of power. (H 6.12.7)

NV.3.0. Civics: National and State Government: Students can explain the relationship between the states and national government.

3.12.1 Division of Powers: Explain the U.S. Constitutional provisions for division of powers between the state and national governments (delegated, reserved, concurrent powers). (H 6.12.7; H 6.12.8)

3.12.2 Federalism: Provide contemporary examples of federalism. (H 6.12.7)

3.12.3 Constitutional Supremacy: Use examples to illustrate the supremacy clause in defining the relationship between state and national governments. (H 6.12.7)

NV.4.0. Civics: The Political Process: Students describe the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public opinion in the democratic process.

4.12.1 Leaders and Elections: Assess the processes by which leaders are selected in the U.S. political system and analyze the role of the electoral college system in the election of the President.

4.12.2 Political Parties: Analyze the roles and function of factions within political parties and the role of parties in public policy and politics. (E 8.12.5; H 6.12.3)

4.12.3 Interest Groups: Evaluate the significance of interest groups in the political process of a democratic society. (Ec 8.12.5; G 4.12.2)

4.12.4 Formation of Public Opinion: Analyze the role that television and other media play in the process of political persuasion. (E 4.12.1; E 4.12.2; E 11.12.2; H 10.12.5)

4.12.5 Propaganda: Evaluate propaganda in both historic and current political communication (E 4.12.4; E 4.12.5; H 9.12.9)

4.12.6 Public Policy: Describe the process by which public policy is formed and carried out. (Ec 8.12.6; E 4.12.1; E 4.12.2; G 5.12.7)

NV.5.0. Civics: Citizenship: Students know the roles, rights, and responsibilities of United States citizens and the symbols of our country.

5.12.1 Citizenship: Examine the rights of citizens and how these rights may be restricted. (H 6.12.13; H 7.12.2; H 7.12.3; H 7.12.13; H 8.12.9; H 9.12. 8)

5.12.2 Citizenship: Examine the responsibilities of U.S. citizens.

5.12.3 Symbols: Explain symbols and documents of a nation and how they represent its identity.

5.12.4 Individual Rights: Describe the development of the Bill of Rights and provide a contemporary application. (H 6.12.8)

5.12.5 Individual Rights: Analyze the United States Constitution and its amendments in protecting individual rights, including the Fourteenth Amendment's provisions for due process and equal protection. (H 7.8.1)

5.12.6 Conflict and Resolution: Identify major conflicts in social, political, and economic life and analyze the role of compromise in the resolution of these issues. (G 4.12.9; G 6.12.2; H 8.12.7; H 9.12.1; H 9.12.8)

5.12.7 The Supreme Court and Individual Rights Cases: Describe the role of the United States Supreme Court as guardian of individual rights through the examination of landmark cases, including: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; Gideon v. Wainwright; Miranda v. Arizona; Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (H 9.12.8)

NV.6.0. Civics: State and Local Government: Students know the structure and functions of state and local governments.

6.12.1 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Explain the structure and function of state and local governments.

6.12.2 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Describe the unique role of tribal governments within the United States. (H 7.12.3)

6.12.3 Structure of State, Local, and Tribal Government: Compare and contrast the structure of the Nevada and United States Constitutions.

6.12.4 Court Systems: Describe the differences between the local, state, and federal court systems.

NV.7.0. Civics: Political and Economic Systems: Students explain the different political and economic systems in the world.

7.12.1 Comparative Political Systems: Summarize and evaluate the significant characteristics of the world's major political systems, including: monarchy; totalitarian dictatorship; presidential system; parliamentary system ; communism (H 5.12.2; H 7.12.17; H 7.12.18; H 8.8.1)

7.12.2 Comparative Economic Systems: Define and analyze the major economic systems of the world, including: capitalism; mixed economy; socialism; command economy (Ec 9.12.3; H 6.12.12)

NV.8.0. Civics: International Relations: Students know the political and economic relationship of the United States and its citizens to other nations.

8.12.1 From Individual to the World: Analyze the conflict between U.S. policies of isolationism versus intervention in world affairs. (H 7.12.14; H 8.12.7; H 9.12.1)

8.12.2 Foreign Policy: Identify and analyze the effectiveness of U.S. foreign policy in dealing with international problems and concerns including: diplomacy; economic policy; humanitarian aid; military intervention

8.12.3 International Organizations: Critique the role of international organizations, such as the United Nations and non-governmental organizations, in world affairs. (H 8.12.7)

NV.1.0. History: Chronology: Students use chronology to organize and understand the sequence and relationship of events.

1.12.1 Current Events: Analyze and develop a position on a current event. (E 10.12.4)

1.12.2 Chronology: Explain the sequence and relationship of events on a tiered time line. (G 7.12.5)

NV.2.0. History: History Skills: Students will use social studies vocabulary and concepts to engage in inquiry, in research, in analysis, and in decision making.

2.12.1 Inquiry: Frame and evaluate historical questions from multiple viewpoints. (E 4.12.3; E 11.12.1)

2.12.2 Research and Analysis: Integrate, analyze, and organize historical information from a variety of sources. (E 4.12.3; E 4.12.5; E 11.12.2; E 11.12.5)

2.12.3 Informational Tools: Analyze and interpret historical content from informational tools, including: charts; diagrams; graphs; maps; political cartoons; photographs; tables. (G 1.12.1; G 1.12.2; G 1.12.3; G 1.12.4 )

NV.3.0. History: Prehistory to 400 CE: Students understand the development of human societies, civilizations, and empires through 400 CE.

3.12.1 World, United States, and Nevada: Identify and describe the characteristics of pre-agricultural societies.

3.12.2 World: Describe technological innovations of early agricultural societies, including: development of agriculture; domestication of animals; development of permanent communities.

3.12.3 World: Explain and demonstrate how geography influenced the political, social, and economic growth of ancient classical civilizations, including: Africa; China; Greece; India; Mesopotamia; Rome. (G 2.12.1; G 2.12.5; G 2.12.6; G 4.12.3; G 5.12.1; G 6.12.1)

3.12.4 World: Describe the unique political, economic, religious, social, technological, and cultural contributions of ancient and classical civilizations, including: Africa; the Americas; China; Greece; Hebrew kingdoms; India; Mesopotamia; Phoenicia; Rome. (C 1.12.3; G 2.12.4; G 2.12.5)

NV.4.0. History: 1 CE to 1400: Students understand the characteristics, ideas, and significance of civilizations and religions from 1 CE to 1400.

4.12.1 World: Locate and describe civilizations in terms of geography, social structure, religion, political systems, and contributions, including: African; Byzantine; Chinese; Indian; Japanese; Scandinavian. (G 2.12.1; G 2.12.5; G 6.12.1)

4.12.2 World: Describe the characteristics of the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilizations, including: contributions; geography; political systems; religion; social structure. (G 2.12.1; G 2.12.2; G 2.12.5; G 5.12.1; G 5.12.6; G 6.12.1)

4.12.3 World: Describe the origin, traditions, customs, and spread of western and eastern world religions, including: Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Islam; Judaism.

4.12.4 World: Describe the characteristics of European feudalism.

4.12.5 World: Describe the rise of commercial trading centers and their effects on social, political, and economic institutions. (G 2.12.1; G 4.12.3; G 6.12.1)

NV.5.0. History: 1200 to 1750: Students understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.

5.12.1 World: Examine the impact of technological, mathematical, cultural, and artistic developments of the Renaissance.

5.12.2 World: Explain the development of European hereditary monarchies and their effects on: centralized government; commerce and trade; religion. (C 7.12.1)

5.12.3 World and United States: Explain the causes of the Reformation and its effects in Europe and the Americas.

5.12.4 World: Identify the influence of the Enlightenment on the Western World, including: fine arts; government; literature; philosophy; science. (G 2.5.3; G 2.5.6; G 4.5.8)

5.12.6 United States and Nevada: Compare common elements of Native North American societies, including: Communication; economic systems; housing; political systems; social systems; traditions.

5.12.7 World and United States: Examine the roles of nationalism, economics, and religious rivalries in the Age of Exploration.

5.12.8 World and United States: Analyze interactions among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.

5.12.9 World and United States: Analyze how the interactions among Native Americans, Africans, Europeans, and their descendants resulted in unique American economic, social, and political institutions.

5.12.10 World and United States: Describe the similarities and differences of European colonial communities in North America in terms of politics, religion, language, economics, and social customs.

5.12.11 United States: Compare and contrast life in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.

5.12.12 World and United States: Explain the impact of world commerce, including the African slave trade on Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

5.12.13 World: Describe the contributions and social, political, and economic characteristics of African, Chinese, Indian, and Japanese civilizations.

5.12.14 World: Describe how Islamic empires were a link between Africa, Europe, and Asia.

NV.6.0. History: 1700 to 1865: Students understand the people, events, ideas, and conflicts that led to the creation of new nations and distinctive cultures.

6.12.1 World and United States: Explain the causes and results of the Industrial Revolution. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 7.12.1; Ec 7.12.2; Ec 7.12.4; Ec 7.12.5)

6.12.2 World and United States: Describe the causes and effects of wars with Europeans, including the French and Indian War.

6.12.3 United States: Explain the political and economic causes and effects of the American Revolution. (C 1.12.2)

6.12.4 United States: Describe the ideas of John Locke, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson and their influences on the American Revolution and the formation of the United States.

6.12.5 United States: Describe the events, course, and results of the American Revolutionary War, including the contributions of African Americans and Native Americans.

6.12.6 United States: Explain the issues of the Confederation period, including: war debts and finance; western land; trade; taxation. (Ec 6.12.1)

6.12.7 United States: Describe the Constitution's underlying principles, including: checks and balances; federalism; limited government; popular sovereignty; separation of powers. (C 1.12.1; C 1.12.2; C 1.12.3; C 2.12.1; C 2.12.3; C 3.12.1; C 3.12.2; C 3.12 3)

6.12.8 United States: Describe the issues involved in the ratification of the Constitution, including: main ideas of The Federalist Papers; main ideas of the Anti-Federalists; the Bill of Rights. (C 1.12.2; C 3.12.1; C 5.12.4)

6.12.9 World and United States: Describe the influence of the American Revolution on Europe and the Americas.

6.12.10 World: Discuss the political events, people, and ideas that influenced European politics, including: Napoleon; Metternich; Marx; Congress of Vienna. (Ec 8.12.3)

6.12.11 World: Describe achievements in European fine arts and literature. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

6.12.12 World and United States: Describe the rise of national economies, the emergence of capitalism, and the free market economy. (C 7.12.2; Ec 6.12.1; Ec 6.12.2 Ec 7.12.3; Ec 9.12.1;Ec 9.12.3)

6.12.13 United States: Explain issues, events, and the roles of key people related to the development of United States political institutions, including: Washington's administration: The Marshall Court; judicial review; extension of suffrage; political parties. (C 2.12.5; C 4.12.2; C 5.12.1)

6.12.14 United States: Explain issues, events, and the roles of key individuals associated with the development of a national economic identity and foreign policy, including: development of the factory system and impacts of significant inventions such as the cotton gin and interchangeable parts; territorial, trade, & shipping issues with Great Britain; War of 1812; the creation of a national transportation system; Monroe Doctrine; growth and impact of immigration. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 9.12.1; Ec 9.12.2; Ec 9.12.3)

6.12.15 United States: Describe the social reform and religious movements of antebellum United States which attempted to enhance life, including: education reform; prison and mental health reform; religious revival; Utopian movement; women's rights.

6.12.16 United States: Describe the contributions in language, literature, art, and music that led to the development of an emerging culture in the United States, including: Stephen Foster; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Hudson River School of Art; Henry David Thoreau.

6.12.17 United States and Nevada: Explain the issue of Manifest Destiny and the events related to the expansion of the United States, including: Louisiana Purchase; removal of the Eastern tribes; Oregon and California Trails; Mexican War and Mexican War acquisitions; California Gold Rush; Homestead Act. (G 2.12.5; G 4.12.3)

6.12.20 United States: Explain abolitionism and describe the importance of abolitionists and slave revolts, including: John Brown; Frederick Douglass; William Lloyd Garrison; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Nat Turner.

6.12.21 United States: Describe the causes, key people, events, and outcome of the Civil War, including: states' rights and slavery; election of 1860; Frederick Douglass/ African American troops; President Lincoln; Emancipation Proclamation; Antietam, Vicksburg and Gettysburg; Gettysburg Address; Generals Grant and Lee.

NV.7.0. History: 1860 to 1920: Students understand the importance and impact of political, economic, and social ideas.

7.12.1 United States: Summarize the successes and failures of the Reconstruction period.

7.12.2 United States: Describe the key people and significant issues concerning African American rights, including: Booker T. Washington & the Tuskegee Institute; Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws; Plessy v. Ferguson; W.E.B. DuBois and the NAACP; Ida B. Wells and the NACW. (C 5.12.1)

7.12.3 United States: Describe federal policy toward Native Americans including: Dawes Act/Indian Reorganization Act of 1934; Indian Boarding Schools; Indian Citizenship Act of 1924; Plains Wars; reservation system. (C 5.12.1; C 6.12.2)

7.12.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the role of farming, railroads, mining in the settlement of the West. (Ec 6.12.3)

7.12.6 United States: Describe the causes, issues, and effects of the Populist Movement.

7.12.7 United States: Describe the effect of industrial technology innovations and urbanization on United States social and economic development. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 6.12.6; Ec 7.12.1)

7.12.8 United States: Describe the development of corporate capitalism, including: J.P. Morgan; mass production; vertical and horizontal integration/consolidation. (Ec 1.12.2; Ec 4.12.2; Ec 4.12.3; Ec 6.12.2; Ec 7.12.2)

7.12.9 Nevada and United States: Examine the motivations for groups coming to the United States and describe their contributions to United States society.

7.12.10 United States: Describe nativism and explain the response to immigration into the United States. (C 5.12.6)

7.12.11 United States and Nevada: Explain the origins and issues involved in the labor movement. (Ec 1.12.4; Ec 4.12.2; Ec 6.12.5)

7.12.12 United States: Describe the development and impact of the Progressive Movement, including: government reform; Prohibition; 'trust busting'.

7.12.13 United States: Describe the development of the women's suffrage movement and the passage of the 19th Amendment. (C 5.12.1)

7.12.14 World and United States: Discuss the causes, characteristics, and consequences of United States expansion and diplomacy, including: Alaska; Hawaii; Open Door Policy; Spanish-American War; Panama Canal; T. Roosevelt's foreign policy; Dollar Diplomacy.

7.12.15 World and United States: Explain the causes and effects of the Mexican Revolution of 1911.

7.12.16 World: Discuss the causes, characteristics, and consequences of European and Japanese expansion.

7.12.17 World and United States: Describe the causes, course, character, and effects of World War I, including: imperialism; arms race and alliances; nationalism; weapons/tactics; Fourteen Points; Treaty of Versailles.

7.12.18 World: Describe the causes and effects of the Russian Revolution: Romanovs; Lenin; Bolsheviks; Russian Civil War. (C 7.12.1)

7.12.20 World and United States: Explain how fine arts, literature, and leisure activities were a reflection of the time. (E3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

NV.8.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1920 to 1945: Students understand the importance and effect of political, economic, technological, and social changes in the world from 1920 to 1945.

8.12.1 World: Describe the rise of totalitarian societies in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. (C 7.12.1)

8.12.2 World and United States: Discuss the effects on society of new technologies of this era, including: communication; transportation; manufacturing. (Ec 6.12.3)

8.12.3 United States: Examine social tensions in the postwar era, including: radical politics; immigration restrictions; religious fundamentalism; racism.

8.12.4 United States: Describe how cultural developments in the arts, education, media, and leisure activities reflected and changed United States society. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

8.12.5 United States and Nevada: Describe the causes of the Great Depression and the policies and programs of the New Deal and their effects on social, political, economic, and diplomatic institutions.

8.12.6 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe the causes, course, character, and effects of World War II, including: legacy of WWI; campaigns and strategies; atomic bomb; significant military, political, and scientific leaders; the Big Four; United Nations; U.S. changing world status; war crimes trials. (Ec 2.12.3; Ec 2.12.6; Ec 2.12.7; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 7.12.1; Ec 7.12.3; Ec 8.12.1; Ec 8.12.3; Ec 8.12.6)

8.12.7 World and United States: Describe the causes, course, and effects of the Holocaust, including: 'Aryan supremacy', Nuremburg Laws; Kristallnacht; 'Final Solution'; concentration and death camps; creation of Israel. (C 8.12.1; C 8.12.3)

8.12.8 United States and Nevada: Analyze the effects of WWII on the homefront in the United States, including: internment camps; technologies; economic developments; propaganda; women/minority contributions; GI Bill. (C 5.12; C 5.12.1; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 8.12.6; Ec 6.12.5; Ec 8.12.6)

NV.9.0. History: The Twentieth Century, a Changing World: 1945 to 1990: Students understand the shift of international relationships and power as well as the significant developments in American culture.

9.12.1 World and United States: Describe the causes and effects of the Cold War, including: Europe: Marshall Plan, Berlin, NATO; Middle East: Egypt, Israel, Afghanistan; Asia: Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam; Americas: Cuba, United States. (C 8.12.1)

9.12.2 United States: Describe the effects of the Cold War on the United States, including: arms race and nuclear testing; McCarthyism; space race; Cuban Missile Crisis. (C 8.12.1)

9.12.3 World and United States: Describe the cause, course, and character of the Korean War, including: United Nations Security Council; Pusan Perimeter; General MacArthur; Inchon; Yalu River; 38th Parallel.

9.12.4 World: Explain how and why African and Asian peoples achieved independence from colonial rule.

9.12.5 World and United States: Analyze how postwar science and technology augmented United States economic strength, transformed daily life, and influenced the world economy and politics. (Ec 6.12.3; Ec 7.12.2; Ec 7.12.5)

9.12.6 United States: Describe the causes and effects of changing demographics and developing suburbanization in the United States. (Ec 6.12.5)

9.12.8 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe the major issues, events, and key people of the Civil Rights and minority rights movements, including: Black Power Movement; United Farm Workers; American Indian Movement; Viva La Raza; Women's Rights Movement; Americans with Disabilities Act; Civil Rights Act of 1964. (C 5.12.1; C 5.12.6; C 5.12.7)

9.12.9 World and United States: Describe the causes, course, character, and effects of the Vietnam war, including: Ho Chi Minh; Dien Bien Phu; Ngo Dinh Diem; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; draft and lottery; Tet Offensive; anti-war movement; Paris Peace Accord; POWs and MIAs; Imperialism. (C 4.12.5)

9.12.10 United States: Describe the changes in United States political culture, including: the role of the media; the role of women and minorities; Watergate; Iranian hostage crisis; Iran-contra affair; Grenada and Panama.

9.12.11 World and United States: Describe how international policies contributed to the end of the Cold War, including: recognition of China; detente; disarmament treaties; 'Star Wars' (SDI); solidarity. (C 5.12.6)

9.12.12 United States and World: Describe the geopolitical changes in the world due to the disintegration of the USSR.

9.12.14 United States: Summarize the influence of art, music, literature, and the media on United States society. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)

NV.10.0. History: New Challenges, 1990 to the Present: Students understand the political, economic, social, and technological issues challenging the world as it approaches and enters the new millennium.

10.12.1 World and United States: Identify and explain the implications of scientific and technological achievements, including: personal computers; Internet; Satellites; Biotechnology.

10.12.2 World and United States: Describe the regional and global effects of political and economic alliances. (Ec 9.12.1; Ec 9.12.2)

10.12.3 World, United States, and Nevada: Describe how global issues affect nations differently, including: human rights; the environment; world and U.S. regional conflicts; medical concerns.

10.12.4 World and United States: Explain the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf War, including: Kuwait invasion; world oil supply; changing alliances.

10.12.5 United States: Describe the changing political climate in the United States, including: the role of the media; the Clinton impeachment.

10.12.6 World and United States: Explain how literature, music, and the visual arts are reflections of the time. (E 3.12.1; E 3.12.2; E 3.12.3)