Compose a statement expressing a position on a public policy issue in the local community and justify the position with [...]

Develop and implement an action plan to address or inform others about a community issue.

Participate in projects to help or inform others.

Suggest ways in which people can responsibly interact with the environment in the local community.

Describe positive and negative consequences of changing the physical environment of the local community.

Explain why people form governments.

Distinguish between government action and private action.

Explain how local governments balance individual rights with the common good to solve local community problems.

Describe how the Pledge of Allegiance reflects the Democratic Value of patriotism.

Give examples of how local governments make, enforce, and interpret laws (ordinances) in the local community.

Use examples to describe how local government affects the lives of people in a community.

Identify services commonly provided by local governments.

Identify ways in which people participate in community decisions.

Distinguish between personal and civic responsibilities and explain why they are important in community life.

Design and participate in community improvement projects that help or inform others.

Identify the opportunity cost involved in a consumer decision.

Describe how businesses in the local community meet economic wants of consumers.

Describe the natural, human, and capital resources needed for production of a good or service in the community.

Use examples to show that people cannot produce everything they want (specialization) and depend on trade with others to meet [...]

Utilize a decision-making process to analyze the benefits and costs of a personal decision.

Identify public issues in the local community that influence people’s daily lives.

Use graphic data and other sources to analyze information about a public issue in the local community and evaluate alternative [...]

Give examples of how conflicts over Democratic Values lead people to differ on resolutions to a public policy issue in [...]

Demonstrate chronological thinking by distinguishing among years and decades using a timeline of local community events.

Examine different perspectives of the same event in a community and explain how and why they are different.

Explain how individuals and groups have made significant historical changes.

Describe changes in the local community over time.

Describe how community members responded to a problem in the past.

Construct a historical narrative about the history of the local community from a variety of sources.

Construct maps of the local community that contain symbols, labels, and legends denoting human and physical characteristics of place.

Use maps to describe the spatial organization of the local community by applying concepts including relative location, and using distance, [...]

Use maps to describe the location of the local community within the state of Michigan in relation to other significant [...]

Compare the physical and human characteristics of the local community with those of another community.

Describe how the local community is part of a larger region.

Describe land use in the community.

Describe the means people create for moving people, goods, and ideas within the local community.

Use components of culture to describe diversity in the local community.

Discuss the subject matter of artwork from particular cultures at specific times.

Debate images of a past or present culture.

Describe how art is used in everyday life.

Investigate and identify visual art careers that relate to children.

Identify similarities among the arts including vocabulary, elements of art, and principles of design.

Demonstrate connections between the visual arts and other curriculum through student artwork.

Observe that different art forms reflect upon the diversity of society.

Describe the variety of forms of live and recorded theatrical events.

Describe various types of multimedia forms used to share performances in everyday life.

Express various ideas and emotions through a variety of dramatic art forms reflecting life situations.

Identify and use various materials and techniques using a sequential process.

Demonstrate the safe use of a variety of materials, tools, and processes with environmental awareness.

Compare and explore elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas related to personal environment.