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This framework is designed to help Idaho schools develop a social studies curriculum and to formulate realistic goals for themselves and their students. The guide is correlated to Idaho's performance-based documents and the state-approved social studies textbooks. The framework is built around the 10 themes for social studies developed by the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Studies
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. – 2002
A better understanding of economics enables people to understand the forces that affect them every day and helps them identify and evaluate the consequences of private decisions and public policies. Learning how to reason about economic issues is important also because the analytic approach of economics differs in key respects from approaches…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Course Content, Economics, Economics Education
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. – 2002
World history guides students to an understanding of culture, geography, and diversity of expression using a historical chronology that illustrates humankind's connections throughout the world. The state of Idaho mandates a core requirement of two credits to be completed in the field of arts and humanities. To achieve success in this core…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Course Content, Cultural Context, High Schools
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. – 2002
Inquiring into families, communities, states, nations, and various peoples of the world through history engages students in the aspirations, struggles, accomplishments, and failures of real people in various aspects of their lives. The historical record is inextricably linked to the geographic setting in which it developed. The ultimate goal of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Course Content, History Instruction, Public Schools
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. – 2002
This Idaho Social Science Exploratory course of study applies standards-based content knowledge and skills to an enhanced investigation of geography, history, entrepreneurism, and civic engagement at an eighth-grade level. The exploratory course draws upon the disciplines to emphasize concepts and generalizations from the social sciences, promotes…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Citizenship Education, Course Content, Cultural Context
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. – 2002
Inquiring into families, communities, states, nations, and various peoples of the world through history engages students in the aspirations, struggles, accomplishments, and failures of real people in various aspects of their lives. The ultimate goal of social studies in Idaho is to develop the civic competence and civic participation of Idaho's…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Class Activities, Course Content, History Instruction
