Grade 12: NYS Social Studies Standards (Key Ideas and Performance Indicators)
Correlation Analysis: Project Citizen, Level 2 and New York State Learning Standards for Social Studies and English Language Arts: Resource Guide with Core Curriculum
New York State Learning Standards for Social Studies, Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government, pp. 28-29.
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States, and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.
New York State Social Studies Learning Standard 5, Key Idea 3. Central to civics and citizenship is an understanding of the roles of the citizen within American constitutional democracy and the scope of a citizen’s rights and responsibilities.
Student performance indicators:
- Students understand how citizenship includes the exercise of certain personal responsibilities, including voting, considering the rights and interests of others, behaving in a civil manner, and accepting responsibility for the consequences of one’s actions. (Adapted from The National Standards for Civics and Government, 1994)
- Students analyze issues at the local, state, and national levels and prescribe responses that promote the public interest or general welfare, such as planning and carrying out a voter registration campaign.
- Students explore how citizens influence public policy in a representative democracy.
New York State Social Studies Learning Standard 5, Key Idea 4. The study of civics and citizenship requires the ability to probe ideas and assumptions, ask and answer analytical questions, take a skeptical attitude toward questionable arguments, evaluate evidence, formulate rationale conclusions, and develop and refine participatory skills.
Student performance indicators:
- Students take, defend, and evaluate positions about attitudes that facilitate thoughtful and effective participation in public affairs.
- Students participate in school/classroom/community activities that focus on an issue or problem.
- Students prepare a plan of action that defines an issue or problem, suggests alternative solutions or courses of action, evaluates the consequences for each alternative solution or course of action, prioritizes the solutions based on established criteria, and proposes an action plan to address the issue or to resolve the problem.
- Students explain how democratic principles have been used in resolving an issue or problem.
- Correlation of Project Citizen, Level 2 to the New York State core curriculum for grade 12: Participation in Government.
- Correlation Analysis: Project Citizen Level 2 and New York State English Language Arts: Resource Guide with Core Curriculum*
(*Adapted from: Social Studies: A Resource Guide with Core Curriculum, The University of the State of New York, The State Education Department, 1999, p. 156.)
