History- Social Science Content Standards
United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict
8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.
11.5 Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920s.
Principles of Economics
12.2 Students analyze the elements of America's market economy in a global setting.
2. Discuss the effects of changes in supply and/ or demand on the relative scarcity, price, and quantity of particular products.
Principles of American Democracy
12.2 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on the scope and limits of rights and obligations as democratic citizens, the relationships among them, and how they are secured.
4. Understand the obligations of civic-mindedness, including voting, being informed on civic issues, volunteering and performing public service, and serving in the military or alternative service.
12.3 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on what the fundamental values and principles of civil society are (i.e., the autonomous sphere of voluntary personal, social, and economic relations that are not part of government), their interdependence, and the meaning and importance of those values and principles for a free society.
2. Explain how civil society makes it possible for people, individually or in association with others, to bring their influence to bear on government in ways other than voting and elections.
12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.
4. Describe the means that citizens use to participate in the political process (e.g., voting, campaigning, lobbying, filing a legal challenge, demonstrating, petitioning, picketing, running for political office).
Circle of Compassion (Animal Issues) Program
History Social Science Content Standards
11.5 Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920s.
4. Analyze the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the changing role of women in society.
11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.
2. Examine and analyze the key events, policies, and court cases in the evolution of civil rights, including Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, and California Proposition 209.
Chronological and Spatial Thinking
1. Students compare the present with the past, evaluating the consequences of past events and decisions and determining the lessons that were learned.
2. Students explain how major events are related to one another in time.
Historical Interpretation
4. Students recognize the role of chance, oversight, and error in history.
Lifestyles of the Eco-Friendly Program
Science Standards
Ecology (Life Science)
5. Organisms in ecosystems exchange energy and nutrients among themselves and with the environment.
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6b. Students know different natural energy and material resources, including air, soil, rocks, minerals, petroleum, fresh water, wildlife, and forests, and know how to classify them as renewable or nonrenewable.
Earth Science/CA’s geography
9c. Students know the importance of water to society, the origins of California's fresh water, and the relationship between supply and need.
Evolution
3e. Students know that extinction of a species occurs when the environment changes and that the adaptive characteristics of a species are insufficient for its survival.
Structure and Composition of the Atmosphere
8c. Students know the location of the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere, its role in absorbing ultraviolet radiation, and the way in which this layer varies both naturally and in response to human activities.
Second Hand News (Consumerism) Program
History and Social Science Standards
12.4 Students analyze the elements of the U.S. labor market in a global setting.
1. Understand the operations of the labor market, including the circumstances surrounding the establishment of principal American labor unions, procedures that unions use to gain benefits for their members, the effects of unionization, the minimum wage, and unemployment insurance.
2. Describe the current economy and labor market, including the types of goods and services produced, the types of skills workers need, the effects of rapid technological change, and the impact of international competition.
12.6 Students analyze issues of international trade and explain how the U.S. economy affects, and is affected by, economic forces beyond the United States' borders.
3. Understand the changing role of international political borders and territorial sovereignty in a global economy.
11.9 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.
1. Discuss the establishment of the United Nations and International Declaration of Human Rights, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and their importance in shaping modern Europe and maintaining peace and international order.
Science Standards
Ecology (Life Science)
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c. Students know the natural origin of the materials used to make common objects.
Our Food, Our World (Food Issues) Program
Challenge Standards, Health Education
The students will understand and demonstrate ways in which his or her health and well-being can be enhanced and maintained.
Challenge Standards, Service Learning
Standard 4
Students will understand and demonstrate civic responsibilities through participation in a service-learning activity which improves the quality of life in the community.
Standard 5
Students will demonstrated understanding of and reflect upon the significance of their service learning experience, and how applying these skills and knowledge affects them as individuals, their own learning, and the community.
