ESSENTIAL STANDARDS
Standards from the core that have leverage, readiness, and endurance are deemed essential.
SUPPORTING STANDARDS
Standards that support, connect to, or enhance the essential standards.
*NOTE: These Essential Standards are the district required standards, however, you are not limited to teaching only essential standards. Essential Standards are meant to provide some consistency throughout the district. There is one essential standard in each core (geography and history) for each aspect of Alpine School District's Vision For Learning.
Geographic and Informational Literacy
Cultural and Global Awareness
Government & Economic Systems
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Social & Cross-Cultural Skills
Four Historical Thinking Skills (Sourcing, Corroboration, Contextualization, and Close Reading)
Personal Responsibility
Open Mindedness
Cultural and Global Empathy
Citizenship and Civil Literacy
Inquisitive and Innovative
WG 1.4 - Students will use geographic reasoning to propose actions that mitigate or solve issues, such as natural disasters, pollution, climate change, and habitat loss.
WG 2.2 - Students will explain push and pull factors causing voluntary and involuntary migration and the consequences created by the movement of people.
WG 4.3 - Students will explain how cooperation and conflict have many causes, such as differing ideas regarding boundaries, resource control, and land use, as well as ethnic, tribal, and national identities.
WH 2.5 - Students will construct an argument for the significant and enduring political, economic, technological, social, or other cultural contributions of classical civilizations.
WH 7.3 - Students will identify international human rights issues, seek and evaluate solutions, and share their ideas with appropriate public and/or private stakeholders.
WH 6.6 - Students will make a case for the most significant social, political, and economic consequences of 20th century global conflicts and crises, such as human migration, genocide, poverty, epidemics, the creation of social welfare systems, the rise of dictators, the nuclear arms race, and human rights violations.