Exploring the Illinois Learning Standards for Social Science

Grade level? Develop essential questions and explain the importance of the questions to self and others.

Discipline? Use print and digital maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural characteristics.

Grade level? Explain how human settlements and technological advancements have impacted natural resources.

In which discipline? With guidance and support, identify features and functions of government.

Discipline? Investigate the human effects on the physical environment over time.

Grade level? With guidance and support, evaluate a source by distinguishing between fact and opinion?

Grade level? Explain the role of money in making exchange easier.

In which discipline? Analyze why and how individuals, businesses, and nations around the world specialize and trade.

Grade level? Explain how profits reward and influence sellers.

In which discipline? Create a chronological sequence of multiple events based on current learning.