High School Social Studies Hawaii Standards

Content Standards

Anchor and Inquiry Standards

Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Creating Claims

Communicating Conclusions

Taking Informed Action

Create compelling questions representing key ideas of the disciplines

Critique compelling questions that reflect an enduring issue in the field

Create supporting questions that address key ideas identified in compelling questions

Explain how new compelling and supporting questions emerge

Evaluate the credibility of a source by examining its origin, author, context, content, and corroborative value

Gather relevant information from credible sources representing a wide range of views, and note any inconsistencies in the information

Develop claims and counterclaims using evidence that draws directly and substantively from multiple sources while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both

Analyze evidence to detect inconsistencies within the evidence in order to revise or strengthen claims

Construct arguments and explanations using sound reasoning, appropriate structure, and examples and details while acknowledging counterclaims and evidentiary weaknesses

Present arguments and explanations that reach a range of audiences using print and oral technologies (e.g., posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, reports, maps) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, digital documentary)

Identify local, regional and/or global problems or issues by using interdisciplinary lenses

Analyze the origins of a problem or issue and explain the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address it

Apply a range of deliberative strategies and procedures to make decisions and propose feasible solutions to address local, regional, and/or global concerns

Create an action plan to address a solution to a problem or issue and demonstrate substantive evidence of implementation

Analyze multiple perspectives on the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and annexation

Examine the long-term causes and triggering events, people, and ideas behind the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy

Analyze the political issues that emerged from the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy

Assess the argument over the legality of the annexation of Hawaiʻi

Explain the development of organized labor on plantations

Analyze environmental changes that resulted from the plantation system

Compare the causes and effects of migration to and from Hawaiʻi before and after the overthrow

Analyze Hawaiʻi's position in the geopolitics surrounding the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Compare and contrast the internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast with those in Hawaiʻi

Analyze the local sociopolitical effects of the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Analyze the causes and effects of the Democratic Revolution of 1954

Analyze the causes and sociopolitical impact of the Hawaiian Renaissance

Determine the socioeconomic effects of the decline of agriculture, growth of the tourism industry, and continued military presence

Content Standards

Anchor and Inquiry Standards

Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Creating Claims

Communicating Conclusions

Taking Informed Action

Create compelling questions representing key ideas of the disciplines

Critique compelling questions that reflect an enduring issue in the field

Create supporting questions that address key ideas identified in compelling questions

Explain how new compelling and supporting questions emerge

Evaluate the credibility of a source by examining its origin, author, context, content, and corroborative value

Gather relevant information from credible sources representing a wide range of views, and note any inconsistencies in the information

Develop claims and counterclaims using evidence that draws directly and substantively from multiple sources while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both

Analyze evidence to detect inconsistencies within the evidence in order to revise or strengthen claims

Construct arguments and explanations using sound reasoning, appropriate structure, and examples and details while acknowledging counterclaims and evidentiary weaknesses

Present arguments and explanations that reach a range of audiences using print and oral technologies (e.g., posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, reports, maps) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, digital documentary)

Identify local, regional and/or global problems or issues by using interdisciplinary lenses

Analyze the origins of a problem or issue and explain the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address it

Apply a range of deliberative strategies and procedures to make decisions and propose feasible solutions to address local, regional, and/or global concerns

Create an action plan to address a solution to the problem or issue and demonstrate substantive evidence of implementation

Explain the perspective of both Hamilton and Jefferson on the optimal strength of the federal government and its role in the national economy

Evaluate the extent to which classical philosophy, natural rights philosophy, and English common law informed the thinking of the American Founders

Analyze the problems and compromises that shaped the United States Constitution

Explain how the American Constitution embodies the principles of the rule of law, popular sovereignty, separation of powers, checks and balances, and limited government

Analyze the role of the three branches of government in the lawmaking process

Explain the significance and impact of landmark Supreme Court cases in American history

Assess the importance of exercising the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy

Analyze how the government affects the economic well-being of its citizens

Evaluate the degree to which the United States affects and is affected by geopolitics and international economics

Draw conclusions about the role of policy makers, interest groups, and the media in shaping public policy

Plan and demonstrate some ways in which an active citizen can effect change in the community, state, nation, or world

Content Standards

Anchor and Inquiry Standards

Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Creating Claims

Communicating Conclusions

Taking Informed Action

Create compelling questions representing key ideas of the disciplines

Critique compelling questions that reflect an enduring issue in the field

Create supporting questions that address key ideas identified in compelling questions

Explain how new compelling and supporting questions emerge

Evaluate the credibility of a source by examining its origin, author, context, content, and corroborative value

Gather relevant information from credible sources representing a wide range of views, and note any inconsistencies in the information

Develop claims and counterclaims using evidence that draws directly and substantively from multiple sources while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both

Analyze evidence to detect inconsistencies within the evidence in order to revise or strengthen claims

Construct arguments and explanations using sound reasoning, appropriate structure, and examples and details while acknowledging counterclaims and evidentiary weaknesses

Present arguments and explanations that reach a range of audiences using print and oral technologies (e.g., posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, reports, maps) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, and digital documentary)

Identify local, regional and/or global problems or issues by using interdisciplinary lenses

Analyze the origins of a problem or issue and explain the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address it

Apply a range of deliberative strategies and procedures to make decisions and propose feasible solutions to address local, regional, and/or global concerns

Create an action plan to address a solution to the problem or issue and demonstrate substantive evidence of implementation

Analyze reasons groups migrated to and within the United States

Assess effects of anti-immigrant politics on public policy

Evaluate the impact of Great Society-era policies in addressing economic, social,and environmental conditions

Evaluate the effectiveness of civil rights organizations and actions in overcoming racial segregation

Assess the impact of student movements and counter culture on American politics and society

Examine other movements that emerged in the late civil rights era

Analyze the rise of modern conservatism in the United States

Assess the social and political impact of conservatism in the United States

Analyze U.S. responses to global challenges and crises

Evaluate popular and government responses to emerging domestic challenges

Analyze features of distinct market structures and government efforts to influence them

Assess how business magnates came to dominate politics in the Gilded Age

Evaluate the effectiveness of labor unions and populists in shaping public policy

Analyze the benefits and challenges associated with rapidly growing urban areas

Analyze the development of the women's suffrage movement over time and its legacy

Assess the efforts of Progressive Era reform movements to improve society, government, business, and the environment

Evaluate the effects of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific

Analyze the factors that enabled the United States to become an imperial power

Analyze how internationalism and isolationism shaped U.S. foreign policy after World War I

Distinguish between the long-term causes and triggering events that led the United States into World War I

Evaluate wartime restrictions on civil liberties

Assess how innovations in transportation, communication, and finance changed American society

Analyze the cultural contributions of modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and the New Woman

Compare rival perspectives on economic, social, and religious conflicts in the 1920s

Assess the impact and legacy of New Deal relief, recovery, and reform programs

Analyze how the decline in production and spending affected Americans during the Great Depression

Analyze the conditions and policies that led to the Great Depression

Assess the social, political, and economic transformation of the United States during World War II

Explain the historical developments and policies that resulted in the United States entering World War II

Analyze the role of the United States in the outcome of World War II in the European and the Pacific theaters

Analyze how U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War shaped conflicts in Asia and the Americas

Explain how political ideology shaped the post-war order and led to the Soviet-U.S. arms race

Analyze how anti-communism and the Cold War affected civil liberties, labor, and technology

Content Standards

Anchor and Inquiry Standards

Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Creating Claims

Communicating Conclusions

Taking Informed Action

Create compelling questions representing key ideas of the disciplines

Critique compelling questions that reflect an enduring issue in the field

Create supporting questions that address key ideas identified in compelling questions

Explain how new compelling and supporting questions emerge

Evaluate the credibility of a source by examining its origin, author, context, content, and corroborative value

Gather relevant information from credible sources representing a wide range of views, and note any inconsistencies in the information

Develop claims and counterclaims using evidence that draws directly and substantively from multiple sources while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both

Analyze evidence to detect inconsistencies within the evidence in order to revise or strengthen claims

Construct arguments and explanations using sound reasoning, appropriate structure, and examples and details while acknowledging counterclaims and evidentiary weaknesses

Present arguments and explanations that reach a range of audiences using print and oral technologies (e.g., posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, reports, maps) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, digital documentary)

Identify local, regional and/or global problems or issues by using interdisciplinary lenses

Analyze the origins of a problem or issue and explain the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address it

Apply a range of deliberative strategies and procedures to make decisions and propose feasible solutions to address local, regional, and/or global concerns

Create an action plan to address a solution to a problem or issue and demonstrate substantive evidence of implementation

Assess the effects of the Atlantic slave trade

Evaluate the impact of the Columbian Exchange of food crops, diseases, and trade goods between Europe and the Americas

Explain how the ideas of the Renaissance and Reformation motivated exploration and conquest

Analyze the political and economic impacts of European expeditions in the 15th and 16th centuries

Explain the economic motives of the British and Dutch empires in the conquest of India and Southeast Asia

Analyze the positive and negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution in the Americas, Asia, and Africa

Explain how social changes and technological innovations in Britain led to the rise and spread of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s

Compare methods of imperialism during the late 1800s in Asia and Africa

Analyze the impact of colonial rule in Asia and Africa

Analyze the motives that drove European and Japanese imperialism

Explain how Enlightenment ideas influenced the rule of monarchies

Explain the impact of the Scientific Revolution on the rise of the Enlightenment

Compare causes and effects of modern revolutions

Analyze the turning points in the Pacific and European theatres of combat during WWII

Explain the significance of the Holocaust and other atrocities in WWII and subsequent war crimes tribunals

Distinguish between short and long-term causes leading to WWI

Explain the causes of the rise of totalitarian regimes during the post-WWI period

Analyze the impacts of nationalist revolutionary leaders and movements in achieving independence

Analyze the role of the United Nations on state-building and negotiation of conflicts after WWII

Analyze how the Cold War led to global conflict in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America

Analyze the causes and effects of decolonization in India, Algeria, and Kenya after WWII

Analyze the factors affecting climate change and global sustainability

Analyze human rights violations and propose solutions to them