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Note: The Iowa Core Essential Elements are intended only for students with significant cognitive disabilities and who participate in alternate assessments.
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Constructing Questions
EE.SS.3.1. Identify supporting questions for a compelling question with a familiar inquiry.
Constructing Supporting Questions
EE.SS.3.2. N/A
Gathering and Evaluating Sources
EE.SS.3.3. Determine if a source is fact or opinion.
Developing Claims and Using Evidence
EE.SS.3.4. Identify evidence related to a compelling question.
Communicating and Critiquing Conclusions
EE.SS.3.5. Answer a compelling question with an example.
Taking Informed Action
EE.SS.3.6. N/A
EE.SS.3.7. Identify a civic problem within their classroom or community, and work with other partner(s) to create a possible solution.
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Behavioral Science
Recognize the Interaction Between the Individual and Various Groups
EE.SS.3.8. N/A
Examine Factors that Led to Continuity and Change on Human Development and Behavior
EE.SS.3.9. Compare the treatment of a demographic group in the past and present.
Civics/Government
Interpret Processes, Rules and Laws
EE.SS.3.10. Identify consequences of following or breaking rules/laws.
EE.SS.3.11. N/A
Economics
Engage in Economic Decision Making
EE.SS.3.12. N/A
Critique Exchange and Markets
EE.SS.3.13. Identify how people use natural resources and human resources to produce goods and services.
EE.SS.3.14. Identify the role of a financial institution in an economy. (i.e. banks, businesses).
Assess the Global Economy
EE.SS.3.15. N/A
Financial Literacy
Develop Financial and Career Goals
EE.SS.3.16. Identify one way a person can improve their income.
Create a Saving and Spending Plan
EE.SS.3.17. Identify the difference between paying now and paying later.
Evaluate Savings and Long Term Investments
EE.SS.3.18. Identify a benefit of saving money.
Geography
Create Geographic Representations
EE.SS.3.19. Use a geographic representation to display the characteristics of a place.
Evaluate Human Environment Interaction
EE.SS.3.20. Identify reasons that influence how people choose where to live.
Analyze Human Population Movements and Patterns
EE.SS.3.21. Use a geographic model to identify how the environment affects where people decide to live.
History
Analyze Change, Continuity, and Context
EE.SS.3.22. N/A
Compare Perspectives
EE.SS.3.23. Identify two conflicting perspectives on one historical event or issue.
Critique Historical Sources and Evidence
EE.SS.3.24. N/A
Justify Causation and Argumentation
EE.SS.3.25. Identify probable causes and effects of one historical event or development.
EE.SS.3.26. N/A
Iowa History
EE.SS.3.27. N/A
EE.SS.3.28. Identify how groups of people that live in Iowa impacted the state.
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