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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.5.1. N/A
Constructing Supporting Questions
EE.SS.5.2. Identify supporting questions that answer the compelling question in a familiar inquiry.
Gathering and Evaluating Sources
EE.SS.5.3. Determine how to tell if a source is credible.
Developing Claims and Using Evidence
EE.SS.5.4. Cite evidence from sources that support a response to a compelling question.
Communicating and Critiquing Conclusions
EE.SS.5.5. With teacher direction, construct responses to a compelling question.
Taking Informed Action
EE.SS.5.6. Predict outcomes when taking action to address a problem.
EE.SS.5.7. N/A
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Behavioral Science
Recognize the Interaction Between the Individual and Various Groups
EE.SS.5.8. N/A
Examine Factors that Led to Continuity and Change on Human Development and Behavior
EE.SS.5.9. Identify a strategy that one demographic group has used to ensure its rights.
Civics/Government
Apply Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles
EE.SS.5.10. Determine a way in which the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution impacted society.
Interpret Processes, Rules and Laws
EE.SS.5.11. Identify a process people can use to change laws/rules in the classroom, school, government, and/or society.
EE.SS.5.12. Identify how a law has changed over time.
Economics
Critique Exchange and Markets
EE.SS.5.13. Identify how goods and services are produced and distributed.
Evaluate the National Economy
EE.SS.5.14. Determine the purpose of taxes and how the government uses taxes to provide goods and services.
Assess the Global Economy
EE.SS.5.15. Identify how countries benefit from trading.
Financial Literacy
Create a Saving and Spending Plan
EE.SS.5.16. Identify ways people can monitor how they save and spend money.
Measure Risk Management Tools
EE.SS.5.17. N/A
EE.SS.5.18. N/A
Geography
Create Geographic Representations
EE.SS.5.19. Using maps and other simple geographic models, create a route to a specific location.
Analyze Human Population Movements and Patterns
EE.SS.5.20. N/A
History
Analyze Change, Continuity, and Context
EE.SS.5.21. Identify the connection between historical developments that occurred within the same time period.
Compare Perspectives
EE.SS.5.22. Identify how someone's perspective can affect their view of historical events.
Critique Historical Sources and Evidence
EE.SS.5.23. N/A
Justify Causation and Argumentation
EE.SS.5.24. N/A
EE.SS.5.25. N/A
Iowa History
EE.SS.5.26. Identify Iowa's role in civil rights history.
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