Colorado State Social Studies Standards- High School
1. History
A. The historical method of inquiry to ask questions, evaluate primary and
secondary sources, critically analyze and interpret data, and develop
interpretations defended by evidence from a variety of primary and
secondary sources
B. Analyze the key concepts of continuity and change, cause and effect,
complexity, unity and diversity over time
C. The significance of ideas as powerful forces throughout history
2. Geography
A. Use different types of maps and geographic tools to analyze features on
Earth to investigate and solve geographic questions
B. Explain and interpret geographic variables that influence the interaction
of people, places, and environments
C. The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places
3. Economics
A. Productive resources - natural, human, capital - are scarce; therefore
choices are made about how individuals, businesses, governments, and
societies allocate these resources
B. Economic policies impact markets
C. Government and competition impact markets
D. Design, analyze, and apply a financial plan based on short- and longterm
financial goals
E. Analyze strategic spending, saving, and investment options to achieve
the objectives of diversification, liquidity, income, and growth
F. The components of personal credit to manage credit and debt
G. Identify, develop, and evaluate risk-management strategies
4. Civics
A. Research, formulate positions, and engage in appropriate civic
participation to address local, state, or national issues or policies
B. Purposes of and limitations on the foundations, structures and functions
of government
C. Analyze how public policy - domestic and foreign - is developed at the
local, state, and national levels and compare how policy-making occurs
in other forms of government
A. The historical method of inquiry to ask questions, evaluate primary and
secondary sources, critically analyze and interpret data, and develop
interpretations defended by evidence from a variety of primary and
secondary sources
B. Analyze the key concepts of continuity and change, cause and effect,
complexity, unity and diversity over time
C. The significance of ideas as powerful forces throughout history
2. Geography
A. Use different types of maps and geographic tools to analyze features on
Earth to investigate and solve geographic questions
B. Explain and interpret geographic variables that influence the interaction
of people, places, and environments
C. The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places
3. Economics
A. Productive resources - natural, human, capital - are scarce; therefore
choices are made about how individuals, businesses, governments, and
societies allocate these resources
B. Economic policies impact markets
C. Government and competition impact markets
D. Design, analyze, and apply a financial plan based on short- and longterm
financial goals
E. Analyze strategic spending, saving, and investment options to achieve
the objectives of diversification, liquidity, income, and growth
F. The components of personal credit to manage credit and debt
G. Identify, develop, and evaluate risk-management strategies
4. Civics
A. Research, formulate positions, and engage in appropriate civic
participation to address local, state, or national issues or policies
B. Purposes of and limitations on the foundations, structures and functions
of government
C. Analyze how public policy - domestic and foreign - is developed at the
local, state, and national levels and compare how policy-making occurs
in other forms of government