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Standards and Benchmarks from the Michigan Curriculum Framework
The Red White and Blue COMBO packet incorporates these standards and benchmarks from the Michigan Curriculum Framework (Department of Education) pg.1

SOCIAL STUDIES BENCHMARKS
Content Standards and working draft benchmarks

I. Historical Perspective: Content Standard 1.
EE #3 Distinguish among the past, the present, and the future.
EE #4 Place events of their lives and the lives of others in chronological order.
L.E. #3 Place major events in early history of the United States in Chronological order.
MS #1 Construct and interpret timelines of people and events from the history of Michigan and the US

I. Historical Perspective: Content Standard 2.
E.E #1 Identify who was involved, what happened and where it happened in stories of the past.
EE #3 Recount events from simple biographies of women and men representing a variety of societies from the past.
EE/L.E.. #4 Identify and explain how individuals in history demonstrated good character ad personal virtue.
MS #2/#4 Use historical biographies to explain how events from the past affected the lives of individuals and how some individuals influenced the course of history.

I. Historical Perspective: Content Standard 4.
L.E. #1 Identify problems from the past that divided their local community, the state of Michigan, and the United States and analyze the interests and values of those involved.
L.E. #2 Select decisions made to solve past problems and evaluate those decisions in terms of ethical considerations, the interests of those affected by the decisions and the short and long term consequences in those decisions.
MS #3 Identify the responses of individuals to historic violations of human dignity involving discrimination, persecution and crimes against humanity.
MS #4 Select historic decisions and evaluate them in light of Core Democratic Values and resulting costs and benefits as viewed from a variety of perspectives.

II. Geographic Perspective: Content Standard 1.
L.E.# 1 Locate and describe cultures and compare the similarities and differences among women, men and families.

II. Geographic Perspective: Content Standard 2.
EE#2 Identify people and places in other locations and explain their importance to their community.

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