SOUTH DAKOTA STATE STANDARDS

South Dakota State Standards Site

Elementary Science Topics

Elementary Social Studies Topics

Elementary Mathematics Topics
1. Life Science
2. Physical Science
3. Earth and Space Science
4. Science Technology, Environment, Society

 

 1. U.S. History
2. Government/Civics
3. World History
4. Geography
5. Economics

 

 1. Algebra
2. Geometry
3. Measurement
4. Number Sense
5. Statistics and Probability

 

K-12 Language Arts Standards

Math Standards

Fine Arts Standards

Music Standards

9-12 History Sites

1. Students are able to explain the cause-effect relationships and legacy that distinguish significant historical periods from Reconstruction to the present.
Examples: urbanization/industrialization/immigration
Examples: key people-Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Wright brothers
Examples: Homestead Act (1862), Railroad Expansion, Mining Frontier, Open Range, Morrill Act (1862)
Examples: Robber Barons, role of the muckrakers, labor leaders, government policies
Examples: Teddy Roosevelt-Big Stick Imperialism, Boxer Rebellion, Philippine insurrection 
Examples: post-World War I economy, dust bowl
Example: Native American Code Talkers
Examples: Space Race, Iran-Contra affair, Watergate, Clinton impeachment
Examples: post-World War II Europe, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Iran conflict
Examples: Middle East events-Gulf Wars, Fall of Berlin Wall, 9/11, Bosnia situation, Afghanistan, North Korea, terrorism

2. Students are able to relate previously learned information of these time periods to the context of succeeding time periods.
 Examples: American Revolution, Westward Movement, Civil War/Reconstruction

3. Students are able to describe the causes and effects of interactions between the U.S. government and Native American cultures.
Examples: Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868, Minnesota Uprising (1862), Sand Creek Massacre (1864), Red Cloud’s War (1864-1868), Battle of Little Big Horn (1876)
Examples: Manifest Destiny, Black Hills Cession of 1877, General Allotment Act/Dawes Act (1887), Ghost Dance religion, Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)

 

 4. Students are able to describe the causes and effects of cultural, economic, religious, political, and social reform movements on the development of the U.S.
Examples: Harlem Renaissance and jazz age, counterculture
Examples: Social gospel, Evangelicalism, Mormon, Native American education reform
Examples: Women’s suffrage, Populists and Progressives, Isolationists, Anarchists, Anti-communism, Civil Rights movement, American Indian movement, Reagan revolution
Examples: feminism, Social Darwinism, temperance, baby boomer
Examples: post-World War II affluent society, global economy, Reaganomics

5. Students are able to identify the influences of local groups on settlement patterns of South Dakota and the Great Plains Region.

Examples:  Native Americans and reservation system;  Railroad, farming, livestock, and mining pattern; Settlements according to nationality and religion  Examples: German, Swedes, Norwegians, Bohemians, Czech, Dutch, etc.
Examples: Hutterite, Mennonite, etc.