Wyoming's Fourth Grade Standards
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WY.1. Content Standard: Citizenship/Government/Democracy
Students demonstrate how structures of power, authority, and governance have developed historically and continue to evolve.
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1.1. Benchmark:
Students describe and apply rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
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1.2. Benchmark:
Students explain how rules and laws affect families, schools, communities, and states.
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WY.2. Content Standard: Culture/Cultural Diversity
Students demonstrate an understanding of different cultures and how these cultures have contributed and continue to contribute to the world in which they live.
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2.1. Benchmark:
Students describe how human needs and concerns (i.e. freedom, justice, and responsibility) are addressed within cultures.
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2.2. Benchmark:
Students explain how culture is reflected in literature and the arts.
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WY.3. Content Standard: Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Students demonstrate an understanding of economic principles and concepts and describe the influence of economic factors on societies.
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3.1. Benchmark:
Students describe the importance of major resources, industries, and economic development of the local community and Wyoming.
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3.2. Benchmark:
Students describe different ways that people earn a living in the local community and in Wyoming.
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WY.4. Content Standard: Time, Continuity and Change
Students demonstrate an understanding of the people, events, problems, ideas, and cultures that were significant in the history of our community, state, nation and world.
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4.1. Benchmark:
Students identify significant local, state and national persons, holidays, and symbols.
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4.2. Benchmark:
Students discuss and describe how current events influence individuals, communities, state, country, and/or world.
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4.3. Benchmark:
Students describe the chronology of exploration, immigration and settlement of Wyoming.
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WY.5. Content Standard: People, Places, and Environments
Students demonstrate an understanding of interrelationships among people, places, and environments.
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5.1. Benchmark:
Students use physical maps, political maps, and globes to identify locations using scale, cardinal and intermediate directions, legends, keys, and symbols.
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5.2. Benchmark:
Students identify their relative location in terms of home, school, neighborhood, community, county, state, country, and continent.
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5.3. Benchmark:
Students locate major landmarks, landforms, and areas/regions in the community and in Wyoming.
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5.4. Benchmark:
Students describe relationships among people and places, and the environmental context in which they take place.
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