Grade 8 Social Studies Hawaii standards Standards

Content Standards

Anchor and Inquiry Standards

Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Creating Claims

Communicating Conclusions

Taking Informed Action

Create compelling questions representing key ideas of the disciplines

Explain how a question reflects an enduring issue in the field

Create supporting questions that address key ideas identified in compelling questions

Explain the relationship between compelling and supporting questions

Evaluate the credibility of a source by examining its origin, author, context, and content

Gather relevant information from credible sources representing a wide range of views

Develop claims and counterclaims while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both

Identify specific evidence that supports the claims and counterclaims

Construct arguments and explanations using claims and evidence from multiple sources while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of the arguments

Present arguments and explanations using a variety of print and oral technologies (e.g., posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, reports, maps) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, digital documentary)

Identify local, regional and/or global problems or issues using interdisciplinary lenses

Examine the origins of a problem or issue and explain the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address it

Apply a range of deliberative strategies and procedures to make decisions and propose feasible solutions to address local, regional, and/or global concerns

Create an action plan to address a solution to the problem or issue and demonstrate evidence of implementation

Examine how challenges the government faced were resolved at the Constitutional Convention

Explain the structure and powers of the three branches of the federal government

Analyze how the Bill of Rights protects individual liberties from the national government

Analyze citizenship and voting rights in early America

Explain how political parties developed out of conflicts in early America

Trace how the United States acquired new territories, including purchases, annexation, treaties, and war

Explain how Native Americans resisted U.S. territorial expansion

Analyze the ideological and socioeconomic reasons for U.S. territorial expansion

Assess the effects of U.S. expansion on Native Americans in terms of population loss, land dispossession, and culture

Analyze how the market revolution contributed to labor conflicts and divisions over slavery

Explain how innovations in transportation, communication, and production reshaped American society

Analyze how economic growth and industrialization transformed daily life

Examine how enslaved people adapted to and resisted slavery

Analyze how slavery shaped the economic development of the North and South

Analyze the religious and utopian movements that flourished around the Second Great Awakening

Evaluate the effectiveness of 19th-century reform movements

Analyze major factors that determined the outcome of the Civil War

Explain how conflicts over slavery led the North and South to war

Assess how the end of Reconstruction affected African Americans

Assess the efforts of the federal government and African Americans to forge a new political and social order after emancipation