Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.1.1:
Develop questions about New York State, its history, geography, economics and government.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.1.2:
Recognize, use, and analyze different forms of evidence used to make meaning in social studies (including sources such as art and photographs, artifacts, oral histories, maps, and graphs).

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.1.3:
Identify and explain creation and/or authorship, purpose, and format for evidence; where appropriate, identify point of view.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.1.4:
Identify arguments of others.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.1.5:
Identify inferences.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.1.6:
Recognize arguments and identify evidence.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.1.7:
Create an understanding of the past by using primary and secondary sources.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.2.1:
Explain how events are related chronologically to one another.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.2.2:
Employ mathematical skills to measure time in years and centuries. Understand the difference between B.C.E. and C.E. Identify the chronological significance of data presented in time lines with teacher support.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.2.3:
Identify the relationship between multiple causes and multiple effects using examples from his/her life or from a current event or history.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.2.4:
Distinguish between long-term and immediate causes and effects of a current event or an event in history.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.2.5:
Recognize dynamics of historical continuity and change over periods of time.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.2.6:
Use periods of time such as decades and centuries to put events into chronological order.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.2.7:
Recognize and identify patterns of continuity and change in New York.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.3.1:
Identify a region in New York State by describing a characteristic that places within it have in common, and then compare it to other regions.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.3.2:
Identify multiple perspectives from an historical event.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.3.3:
Describe and compare New York State historical events.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.3.4:
Recognize the relationship among geography, economics, and history in social studies.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.3.5:
Describe historical developments in New York State with specific detail including time and place.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.4.1:
Use location terms and geographic representations (maps and models) to describe where places are in relation to each other, to describe connections among places, and to evaluate the benefits of particular places for purposeful activities.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.4.2:
Distinguish human activities and human-made features from “environments” (natural events or physical features—land, air, and water — that are not directly made by humans).

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.4.3:
Identify how environments affect human activities and how human activities affect physical environments.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.4.4:
Recognize relationships among patterns and processes.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.4.5:
Describe how human activities alter places and regions.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.5.1:
Explain how scarcity necessitates decision making; compare the costs and benefits of economic decisions.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.5.2:
Distinguish between the various types of resources (human capital, physical capital, and natural resources) required to produce goods and services.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.5.3:
Explain the role of money in making exchange easier; examine the role of corporations and labor unions in an economy.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.5.4:
Explain why individuals and businesses specialize and trade.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.5.5:
Explain the meaning of unemployment.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.5.6:
Explain the ways the government pays for the goods and services it provides, including tax revenue.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.6.1:
Demonstrate respect for the rights of others in discussions and classroom debates regardless of whether one agrees with the other viewpoint.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.6.2:
Participate in activities that focus on a classroom, school, community, state, or national issue or problem.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.6.3:
Identify different types of political systems used at various times in New York State history and, where appropriate, United States history.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.6.4:
Identify opportunities for and the role of the individual in social and political participation in the school, local, and/or state community.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.6.5:
Show respect in issues involving differences and conflict; participate in negotiating and compromising in the resolution of differences and conflict.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.6.6:
Identify situations in which social actions are required and suggest solutions.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.6.7:
Identify people in positions of power and how they can influence people’s rights and freedom.

Social Studies Practice Detail - SS.SSP.4.6.8:
Identify rights and responsibilities as a citizen within your community and state.