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Designed for high school. Below is every Kansasstandard these courses cover: the exact code, the standard's own words, and the lesson that covers it. Where we only cover part of a standard, it says so, and says which part.

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  • We mapped this ourselves. This alignment was done by Learn.WitUS against the published standards. It has not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by Kansas's education authority or by anyone else.
  • Every code was fetched, then transcribed word for word. Each framework below shows the date its codes and text were retrieved from the publisher.
  • Standards get revised.A code can be renumbered or its wording changed without notice, and some states publish more than one live edition of the same document. Confirm anything you file against your own jurisdiction's current requirements, using the source links below.
  • We would rather claim less. Where the courses only partly cover a standard, this page says partially covered and explains the gap. Standards we considered and could not honestly claim are listed at the bottom, with the reasons.

Kansas · Social Studies

Kansas Standards for History, Government, and Social Studies — High School United States Government

Kansas History, Government, and Social Studies Standards, 2013 · Five Standards and Benchmarks (skills-based) · HS United States Government, Kansas Course Code 04151 · Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) / Kansas State Board of Education · retrieved 2026-07-19

Kansas's High School United States Government course is the anchor for the Kansas Civics flagship. Kansas's standards are deliberately skills-not-content: the five thematic Standards and their benchmarks (verbatim below) are what the state assesses, and the document says outright that assessments focus on the Standards and Benchmarks, not specific content. So Kansas's own government — its plural executive, its 125/40 Legislature, its merit-selection Supreme Court, its lack of a citizen initiative, its strong home rule, and its 105 counties — is taught by the flagship as the CONTENT through which these benchmark skills are exercised. Benchmarks transcribed verbatim from the KSDE 2013 document (see the file header for the provenance note).

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  • Standard 2, Benchmark 2.3

    Covered
    The student will investigate specific rights and responsibilities of individuals and connect those rights and responsibilities with contemporary issues.

    Covered by

    • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote
    • · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)
    • · Kansas Civics, Lesson 4 · Home rule, local government, and how to take part

    Note: Registering and voting, serving on a jury, and the Kansas get-involved lesson each take a specific right or responsibility and connect it to present-day civic life (with the Kansas-specific photo-ID and advance-voting rules flagged time-sensitive).

  • Standard 5, Benchmark 5.1

    Covered
    The student will recognize and evaluate dynamic relationships that impact lives in communities, states, and nations.

    Covered by

    • · Kansas Civics, Lesson 4 · Home rule, local government, and how to take part
    • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
    • · Kansas Civics, Lesson 2 · The executive and the Legislature
    • · Kansas Civics, Lesson 3 · How Kansas picks its Supreme Court, and why there's no initiative

    Note: The flagship's primary home. Kansas's dynamic intergovernmental relationships are taught directly: strong home rule (state ↔ local), federalism (state ↔ federal), and the relationships among Kansas's separately elected executive officers and its two legislative chambers — each with active recall that has the learner recognize and evaluate them.

  • Standard 1, Benchmark 1.1

    Partially covered
    The student will recognize and evaluate significant choices made by individuals, communities, states, and nations that have impacted our lives and futures.

    Covered by

    • · Kansas Civics, Lesson 1 · 'Bleeding Kansas' and the free-state Wyandotte Constitution

    What we do and don't cover: Kansas's founding choice — whether to enter the Union free or slave — and its consequences (Bleeding Kansas, the Civil War, and the free-state Wyandotte Constitution still in force) are taught in depth, and the lesson's reveal prompts have the learner recognize and evaluate that choice. Partial: the benchmark's full breadth across individuals, communities, states, AND nations, and a graded evaluation, are beyond one flagship lesson.

  • Standard 1, Benchmark 1.4

    Partially covered
    The student will use his/her understanding of choices and consequences to construct a decision-making process and to justify a decision.

    Covered by

    • · Kansas Civics, Lesson 4 · Home rule, local government, and how to take part
    • · Kansas Civics, Lesson 3 · How Kansas picks its Supreme Court, and why there's no initiative

    What we do and don't cover: The flagship teaches how Kansas civic decisions actually get made — including that Kansans cannot start ballot measures and only ratify amendments the Legislature refers — and prompts learners to decide how they will take part. Partial: the benchmark's construct-a-decision-making-process-and-justify-a-decision is prompted, not delivered as a graded assignment.

  • Standard 2, Benchmark 2.4

    Partially covered
    The student will use his/her understanding of rights and responsibilities to address contemporary issues.

    Covered by

    • · Kansas Civics, Lesson 4 · Home rule, local government, and how to take part
    • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
    • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard

    What we do and don't cover: Addressing contemporary issues is taught as practice — showing up where an issue is decided, tracking a live bill, and Kansas's own levers for being heard. Partial: it is prompted and practiced, not run as a graded, sustained civic-action project.

  • Standard 4, Benchmark 4.1

    Partially covered
    The student will recognize and evaluate continuity and change over time and its impact on individuals, institutions, communities, states, and nations.

    Covered by

    • · Kansas Civics, Lesson 1 · 'Bleeding Kansas' and the free-state Wyandotte Constitution

    What we do and don't cover: The flagship teaches a vivid case of continuity and change: the 1859 Wyandotte Constitution, forged against slavery, is still Kansas's governing document today (heavily amended). Partial: the benchmark's full breadth across institutions, communities, states, and nations, and a graded evaluation, exceed the single lesson.

  • Standard 4, Benchmark 4.2

    Partially covered
    The student will analyze the context of continuity and change and the vehicles of reform, drawing conclusions about past change and potential future change.

    Covered by

    • · Kansas Civics, Lesson 3 · How Kansas picks its Supreme Court, and why there's no initiative

    What we do and don't cover: Two live Kansas reform questions are taught: the recurring debate over changing how Kansas selects its Supreme Court justices (a vehicle-of-reform question with potential future change), and Kansas's lack of a citizen initiative, which shapes how reform can happen at all. Partial: the analyze-and-draw-conclusions is exercised through reveal prompts, not a graded analysis.

What we don't claim

A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:

  • Kansas assesses SKILLS, not content — so Kansas's own structure has no code of its own. Kansas's standards are the five thematic Standards and their benchmarks, and KSDE states outright that assessments focus on the Standards and Benchmarks, not specific content, and that the government course's content outline is not a list of required items. So Kansas — unlike Oklahoma or Utah — publishes NO standard that names its plural executive, its 125-member House and 40-member Senate, its merit-selection Supreme Court, its absence of a citizen initiative, its strong home rule, or its 105 counties. The Kansas Civics flagship teaches all of these in depth, but as the CONTENT through which the benchmark skills are exercised; we map them onto the benchmarks (above) rather than inventing content codes Kansas does not publish.
  • Standard 3 (beliefs, ideas, and diversity) — not claimed. Standard 3 and its benchmarks (3.1-3.4) ask students to recognize, analyze, investigate, and apply the significant beliefs, contributions, and ideas of diverse peoples and groups. The Kansas Civics flagship and the general civics ladder teach government structure and civic practice, not a survey of diverse beliefs and contributions, so we do not claim Standard 3. (The catalog's history courses touch this content in other states' content-bearing frameworks, but Kansas's skills framework is the wrong home for it here.)
  • The other benchmarks under Standards 1, 2, 4, and 5 — not claimed. Within the standards we do touch, we claim only the benchmarks whose skill the flagship genuinely exercises. The analyze/draw-conclusions and use/apply benchmarks we did not map (1.2, 1.3, 2.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4) call for sustained, graded analysis or the construction of a personal/community/state narrative that this catalog prompts but does not deliver as assessed work. We leave them unclaimed rather than round a prompt up to a performance.
  • The federal-heavy and policy units of Kansas's US Government course. Kansas's HS United States Government course suggests units on Principles and Foundations of the U.S. Constitution, the Structure and Function of the Federal Government, Human and Civil Rights, Domestic and Foreign Policy, and Politics/Interest Groups/Media. The general civics ladder (US Civics 101, US Constitution 101, the three-branches courses, Know Your Rights) covers much of the first three, but Domestic and Foreign Policy (fiscal policy, GDP, treaties, NATO/UN, the Monroe Doctrine) is economics/international-relations content this catalog does not teach, so we do not claim those units.
  • Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Kansas College and Career Ready (KCCRS / Common Core) mathematics standard.
  • Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Kansas adopted the NGSS verbatim as the Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (June 11, 2013), so our one honest science claim — HS-ESS3-1, partial — comes through the shared NGSS mapping with the limit stated on the entry. There is no laboratory work, investigation, or modelling in this catalog, and we will not claim more.
  • A 2020 revision exists — confirm current codes. Kansas published a 2020 revision of the History, Government, and Social Studies Standards with the same five-standard design (five standards and four associated benchmarks, measured by a Classroom-Based Assessment). We cite the 2013 edition here; a teacher should confirm the current benchmark wording against KSDE's present document before filing.

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