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Designed for high school. Below is every North Dakotastandard 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 North Dakota'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.

North Dakota · Social Studies

North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards — 6-12 Civics & Government (C.6_12)

North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards, Grades K-12 (adopted August 2019; formatting Revision 7, 2023-11-30) · 6-12 Civics & Government (C.6_12) · North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) · retrieved 2026-07-19

North Dakota's Civics & Government standards are its own (adopted August 2019). They band grades 6-12 in four broad anchor standards (C.6_12.1-4) with numbered benchmarks, so the North Dakota civics flagship — the Constitution of 1889, the two national 'onlys' (no voter registration; the state-owned Bank of North Dakota and Mill and Elevator), the Nonpartisan League, the biennial 94-Rep/47-Senator Legislative Assembly, the elected nonpartisan Supreme Court, strong direct democracy, and the 53 counties — maps onto the benchmarks that name state and local government and citizen influence and participation. Codes are cited exactly as printed; C.6_12.1.3 and C.6_12.4.2 carry the source's ♦ marker denoting standards tied to North Dakota Century Code 15.1-21 (Curriculum and Testing). Transcribed verbatim from the NDDPI Social Studies Content Standards (see the file header for provenance).

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  • C.6_12.4.1

    Covered
    Explain how citizens can influence government.

    Covered by

    • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
    • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard
    • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 3 · Strong direct democracy and a large plural executive
    • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 1 · The only state with no voter registration
    • · How to Help a Campaign, Lesson 10 · Helping ballot measures and local causes
    • · How to Run for Office · the whole course (eligibility, ballot access, money rules, and after Election Day)

    Note: Exactly the standard's guiding list: voting (North Dakota's no-registration system), running for office, petitioning, and the initiated measure, referendum, and recall that North Dakota's populist history makes an unusually consequential tool, plus helping a campaign lawfully and tracking a live bill.

  • C.6_12.4.3

    Covered
    Explain how citizens’ personal and civic responsibilities are important to the preservation and improvement of United States constitutional republic.

    Covered by

    • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship
    • · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)
    • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote
    • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 1 · The only state with no voter registration
    • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government and how to take part

    Note: The responsibilities the standard enumerates are taught as practices: voting (North Dakota edition — no registration, just acceptable ID), serving as a juror, staying informed and attentive to public issues, registering (elsewhere) and voting knowledgeably, and civic participation.

  • C.6_12.2.5

    Partially covered
    Explain the purposes, organization, powers, and processes of tribal and local governments.

    Covered by

    • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government and how to take part
    • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 5 · What LOCAL government handles (and why it VARIES)
    • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 7 · The governments you forget: special districts & boards
    • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level

    What we do and don't cover: The flagship's primary local home: North Dakota LOCAL government is taught as North Dakota's own — the 53 counties with elected commissions and separately elected sheriff, auditor, treasurer, and state's attorney, active townships alongside incorporated cities, and school and special districts, plus how to show up at each. TRIBAL government — which the standard names, in a state home to five tribal nations — is not taught by this catalog.

  • C.6_12.2.4

    Partially covered
    Explain the relationship among federal, state, tribal, and local governmental powers.

    Covered by

    • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
    • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 2 · Three kinds of power: enumerated, implied, reserved
    • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 3 · The enumerated powers: Article I, § 8 (the Necessary and Proper Clause)
    • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 6 · Concurrent powers: what both levels share
    • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 7 · McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): implied powers and supremacy
    • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 3 · Strong direct democracy and a large plural executive
    • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 4 · A Legislature that meets every other year, and the courts
    • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government and how to take part

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: the federal-state-local relationship is taught in full — why power is split between nation and state, the enumerated-versus-reserved taxonomy, and North Dakota's own state structure (the Constitution of 1889, the biennial Legislative Assembly, the plural executive, and the elected courts). TRIBAL governmental powers and tribal sovereignty, which the standard also names, are not taught.

  • C.6_12.2.2

    Partially covered
    Examine the role and purposes of government.

    Covered by

    • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 2 · The only state-owned bank (and a state-owned mill)
    • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 2 · The Preamble: who, and why

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: the purposes-of-government question is engaged directly, and with a North Dakota answer — the state-owned Bank of North Dakota and Mill and Elevator as a distinctive view of what government is for, alongside the Preamble's enumerated purposes. The guiding topics' comparative survey of ancient civilizations' founding governments (River Valley, Greek, Roman, Mesoamerican) is not the focus.

  • C.6_12.4.5

    Partially covered
    Demonstrate active participation in civic life.

    Covered by

    • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
    • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
    • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government and how to take part
    • · How to Help a Campaign, Lesson 10 · Helping ballot measures and local causes

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: participation is taught as concrete practice — how to show up at every level, help a campaign lawfully, contact officials, and use North Dakota's initiative and referendum — but the standard asks the student to DEMONSTRATE participation, and the civic act itself is the learner's to perform beyond this online course.

North Dakota · Social Studies

North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards — 6-12 Economics (E.6_12)

North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards, Grades K-12 (adopted August 2019; formatting Revision 7, 2023-11-30) · 6-12 Economics (E.6_12) · North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) · retrieved 2026-07-19

North Dakota's Economics standards (adopted August 2019) are its own. The commodity curriculum reaches the trade, price, government-role, and economic-systems benchmarks below; North Dakota's own state-owned bank and mill give the 'role of government in a market economy' benchmark a distinctive local case. The remaining Economics benchmarks (scarcity and factors of production, market institutions, macroeconomic measures, and the full Personal Finance strand E.6_12.7) are rejected in notClaimed. Transcribed verbatim from the NDDPI Social Studies Content Standards.

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  • E.6_12.4.2

    Partially covered
    Evaluate the role of government in a market economy.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
    • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 2 · The only state-owned bank (and a state-owned mill)
    • · Ep 5 · The Reciprocity Economy
    • · Ep 6 · Ceremony Meets the Market
    • · Ep 7 · Two Ways of Doing Economics

    What we do and don't cover: Partial, and with a North Dakota case: the role of government in a market economy is taught through the U.S. sugar program's quotas, tariffs, and price supports, and — uniquely for North Dakota — its own state-owned Bank of North Dakota and Mill and Elevator as public enterprises inside a market economy, set against the traditional-versus-market contrast. The standard's full fiscal and monetary policy (the Federal Reserve, expansionary/contractionary policy) is not covered.

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:

  • Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no North Dakota mathematics standard.
  • English Language Arts — considered, deferred, not claimed this pass. North Dakota adopted its OWN English Language Arts & Literacy standards (2023), with North Dakota's own codes and wording — North Dakota is not mapped through our shared Common Core file. The catalog's media-literacy, rhetoric, and source-evaluation teaching would in principle map to North Dakota's grade-11/12 informational-reading and research standards, but we have not fetched and verified that document this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so ELA is deferred until the verbatim North Dakota text is in hand.
  • Science — considered, deferred, not claimed this pass. North Dakota's 2019 science standards are North Dakota's own, derived from the NRC Framework rather than adopted verbatim from NGSS. The catalog's one honest science idea — resource availability and climate shaping human activity — would in principle map to a North Dakota science code, but verbatim-or-nothing means we will not alias the shared NGSS file to a North Dakota code we have not confirmed against North Dakota's own printed wording. Science is deferred until that verbatim text is retrieved.
  • North Dakota's own state structure is taught more fully than any one benchmark names. North Dakota Civics teaches the Constitution of 1889, the two national 'onlys' (the only state with no voter registration; the only state-owned bank, the Bank of North Dakota, plus a state-owned Mill and Elevator), the farmer-populist Nonpartisan League, the strong initiative/referendum/recall, the large plural executive, the part-time biennial 94-Representative/47-Senator Legislative Assembly capped at 80 days per biennium, the elected nonpartisan Supreme Court, and the 53 counties — all from North Dakota's own sources. The Civics & Government benchmarks that name state and local government (C.6_12.2.4, C.6_12.2.5) and citizen influence (C.6_12.4.1, C.6_12.4.3) host most of it, but North Dakota's standards are broad U.S.-system anchors, not a North-Dakota-government checklist, so its no-registration voting, its state bank, and its biennial Legislature have no benchmark of their own.
  • Civics benchmarks on political philosophy, forms of government, and British-colonial roots. Benchmarks the catalog's civics does not genuinely teach are not claimed: C.6_12.1.1 (evaluate the thoughts of major political philosophers — Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Marx), C.6_12.1.2 (the influence of British and colonial history — Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Mayflower Compact), and C.6_12.2.1 (differentiate and compare forms and origins of governments — monarchy, oligarchy, fascism, theocracy). These are named in the constitution course as background, not worked as their own content.
  • Economics — the scarcity, institutions, macroeconomics, and Personal Finance strands. Beyond the trade, price, government-role, and economic-systems benchmarks claimed above, the Economics strand's other standards are not the substance of this catalog's commodity history and are left unclaimed: C-adjacent E.6_12.1 (scarcity, opportunity cost, and the factors of production), E.6_12.3.1/E.6_12.3.2 (the formal law of supply and demand, and perfect versus imperfect competition), E.6_12.4.1/E.6_12.4.3 (the stock market and financial institutions; the functions of money), E.6_12.5 (macroeconomic measurements — GDP, inflation, unemployment), and the entire Personal Finance strand E.6_12.7 (career and standard of living, taxes, budgeting, credit and debt) — a ♦ NDCC 15.1-21 strand this catalog does not teach.
  • Geography — the geographic-tools and region/culture benchmarks. The Geography strand's tool-and-inquiry benchmarks (G.6_12.4 — maps, globes, GIS/GPS, and the skills of geographic inquiry) and its region/culture benchmarks (G.6_12.3.1-3 — comparing cultures, analyzing regions, and how perception shapes places) are not the catalog's focus; where its content maps squarely — climate and resources deciding where commodities grow, and resource-driven conflict — it is claimed under the physical-processes, human-environment, and cultural-conflict benchmarks above rather than padded into these.
  • United States and World History — the eras and skills anchors not claimed above. North Dakota's history strands apply six skills anchors across five U.S. eras and four world eras. We claim only the source-analysis anchors and the specific era benchmarks the wider catalog genuinely reaches (labor and the Gilded Age, the Great Migration and Civil Rights, Prohibition, agriculture and the first cities, the Columbian Exchange and imperialism, the Haitian Revolution, and globalization). The Revolution and founding, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the World Wars and the Cold War, the post-1990 era, and the science/technology and religion/ideology anchors are not this catalog's focus and are left unclaimed rather than stretched.
  • North Dakota Studies, Sociology, and Psychology — nothing. North Dakota's Social Studies standards include a distinctive North Dakota Studies strand (state and tribal history — including the required 'North Dakota Tribal Government' study) and 6-12 Sociology and Psychology strands. This catalog teaches North Dakota's state government (the civics flagship) but not North Dakota's own history at these standards' depth, and it teaches no sociology or psychology, so these strands are not claimed.
  • The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. North Dakota's closest frameworks for these (its Computer Science and Cybersecurity standards and its world-languages standards) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no North Dakota claims this pass.

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