New Mexico standards alignment

• 9-12.Civ.29

  Covered

  Explain the unique features and processes of New Mexico’s constitution.

  Covered by

  • New Mexico Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · New Mexico Civics, Lesson 1 · New Mexico's bilingual constitution and its cultures
  • · New Mexico Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes law, local government, and getting involved

  Note: Near-1:1 with the flagship's headline: New Mexico's 1912 constitution and its unique feature — the special protections for Spanish-speaking citizens that make New Mexico effectively the most bilingual state — plus its processes (amendment by legislative referral to the voters, with the language-rights provisions especially hard to amend).

• 9-12.Civ.47

  Covered

  Plan and demonstrate some ways in which an active citizen can effect change in the community, state, nation, or world.

  Covered by

  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • How to Run for Office: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • New Mexico Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · How to Run for Office · the whole course (eligibility, ballot access, money rules, and after Election Day)
  • · 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
  • · New Mexico Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes law, local government, and getting involved

  Note: Multiple concrete pathways are taught as practice: showing up at every level of government, running for office, helping a campaign lawfully, tracking a live bill, and New Mexico's own on-ramps (including serving in the unpaid Legislature as civic volunteering).

• 9-12.Civ.30

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the contributions of New Mexico’s diverse populations to its governmental structure and outcomes.

  Covered by

  • New Mexico Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · New Mexico Civics, Lesson 1 · New Mexico's bilingual constitution and its cultures
  • · New Mexico Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes law, local government, and getting involved

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the flagship teaches how New Mexico's Hispano, Native American, and Anglo populations shaped its bilingual constitution and civic landscape, and names the 19 Pueblos and other sovereign nations. The standard's evaluative performance — assessing those contributions' effect on governmental outcomes — is set up by the course rather than fully worked.

• 9-12.Civ.31

  Partially covered

  Investigate challenges and opportunities within and between different government entities in New Mexico.

  Covered by

  • New Mexico Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · New Mexico Civics, Lesson 2 · The only unpaid legislature in the nation
  • · New Mexico Civics, Lesson 3 · The executive and how New Mexico picks its judges
  • · New Mexico Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes law, local government, and getting involved

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: New Mexico's government entities are each taught in depth — the only fully unpaid state legislature in the nation, the plural executive (including the Commissioner of Public Lands), the appoint-then-partisan-elect-then-retain judiciary, and the 33 counties. The standard's “investigate challenges and opportunities between entities” is an inquiry the course frames rather than a full investigation.

• 9-12.Civ.13

  Partially covered

  Distinguish the powers and responsibilities of local, state, indigenous, national, and international civic and political institutions.

  Covered by

  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • New Mexico Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided

  • · 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
  • · New Mexico Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes law, local government, and getting involved
  • · New Mexico Civics, Lesson 1 · New Mexico's bilingual constitution and its cultures
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: local, state, indigenous, and national institutions are taught — what local government handles, New Mexico's counties, the sovereign tribal nations, the three federal branches, and federalism. International civic and political institutions are not taught.

• 9-12.Civ.24

  Partially covered

  Evaluate procedures for making governmental decisions at the local, state, national, and international levels in terms of the civic purposes achieved.

  Covered by

  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • New Mexico Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What

  • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law
  • · New Mexico Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes law, local government, and getting involved
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the federal and New Mexico lawmaking procedures are taught in depth (committees through veto override; New Mexico's line-item veto and two-thirds override), and local decision-making is introduced. International decision-making is not taught, and the evaluative “civic purposes achieved” framing is student analysis.

• 9-12.Civ.49

  Partially covered

  Take informed action to improve your community.

  Covered by

  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • New Mexico Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · New Mexico Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes law, local government, and getting involved

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: showing up locally and New Mexico's civic on-ramps are taught as practice, but the “take informed action” project itself is prompted rather than run as a graded assignment.

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 New Mexico Common Core mathematics standard.
• Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. New Mexico adopted the NGSS in 2018 as the NM STEM Ready! Science Standards, so our one honest science claim — HS-ESS3-1, partial — comes through the shared NGSS mapping with the limit stated on the entry. The six New Mexico-specific standards added to the NGSS are New Mexico's own; none is HS-ESS3-1, and this catalog has no laboratory work, investigation, or modelling, so we claim nothing there.
• The New Mexico History (NMH) strand — not the catalog's content. New Mexico's High School New Mexico History course (9-12.NMH) is about New Mexico's own past: the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and its Article IX/X guarantees, the Homestead Act's effect on New Mexico, the boarding-school system and its ramifications on Indigenous peoples, the path to 1912 statehood, the Dust Bowl in New Mexico, and the atomic bomb and Cold-War testing sites born in New Mexico. The flagship civics course and the BVC curriculum do not teach this state-specific history, so we claim none of it. The New Mexico Civics course names the sovereign tribal nations but does not teach federal Indian policy or tribal sovereignty's interpretation over time (9-12.Civ.20, 9-12.NMH.26).
• Geography and Ethnic, Cultural, and Identity Studies strands — not claimed. New Mexico's Geography strand (location/place/region, movement and systems, human-environment interaction) and its Ethnic, Cultural, and Identity Studies strand are not genuinely taught by these courses as their own content, so we claim neither. Where the BVC curriculum touches geographic diffusion, it is claimed under World History 9-12.WH.16, not the Geography strand.
• The political-media civics standards. 9-12.Civ.42 (the effects of media organizations, including internet social platforms, on elections and social movements) and 9-12.Civ.43 (bias in the media and its impact on government decision making) are political-media analysis. Our media-literacy course is consumer protection — reading ads and claims for omission and fallacy — not political-media analysis, so we do not claim these; the source-evaluation skill they share is claimed instead under the inquiry standards 9-12.Civ.3 and 9-12.Civ.10.
• Most of the High School Civics inquiry standards, and the federal-heavy content standards we checked. The inquiry standards 9-12.Civ.1, .2, .4-.9, .11, .12 (constructing compelling/supporting questions, argument and explanation construction, taking informed action as named skills) are procedures the courses exercise but do not deliver as a unit. On the content side, 9-12.Civ.16-.22 (groups without formal power, equality/equity/justice as named concepts, government-civil-society-market relationships, comparative systems, Indigenous-U.S. relations over time, and foreign policy), 9-12.Civ.25-.27 (using and challenging laws, public-policy outcomes, means of changing societies), and 9-12.Civ.32-.44/.46/.48 (civic dispositions and democratic principles as named concepts, founding-document interpretation over time, political socialization, leadership case studies, and the political-media standards) are not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
• Economics standards beyond trade and commodity markets. New Mexico's High School Economics course also covers personal financial literacy, cost-benefit and marginal analysis, market structures and competition, financial institutions and money, government market intervention, fiscal and monetary policy, and macroeconomic indicators (9-12.Econ.13-.17, .19, .22-.39, .41, .42, .45-onward). This catalog teaches commodity markets, comparative economic systems, and the labor side of trade — not personal finance or macroeconomic measurement — so it claims only the trade-and-markets standards mapped above.
• Most World History standards, and the New Mexico's-own-structure detail no single code captures. New Mexico's World History standards not mapped above (9-12.WH.1-.11, .14, .15, .17-.25, .27, .28, .31) are historical-thinking and content skills the courses do not exercise cleanly enough to claim. And the New Mexico Civics flagship teaches more of New Mexico's own structure than any one code captures — the only unpaid state legislature in the nation, the appoint-then-partisan-elect-then-retain judiciary, and the powerful Commissioner of Public Lands — with 9-12.Civ.29/30/31 hosting most of it.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. New Mexico's closest frameworks (Computer Science, World Languages) have not been fetched and verified yet — and web.ped.nm.gov's captcha challenge blocked automated retrieval this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no New Mexico claims this pass.