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Designed for high school. Below is every Washingtonstandard 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 Washington'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.

Washington · Social Studies

Washington State K-12 Learning Standards for Social Studies — Economics, Grades 9-12

Adopted September 2019 · Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) · retrieved 2026-07-18

Washington's high-school Economics standards. This is the honest home for much of the Commodity Map's specialization, trade-policy, comparative-advantage, and globalization content.

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  • E2.9-10.3

    Partially covered
    Analyze how and why countries have specialized in the production of particular goods and services in the past or present.

    Covered by

    • · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
    • · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
    • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
    • · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
    • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
    • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
    • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
    • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
    • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
    • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
    • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: where commodities are grown and why (the growing belts) and who captures the value along the chain are the Commodity Map's spine — the “how and why countries specialized” this standard names. A general treatment of specialization is not attempted.

  • E4.11-12.4

    Partially covered
    Analyze the role of comparative advantage in international trade of goods and services.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
    • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
    • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
    • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
    • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
    • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
    • · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
    • · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
    • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
    • · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
    • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: which regions produce which commodities and why, and who is paid what along the value chain (the smile curve), is taught in depth. The formal comparative-advantage framework, by name, is not.

  • E3.9-10.1

    Partially covered
    Analyze the costs and benefits of government trade policies from around the world in the past and present.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
    • · Mexico, Lesson 7 · Mexico rewrites its labor law, and the 68-year gap that explains why
    • · Mexico, Lesson 10 · The Rapid Response Mechanism: an international labor rule with teeth
    • · Mexico, Lesson 12 · The limits, honestly: the cases the United States lost

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: government's role in trade is taught through two worked cases — the U.S. sugar program's quotas and tariffs, and NAFTA→USMCA's labor rules and their limits. A general treatment is not attempted.

Washington · Social Studies

Washington State K-12 Learning Standards for Social Studies — Geography, Grades 9-12

Adopted September 2019 · Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) · retrieved 2026-07-18

Washington's high-school Geography standards — the honest home for the Commodity Map's resource-distribution, climate, and expansion-and-encounter content, and for the Great Migration.

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  • G3.11-12.4

    Partially covered
    Evaluate how changes in the environmental and cultural characteristics of a place or region influence spatial patterns of trade and land use.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 1 · Climate Change Is Redrawing the Map
    • · Ep 3 · A Two-Degree Threat
    • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
    • · Ep 10 · Karst Limestone and Bourbon
    • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, assess a producing country's climate viability and defend the assessment
    • · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
    • · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
    • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
    • · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
    • · Ep 6 · Islands Under Pressure
    • · Ep 8 · Beer Geography Is Shifting

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: how climate and the availability of resources shape where commodities can grow and how trade is patterned — and the published forecasts of that shift for coffee, cacao, and kava — is taught with the evidence supplied. It is one worked thread through the changes this standard names, not a survey.

  • G3.9-10.1

    Partially covered
    Define how the geography of expansion and encounter have shaped global politics and economics in history.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
    • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
    • · Ep 11 · The Triangular Trade
    • · Ep 12 · Burning the Books (the destruction of the Mesoamerican codices)
    • · Ep 15 · From Sacred to Commodity
    • · Ep 2 · Who Grows the Tea (colonial and plantation labour)
    • · Ep 5 · Whose Knowledge Is It
    • · Ep 6 · Kava Governs
    • · Ep 17 · The Opium Wars
    • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: the geography of conquest and the Columbian exchange, and of imperial expansion into Africa, Asia, and the Americas, is taught through the commodities those systems ran. A general geographic treatment of expansion is not attempted.

Washington · Social Studies

Washington State K-12 Learning Standards for Social Studies — History, Grades 9-12

Adopted September 2019 · Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) · retrieved 2026-07-18

Washington's high-school History standards. The H3 (multiple perspectives) strand is a strong social-studies home for the catalog's source-evaluation and Whose Voice method, alongside the verbatim Common Core RH literacy strand adopted above.

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  • H3.11-12.4

    Covered
    Integrate evidence from multiple relevant historical sources and interpretations into a reasoned argument about the past to create claims and counterclaims.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story, Beckford (1790) against Equiano (1789) and Mary Prince (1831) on the same plantation world
    • · Ep 3 · Two Ways of Seeing a Bean
    • · Ep 5 · Two Ways of Knowing
    • · Ep 18 · Whose Voice
    • · Ep 10 · The Oral History That Survived (recovering Nathan “Nearest” Green's erased role)

    Note: Integrating primary and secondary sources into a reasoned argument, noting where they disagree, is exactly the Whose Voice and Nathan Green method: a planter's account set against formerly enslaved writers', and the documentary record set against the oral record.

  • H3.11-12.2

    Covered
    Analyze the ways in which the perspectives of those writing history shaped the history that they produced.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story
    • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story, Beckford (1790) against Equiano (1789) and Mary Prince (1831) on the same plantation world
    • · Ep 3 · Two Ways of Seeing a Bean
    • · Ep 5 · Two Ways of Knowing
    • · Ep 18 · Whose Voice

    Note: Whose voice is present in the record, and whose is absent, is taught directly — how the position of the person writing shapes the account that survives.

  • H2.9-10.1

    Partially covered
    Analyze how individuals and movements have shaped world history (1450-present).

    Covered by

    • · Ep 2 · Who Grows the Tea (colonial and plantation labour)
    • · Ep 5 · Whose Knowledge Is It
    • · Ep 6 · Kava Governs
    • · Ep 17 · The Opium Wars
    • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence
    • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
    • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
    • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
    • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
    • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 3 · A workers' state with a worker problem
    • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 7 · 13 December 1981: the state answers (martial law)
    • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 8 · 1989: a union negotiates a state out of existence

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: movements that shaped the modern world are taught through the commodities they turned on — imperial and colonial systems and the resistance to them (Maroon communities, revolution, abolition), and Solidarność at the Cold War's end. It is a set of deep threads, not a survey of the period.

Washington · English/Language Arts

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy

Grades 11-12 · Common Core State Standards Initiative · retrieved 2026-07-13

Washington formally adopted the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (and mathematics) in July 2011 (State Superintendent Randy Dorn). Washington distributes them as the Washington State K-12 Learning Standards for English Language Arts but retains the Common Core codes and text, so the literacy-in-history/social-studies (RH) and writing-in-history (WHST) strands this catalog touches are adopted verbatim. Note: OSPI is running a Learning Standards Review with a draft “WA ELA 2026” in progress; as of this writing the 2011 Common Core adoption remains the operative standard — confirm current status at ospi.k12.wa.us. We claim no mathematics standards.

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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 Common Core mathematics standard Washington adopted.
  • Science — almost nothing. There is no laboratory work, no investigation and no scientific modelling here. Washington adopted the NGSS verbatim (as the WSSLS), and we claim a single NGSS performance expectation, partially, explaining exactly why on the entry itself. It is not a science course and we will not sell it as one.
  • Tribal governments and the Since Time Immemorial curriculum. Washington's social studies standards repeatedly reference tribal constitutions, tribal sovereignty, and the Since Time Immemorial curriculum (e.g., C2.11-12.2 names tribal constitutions; the standards footnote tribal connections throughout). The catalog does not teach tribal government, so we claim only the United-States and Washington-state portions of those standards and mark C2.11-12.2 partial for exactly this reason.
  • The flagship's election and tax specifics have no dedicated Washington code. Washington Civics teaches the all-mail (vote-by-mail) system and the top-two primary — the state's most distinctive civics content — plus the contested no-personal-income-tax tradition (the uniformity clause; the 2021 capital-gains tax upheld in 2023). Washington's high-school Civics standards contain no discrete election-administration or tax-policy standard, so this election content is taught but carries no Washington claim, and the tax content is reached only through the general C2 civics standards. The specifics have no code — the gap is in the standards, not the course.
  • Prohibition, the War on Drugs as domestic policy, and mass incarceration. The catalog teaches all three. Washington's 2019 social studies standards are analytical and thematic (“current events rooted in past events,” “individuals and movements”) rather than event-naming, so — unlike Washington, D.C. — there is no Washington standard that names Prohibition or mass incarceration to cite. We claim the War on Drugs' foreign-policy arm only through the broad H4.11-12.3, and mark it partial.
  • The wider catalog — health, PE, AI-literacy, and languages. Washington's relevant frameworks for these (Health and Physical Education; Computer Science; World Languages) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Washington claims this pass.

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