Alaska standards alignment

• G&C.B

  Covered

  A student should understand the constitutional foundations of the American political system and the democratic ideals of this nation.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 8 · The Bill of Rights (Amendments I to X)
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches

  Note: The constitutional foundations the standard names are taught comprehensively: the ideals of the Declaration and the Constitution, the U.S. Constitution article by article, the Bill of Rights, separation of powers and the three branches, and how power is shared at the federal, state, and local levels (federalism).

• G&C.A

  Partially covered

  A student should know and understand how societies define authority, rights, and responsibilities through a governmental process.

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 2 · The Preamble: who, and why
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power

  What we do and don't cover: The necessity and purpose of government and the fundamental ideas of authority, power, and rights are taught (the purpose of government and the Preamble worked clause by clause). Partial because the standard's comparative task — how different societies have governed themselves over time and in different places — is not the course's focus.

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 Alaska (2012) mathematics standard.
• Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Alaska's 2019 K-12 Science Standards reproduce the NGSS HS-ESS3-1 performance expectation verbatim, 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.
• Alaska Native communities, ANCSA, and tribal governments (Government and Citizenship, Standard C). Alaska's Standard C requires students to understand the historical and current roles of Alaska Native communities, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and its impact on the state, and the roles of and relationships among the federal, tribal, and state governments (its items 4, 5, and 8). Alaska Civics teaches Alaska's state and local structure — boroughs, the Unorganized Borough, the strong governor, the Permanent Fund, the courts, and the election system — but does not teach Alaska Native governance or ANCSA, so Standard C is claimed as partial. The gap is in the course, not the standard.
• Alaska's own state structure is taught more fully than Standard C captures. Alaska Civics teaches the Constitution of 1959, boroughs instead of counties and the vast Unorganized Borough where the state provides county-type services, the strong governor with only two elected statewide officials, the 40/20 Legislature with no term limits, the line-item veto with a two-thirds/three-quarters override, the merit-selection judiciary, the citizen initiative/referendum/recall, the 2020 top-four/ranked-choice election system, and the Permanent Fund with no state income or sales tax — all from Alaska's own sources. Standard C hosts most of it, but this lettered content standard is a single broad statement, not an Alaska-government checklist, so the top-four/ranked-choice system, the Permanent Fund Dividend, and the boroughs have no code of their own.
• The international-affairs and economic-decision-making standards we checked and rejected. Government and Citizenship Standard D (the role of the United States in international affairs — foreign policy, U.S. influence on other nations, international organizations) and Standard G (the impact of economic choices and effective participation in local, state, national, and global economies — the economic-decision-making pedagogy of scarcity, costs and benefits, and informed choices) are not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Alaska's closest frameworks for these (its digital-literacy/technology and world-languages standards) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Alaska claims this pass.