Wyoming standards alignment

• SS12.1.5

  Covered

  Demonstrate an understanding of the structures of both the United States and Wyoming Constitutions.

  Covered by

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

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · Wyoming Civics, Lesson 1 · 'The Equality State': first to grant women the vote
  • · Wyoming Civics, Lesson 2 · Wyoming's executive: five elected officers, and no Lieutenant Governor
  • · Wyoming Civics, Lesson 3 · The part-time Legislature and how Wyoming picks its judges
  • · Wyoming Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes law, local government, and getting involved

  Note: The strongest alignment on this page and the flagship's home: Wyoming Civics teaches the structure of the Wyoming Constitution in depth — the 1889 constitution, the five-officer plural executive with NO lieutenant governor, the part-time 62/31 Legislature, the Missouri-Plan judiciary, and direct democracy — and the general Civics courses teach the U.S. Constitution's three-branch structure and separation of powers. Both constitutions the standard names are genuinely taught.

• SS12.1.3

  Partially covered

  Analyze the historical development of the United States Constitution and treaties (e.g., 1868 Fort Bridger Treaty) and how they have shaped the United States and Wyoming Government (tribal, local, state, federal).

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • Wyoming Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · Wyoming Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes law, local government, and getting involved

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the U.S. Constitution is worked article by article in the general courses, and Wyoming's own government (counties, cities, districts) is taught in Wyoming Civics. The TREATIES half the standard names — the 1868 Fort Bridger Treaty and how treaties shaped tribal and Wyoming government — is not taught.

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 Wyoming Common Core mathematics standard.
• Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Wyoming's 2016 Science standards are built on the NGSS, 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.
• The Wind River / tribal-sovereignty sub-benchmarks (every .a code). Wyoming's social-studies standards are saturated with Indian Education for All: SS12.1.1.a (comparing tribal-member and citizen rights on the Wind River Indian Reservation), SS12.1.3.a (governance of the Indigenous Tribes of Wyoming through Congressional Acts and Supreme Court decisions — the Marshall Trilogy, U.S. v. Shoshone Tribe of Indians), SS12.1.5.a (the inherent powers of Wyoming's tribes), SS12.2.1.a-2.4.a, SS12.4.1.a/4.4.a/4.5.a, and SS12.5.2.a/5.3.a. These are specific, sovereign, Wyoming-tribal content — the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho, treaties, boarding schools, land cessions — that this catalog does not teach. We claim none of them.
• Standard 2 — Culture and Cultural Diversity — nothing. SS12.2.1-2.2.4 ask students to analyze how groups meet human needs and express culture, and to evaluate cultural assimilation and preservation in Wyoming, the United States, and the world — the standard is anchored in Wyoming's own and Indigenous cultural life. The catalog does not teach this, so we claim no Standard 2 benchmark.
• SS12.1.4 — the U.S. civil and criminal legal systems. SS12.1.4 asks students to demonstrate an understanding of, and distinguish between, the United States civil and criminal legal systems at the federal, state, and tribal levels. The Civics courses teach jury service and the judiciary's structure, but not the civil-vs-criminal-systems distinction the standard names, so we do not claim it.
• The economics and history benchmarks we checked and rejected. SS12.3.4 (how financial and government institutions make economic decisions — banking, investment, credit, regulation, debt; the catalog teaches no financial literacy), SS12.3.5 (how values and beliefs influence micro/macroeconomic decisions), and SS12.4.3 (given a current event, critique the actors and hypothesize how it would have played out in another country — not this catalog's method) are not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
• SS12.5.3 and SS12.6.3 — sense of place, and digital production. SS12.5.3 asks how conflict, demographics, movement, trade, and technology affect humans' “sense of place” — the catalog teaches trade and movement, but not sense of place as the geographic object of study, so we do not claim it. SS12.6.3 (use digital tools to research, design, and present social studies concepts, per the ISTE student standards) is a production standard the catalog does not deliver.
• Wyoming's own state structure is taught more fully than any one code captures. Wyoming Civics teaches the 1889 constitution's equal-political-rights founding, the five-officer plural executive with no lieutenant governor (the Secretary of State succeeds the Governor), the part-time citizen Legislature and its short biennial sessions, the absence of a state income tax, the Missouri-Plan judiciary, direct democracy with high thresholds, and the 23 counties — from Wyoming's own sources. SS12.1.5 (structures of both constitutions) hosts most of it, but the succession quirk, the no-income-tax fact, and the initiative's high thresholds have no code of their own.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Wyoming's other frameworks (Computer Science, World Languages) have not been fetched and verified against these courses yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Wyoming claims this pass.