Arizona standards alignment

• HS.C3.1

  Covered

  Examine how the United States Constitution established a system of government that has powers, responsibilities, and limits and analyze how those powers, responsibilities, and limits have changed over time.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 9 · Changing the Constitution: Article V and key later amendments
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent

  Note: Both halves: the Constitution is worked article by article (powers, responsibilities, limits), and the changed-over-time half is taught through Article V, the key later amendments, and how Supreme Court precedent expands rights.

• HS.C2.1

  Covered

  Explain the importance of individual participation in civic and political institutions.

  Covered by

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

  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard
  • · Arizona Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in Arizona
  • · How to Help a Campaign, Lesson 10 · Helping ballot measures and local causes

  Note: Participation is taught as practice, not exhortation: helping a campaign lawfully, tracking a live bill, showing up at every level — with an Arizona-specific lesson on the direct-democracy tools that make individual participation unusually consequential here.

• HS.C2.4

  Covered

  Analyze the responsibilities of citizens.

  Covered by

  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics
  • Jury Duty & the Courts (the citizen's side)
  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · 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

  Note: Responsibilities are taught as practices: voting, jury service (an entire course), staying informed, and civic participation.

• HS.E5.1

  Covered

  Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of global trade.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis

  • · 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
  • · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value

  Note: Evaluating who wins and loses from global trade is the series' spine: 21 episodes trace the advantages (market access, income) and the disadvantages (the commodity trap, value captured downstream) through real chains, and test the pattern.

• HS.E5.3

  Covered

  Explain why nations chose to trade and how it is regulated.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · 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 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar

  Note: Both halves: WHY nations trade (the growing belts — climate and soil decide where commodities can grow, so trade follows) and HOW it is regulated (the U.S. sugar program's import quotas, tariffs, and price supports, worked in detail).

• HS.G1.1

  Covered

  Use geographic data to explain and analyze relationships between locations of place and regions.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · 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 · Assignment, Option A, map the supply chain of 3 items from your morning routine
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, Coffee Belt climate report, with maps and data tables

  Note: The Commodity Map itself is this standard: every episode pinned at its origin, the Growing Belts map by latitude band and country, and the Coffee project has the student prepare maps and data tables of their own.

• HS.G2.1

  Covered

  Analyze interactions within and between human and physical systems.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom

  • · 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

  Note: Human-environment interaction is the curriculum's method: volcanic soil and altitude deciding what grows, climate change redrawing the map, karst limestone shaping bourbon — physical systems shaping human activity and back.

• HS.G2.2

  Covered

  Evaluate how political and economic decisions throughout time have influenced cultural and environmental characteristics of various places and regions.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
  • · Ep 5 · How Coca-Cola Got Its Name (biopiracy)
  • · Ep 7 · The Same Story, Six Times
  • · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom (the 1825 French indemnity and Haiti's modern poverty)
  • · 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

  Note: Taught through the plantation and colonial cash-crop systems: political and economic decisions (conquest, the triangular trade, imperial monopolies) remaking the environments and cultures of the Caribbean, West Africa, South Asia, and Oceania — and how those decisions persist today.

• HS.H1.3

  Covered

  Evaluate the consequences that resulted from civilizational and cultural interactions.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · 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 3 · Food of the Gods (cacao as Maya/Aztec currency and sacrament)
  • · Ep 12 · The Sacred Plant (Aztec governance of pulque)
  • · Ep 12 · Burning the Books

  Note: The consequences of conquest and colonization — the Columbian Exchange, the transatlantic slave trade, the effects on Maya and Aztec society — are taught directly, through the plants those societies governed.

• HS.H2.3

  Covered

  Evaluate the short- and long- term impacts of conflicts and their resolutions.

  Covered by

  • Poland: Solidarność, When a Union Brought Down a State

  • · Ep 17 · The Opium Wars
  • · Ep 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom
  • · Ep 11 · The Black Jacobins (C.L.R. James)
  • · 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

  Note: Three conflicts worked at real depth, each with both time horizons: the Opium Wars (and their long consequences for China), the Haitian Revolution (through the 1825 indemnity and Haiti's modern poverty), and martial-law Poland (through the 1989 negotiated resolution and its price).

• HS.H3.5

  Covered

  Explain how different labor systems developed and affected societies over time.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • The History of Unions: America and the World
  • Mexico: The Protection Contract, and the Trade Deal That Came for It

  • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
  • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 4 · Two ideas about who a union is for: the Knights and the AFL
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 5 · Haymarket, 1886
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 6 · Homestead, Pullman, and the weapon that actually broke strikes
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 9 · 1935: the year organizing became a right (the Wagner Act)
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 10 · The hole in the law: who the Wagner Act left out
  • · 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

  Note: Labor systems over time is what this catalog does best: enslaved plantation labor and the resistance to it, industrial wage labor and the union movement, the Wagner Act's legal regime and who it excluded, and the NAFTA→USMCA cross-border labor order.

• HS.H4.1

  Covered

  Examine how historically marginalized groups have affected change on political and social institutions.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
  • The History of Unions: America and the World
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 16 · The colour bar: unions' own history of exclusion
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 17 · Randolph to Memphis: the labor half of the civil-rights movement
  • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
  • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 6 · The Black press as engine: the Chicago Defender
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 7 · The Harlem Renaissance & the New Negro

  Note: Taught as agency, not victimhood: the Black urban vote the Great Migration created, Randolph to Memphis, the Maroons and the Haitian Revolution, and the Black press as an engine of change.

• HS.SP2.2

  Covered

  Analyze the ways in which perspective shapes recorded history.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom

  • · 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)
  • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story

  Note: This is the Whose Voice method: a planter's account read against Equiano and Mary Prince, the documentary record read against the oral record that preserved Nathan Green, and reading a text for what it leaves out.

• HS.C3.2

  Partially covered

  Analyze the origins, functions, and structures of government at the national, state, local, and tribal levels and compare with other systems of government.

  Covered by

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

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · Arizona Civics, Lesson 2 · The three branches of Arizona government
  • · Arizona Civics, Lesson 7 · The Lieutenant Governor: a change in progress (Prop 131, 2022)
  • · Arizona Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government in Arizona: 15 counties, no townships
  • · Arizona Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in Arizona (county and city/town)
  • · 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
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?

  What we do and don't cover: Partial, and the missing piece matters in Arizona: national, state (Arizona's own three branches), and local government are taught thoroughly, and federal-state structure gets its own course. TRIBAL government — which the standard names, in the state with 20+ federally recognized tribes — is not taught, and the comparison with other systems of government is not systematic.

• HS.C2.3

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the evolution of ideals and rights established in historical documents, legislation, executive actions, and court cases.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 2-5 · speech, religion, press, assembly, including at school and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 6-8 · the 4th Amendment: searches, stops, and your digital life
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 8 · The Bill of Rights (Amendments I to X)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the historical-documents and court-cases halves are strong (the Bill of Rights as a document; Tinker through Carpenter as applicable rules; how precedent expands rights). The evolution of rights through LEGISLATION and EXECUTIVE ACTIONS is not taught systematically.

• HS.C4.1

  Partially covered

  Evaluate multiple procedures for making governmental decisions in all three branches and at the local, state, tribal, national, and international levels in terms of the civic purpose achieved.

  Covered by

  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • Arizona Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law
  • · Arizona Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes an Arizona law (and how voters do it directly)
  • · Arizona Civics, Lesson 1 · Arizona's constitution and its strong direct democracy
  • · Arizona Civics, Lesson 4 · How voters make law directly (the initiative route)
  • · Arizona Civics, Lesson 6 · The Voter Protection Act (Prop 105, 1998)
  • · Arizona Civics, Lesson 3 · Arizona's courts: merit selection depends on county size

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the procedures ARE evaluated by civic purpose — Arizona's two lawmaking routes (the Legislature, and the initiative the Progressive-Era framers added to bypass it), the Voter Protection Act's purpose, and merit selection versus judicial election (insulating the busiest courts from campaign politics), alongside the full federal bill process. The tribal and international levels the standard names are not taught.

• HS.C4.2

  Partially covered

  Evaluate local, state, national, and international policies in terms of intended and unintended outcomes and related consequences.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
  • · Ep 8 · Prohibition, the Experiment That Failed
  • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition (the rhetoric that drove the movement)
  • · Ep 18 · Bolivia's Bet (Bolivia's legal coca model against U.S.-funded eradication)
  • · Ep 18 · The Balloon Effect
  • · Ep 17 · Where the Poppy Grows (Afghanistan and the Golden Crescent)
  • · Ep 16 · The Justice Gap

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL policies are evaluated in real depth — the U.S. sugar program (intended: stable prices; unintended: ~$3.5bn/yr consumer cost), Prohibition, and the War on Drugs (the balloon effect is an unintended-consequences lesson by name). Local and state policies are not evaluated this way.

• HS.C4.3

  Partially covered

  Explain the procedures for elections at the local, state, tribal, and national levels.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101
  • Arizona Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lessons 1-3 · registration, primaries and caucuses, how you vote
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 7 · Counting, canvassing, and certifying the vote
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 8 · Verify your own registration and rules
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists
  • · Arizona Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in Arizona: early voting and the Voter Protection Act

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: national and Arizona election procedures are taught thoroughly (registration through certification, the Electoral College, the AEVL). Tribal election procedures are not taught, and local procedures are handled by teaching students to verify their own county's rules.

• HS.E3.2

  Partially covered

  Evaluate how numerous factors and conditions influence market prices.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods

  • · Ep 1 · Price Shocks and Why You Keep Buying
  • · Ep 4 · From Luxury to the Cheapest Calorie
  • · 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: what moves prices is taught through commodity markets — supply shocks, inelastic demand absorbing a ~70% coffee price spike, market structure along the chain. It is not a general markets-and-pricing unit.

• HS.G3.1

  Partially covered

  Analyze the reciprocal nature of how historical events and the diffusion of ideas, technologies, and cultural practices have influenced migration patterns and the distribution of human population.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 4 · Routes and railroads: the three streams
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 5 · Arrival: Chicago, Detroit, New York, and the Pacific Northwest
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 9 · Faith, family & mutual aid
  • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
  • · Ep 2 · The Tea Plant and Its Climate Zones
  • · Ep 3 · The Big Producers and the Cacao Varieties
  • · Ep 4 · From New Guinea to the New World

  What we do and don't cover: Partial, at case-study depth: the Great Migration (six million people, the events that pushed and the Black press that pulled, and the urban population distribution it created) and the diffusion of crops among regions. Not a general treatment of world migration.

• HS.G3.3

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the influence of long-term climate variability on human migration and settlement patterns, resource use, and land uses at local-to-global scales.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · Ep 1 · Climate Change Is Redrawing the Map
  • · Ep 3 · A Two-Degree Threat
  • · Ep 6 · Islands Under Pressure
  • · Ep 8 · Beer Geography Is Shifting

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: published climate forecasts and their implications for growers, land use, and production regions are analyzed in depth (coffee, cacao, kava, beer). Climate-driven human MIGRATION is touched, not worked.

• HS.G4.2

  Partially covered

  Analyze patterns of global power and influence in respect to trade, demographics, politics, and resource availability and use.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea

  • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
  • · Ep 5 · How Coca-Cola Got Its Name (biopiracy)
  • · Ep 7 · The Same Story, Six Times
  • · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom (the 1825 French indemnity and Haiti's modern poverty)
  • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
  • · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
  • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
  • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
  • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
  • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
  • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: global power is analyzed through trade, politics, and resource availability (who captures value, how colonial patterns persist, why producers stay poor). The DEMOGRAPHICS lens the standard also names is not taught.

• HS.H1.7

  Partially covered

  Analyze how technological innovation and trade has affected economic development and transformed societies.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea

  • · Ep 2 · The Roads Tea Traveled
  • · Ep 8 · Liquid Bread and the First Cities (the Code of Hammurabi, c. 1754 BCE, legislates beer)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the TRADE half is deep (the Tea Horse Road and Maritime Silk Road; grain trade and the first cities). Technological innovation as a driver is not taught head-on.

• HS.H3.3

  Partially covered

  Compare the ways in which economic philosophies influenced political, economic, and social developments.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • Poland: Solidarność, When a Union Brought Down a State

  • · Ep 5 · The Reciprocity Economy
  • · Ep 6 · Ceremony Meets the Market
  • · Ep 7 · Two Ways of Doing Economics
  • · 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: two comparisons are taught well — reciprocity economies against market economies (directly, at length), and a communist workers' state against the union that unmade it. Not a survey of economic philosophies.

• HS.H4.3

  Partially covered

  Examine how access to information and technology has been used to influence society.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods

  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 6 · The Black press as engine: the Chicago Defender
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 7 · The Harlem Renaissance & the New Negro
  • · Ep 1 · Reading a Coffee Ad
  • · Ep 3 · Reading a Chocolate Ad
  • · Ep 8 · Reading a Craft Beer Label
  • · Ep 15 · Torches of Freedom
  • · Ep 16 · Reefer Madness and the Language of Fear
  • · Ep 18 · Just Say No

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: one deep case — the Chicago Defender, smuggled south, as information access that moved a million people — plus a media-literacy lesson in every BVC episode on how ads and campaigns use information to influence. Not a general information-technology history.

• HS.SP3.3

  Partially covered

  Analyze the relationship between primary sources and the secondary interpretations made from them including possible limitations in various kinds of evidence and differing secondary interpretations.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom

  • · The Great Migration · every lesson carries a primary-source pointer to its real archive
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 5 · Arrival (the Philadelphia “500% growth” claim, checked against the raw census figures it fails)
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the curriculum models this constantly — every Great Migration lesson points to its real archive, and a widely repeated unsupported statistic becomes a limitations-of-evidence lesson — but sustained student-run source analysis is prompted, not assessed.

• HS.SP3.6

  Partially covered

  Construct and present arguments using precise and knowledgeable claims, with evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging counterclaims and evidentiary weaknesses.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option D, a 1,200-1,500 word research paper with a required counterargument section

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Coffee project's Option D requires exactly this, counterargument section included — but it is one optional project in one episode, so we will not claim a writing programme.

• 9-10.RI.6

  Covered

  Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · Blood-Sweetened Luxury (the abolitionist sugar boycott)
  • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition
  • · Ep 15 · Torches of Freedom
  • · Ep 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter (using Britain's own values against its opium policy)

• 9-10.RI.7

  Partially covered

  Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person's life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom

  • · 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)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the accounts-against-accounts work is strong (Beckford against Equiano and Prince; the written record against the oral record on Nathan Green — genuinely different mediums). Multimedia accounts in the standard's modern sense are not analyzed.

• 11-12.RI.6

  Covered

  Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the effectiveness of the text.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · Blood-Sweetened Luxury
  • · Ep 15 · Torches of Freedom
  • · Ep 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter
  • · Ep 16 · Three Sentences, Three Policies

• 11-12.RI.8

  Covered

  Delineate and evaluate the rhetorical effectiveness of the authors' reasoning, premises, purpose, and argument in seminal U.S. and world texts.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · Blood-Sweetened Luxury (the abolitionist sugar boycott)
  • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition
  • · Ep 15 · Torches of Freedom
  • · Ep 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter (using Britain's own values against its opium policy)
  • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)

  Note: The primary texts worked are seminal and rhetorical by design: the abolitionist sugar-boycott pamphlets, Lin Zexu's letter to Queen Victoria, Torches of Freedom, Selling Prohibition.

• 11-12.RI.7

  Partially covered

  Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in print in order to address a question or solve a problem.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, all four options are 2-3 week research projects requiring synthesis across sources

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the curriculum models multi-source evaluation constantly and publishes a checkable bibliography, but the student is required to perform it only in the Coffee episode's project.

• 11-12.SL.2

  Partially covered

  Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media and formats in order to make informed decisions and propose solutions, while evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
  • · Ep 10 · The Oral History That Survived (recovering Nathan “Nearest” Green's erased role)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: 'noting any discrepancies' is the Nathan Green lesson's whole point — the documentary and oral records disagree, and the episode teaches how to resolve that. But this is a speaking-and-listening standard, and the discussion half happens in a classroom we don't run.

• 11-12.W.1

  Partially covered

  Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option D, a 1,200-1,500 word research paper with a required counterargument section

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Coffee project's Option D asks for exactly this (a thesis, primary sources, and a required counterargument section). It is one optional project in one episode — not a writing programme. Transcribed from the standard's lead sentence; sub-parts a-e detail the same expectations.

• 11-12.W.7

  Partially covered

  Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, all four options are 2-3 week research projects requiring synthesis across sources

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: only the Coffee episode currently ships a graded 2-3 week research project. Where it runs, it meets this standard squarely.

• 11-12.W.8

  Partially covered

  Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, 3+ peer-reviewed sources and an APA bibliography
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option C, interview ethics: informed consent, right to review
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, climate-vulnerability report, 3+ peer-reviewed sources, APA bibliography
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option D, primary-source research paper with an APA bibliography

  What we do and don't cover: Partial, same reason: the project demands authoritative sources and APA citation, but only the Coffee episode currently ships one.

• Essential HS.E1U3.14

  Partially covered

  Engage in argument from evidence about the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, changes in climate, and human activity and how they influence each other.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Read this before relying on it: this is NOT a science course — no laboratory work, no investigations, no modelling. What it has is the standard's substance: resources, hazards, and climate shaping human activity (and back), with published evidence. The engage-in-argument performance happens only in the Coffee project. This contributes to Arizona's assessed essential standard; it does not discharge it.

• Plus HS+E.E1U3.9

  Partially covered

  Construct an explanation, based on evidence, for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Arizona's plus standard for an Earth-and-space course, nearly word for word the content the curriculum supplies. Same honest limit as above: the lessons supply the evidence; the STUDENT constructs the explanation only in the Coffee project (Option B).

• Strand 3 · Concept 1 · PO 1 (9-12)

  Covered

  Evaluate the validity of health information, products, and services.

  Covered by

  • Dental Health 101: What the Science Actually Says
  • Spotting Misleading Marketing

  • · Dental Health 101, Lesson 3 · Flossing and interdental cleaning: what the evidence actually shows
  • · Dental Health 101, Lesson 10 · Common dental myths, debunked
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 7 · Health, supplements, and “structure/function” claims
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 10 · How to verify a claim (and follow the money)

  Note: Taught explicitly on both fronts the PO names: information (evidence hierarchies, Cochrane reviews, myths debunked) and products/services (how health and supplement marketing dodges the legal line, and how to verify a claim yourself).

• Strand 6 · Concept 2 · PO 1 (9-12)

  Covered

  Develop a plan to attain a personal health goal that addresses strengths, needs, and risks.

  Covered by

  • Read Your Body's Data: A 5-Week Guide to Living
  • Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan: The Science of Actually Doing It

  • · Read Your Body's Data · The Capstone: My Health Blueprint (a 90-day plan built from five weeks of your own data)
  • · WOOP, Lesson 16 · The four steps: wish, outcome, obstacle, plan
  • · WOOP, Lesson 17 · Your turn: run it, now, on the goal you wrote down in Lesson 1

  Note: Both courses have the learner actually do this: one builds a data-grounded 90-day blueprint from five weeks of the learner's own data; the other writes the plan with mental contrasting plus implementation intentions — the obstacle (risk) step is the method's core.

• Strand 6 · Concept 2 · PO 2 (9-12)

  Covered

  Implement strategies and monitor progress in achieving a personal health goal.

  Covered by

  • Read Your Body's Data: A 5-Week Guide to Living
  • Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan: The Science of Actually Doing It

  • · Read Your Body's Data · What an N-of-1 Experiment Is / Designing Your N-of-1
  • · Read Your Body's Data · Analyzing Results and Iterating
  • · Read Your Body's Data · Your System Architecture: Triggers, Logging, Review
  • · WOOP, Lesson 7 · The obstacle is inside you (this is where most people fail)
  • · WOOP, Lesson 13 · How to write an if-then that actually fires
  • · WOOP, Lesson 18 · The six ways people run it wrong

  Note: The implement-monitor-adjust cycle is the course method: daily logging, baselines and moving averages, and iterating the N-of-1 experiment on the learner's own data — with if-then plans as the implementation strategy.

• Strand 1 · Concept 1 · PO 1 (9-12)

  Partially covered

  Predict how healthy behaviors can affect health status.

  Covered by

  • Dental Health 101: What the Science Actually Says
  • Read Your Body's Data: A 5-Week Guide to Living

  • · Dental Health 101, Lessons 2-5 · brushing, flossing, fluoride, and diet, each tied to its measured effect
  • · Read Your Body's Data · the whole course: behaviors read against your own resting heart rate, steps, sleep, and activity

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the behavior-to-health link is taught rigorously in two domains — oral health (evidence graded honestly) and tracker-measured lifestyle metrics. Other behavior domains the strand spans (substance use, sexual health, safety) are not taught.

• S3.H2.L2

  Covered

  Analyzes and applies technology and social media as tools for supporting a healthy, active lifestyle.

  Covered by

  • Read Your Body's Data: A 5-Week Guide to Living

  • · Read Your Body's Data · Pick Your Device and Where to Log It
  • · Read Your Body's Data · Setting Up Your Device and a Baseline Protocol
  • · Read Your Body's Data · Intensity Minutes: The Strongest Longevity Metric

  Note: This outcome is the course's literal premise: the learner uses a wearable (or just a phone) plus a daily log, every day for five weeks, to read and support their own activity habits.

• S3.H11.L2

  Covered

  Develops and maintains a fitness portfolio (e.g., assessment scores, goals for improvement , plan of activities for improvement, log of activities being done to reach goals, timeline for improvement).

  Covered by

  • Read Your Body's Data: A 5-Week Guide to Living

  • · Read Your Body's Data · Designing Your N-of-1
  • · Read Your Body's Data · The Capstone: My Health Blueprint (assessment, goals, activities, log, 90-day timeline)

  Note: The capstone IS this portfolio: baseline assessment, goals, an activity plan, a daily log, and a 90-day timeline, all built from the learner's own data. (Transcribed as printed, including the document's spacing around 'improvement ,'.)

• S3.H2.L1

  Partially covered

  Evaluates the validity of claims made by commercial products and programs pertaining to fitness and a healthy, active lifestyle.

  Covered by

  • Spotting Misleading Marketing

  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 7 · Health, supplements, and “structure/function” claims
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 10 · How to verify a claim (and follow the money)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: evaluating health-product and supplement marketing claims — and verifying a claim yourself — is taught well; fitness PROGRAMS specifically (gym plans, training systems) are not the worked examples.

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 Arizona mathematics standard.
• Science — two partial claims, no more. Arizona is not an NGSS state; we verified that against the 2018 Arizona Science Standards document itself rather than assuming it. There is no laboratory work, no investigation, and no modelling in this catalog, so we claim exactly two Earth-science standards, partially, and explain the limit on each entry.
• HS.C2.5 — the Arizona-rights comparison our Arizona course does not make. HS.C2.5 asks students to compare the rights guaranteed in the Arizona Constitution to those in the U.S. Constitution. Arizona Civics teaches Arizona's structure and direct democracy, not a clause-by-clause rights comparison — so despite being our Arizona flagship, it does not meet this standard and we do not claim it. HS.C2.6 (contributions of individuals and groups, including Arizonans) is likewise not taught.
• Most of the Civics and Economics anchors we checked. HS.C1.1-C1.4 (civic virtues and deliberative processes as named content), HS.C2.2, HS.C3.3 (parties, interest groups, and media's impact on institutions — our media-literacy course is consumer protection, not political media analysis), HS.C3.4 (international order), HS.C4.4-C4.7 (public-policy decision analysis and in-classroom deliberation), all of HS.E1 (financial literacy), HS.E2 (scarcity and incentives as named concepts), HS.E3.1/E3.3/E3.4, HS.E4 (the domestic economy, fiscal and monetary policy), and HS.E5.2/E5.4 — the courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them.
• Arizona's Economics anchors have no economic-systems standard. The curriculum contrasts traditional (reciprocity) and market economies directly and at length, but Arizona's high-school Economics anchors (HS.E1-E5) contain no economic-systems standard for it to meet — the closest homes are financial literacy and market mechanics. The gap is in the standards, not the lessons.
• Arizona's 2016 ELA standards have no media-bias standard. Indiana's 9-10.CC.8 and 11-12.CC.8 (analyze bias in media; analyze media's impact on the public) are where our media-literacy work maps. Arizona's 2016 ELA standards contain no comparable standard — we searched the 9-10 and 11-12 documents. The closest, 11-12.SL.2, is about integrating sources, and we claim it for what it is. The gap is in the standards, not the lessons.
• PE Standard 2 — no honest home for the sport-strategy courses. Arizona's high-school Standard 2 outcomes are specific: dance forms (S2.H1.L1, S2.H4), biomechanics vocabulary (S2.H2), practice planning (S2.H3), and the historical role of games in society (S2.H1.L2). None of them is the concepts-strategies-tactics knowledge our golf, tennis, football, pickleball, lacrosse, and croquet courses teach in depth, so — unlike Indiana, whose HSL1.2.1.A names exactly that — Arizona gets no Standard 2 claim. And every outcome that asks a student to DEMONSTRATE motor skill or participate is out of reach of an online course; we claim knowledge-side outcomes only.
• Health strands beyond 1, 3, and 6. Strand 2 (analyzing influences), Strand 4 (interpersonal communication), Strand 5 (decision-making), Strand 7 (practicing health behaviors, as observed practice), and Strand 8 (advocacy) were checked against the Grades 9-12 performance objectives and are not genuinely taught by these courses. Strand 6 Concept 2 PO 3 (a long-term personal health plan) was considered and rejected: the blueprint is a 90-day plan, and we will not stretch '90 days' into 'long-term'.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Arizona's closest frameworks (Computer Science, World and Native Languages, Educational Technology) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Arizona claims this pass.