Nebraska standards alignment

• SS HS.1.1.e

  Covered

  Analyze the foundation, structures, and functions of state government and its outcomes.

  Covered by

  • Nebraska Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Nebraska Civics, Lesson 1 · The Unicameral: one house, no party labels
  • · Nebraska Civics, Lesson 2 · How a bill becomes law in a one-house legislature
  • · Nebraska Civics, Lesson 3 · The executive and how Nebraska picks its judges
  • · Nebraska Civics, Lesson 4 · Two more Nebraska firsts: public power and split electoral votes

  Note: The flagship's headline home: the standard's own example set names 'bicameral/unicameral' and 'branches of government,' and the Nebraska Civics course teaches Nebraska's state government in depth — the one-house nonpartisan Unicameral of 49 senators and its three-stage, public-hearing lawmaking, the joint-ticket Governor with separately elected officers, the merit-selection judiciary, and Nebraska's uniquely all-public-power utilities.

• SS HS.1.1.d

  Covered

  Analyze the foundation, structures, and functions of local government and its outcomes.

  Covered by

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

  • · Nebraska Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government and how to take part
  • · 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
  • · Nebraska Civics, Lesson 4 · Two more Nebraska firsts: public power and split electoral votes

  Note: Nebraska local government is taught as Nebraska's own: 93 counties and their elected boards and officers, cities and villages (Omaha and Lincoln with home-rule charters), school districts, and two Nebraska distinctives the standard's 'regional boards' example fits — elected natural resources district (NRD) boards and elected public-power district boards.

• SS HS.1.2.a

  Covered

  Investigate how individuals and groups can effectively use the structure and functions of various levels of government to shape policy.

  Covered by

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

  • · Nebraska Civics, Lesson 2 · How a bill becomes law in a one-house legislature
  • · Nebraska Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government and how to take part
  • · 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
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level

  Note: The standard's own examples — voting, contacting government officials, petitioning, lobbying — are each taught as practice: Nebraska's strong initiative and referendum (petitioning), helping a campaign lawfully, tracking a live bill and testifying (Nebraska guarantees every bill a public hearing), and showing up at the level where an issue is decided.

• SS HS.1.2.c

  Covered

  Engage and reflect on participation in civic activities.

  Covered by

  • Nebraska Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • Voting & Elections 101
  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide

  • · Nebraska Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government and how to take part
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote
  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)

  Note: The standard's own examples — registering to vote and voting on reaching the age of majority, advocating for rights, participating in community improvement — are taught as practiced civic activities, with the flagship's reveal prompts asking the learner to reflect on how they will take part in Nebraska (including for the elected utility and NRD boards).

• SS HS.1.2.f

  Covered

  Analyze various media sources for accuracy and perspective.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • Spotting Misleading Marketing

  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
  • · 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
  • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 8 · Misleading statistics and charts
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 4 · Fake urgency, fake scarcity, and fake discounts

  Note: Squarely met by the BVC media-literacy method the standard's examples name (news media literacy, online civic reasoning): reading a source for accuracy, bias, omission, misleading statistics, and recurring fallacy is modelled and practiced across the catalog.

• SS HS.1.1.b

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the structure of American constitutional government.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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?
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 2 · Three kinds of power: enumerated, implied, reserved
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 3 · The enumerated powers: Article I, § 8 (the Necessary and Proper Clause)
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 6 · Concurrent powers: what both levels share
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 7 · McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): implied powers and supremacy
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists
  • · Nebraska Civics, Lesson 4 · Two more Nebraska firsts: public power and split electoral votes
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 9 · Changing the Constitution: Article V and key later amendments

  What we do and don't cover: The core of the standard is taught directly by the general civics ladder: federalism, the three branches, separation of powers and checks and balances, the Article V amendment process, the enumerated/implied/reserved powers taxonomy, and the Electoral College (including Nebraska's own district-split of its electoral votes). Partial: the standard's example set also lists historical content (Reconstruction amendments, Prohibition, women's vote) that this catalog touches only in its history courses, not as named constitutional structure.

• SS HS.1.1.c

  Partially covered

  Analyze the functions of United States government and its outcomes.

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 1 · Who is a U.S. citizen? Birthright and the 14th Amendment
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 3 · Becoming a citizen: naturalization eligibility

  What we do and don't cover: Several named functions are taught: legislative law-making (the federal bill process end to end), executive implementation and judicial interpretation (the three branches), and naturalization of citizens (citizenship law). Partial: the standard's other examples — national security, taxation, and environmental implications — are policy content this catalog does not teach.

• SS HS.1.2.d

  Partially covered

  Investigate an issue and communicate which level of government is most appropriate to utilize in addressing the issue.

  Covered by

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

  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · 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
  • · Nebraska Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government and how to take part

  What we do and don't cover: Matching an issue to the level of government that decides it, and showing up there, is taught directly (the general state-and-local course and the Nebraska get-involved lesson). Partial: the standard's communicate-the-finding deliverable (an editorial, PSA, or public presentation) is prompted, not 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:

• SS HS.1.1.a (historical foundation of the Constitution) — not claimed. SS HS.1.1.a asks students to examine the historical foundation that influenced the creation of the U.S. Constitution (its example set names philosophers, social contract theory, natural rights, the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers, and the Iroquois Confederation). The catalog teaches the Constitution's structure and its Articles, but not a named survey of its Enlightenment and Convention foundation, so we do not claim this indicator.
• SS HS.1.1.f/g/h and SS HS.1.2.b/e — not claimed. We do not claim SS HS.1.1.f (supranational organizations: UN, NATO, EU, treaties), SS HS.1.1.g (the roles of political parties), SS HS.1.1.h (U.S. foreign policy), SS HS.1.2.b (patriotic symbols, songs, and holidays), or SS HS.1.2.e (how individuals, groups, and the media check governmental practices, via Watergate, the Civil Rights movement, and the Suffrage movement). The civics ladder teaches government structure and civic action, not international relations, party history, patriotic-symbol analysis, or the press-and-scandal history these indicators name.
• High School Economics (SS HS.2.x) — deferred. Nebraska's High School Economics standards are personal-finance and market-economics heavy (cost-benefit and PACED decision-making, budgeting, banking, credit and debt, saving and investing, supply and demand). The catalog's commodity-economics content would map to a few market concepts, but Nebraska's economics standards are dominated by personal financial literacy this catalog does not teach, so we defer the economics discipline rather than pad the map.
• Nebraska's Geography and History disciplines — deferred, not denied. The catalog's commodity, colonial, labor, civil-rights, and migration history and its Commodity Map geography WOULD map to Nebraska's High School Geography and History standards, as they do in other states. We mapped the High School Civics discipline this pass (the flagship's home) and DEFER the geography and history strands to a later pass rather than claim standards we have not yet transcribed and verified.
• English/Language Arts — deferred (Nebraska is a non-adopter of the Common Core). Nebraska never adopted the Common Core; its Nebraska College and Career Ready Standards for English Language Arts are Nebraska's own. The shared Common Core ELA file therefore does not apply, and the rule is compare-before-aliasing. Nebraska's own ELA reading/writing standards were not fetched-and-verified this pass, so we defer them rather than cite text we have not confirmed verbatim. (The catalog's source-evaluation and media-literacy work is instead claimed against Nebraska's own civics media-literacy standard, SS HS.1.2.f.)
• Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Nebraska mathematics standard (Nebraska's math standards, like its ELA, are Nebraska's own rather than the Common Core).
• Science — deferred (Nebraska's science is its own, not verbatim NGSS). Nebraska's 2017 science standards are Nebraska's own — NGSS-influenced but not verbatim NGSS — so our shared NGSS file does NOT apply and we do not blind-alias it. The one Earth-science-adjacent claim the catalog could support is deferred until Nebraska's own science document is fetched and verified.