Ohio standards alignment

• American Government · Content Statement 16

  Covered

  As a framework for the state, the Ohio Constitution has similarities and differences to the federal Constitution; it was changed in 1851 to address difficulties governing the state.

  Covered by

  • Ohio Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 1 · Ohio's constitution: the 1851 rulebook and its 1912 makeover (the initiative and referendum)
  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in Ohio (the citizen initiative/referendum and the failed 2023 Issue 1)
  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 7 · Four Ohio rules that recently changed (the simple-majority amendment bar survived)
  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 2 · The three branches, and Ohio's plural executive
  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 3 · Ohio's courts: elected judges, and a 2021 ballot change
  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes an Ohio law: the 3/5 override

  Note: The Ohio flagship IS this standard: the 1851 constitution and its 1912 direct-democracy makeover, and how Ohio's framework differs from the federal one — a plural executive (a joint-ticket Governor/Lieutenant Governor beside a separately-elected AG, Secretary of State, Auditor, and Treasurer), an elected judiciary, and the distinctive three-fifths veto override.

• American Government · Content Statement 17

  Covered

  Individuals in Ohio have a responsibility to assist state and local governments as they address relevant and often controversial problems that directly affect their communities.

  Covered by

  • Ohio Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in Ohio
  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government in Ohio: 88 counties, home rule, townships
  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in Ohio: photo ID (2023), early voting, and the ballot initiative
  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 7 · Four Ohio rules that recently changed

  Note: Taught as practice, Ohio edition: getting involved at the county, city/village, township, and special-district level, using Ohio's real citizen initiative and referendum, and voting Ohio's now party-labeled judicial races — grounded in Ohio's 88 counties and its municipal home rule.

• American Government · Content Statement 5

  Covered

  As the supreme law of the land, the U.S. Constitution incorporates basic principles that help define the government of the United States as a federal republic including its structure, powers and relationship with the governed.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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
  • · 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

  Note: The Constitution is worked article by article for structure and powers, with dedicated courses on separation of powers and checks and balances, on federalism, and on the enumerated/implied/reserved/concurrent powers taxonomy.

• American Government · Content Statement 7

  Covered

  Constitutional government in the United States has changed over time as a result of amendments to the U.S. Constitution, Supreme Court decisions, legislation and informal practices.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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
  • · 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

  Note: All three of the standard's named engines are taught: Article V amendment and the key later amendments, how Supreme Court precedent expands rights over time, and the landmark cases as applicable rules.

• American Government · Content Statement 12

  Covered

  Law and public policy are created and implemented by three branches of government; each functions with its own set of powers and responsibilities.

  Covered by

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

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 2 · The three branches, and Ohio's plural executive

  Note: The three federal branches and their Article I-III powers are taught directly, alongside Ohio's own three branches.

• American Government · Content Statement 13

  Covered

  The political process creates a dynamic interaction among the three branches of government in addressing current issues.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · 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 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances

  Note: The interaction among the branches is exactly the checks-and-balances material: how each branch checks the others in the Articles I-III design.

• American Government · Content Statement 14

  Covered

  In the United States, people have rights that protect them from undue governmental interference. Rights carry responsibilities that help define how people use their rights and that require respect for the rights of others.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics

  • · 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
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 2 · Freedom of speech: what's protected, and what isn't
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 5 · Speech and religion at school, and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 7 · Police stops, reasonable suspicion, and your privacy
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship

  Note: Both halves: rights as applicable rules (the landmark cases) and their limits (when government may constitutionally limit a right, and why), paired with the responsibilities of citizenship.

• American Government · Content Statement 1

  Covered

  Opportunities for civic engagement within the structures of government are made possible through political and public policy processes.

  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
  • Ohio 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
  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in Ohio

  Note: Civic engagement is taught as practice: helping a campaign lawfully, tracking a live bill, showing up at every level, with an Ohio-specific lesson on doing it here.

• American Government · Content Statement 3

  Covered

  Issues can be analyzed through the critical use of credible sources.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law

  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
  • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard

  Note: Source evaluation is modelled constantly and published as a checkable bibliography, arguments and evidence are evaluated for fallacious reasoning, and tracking a bill teaches sourcing a live issue.

• American Government · Content Statement 19

  Covered

  Individuals and organizations play a role within federal, state and local governments in helping to determine public (domestic and foreign) policy.

  Covered by

  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • Ohio Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide

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

  Note: Where and how to be heard at every level, Ohio edition included, plus helping ballot measures and local causes.

• American Government · Content Statement 8

  Partially covered

  The Bill of Rights was drafted in response to the national debate over the ratification of the Constitution of the United States.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 8 · The Bill of Rights (Amendments I to X)
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Bill of Rights is taught as a document (Amendments I-X) and the Constitution is worked article by article, but the ratification-debate origin the standard emphasizes is touched, not worked as its own study.

• American Government · Content Statement 9

  Partially covered

  The constitutional amendments known collectively as the Reconstruction Amendments extended new constitutional protections to African Americans, though the struggle to fully achieve equality would continue.

  Covered by

  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics
  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · 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
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 2 · The Jim Crow South: what people were fleeing
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 12 · The long shadow, and the return

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright-citizenship clause is taught directly, and the continued struggle is taught through Jim Crow and its long shadow. The Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and a full Reconstruction-Amendments treatment are not worked.

• American Government · Content Statement 11

  Partially covered

  Constitutional amendments have altered provisions for the structure and functions of the federal government.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 9 · Changing the Constitution: Article V and key later amendments

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the amendment process and several key later amendments are taught, but a systematic survey of how amendments restructured the federal government is not.

• American Government · Content Statement 15

  Partially covered

  Historically, the United States has struggled with majority rule and the extension of minority rights. As a result of this struggle, the government has increasingly extended civil rights to marginalized groups and broadened opportunities for participation.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 2 · Freedom of speech: what's protected, and what isn't
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 5 · Speech and religion at school, and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 7 · Police stops, reasonable suspicion, and your privacy
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the majority-rule-versus-minority-rights tension is taught (when rights may be limited, how precedent expands them) and the Great Migration lesson shows the extension of participation to a marginalized group. It is not a systematic survey of civil-rights expansion.

• American Government · Content Statement 4

  Partially covered

  The processes of persuasion, compromise, consensus building and negotiation contribute to the democratic process.

  Covered by

  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • Ohio 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
  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes an Ohio law: the 3/5 override

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: compromise and negotiation are taught inside the lawmaking process (committees, conference committees, veto and override) at both the federal and Ohio levels, but persuasion and consensus-building are not taught as named skills.

• American Government · Content Statement 18

  Partially covered

  A variety of entities within the three branches of government, at all levels, address public policy issues that arise in domestic and international affairs.

  Covered by

  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • Ohio Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · 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
  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government in Ohio: 88 counties, home rule, townships
  • · Ohio Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in Ohio
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: what local, state, and federal bodies handle is taught (the local-government layers, Ohio's own, and the federal lawmaking process), but public-policy analysis across domestic and international affairs is not a systematic unit.

• American Government · Content Statement 20

  Partially covered

  The federal government uses spending and tax policy to maintain economic stability and foster economic growth. Regulatory actions carry economic costs and benefits.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
  • · 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: the regulatory-costs-and-benefits half is taught through worked policies — the U.S. sugar program's costs, the War on Drugs' unintended consequences. General fiscal (spending and tax) policy for economic stability is not taught.

• American History · Content Statement 9

  Covered

  The rise of industrialization led to a rapidly expanding workforce. Labor organizations grew amidst unregulated working conditions, laissez-faire policies toward big business, and violence toward supporters of organized labor.

  Covered by

  • The History of Unions: America and the World

  • · 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 8 · The Triangle fire, 1911, and what it actually changed
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 6 · Homestead, Pullman (Eugene Debs and the socialist movement)

  Note: The Gilded Age labor movement is taught in depth: the Knights and the AFL, Haymarket, Homestead and Pullman (and the violence used against organized labor), and the Triangle fire.

• American History · Content Statement 12

  Covered

  Following Reconstruction, old political and social structures reemerged and racial discrimination was institutionalized.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 2 · The Jim Crow South: what people were fleeing
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 12 · The long shadow, and the return

  Note: The institutionalization of racial discrimination — the Jim Crow South people fled — is taught directly, together with its long shadow.

• American History · Content Statement 18

  Partially covered

  Movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, African-American migration, women's suffrage and Prohibition all contributed to social change.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 6 · The Black press as engine: the Chicago Defender
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 7 · The Harlem Renaissance & the New Negro
  • · 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 8 · Prohibition, the Experiment That Failed
  • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition (the rhetoric that drove the movement)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: three of the standard's four named movements are taught in depth — the Harlem Renaissance, the African-American Great Migration, and Prohibition (causes, rhetoric, and results). Women's suffrage is not taught.

• American History · Content Statement 19

  Partially covered

  The Great Depression was caused, in part, by the federal government's monetary policies, stock market speculation, and increasing consumer debt. The role of the federal government expanded as a result of the Great Depression.

  Covered by

  • The History of Unions: America and the World

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the federal-role-expanded half is taught through one New Deal statute in real depth — the Wagner Act, what it created and who it excluded. The causes of the Depression are not taught.

• American History · Content Statement 27

  Partially covered

  Following World War II, the United States experienced a struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil rights.

  Covered by

  • The History of Unions: America and the World
  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · 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
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the racial-equality struggle is taught from the labor angle most curricula skip — A. Philip Randolph to Memphis, and the Black urban vote the Migration created. Gender equality is not taught.

• Modern World History · Content Statement 10

  Covered

  Imperialism involved land acquisition, extraction of raw materials, spread of Western values and direct political control.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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 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)

  Note: Imperialism is taught through the commodities it ran — land, raw-material extraction, and political control across Africa, Asia, and Oceania — and how those patterns persist today.

• Modern World History · Content Statement 11

  Covered

  The consequences of imperialism were viewed differently by the colonizers and the colonized.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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 · 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 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
  • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution

  Note: Both perspectives, which is the curriculum's Whose Voice method: first-person accounts on each side put side by side, and the resistance — from Maroon communities to revolution.

• Modern World History · Content Statement 9

  Partially covered

  Imperial expansion had political, economic and social roots.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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 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)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the economic roots are taught in depth through the cash-crop and plantation systems; the political and social roots of imperial expansion are treated less systematically.

• Modern World History · Content Statement 22

  Partially covered

  The break-up of the Soviet Union ended the Cold War and created challenges for its former allies, the former Soviet republics, Europe, the United States and the non-aligned world.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 9 · What winning cost: shock therapy

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the end of the Cold War in Eastern Europe is taught in depth for one country — Poland, from Solidarność through martial law to the 1989 negotiated exit and its economic price. The wider break-up of the USSR is not taught.

• Modern World History · Content Statement 28

  Partially covered

  Environmental concerns, impacted by population growth and heightened by international competition for the world's energy supplies, have resulted in a new environmental consciousness and a movement for the sustainability of the world's resources.

  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
  • · 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: Partial: published climate forecasts and their implications for growers and production regions are analyzed in depth, and resource availability shaping human activity is the curriculum's method. It is not a general treatment of the sustainability movement. (This is where Ohio's climate/resource content lives, because Ohio's high-school science standards carry no citable content statement — see notClaimed.)

• Economics and Financial Literacy · Content Statement 4

  Covered

  Different economic systems (traditional, market, command, and mixed) utilize different methods to allocate limited resources.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis

  • · Ep 5 · The Reciprocity Economy
  • · Ep 6 · Ceremony Meets the Market
  • · Ep 7 · Two Ways of Doing Economics

  Note: Directly and at length: traditional (reciprocity) economies contrasted with market economies, the exact economic-systems comparison Arizona's and California's high-school standards had no home for.

• Economics and Financial Literacy · Content Statement 8

  Covered

  Economic policy decisions made by governments result in both intended and unintended 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

  Note: Intended and unintended consequences are taught by name: the U.S. sugar program (stable prices, ~$3.5bn/yr consumer cost), Prohibition, and the War on Drugs' balloon effect.

• Economics and Financial Literacy · Content Statement 10

  Covered

  Government actions, such as tariffs, quotas, subsidies, trade agreements and membership in multinational economic organizations, significantly impact international trade.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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

  Note: Worked in detail: the sugar program's import quotas, tariffs, and price supports, and the NAFTA→USMCA trade agreement from the labor side.

• Economics and Financial Literacy · Content Statement 9

  Partially covered

  When regions and nations use comparative advantage to produce at the lowest cost and then trade with others, production, consumption and interdependence increase.

  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 · 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: the geography of who produces what and who gains from trade is the series' spine, but comparative advantage as a formal framework is not taught by name.

• Economics and Financial Literacy · Content Statement 5

  Partially covered

  Markets exist when consumers and producers interact. When supply or demand changes, market prices adjust. Those adjustments send signals and provide incentives to consumers and producers to change their own decisions.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 1 · Price Shocks and Why You Keep Buying
  • · Ep 4 · From Luxury to the Cheapest Calorie

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: taught through real commodity markets — a supply shock moving world coffee prices and why inelastic demand absorbs the spike. It is not a general supply-and-demand unit.

• Contemporary World Issues · Content Statement 3

  Covered

  Individuals can evaluate media messages that are constructed using particular tools, characteristics and conventions for unique purposes. Different communication methods affect how people define and act on issues.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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 2 · Reading a Tea Ad
  • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story (reading a text for what it leaves out)
  • · Ep 11 · Tiki and the Tropical Paradise
  • · Ep 15 · The Language of Doubt
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 3 · Weasel words and what the fine print takes back
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 5 · Fake reviews, astroturfing, and undisclosed #ads

  Note: Media literacy runs through every BVC episode — reading ads for what they omit, the language of fear in drug-policy media — plus a dedicated marketing-deconstruction course on the tools and conventions of persuasion.

• Contemporary World Issues · Content Statement 19

  Covered

  The global economy creates advantages and disadvantages for different segments of the world's population.

  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: Who wins and loses from global trade is the series' spine: value-chain earnings and the commodity trap traced through real chains.

• Contemporary World Issues · Content Statement 20

  Covered

  Trade agreements, multinational organizations, embargoes and protectionism impact markets.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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

  Note: Protectionism (the sugar program) and trade agreements (NAFTA→USMCA) are both taught as worked cases with their market effects.

• Contemporary World Issues · Content Statement 21

  Partially covered

  The distribution of wealth and economic power among countries changes over time.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: how value accrues downstream and how colonial economic patterns persist is taught in depth, but a systematic account of shifting global economic power is not.

• Contemporary World Issues · Content Statement 22

  Partially covered

  The global economy creates interdependence so that economic circumstances in one country impact events in other countries.

  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

  • · 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 1 · Price Shocks and Why You Keep Buying
  • · Ep 4 · From Luxury to the Cheapest Calorie

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: interdependence is taught through commodity chains and price shocks that cross borders, not as a general macroeconomic treatment.

• Contemporary World Issues · Content Statement 11

  Partially covered

  Decisions about human activities made by individuals and societies have implications for both current and future generations, including intended and unintended consequences.

  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
  • · 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: Partial: climate forecasts and resource use shaping human activity are analyzed in depth for growers and production regions; a general sustainability-and-future-generations framework is not taught.

• World Geography · Content Statement 10

  Covered

  Activities and patterns of trade and communication create interdependence among countries in different regions (e.g., seed corn grown in Iowa and planted in South America, high-definition televisions manufactured in Japan and viewed in the United States, news outlets from many countries available around the world via the Internet, instant access to data affects stock markets in different countries).

  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 · 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 2 · The Roads Tea Traveled

  Note: The Commodity Map is this standard: where commodities grow, the trade networks that move them (the Tea Horse Road, the Maritime Silk Road), and the interdependence that follows.

• World Geography · Content Statement 4

  Partially covered

  Human societies use a variety of strategies to adapt to the opportunities and constraints presented by the physical environment (e.g., farming in flood plains and terraced farming, building hydroelectric plants by waterfalls and constructing hydroelectric dams, using solar panels as heat source and using extra insulation to retain heat).

  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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: human-environment interaction is the curriculum's method — volcanic soil and altitude deciding what grows, karst limestone shaping bourbon, climate redrawing the map. The standard's specific adaptation examples are not surveyed.

• World Geography · Content Statement 8

  Partially covered

  Physical, cultural, economic, and political factors contribute to human migrations (e.g., drought, religious conflicts, job opportunities, immigration laws).

  Covered by

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

  • · 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 · 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: one migration is worked in depth — the Great Migration's push-and-pull factors, streams, and arrival cities — plus climate pressure on growing regions. It is not a general treatment of world migration.

• World Geography · Content Statement 9

  Partially covered

  Human migrations impact physical and human systems (e.g., stress on food supplies in refugee camps, removal of natural obstacles to movement, harvest productivity and migrant labor, calls for an official language in countries with high immigration, reduction in city tax revenues due to urban emigration).

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the human-systems impact is taught for one case — the Black urban populations and civil-rights politics the Great Migration created. The physical-systems impacts the standard lists are not taught.

• World Geography · Content Statement 12

  Partially covered

  The characteristics of regions change over time and there are consequences related to those changes (e.g., industrial belt to rust belt, pristine locations to tourist attractions, colony to independent state).

  Covered by

  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • The History of Unions: America and the World

  • · 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)
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: two of the standard's own examples are taught — colony to independent state (the Haitian Revolution and the persistence of colonial patterns) and the industrial belt (the Gilded Age industrial economy). It is not a general treatment of regional change.

• RI.9-10.6

  Covered

  Determine an author's perspective or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that perspective 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)

  Note: Author perspective and rhetoric are analyzed in the primary texts the curriculum works — abolitionist sugar-boycott pamphlets, Lin Zexu's letter, Torches of Freedom, Selling Prohibition.

• RI.11-12.6

  Covered

  Determine an author's perspective or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty 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

  Note: The primary texts worked are seminal and rhetorical by design, analyzed for how style and content make them persuasive.

• RI.11-12.8

  Covered

  Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts and the premises, purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy (e.g., The Federalist, presidential addresses).

  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 works of public advocacy worked are exactly this: Lin Zexu's letter to Queen Victoria, the abolitionist boycott pamphlets, Torches of Freedom — each delineated for premises, purpose, and argument.

• RI.9-10.7

  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: accounts-against-accounts is strong (a planter's account against Equiano and Prince; the documentary record against the oral record on Nathan Green — genuinely different mediums). Multimedia accounts in the standard's modern sense are not analyzed.

• RI.11-12.7

  Partially covered

  Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words 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: multi-source evaluation is modelled constantly and published as a checkable bibliography, but the student is required to integrate sources to solve a problem only in the Coffee episode's project.

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 Ohio mathematics standard.
• Science — nothing, on purpose (and Ohio is not an NGSS state). We verified against Ohio's own 2018 science document rather than assuming: Ohio writes its own science standards, not NGSS. But Ohio publishes its HIGH-SCHOOL science courses (Environmental Science, Physical Geology, Biology, Chemistry, Physics) as bare topic outlines — for example the entire climate item reads only "ENV.GP.3: Climate change" — with the full content statements "being updated ... once the revised Model Curriculum is adopted." Only Ohio's K-8 grades carry full-sentence content statements, at the wrong grade level for this adult catalog. Our rule is verbatim-or-nothing and the finder rejects standard text under ~40 characters, so there is no citable Ohio high-school science standard to map. The climate-and-resources content the NGSS states pick up through HS-ESS3-1 maps instead to Ohio social studies (Modern World History CS 28, Contemporary World Issues CS 11, World Geography CS 4).
• American Government standards checked and rejected. CS 2 (political parties, interest groups, and the media as civic-involvement channels — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis), CS 6 (the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers framing the ratification debate, as texts), CS 10 (the suffrage amendments as civil-rights extensions, taught as constitutional law), and CS 21 (the Federal Reserve and monetary policy) are not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
• Economics — the whole financial-literacy half, and the market-mechanics standards. Working and earning (CS 11-12), saving and investing (CS 16-19), credit and debt (CS 20-22), risk management and insurance (CS 23-25), the personal-finance planning standards (CS 13-15), the economic-data and market-competition standards (CS 1-3, 6-7) were all checked and are not taught. Ohio's CS 4, by contrast, is the economic-systems standard Arizona and California lacked, and we claim it.
• American History beyond the labor, migration, Prohibition, and New Deal-labor standards. American History is a 1877-to-present survey (Content Statements 1-33). This catalog teaches U.S. history in specific places — the Gilded Age labor movement, Jim Crow, the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance, Prohibition, and the Wagner Act — not as a survey, so the imperialism/foreign-affairs, world-war, Cold War, and post-Cold War content statements are not claimed.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Ohio's closest frameworks (Computer Science, World Languages, Technology) have not been fetched and verified this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Ohio claims here.