Washington standards alignment

• C1.11-12.1

  Covered

  Analyze and evaluate the ideas and principles contained in the foundational documents of the United States, and explain how they influence the social and political system.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 2 · The Preamble: who, and why
  • · 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

  Note: US Constitution 101 works the founding documents article by article — the Preamble's purposes, separation of powers and checks and balances, federalism — exactly the foundational-documents analysis this standard asks for.

• C2.11-12.2

  Partially covered

  Analyze the origins, functions, and structure of government with reference to the United States, Washington state, and tribal constitutions.

  Covered by

  • Washington Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 1 · Washington's Constitution of 1889 and its direct democracy
  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 2 · Washington's 'plural' executive: nine elected statewide officials
  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 3 · The courts and the Legislature
  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes a Washington law

  What we do and don't cover: The Washington 1:1 flagship anchor. Washington's own origins (the 1889 constitution and its direct democracy), functions, and structure — the nine-official plural executive, the 49-district Legislature, the nonpartisan elected courts, the two lawmaking roads — are taught in depth, and the U.S. structure through the federal civics courses. Partial only because the standard also names tribal constitutions, which the flagship does not teach.

• C2.11-12.4

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the effectiveness of our system of checks and balances in limiting the power of government at the national, state, and local levels.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • Washington 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
  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 3 · The courts and the Legislature

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: checks and balances are taught directly at the national level, and Washington's own limits — the Governor's line-item veto and the two-thirds override — through the flagship. The standard's systematic evaluation of the balance at the state and local levels is not fully worked.

• C4.11-12.2

  Partially covered

  Analyze and evaluate ways of influencing local, state, and national governments and international organizations to establish or preserve individual rights and/or promote the common good.

  Covered by

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

  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 6 · Taxes, local government, and how to take part
  • · 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
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: influencing local, state, and national government is taught as practice — Washington's unusually open initiative and referendum on-ramps, helping a campaign or a ballot measure lawfully, and showing up at every level. The standard's “international organizations” are not a course focus.

• C2.11-12.1

  Partially covered

  Analyze citizens’ and institutions’ effectiveness in addressing social and political problems at the local, state, tribal, national and/or international level.

  Covered by

  • Washington Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 6 · Taxes, local government, and how to take part

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: addressing problems at the local and state level is taught through Washington's counties, code cities, and special districts, its contested tax structure, and how a resident takes part. The tribal, national, and international scales, and a formal effectiveness analysis, are not the flagship's focus.

• E2.9-10.3

  Partially covered

  Analyze how and why countries have specialized in the production of particular goods and services in the past or present.

  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: where commodities are grown and why (the growing belts) and who captures the value along the chain are the Commodity Map's spine — the “how and why countries specialized” this standard names. A general treatment of specialization is not attempted.

• E4.11-12.4

  Partially covered

  Analyze the role of comparative advantage in international trade of goods and services.

  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

  • · 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
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: which regions produce which commodities and why, and who is paid what along the value chain (the smile curve), is taught in depth. The formal comparative-advantage framework, by name, is not.

• E4.11-12.5

  Partially covered

  Explain how current globalization trends and policies affect economic growth, labor markets, rights of citizens, the environment, and resource and income distribution in different nations.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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)
  • · 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: how commodity globalization distributes income — why producing nations stay poor while value accrues downstream, and how colonial trade patterns persist — is taught in depth. The standard's labor-market and environmental strands are touched but not systematically surveyed.

• E3.9-10.1

  Partially covered

  Analyze the costs and benefits of government trade policies from around the world in the past and present.

  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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: government's role in trade is taught through two worked cases — the U.S. sugar program's quotas and tariffs, and NAFTA→USMCA's labor rules and their limits. A general treatment is not attempted.

• G3.11-12.4

  Partially covered

  Evaluate how changes in the environmental and cultural characteristics of a place or region influence spatial patterns of trade and land use.

  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
  • · Ep 6 · Islands Under Pressure
  • · Ep 8 · Beer Geography Is Shifting

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: how climate and the availability of resources shape where commodities can grow and how trade is patterned — and the published forecasts of that shift for coffee, cacao, and kava — is taught with the evidence supplied. It is one worked thread through the changes this standard names, not a survey.

• G3.9-10.1

  Partially covered

  Define how the geography of expansion and encounter have shaped global politics and economics in history.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the geography of conquest and the Columbian exchange, and of imperial expansion into Africa, Asia, and the Americas, is taught through the commodities those systems ran. A general geographic treatment of expansion is not attempted.

• G3.11-12.5

  Partially covered

  Evaluate how economic globalization and the expanding use of scarce resources contribute to conflict and cooperation within and among countries.

  Covered by

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

  • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
  • · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
  • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
  • · 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: Partial: economic globalization and the scramble for scarce resources — the commodity trap, and how resource availability and climate drive human activity — are taught in depth. The standard's full conflict-and-cooperation frame is one thread, not a survey.

• G1.11-12.3

  Partially covered

  Compare the causes and effects of voluntary and involuntary migration in the United States.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · 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: one migration is taught in real depth — the Great Migration of African Americans out of the Jim Crow South, its push and pull factors and its effects. The standard's wider comparison across U.S. migrations is not the course's scope.

• H3.11-12.4

  Covered

  Integrate evidence from multiple relevant historical sources and interpretations into a reasoned argument about the past to create claims and counterclaims.

  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)

  Note: Integrating primary and secondary sources into a reasoned argument, noting where they disagree, is exactly the Whose Voice and Nathan Green method: a planter's account set against formerly enslaved writers', and the documentary record set against the oral record.

• H3.11-12.2

  Covered

  Analyze the ways in which the perspectives of those writing history shaped the history that they produced.

  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
  • · 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

  Note: Whose voice is present in the record, and whose is absent, is taught directly — how the position of the person writing shapes the account that survives.

• H2.9-10.1

  Partially covered

  Analyze how individuals and movements have shaped world history (1450-present).

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

  • · 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 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
  • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
  • · 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: movements that shaped the modern world are taught through the commodities they turned on — imperial and colonial systems and the resistance to them (Maroon communities, revolution, abolition), and Solidarność at the Cold War's end. It is a set of deep threads, not a survey of the period.

• H4.11-12.3

  Partially covered

  Analyze how current events today are rooted in past events.

  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 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: how the present is rooted in the past is taught where the courses reach it — how colonial trade patterns persist today, and how the War on Drugs' foreign arm grew from earlier policy. It is not a general treatment of contemporary issues.

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 Common Core mathematics standard Washington adopted.
• Science — almost nothing. There is no laboratory work, no investigation and no scientific modelling here. Washington adopted the NGSS verbatim (as the WSSLS), and we claim a single NGSS performance expectation, partially, explaining exactly why on the entry itself. It is not a science course and we will not sell it as one.
• Tribal governments and the Since Time Immemorial curriculum. Washington's social studies standards repeatedly reference tribal constitutions, tribal sovereignty, and the Since Time Immemorial curriculum (e.g., C2.11-12.2 names tribal constitutions; the standards footnote tribal connections throughout). The catalog does not teach tribal government, so we claim only the United-States and Washington-state portions of those standards and mark C2.11-12.2 partial for exactly this reason.
• The flagship's election and tax specifics have no dedicated Washington code. Washington Civics teaches the all-mail (vote-by-mail) system and the top-two primary — the state's most distinctive civics content — plus the contested no-personal-income-tax tradition (the uniformity clause; the 2021 capital-gains tax upheld in 2023). Washington's high-school Civics standards contain no discrete election-administration or tax-policy standard, so this election content is taught but carries no Washington claim, and the tax content is reached only through the general C2 civics standards. The specifics have no code — the gap is in the standards, not the course.
• Prohibition, the War on Drugs as domestic policy, and mass incarceration. The catalog teaches all three. Washington's 2019 social studies standards are analytical and thematic (“current events rooted in past events,” “individuals and movements”) rather than event-naming, so — unlike Washington, D.C. — there is no Washington standard that names Prohibition or mass incarceration to cite. We claim the War on Drugs' foreign-policy arm only through the broad H4.11-12.3, and mark it partial.
• The wider catalog — health, PE, AI-literacy, and languages. Washington's relevant frameworks for these (Health and Physical Education; Computer Science; World Languages) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Washington claims this pass.