Idaho standards alignment

• 9-12.GOV.45

  Covered

  Explain the organization and powers of state and local government as described in the Constitution of the State of Idaho by analyzing legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

  Covered by

  • Idaho Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 1 · Idaho's constitution: the 1889 rulebook and direct democracy
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 7 · Direct democracy in Idaho: initiative, referendum, recall
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 2 · The three branches and Idaho's plural executive
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 3 · Idaho's courts: nonpartisan election, and filling a midterm vacancy
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government in Idaho: 44 counties, cities, special districts, no townships
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in Idaho (county commission and city council)

  Note: The flagship's primary home: Idaho's own government under the Constitution of the State of Idaho (1889) — the part-time citizen Legislature (35 districts, one senator and two representatives each), the plural executive (a separately elected Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General, and Superintendent of Public Instruction), and the nonpartisan-election judiciary (the five-justice Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, and the district courts) — is taught in depth, along with Idaho's counties, cities, and special districts.

• 9-12.GOV.47

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  Understand the structure, powers, and lawmaking process of local government (county, city, special district) by analyzing the relationships between state and local governments and the roles of regional authorities, governing boards, and commissions.

  Covered by

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

  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government in Idaho: 44 counties, cities, special districts, no townships
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in Idaho (county commission and city council)
  • · 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

  Note: Near-1:1: Idaho's 44 counties (each under a three-member Board of County Commissioners), cities, and special districts — the standard's own three categories — are each taught, along with how those bodies make local rules and take part.

• 9-12.GOV.54

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  Explain the role of state governments in administering elections and compare different state’s voting rules and elections laws.

  Covered by

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

  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in Idaho: Election Day registration and the closed primary
  • · 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

  Note: Idaho's administration of its own elections — Election Day registration, the closed party primary, and the county-clerk machinery — is taught as Idaho's, and the general registration/primary/count mechanics and the verify-your-own-registration walkthrough carry the comparative piece.

• 9-12.GOV.46

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  Compare the lawmaking process at the national, state, and local level.

  Covered by

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

  • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes an Idaho law (and how voters do it directly)
  • · 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

  Note: All three levels the standard names are taught: the federal lawmaking process end to end, how a bill becomes an Idaho law in the Legislature (with the citizen initiative as the second route), and how local bodies make rules.

• 9-12.GOV.48

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  Compare partisan and non-partisan offices and elections.

  Covered by

  • Idaho Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 3 · Idaho's courts: nonpartisan election, and filling a midterm vacancy
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in Idaho: Election Day registration and the closed primary

  Note: Idaho's contrast is taught directly: its judges are chosen in nonpartisan elections, while its legislative and executive offices are filled through partisan elections (the closed party primary).

• 9-12.GOV.3

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  Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 1 · Why a constitution? From the Articles of Confederation

  Note: Why the Articles of Confederation failed and how that led to the 1787 Constitution is taught directly.

• 9-12.GOV.6

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  Describe the purposes and functions of government as outlined in the Preamble of the Constitution.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

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

  Note: The Preamble is worked clause by clause as the purposes of government.

• 9-12.GOV.7

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  Describe limited government within the Constitution, including: • Checks and balances • Popular sovereignty • Rule of law • Federalism • Separation of powers • Judicial review • Majority rule and protection of minority rights

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
  • US Civics 101: How American 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?
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)

  Note: The standard's list — checks and balances, popular sovereignty, rule of law, federalism, separation of powers, and judicial review — is taught directly through the Constitution course and Marbury v. Madison.

• 9-12.GOV.8

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  Describe the structure of the Constitution and the process to amend it.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 9 · Changing the Constitution: Article V and key later amendments

  Note: The Constitution is analyzed article by article, and Article V's amendment procedure is taught by name.

• 9-12.GOV.9

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  Analyze how the Bill of Rights limits the powers of the government and ensures individual rights.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 8 · The Bill of Rights (Amendments I to X)
  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?
  • · 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

  Note: The Bill of Rights (Amendments I-X) as a document, what it protects, and when government may and may not limit a right are each taught.

• 9-12.GOV.30

  Covered

  Analyze Article I and the 17th Amendment of the Constitution as they relate to the legislative branch, including eligibility for office, roles, duties, casework, length of terms, and election to office for representatives and senators.

  Covered by

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

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches

  Note: Article I's structure — the two chambers, eligibility, terms, and election to office — is taught end to end in the Constitution and Civics courses.

• 9-12.GOV.33

  Covered

  Describe the process of how a bill becomes law.

  Covered by

  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • US Civics 101: How American 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

  Note: The complete federal lawmaking process — introduction, committee review, floor votes in both chambers, and presidential action through the veto override — is taught end to end.

• 9-12.GOV.37

  Covered

  Explain the Electoral College system, and how it has evolved over time, and compare arguments for and against it.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists

  Note: The Electoral College's mechanics and its original purpose and modern relevance — including the arguments for and against it — are taught directly.

• 9-12.GOV.38

  Covered

  Analyze Article III of the Constitution as it relates to judicial power, including the length of terms and the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court.

  Covered by

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

  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 1 · The federal judiciary: from district courts to the Supreme Court
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 7 · Checks on the Court
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances

  Note: Article III's judicial power, the federal judiciary from district courts to the Supreme Court, and the Court's jurisdiction are each taught.

• 9-12.GOV.40

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  Explain the processes of selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices.

  Covered by

  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 2 · How a judge gets there: nomination and confirmation

  Note: Article II advice-and-consent, the Judiciary Committee, and the simple-majority confirmation rule after 2013/2017 are taught by name.

• 9-12.GOV.41

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  Describe the Supreme Court’s role, established by Marbury vs. Madison, in determining the constitutionality of laws and acts of the legislative and executive branches.

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)

  Note: Judicial review is taught by name through the standard's own example, Marbury v. Madison.

• 9-12.GOV.17

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  Evaluate the role of the media/social media as a means of communicating information/misinformation and how it influences the importance of issues and public opinion.

  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
  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 8 · Misleading statistics and charts
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 4 · Fake urgency, fake scarcity, and fake discounts

  Note: Reading media and messages for credibility, bias, and omission — the standard's exact skill — is the media-literacy method run in every episode, with a checkable bibliography published each time.

• 9-12.GOV.18

  Covered

  Describe the means that citizens use to responsibly participate in the political process, including campaigning, petitioning, demonstrating, running for office, lobbying, and voting.

  Covered by

  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • How to Run for Office: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
  • · How to Run for Office · the whole course (eligibility, ballot access, money rules, and after Election Day)
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote
  • · How to Help a Campaign, Lesson 10 · Helping ballot measures and local causes

  Note: The standard's own means — campaigning (helping a campaign lawfully), petitioning and ballot measures, running for office, showing up where issues are decided, and voting — are each taught end to end.

• 9-12.GOV.19

  Covered

  Explain the requirements to be considered a natural-born U.S. citizen, and describe the process of naturalization, including the knowledge required by the Naturalization Test.

  Covered by

  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics

  • · 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

  Note: Birthright (natural-born) citizenship under the 14th Amendment and the naturalization process — eligibility step by step — are each taught in the dedicated Citizenship & Naturalization course.

• 9-12.GOV.51

  Covered

  Describe the nomination and election process in American national and state elections, including the Electoral College.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · 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

  Note: The nomination-and-election process — registration, primaries and caucuses, how you vote, the count, and the Electoral College — is taught end to end.

• 9-12.GOV.34

  Partially covered

  Describe the powers of United States’ Congress, including appropriations, declaration of war, commerce, implied powers, confirmations, necessary and proper clauses, and powers of impeachment and oversight.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances

  What we do and don't cover: The commerce power, implied powers, and the Necessary and Proper Clause are taught by name through the enumerated/implied/reserved taxonomy and McCulloch v. Maryland; the appropriations, war, confirmation, impeachment, and oversight powers are not each a dedicated unit, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.35

  Partially covered

  Analyze Article II of the Constitution as it relates to the executive branch, including appointments, oath of office, Commander-in-chief of the military, powers of the president, eligibility for office, succession (25th Amendment), executive orders, treaties, length of term (20th and 22nd Amendments).

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists

  What we do and don't cover: Article II's executive role, eligibility, and election to office (including the Electoral College) are taught; the standard's executive orders, treaties, succession under the 25th Amendment, and the 20th/22nd-Amendment term rules are not each a dedicated unit, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.39

  Partially covered

  Analyze the origin and evolution of the modern federal court structure including the Judiciary Act of 1789.

  Covered by

  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 1 · The federal judiciary: from district courts to the Supreme Court
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 7 · Checks on the Court

  What we do and don't cover: The modern federal court structure — district courts, circuit courts of appeals, and the Supreme Court — is taught; the origin narrative and the Judiciary Act of 1789 by name are not, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.43

  Partially covered

  Explain the functions, powers, interactions, and dynamic relationships among federal, state, local, and tribal governments including the roles of the 10th Amendment, McCulloch vs Maryland, Gibbons vs. Ogden, and evolution from dual federalism to cooperative federalism.

  Covered by

  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Federalism, the Tenth Amendment's reserved powers, and McCulloch v. Maryland are taught by name; the tribal-government dimension, Gibbons v. Ogden, and the dual-to-cooperative-federalism evolution are not, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.13

  Partially covered

  Describe, at the national, state, and local level, what should be reasonably expected from any citizen or resident of the U.S. and explain why it is important for the well-being of the nation, including being informed on civic issues, serving in the military or alternative service, obeying the law, paying taxes, volunteering, and performing public service, respecting the rights of others, serving as a juror, and voting.

  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

  What we do and don't cover: The rights and responsibilities of citizenship, jury service as an entire course, and registering and voting are each taught as practice; the standard's military/alternative-service and tax-paying duties are not dedicated units, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.16

  Partially covered

  Explain the role and evolution of political parties in governing and in the recruitment/election of political candidates and the importance of and difference between primaries, caucuses, and general elections.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: The difference between primaries, caucuses, and general elections is taught directly; the role and historical evolution of political parties in governing and candidate recruitment is not, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.21

  Partially covered

  Identify and be able to engage with key officials, both elected and appointed, in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches at the federal, state, and local levels.

  Covered by

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

  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in Idaho
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard

  What we do and don't cover: Where and how to be heard at every level, tracking a live bill, and getting involved where you live in Idaho are taught as practice; a systematic map of every key elected and appointed official is not, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.22

  Partially covered

  Distinguish between civil rights and civil liberties and how they are put into practice in our daily lives.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: The civil liberties in the Bill of Rights — speech, religion, press, assembly, and the Fourth Amendment — are taught in depth as they apply in daily life; the standard's explicit civil-rights-vs-civil-liberties distinction is not drawn as a named contrast, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.23

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the Supreme Court’s interpretations of the freedoms articulated in the First Amendment, including Schenck v. United States, New York Times v. United States, Engel v. Vitale, Miller v. California, Tinker v. Des Moines, Texas v. Johnson, and Kennedy v. Bremerton.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Tinker v. Des Moines — one of the standard's named cases — is taught as a rule a student can apply, and school and online speech are taught directly; the other named First-Amendment cases (Schenck, New York Times, Engel, Miller, Texas v. Johnson, Kennedy) are not each covered, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.24

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the Supreme Court’s interpretations of freedoms in the Fourth through Eighth Amendments, including Mapp v. Ohio, Gideon v. Wainwright, and Miranda v. Arizona.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: The Fourth Amendment — searches, stops, and the digital-privacy line through Mapp, Terry, Riley, and Carpenter — is taught in depth; the standard's Fifth/Sixth-Amendment cases (Gideon, Miranda) are not, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.49

  Partially covered

  Describe the evolution of voting (methods and process) and enfranchisement including key amendments (15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 26th) and laws (1965 Voting Rights Act) that have extended the right to vote to previously disenfranchised Americans.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · 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 1 · Registering to vote

  What we do and don't cover: Voting methods and process — registration, primaries, how you vote, and counting — are taught in depth; the enfranchisement amendment history and the 1965 Voting Rights Act by name are not a dedicated unit, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.50

  Partially covered

  Examine campaign finance laws and campaign funding and spending, including the impact of Supreme Court decisions, the nationalization of campaign financing, and the role of interest groups.

  Covered by

  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide

  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)

  What we do and don't cover: The everyday campaign-finance rules a supporter must follow — the donation limits and disclosure guardrails — are taught; the Supreme Court's campaign-finance jurisprudence and the nationalization of campaign money are not, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.52

  Partially covered

  Analyze the influence of political parties, media coverage, campaign advertising, interest groups, public opinion polls, social media, and digital communications on elections.

  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 8 · Misleading statistics and charts
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 4 · Fake urgency, fake scarcity, and fake discounts

  What we do and don't cover: The influence of media coverage, campaign advertising, social media, and digital communications on opinion — reading each message for what it leaves out — is the catalog's media-literacy method; the roles of political parties, interest groups, and public-opinion polling specifically are not covered, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.55

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the challenges of the election process.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: The integrity machinery a challenge tests — counting, canvassing, and certifying the vote — is taught; a systematic survey of contemporary election-process challenges is not, so this is partial.

• 11/12.RC.NF.6b

  Covered

  Evaluate various explanations of concepts and ideas and determine which explanation best accords with textual evidence, noting discrepancies among sources.

  Covered by

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

  • · Ep 10 · The Oral History That Survived (recovering Nathan “Nearest” Green's erased role)
  • · 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: “Noting discrepancies among sources” is the whole point of the Nathan Green lesson: the documentary record and the oral record disagree, and the episode teaches why oral history is a legitimate scholarly method for resolving that.

• 11/12.RC.NF.6c

  Covered

  Evaluate the effectiveness of the structure(s) and rhetorical devices authors use in their exposition or argument, including whether the structure helps makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.

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

  Note: Analyzing how an author's style and structure make a text persuasive — the standard's exact skill — is done directly with effective primary texts.

• 11/12.RC.NF.6e

  Covered

  Evaluate the premises and purposes in works of public advocacy.

  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 · Reading a Coffee Ad
  • · Ep 2 · Reading a Tea Ad
  • · Ep 3 · Reading a Chocolate 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
  • · 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: Reading a work of public advocacy for its premises and purpose — what it is really arguing and what it leaves out — is the media-literacy method run in every episode.

• 11/12.RC.TE.3

  Covered

  Draw and cite strong and thorough evidence from grade-level texts to support claims and inferences, attending to important distinctions authors make and how those are supported, as well as any gaps or inconsistencies in accounts offered.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification

  Note: Attending to the distinctions authors make and to the gaps or inconsistencies in their accounts — the standard's exact skill — is the whose-voice method: a planter's euphemism read against first-person accounts by formerly enslaved writers.

• 11/12.ODC.DC.6

  Covered

  Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse digital media to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • Spotting Misleading Marketing

  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
  • · 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: Integrating and weighing multiple digital sources for credibility and accuracy — the standard's exact skill — is the source-evaluation method modelled across the catalog and taught as an everyday consumer skill.

• 11/12.RS.IP.1

  Partially covered

  Conduct brief as well as multi-day research projects to take some action or share findings orally or in writing by formulating multiple interlocking research questions that span the field of inquiry in time and scope; gathering relevant information efficiently from a variety of authoritative sources, as well as from direct observation, interviews, and surveys; making distinctions about the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the task, purpose, and audience, noting any discrepancies among the data; and following a standard approved format (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago) for citations and bibliographies.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, all four options are 2-3 week research projects requiring synthesis across sources
  • · 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: The Coffee episode ships a graded multi-week research project that gathers authoritative sources, weighs their strengths and limitations, and cites them in APA — squarely meeting this standard where it runs; only that one episode currently ships the graded project, so this is partial.

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 — Common Core adopted as the Idaho Core: nothing claimed. Idaho adopted the Common Core State Standards for mathematics as the Idaho Core, but this catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Idaho mathematics standard.
• Science — Idaho's OWN 2018 standards (revised NGSS/climate language): deferred, not aliased. Idaho did not adopt the Next Generation Science Standards verbatim. During its 2016-2018 review, Idaho notably revised and removed climate-change and human-impact language from the NGSS-derived standards, so Idaho's HS Earth and Space Science standards are its own, not a byte-for-byte NGSS republication. Our rule is verbatim-or-nothing, so — unlike NGSS-verbatim states, which reuse the shared NGSS mapping — we do NOT alias the shared NGSS framework here and DEFER Idaho's science standards rather than cite text we have not confirmed matches. The catalog's climate/resource content (resources, hazards, and climate shaping human activity) would map to Idaho's Earth and Space Science standards; that is deferred, not denied.
• English/Language Arts — Idaho reorganized away from Common Core, so NOT aliased. Idaho adopted the Common Core for ELA as the Idaho Core, but the current (January 3, 2022) Idaho Content Standards for English Language Arts/Literacy reorganized the standards entirely: the Common Core RH/RI/WHST strands and codes no longer exist, and grades 11/12 are organized under Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Research, Writing, Oral and Digital Communications, and Grammar and Conventions strands with Idaho's own codes. Aliasing the shared Common Core ELA framework would misrepresent Idaho's standards as codes it no longer uses, so we transcribe Idaho's own verbatim literacy standards in the id-literacy framework above.
• Idaho's own state structure is taught more fully than any one code captures. Idaho Civics teaches the 1889 Constitution, the separately elected plural executive (Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General, and Superintendent of Public Instruction), the nonpartisan-election judiciary and its Idaho Judicial Council vacancy process, the 35-district citizen Legislature, and the initiative, referendum, and recall reserved to the people — from Idaho's own sources. 9-12.GOV.45 (state and local government per the Idaho Constitution) hosts most of it, but Idaho's specific direct-democracy tools and judicial-selection design have no code of their own beyond that state-government benchmark.
• Tribal governments and dual citizenship of American Indians (9-12.GOV.20, 9-12.GOV.44). Idaho's American Government course carries a dedicated benchmark on the dual citizenship of American Indians (9-12.GOV.20) and on tribal sovereignty and the federal trust responsibility with emphasis on Idaho's federally recognized tribes (9-12.GOV.44). Idaho Civics teaches Idaho's state and local structure but not tribal government, so these are not claimed. The gap is in the course, not the standards.
• The Political Economy cluster (9-12.GOV.26-29) and the Economics course (9-12.EC.1-19). Idaho's American Government course includes a Political Economy cluster (free enterprise, market rules, taxation, and the Federal Reserve's monetary policy) and a separate high-school Economics course (9-12.EC.*). This catalog's economics content is world-history commodity economics (value chains, trade barriers, market vs. traditional economies) rather than U.S. political economy, public finance, or personal finance, so we do not claim the Political Economy benchmarks or the Economics course.
• The political-science and history-of-government benchmarks we checked and rejected. 9-12.GOV.1 (Enlightenment thinkers and classical influences on the Founding), 9-12.GOV.2 (the Declaration and grievances as named content), 9-12.GOV.4 (the Constitutional Convention, Great Compromise, and ratification debate), 9-12.GOV.5 (the Federalist Papers Essays 10 and 51 and the Anti-Federalist Papers), 9-12.GOV.10 (democracy vs. republic), 9-12.GOV.11 (shared American values), 9-12.GOV.12 (the Declaration's definition of ideal government), 9-12.GOV.14 (comparing political ideologies), 9-12.GOV.15 (federal and state roles in the Civil Rights Movement), 9-12.GOV.25 (the 14th-Amendment case list — Plessy, Roe, Dobbs, Loving, Obergefell, Brown, etc.), 9-12.GOV.31 (the census, redistricting, and Baker v. Carr), 9-12.GOV.32 (legislative leadership positions), 9-12.GOV.36 (executive departments and the administrative state), 9-12.GOV.42 (judicial philosophies — originalism, textualism, activism), 9-12.GOV.53 (reapportionment and redistricting), and 9-12.GOV.56-59 (comparative political systems, U.S. foreign policy, and the international system) — the courses do not genuinely teach these, or teach them too thinly to claim, so we do not claim them.