Iowa Core Essential Concepts and Skills - Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency

Iowa Core Essential Concepts and Skills

The Iowa Core Essential Concepts and Skills under Social Studies/Behavioral Science, identifies the essential concepts and skills that all students must experience in the content areas of social studies and 21st Century Skills . These concepts and skills provide a framework to incorporate in the curriculum the multicultural gender fair mandates of the Iowa Administrative Code 281-12.5 (8).

Iowa Core Essential Concepts and Skills

Social Studies

Essential Concepts and/or Skills for Grades K-2

Behavioral Sciences

Understand the changing nature of society.

Understand all people have individual traits.

Understand interactions between self and the peer group.

Understand the relationship of the individual to the components of society and culture.

Essential Concepts and/or Skills for Grades 3-5

Behavioral Sciences

Understand the changing nature of society.

Understand the influences on individual and group behavior and group decision making.

Understand how personality and socialization impact the individual.

Understand the process of how humans develop, learn, adapt to the environment, and internalize their culture.

Understand current social issues to determine how the individual formulates opinions and responds to issues.

Understand how to evaluate social research and information.

Social Studies

Essential Concepts and/or Skills for Grades 6-8

Behavioral Sciences

Understand the changing nature of society.

Understand how personality and socialization impact the individual.

Understand the influences on individual and group behavior and group decision making.

Understand the process of how humans develop, learn, adapt to the environment, and internalize their culture.

Understand current social issues to determine how the individual is able to formulate opinions and respond to those issues.

Understand how to evaluate social research and information

Social Studies

Essential Concepts and/or Skills for Grades 9-12

Behavioral Sciences

Understand the historical development of the behavioral sciences and the changing nature of society.

Understand the influences on individual and group behavior and group decision making.

Understand the appropriate research procedures and skills of the behavioral scientist.

Understand current social issues to determine how the individual formulates opinions and responds to those issues.

Understand how social status, social groups, social change, and social institutions influence individual and group behaviors.

Understand the process of how humans develop, learn, adapt to their environment, and internalize their culture.

Understand how personality and agents of socialization impact the individual.

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