Resources for Educators

Inquiry Topic 2: Schools

• SSK.2.1: School location in the local community

• SSK.2.2: Roles and responsibilities in schools

Inquiry Topic 4: Families, Schools, and Neighborhoods around the World

• SSK.4.2: Schools around the world

Inquiry Topic 1: Communities as Places

• SS1.1.2: Reading maps and understanding directions

Inquiry Topic 2: People in the Community

• SS1.2.1: Culture and diversity in the community

Inquiry Topic 5: Communities around the World

• SS1.5.3: Learning about communities nearby

Inquiry Topic 2: The Northeast

• SS3.2.2: States in the Northeast

• SS3.2.3: Peoples over time in the Northeast

Inquiry Topic 2: Indigenous Peoples, Roger Williams, and Rhode Island Colonists

• SS4.2.3: The founding of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Inquiry Topic 3: Early Rhode Island

• SS4.3.1: Colonial lifeways

• SS4.3.3: Enslaved and free Africans

Inquiry Topic 5: Immigration, Labor, and Industry

• SS4.5.2: 19th and 20th century industries and peoples

Inquiry Topic 6: Rhode Island Governments

• SS4.6.3: Government participation in the past

Inquiry Topic 2: European Arrival in North America and Colonial Growth 

• SS5.2.1: European colonization

• SS5.2.2: Building the colonies

• SS5.2.4: Development of slavery and the African slave trade 

Inquiry Topic 4: The Early Republic and its Growth

• SS5.4.1: The Early Republic

Inquire Topic 5: Enslavement, the Civil War, and Reconstruction 

• SS5.5.1: Resistance and abolition 

Inquiry Topic 3: Impact of Ideas (1500-1750 CE)

• SS7.3.1: Religious changes

• SS7.3.2: Cultural and intellectual movements

Inquiry Topic 4: Political & Social Revolutions (1750-1920 CE)

• SS7.4.1: Political revolutions 

Inquiry Topic 4: The Structure of Rhode Island State, Local, and Tribal Governments

• SS8.4.1: Local governments

• SS8.4.2: Rhode Island state government

• SS8.4.4: Government jurisdiction 

Inquiry Topic 6: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens

• SS8.6.1: Rights of a citizen

• SS8.6.2: Responsibilities of a citizen

• SS8.6.4: Movements for Civil Rights

Inquiry Topic 1 - Civics: Government and the Concept of Citizenship

• SSHS.CVC.1.2: Governmental power and role

• SSHS.CVC.1.3: Citizenship and obligations of citizens 

Inquiry Topic 1 - US History: Colonial North America

• SSHS.USI.1.3: Establishing the colonies

Inquiry Topic 2 - US History: The Origins and Achievement of Independence

• SSHS.USI.2.5: Effects of the American Revolution on society

Inquiry Topic 6 - US History: Competing Visions and Regionalism in the Antebellum America

• SSHS.USI.6.1: The Second Great Awakening