Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.1A:
Students analyze how the values of a nation and international organizations affect the guarantee of human rights and make provisions for human needs.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.1B:
Students consider the nature and evolution of constitutional democracies throughout the world.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.1C:
Students compare various political systems with that of the United States in terms of ideology, structure, function, institutions, decision-making processes, citizenship roles, and political culture.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.1D:
Students identify and analyze advantages and disadvantages of various governmental systems.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.2A:
Students trace the evolution of American values, beliefs, and institutions.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.2B:
Students analyze the disparities between civic values expressed in the United States Constitution and the United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the realities as evidenced in the political, social, and economic life in the United States and throughout the world.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.2C:
Students identify, respect, and model those core civic values inherent in our founding documents that have been forces for unity in American society.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.2D:
Students compare and contrast the Constitutions of the United States and New York State.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.2E:
Students understand the dynamic relationship between federalism and state's rights.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.3A:
Students understand how citizenship includes the exercise of certain personal responsibilities, including voting, considering the rights and interests of others, behaving in a civil manner, and accepting responsibility for the consequences of one's actions.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.3B:
Students analyze issues at the local, state, and national levels and prescribe responses that promote the public interest or general welfare, such as planning and carrying out a voter registration campaign.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.3C:
Students describe how citizen is defined by the Constitution and important laws.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.3D:
Students explore how citizens influence public policy in a representative democracy.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.4A:
Students participate as informed citizens in the political justice system and processes of the United States, including voting.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.4B:
Students evaluate, take, and defend positions on what the fundamental values and principles of American political life are and their importance to the maintenance of constitutional democracy.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.4C:
Students take, defend, and evaluate positions about attitudes that facilitate thoughtful and effective participation in public affairs.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.4D:
Students consider the need to respect the rights of others, to respect others' points of view.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.4E:
Students participate in school/classroom/community activities that focus on an issue or problem.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.4F:
Students prepare a plan of action that defines an issue or problem, suggests alternative solutions or courses of action, evaluates the consequences for each alternative solution or course of action, prioritizes the solutions based on established criteria, and proposes an action plan to address the issue or to resolve the problem.

Performance Indicator - SS.C.5.4G:
Students explain how democratic principles have been used in resolving an issue or problem.