NM.I: History: Students are able to identify important people and events in order to analyze significant patterns, relationships, themes, ideas, beliefs, and turning points in New Mexico, United States, and world history in order to understand the complexity of the human experience.

I-B: United States: Understand connections among historical events, people, and symbols significant to United States history and cultures.

I-B:1. Describe the cultural diversity of individuals and groups and their contributions to United States history (e.g., George Washington, Ben Franklin, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, National Association for Advancement of Colored People [NAACP], tribal leaders, American Indian Movement [AIM]).

I-D: Skills: Understand time passage and chronology.

I-D:1. Correctly sequence historical events.

NM.II: Geography: Students understand how physical, natural, and cultural processes influence where people live, the ways in which people live, and how societies interact with one another and their environments.

II-A: Understand the concept of location by using and constructing maps, globes, and other geographic tools to identify and derive information about people, places, and environments.

II-A:1. Use a variety of maps to locate specific places and regions.

II-A:2. Identify major landforms, bodies of water, and other places of significance in selected countries, continents, and oceans.

II-B: Distinguish between natural and human characteristics of places and use this knowledge to define regions, their relationships with other regions, and patterns of change.

II-B:1. Describe how climate, natural resources, and natural hazards affect activities and settlement patterns.

II-C: Be familiar with aspects of human behavior and man-made and natural environments in order to recognize their impact on the past and present.

II-C:1. Identify ways in which people depend on natural and man-made environments including natural resources to meet basic needs.

II-D: Understand how physical processes shape the Earth's surface patterns and biosystems.

II-D:1. Describe the physical processes that affect the Earth's features (e.g., weather, erosion).

NM.III: Civics and Government: Students understand the ideals, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship and understand the content and history of the founding documents of the United States with particular emphasis on the United States and New Mexico constitutions and how governments function at local, state, tribal, and national levels.

III-A: Know the fundamental purposes, concepts, structures, and functions of local, state, tribal, and national governments.

III-A:1. Understand the purposes of government.

III-B: Identify and describe the symbols, icons, songs, traditions, and leaders of local, state, tribal, and national levels that exemplify ideals and provide continuity and a sense of community across time.

III-B:1. Identify local governing officials and explain how their roles reflect their community.

III-D: Understand rights and responsibilities of ''good citizenship'' as members of a family, school and community.

III-D:1. Understand characteristics of ''good citizenship'' as exemplified by historic and ordinary people.

NM.IV: Economics: Students understand basic economic principles and use economic reasoning skills to analyze the impact of economic systems (including the market economy) on individuals, families, businesses, communities, and governments.

IV-B: Understand that economic systems impact the way individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies make decisions about goods and services.

IV-B:1. Understand the roles of producers and consumers in the production of goods and services.