Social Studies standards coverage
All 135 C3 Framework social studies indicators for Kindergarten through Grade 5 are indexed here, with the published indicator text, a plain-language restatement, the free worksheets that practice it, and a lesson plan. Every standard now has both: 135 of 135 are written, so nothing in this table points at a page that was never made.
135 of 135 social studies standards have a lesson plan behind them, written one at a time rather than generated. The rule that kept this table honest while it was filling up still holds: a standard gets a page when there is a lesson to put on it, not before.
Codes and standard text are reproduced from the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards for identification. The plain-language restatement beside each one is editorial and is not part of the standard.
Kindergarten to Grade 2
63 of 63 written| Standard | What it asks for | Published here |
|---|---|---|
| D1.1.K-2 | Say why a big question matters to you. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D1.2.K-2 | Name the social studies ideas a big question is about. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D1.3.K-2 | Name the facts a smaller question needs. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D1.4.K-2 | Show how a smaller question helps with the big one. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D1.5.K-2 | Work out what kind of source would help answer the question. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.1.K-2 | Say what the people in charge are supposed to do. | 3 lesson plans + 6 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.2.K-2 | Explain that ordinary people, not only leaders, matter in a community. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.3.K-2 | Explain why rules exist, at school and outside it. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.5.K-2 | Say what a government is and name some things it does. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.6.K-2 | Describe how a community shares out jobs to get things done. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.7.K-2 | Show fairness, honesty and respect in how you take part at school. | 3 lesson plans + 6 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.8.K-2 | Describe fairness, equality and respect for rules as things a group needs. | 3 lesson plans + 8 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.9.K-2 | Follow the agreed rules for a discussion and listen to others. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.10.K-2 | Compare what you think with what somebody else thinks. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.11.K-2 | Explain how a class can make a decision together. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.12.K-2 | Explain what rules do in a classroom and a school. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.14.K-2 | Describe how people have tried to make their community better. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.1.K-2 | Explain that because there is never enough of everything, people have to choose. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.2.K-2 | Name what you gain and what you give up when you make a choice. | 3 lesson plans + 6 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.3.K-2 | Describe the skills somebody needs to make a particular thing. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.4.K-2 | Name what your community makes, and what comes from somewhere else. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.5.K-2 | Find out what things cost in a local store or market. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.6.K-2 | Explain how people earn money. | 3 lesson plans + 8 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.7.K-2 | Give examples of what it costs to make something. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.9.K-2 | Describe what a bank is for. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.10.K-2 | Explain why people save money instead of spending it. | 3 lesson plans + 7 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.12.K-2 | Name things the government provides, like roads and schools. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.13.K-2 | Give examples of tools people work with and skills they bring. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.14.K-2 | Say why people in one country buy and sell with people in another. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.15.K-2 | Name things made abroad and sold here, and things made here and sold abroad. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.1.K-2 | Draw a map or chart of a place you know. | 3 lesson plans + 7 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.2.K-2 | Use maps and photographs to describe a place and what shapes it. | 3 lesson plans + 8 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.3.K-2 | Use maps and globes to spot what a place is like, naturally and culturally. | 3 lesson plans + 8 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.4.K-2 | Explain how weather and climate change how people live somewhere. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.5.K-2 | Describe how what people do changes a place. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.6.K-2 | Name what makes a particular place what it is. | 3 lesson plans + 10 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.7.K-2 | Explain why and how people, goods and ideas travel. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.8.K-2 | Compare how communities use nearby and faraway places to get what they need. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.9.K-2 | Describe how the land in a place shapes the work done there. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.10.K-2 | Describe how different parts of the world change. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.11.K-2 | Explain how what you buy links you to places far away. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.12.K-2 | Name ways a disaster affects the people living through it. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.His.1.K-2 | Put several events in the order they happened. | 3 lesson plans + 9 worksheets |
| D2.His.2.K-2 | Compare how people lived in the past with how we live now. | 3 lesson plans + 8 worksheets |
| D2.His.3.K-2 | Ask questions about the people behind a big change. | 3 lesson plans + 10 worksheets |
| D2.His.4.K-2 | Compare how people in the past saw things with how people see things now. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.His.6.K-2 | Compare two accounts of the same event. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.His.9.K-2 | Name different kinds of historical source. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.His.10.K-2 | Explain how a source helps you study the past. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.His.11.K-2 | Work out who made a source, when, and where, from the source itself. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.His.12.K-2 | Ask questions about a source and the event it comes from. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.His.14.K-2 | Suggest reasons something happened in the past. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.His.16.K-2 | Say which of several reasons is the more likely explanation. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D3.1.K-2 | Gather what you need from one or two sources, choosing them for a reason. | 3 lesson plans + 7 worksheets |
| D3.2.K-2 | Judge a source by telling fact apart from opinion. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D4.1.K-2 | Make an argument and give reasons for it. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D4.2.K-2 | Explain something in the right order with the details that matter. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D4.3.K-2 | Share a summary of an argument, in writing, out loud, or on a screen. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D4.4.K-2 | Ask and answer questions about an argument. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D4.5.K-2 | Ask and answer questions about an explanation. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D4.6.K-2 | Name problems near and far, and some ways people are tackling them. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D4.7.K-2 | Name ways to help with a problem near you or far away. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D4.8.K-2 | Use listening, agreeing and voting to decide what your class will do. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
Grade 3 to Grade 5
72 of 72 written| Standard | What it asks for | Published here |
|---|---|---|
| D1.1.3-5 | Say why a big question matters to other people, not just to you. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D1.2.3-5 | Name the ideas behind a big question, including ones people answer differently. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D1.3.3-5 | Name the ideas behind a smaller question that people read in more than one way. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D1.4.3-5 | Explain how the smaller questions add up to an answer to the big one. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D1.5.3-5 | Work out what kind of source would help, allowing for the fact that people disagree. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.1.3-5 | Tell apart what officials at different levels of government can and cannot do. | 3 lesson plans + 10 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.2.3-5 | Explain why a democracy needs people to take part, and what that asks of you. | 3 lesson plans + 8 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.3.3-5 | Look at where rules, laws and key parts of the US Constitution came from. | 3 lesson plans + 8 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.4.3-5 | Explain how groups make rules that share out duties and protect freedoms. | 3 lesson plans + 6 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.5.3-5 | Explain where different systems of government came from and how they are built. | 3 lesson plans + 11 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.6.3-5 | Describe what people gain from working together, and what is hard about it. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.7.3-5 | Put civic virtues into practice at school and in the community. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.8.3-5 | Name the core civic virtues and democratic principles that guide a society. | 3 lesson plans + 8 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.9.3-5 | Use a proper discussion process when a group has to decide something. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.10.3-5 | Identify the beliefs and experiences behind your own and other people's views. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.11.3-5 | Compare how decisions get made in a classroom, a school and a government. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.12.3-5 | Explain how laws change a society, and how people change laws. | 3 lesson plans + 6 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.13.3-5 | Explain how a policy gets made to deal with a public problem. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Civ.14.3-5 | Show ways people have changed society, in the past and now. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.1.3-5 | Weigh up what a choice gains against what it costs. | 3 lesson plans + 11 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.2.3-5 | Spot the rewards and penalties that push people toward a decision. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.3.3-5 | Name the people, tools and natural materials it takes to make something. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.4.3-5 | Explain why people and businesses each do one thing and then trade. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.5.3-5 | Explain what money does that swapping goods cannot. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.6.3-5 | Explain how training and education change what somebody can earn. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.7.3-5 | Explain how the chance of profit changes what sellers do. | 3 lesson plans + 8 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.8.3-5 | Give examples where a choice affects people who were not part of it. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.9.3-5 | Describe what financial institutions other than banks do. | 3 lesson plans + 6 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.10.3-5 | Explain what an interest rate is. | 3 lesson plans + 6 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.11.3-5 | Explain what inflation, deflation and unemployment mean. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.12.3-5 | Explain where the government gets the money for what it provides. | 3 lesson plans + 7 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.13.3-5 | Describe how better tools and better skills let people produce more. | 3 lesson plans + 7 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.14.3-5 | Explain how trade makes countries depend on each other. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.Eco.15.3-5 | Explain how depending on trade helps some groups and hurts others. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.1.3-5 | Make maps of places you know and places you do not. | 3 lesson plans + 9 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.2.3-5 | Use maps and satellite images to explain how where a place is shapes what it is like. | 3 lesson plans + 10 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.3.3-5 | Use maps at different scales to describe what is where. | 3 lesson plans + 9 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.4.3-5 | Explain how culture shapes the way people change and adapt to their surroundings. | 3 lesson plans + 7 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.5.3-5 | Explain how a place changes over time, in its land and its culture. | 3 lesson plans + 7 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.6.3-5 | Describe why people live where they live. | 3 lesson plans + 7 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.7.3-5 | Explain how a place's character affects who and what moves through it. | 3 lesson plans + 7 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.8.3-5 | Explain how where people settle relates to the natural resources nearby. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.9.3-5 | Work out how a disaster changes where people live and where they move. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.10.3-5 | Explain why the natural world differs from one world region to another. | 3 lesson plans + 7 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.11.3-5 | Describe how the work done in a place changes as it connects to other places. | 3 lesson plans + 6 worksheets |
| D2.Geo.12.3-5 | Explain how a disaster in one place reaches people somewhere else. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.His.1.3-5 | Use a timeline to compare things that were happening at the same time. | 3 lesson plans + 9 worksheets |
| D2.His.2.3-5 | Compare life in a particular period with life today. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D2.His.3.3-5 | Ask questions about the people behind what changed and what stayed the same. | 3 lesson plans + 10 worksheets |
| D2.His.4.3-5 | Explain why people living at the same time saw things differently. | 3 lesson plans + 8 worksheets |
| D2.His.5.3-5 | Explain how the times people lived in shaped how they saw things. | 3 lesson plans + 6 worksheets |
| D2.His.6.3-5 | Describe how a source's maker shaped what the source says. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.His.9.3-5 | Summarize how different kinds of source get used to explain the past. | 3 lesson plans + 6 worksheets |
| D2.His.10.3-5 | Compare what different sources say about the same past. | 3 lesson plans + 6 worksheets |
| D2.His.11.3-5 | Work out who a source was made for and why, from the source itself. | 3 lesson plans + 6 worksheets |
| D2.His.12.3-5 | Ask questions about several sources and how they relate to an event. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.His.13.3-5 | Judge how useful a source is for a particular topic. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D2.His.14.3-5 | Explain the likely causes and effects of an event. | 3 lesson plans + 10 worksheets |
| D2.His.16.3-5 | Use evidence to build a claim about the past. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D2.His.17.3-5 | Summarize the main claim a history book makes. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D3.1.3-5 | Gather what you need from several sources, choosing each for a reason. | 3 lesson plans + 6 worksheets |
| D3.2.3-5 | Use the difference between fact and opinion to judge whether sources can be trusted. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D3.3.3-5 | Pull evidence from several sources to answer the big question. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D3.4.3-5 | Use evidence to build a claim that answers the big question. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D4.1.3-5 | Make an argument using claims and evidence from several sources. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D4.2.3-5 | Explain something with reasoning, the right order, examples and detail. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D4.3.3-5 | Share arguments and explanations beyond the classroom, on paper and on screen. | 3 lesson plans + 5 worksheets |
| D4.4.3-5 | Judge how good an argument is. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D4.5.3-5 | Judge how good an explanation is. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D4.6.3-5 | Use what you have learned to explain the problems people face and the chances they make. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
| D4.7.3-5 | Explain what could be done about a problem, and what might follow. | 3 lesson plans + 4 worksheets |
| D4.8.3-5 | Use fair, democratic ways of deciding to act on a problem at school. | 3 lesson plans + 3 worksheets |
C3 Framework social studies indicators — common questions
How many C3 Framework social studies indicators are there in K-5?
135 indicators across the seven K-5 strands: Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries, Civics, Economics, Geography, History, Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence and Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action. All 135 are indexed on this page.
How do I find a social studies worksheet for a specific indicator code?
Find the code in the table on this page — they are grouped by grade and listed in published order — and follow the link beside it. Every standard with a worksheet links it, and every standard with a lesson plan links that too.
Which social studies standards have a full lesson plan?
135 of the 135, linked from the table on this page. They were written one at a time rather than generated from a template, which is why the index fills slowly: a stub page for every standard would have been quicker and would have been a doorway pattern.
Is the social studies indicator text on this site the official wording?
Yes. The code, grade, domain and standard text are reproduced verbatim from the published C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards for identification. The plain-language restatement beside each one is editorial and is not part of the standard.
Who publishes the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards?
The National Council for the Social Studies. The copyright is held by National Council for the Social Studies. LessonPrint reproduces the text for identification and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the authors or publishers.