Students will learn and exhibit traits of good citizenship. 

• Standard K.3.1: Describe some of the rules students or family members follow and why they are important as a member of a family, class, and school. 
  
  
• Standard K. 3. 4: Explain why national, state, and other symbols and actions (including the United States flag, the pledge of allegience, the bald eagle, the Utah flag) are considered import. What rules and tradition have been made to reflect that importance?

Students will analyze their role as citizens in school and a community. 

• Standard 1.3.1: Compare how classroom rules are similar to laws in the community. 
• Standard 1.3.3: Explain how diverse community groups work together to accomplish common tasks, solve problems, and fulfill responsibilities.
• Standard 1.3.4: Identify the symbols, landmarks, and essential documents of the school, community, state, and nation (including the national motto and state emblem). Demonstrate how to show respect for those items, including care and disposal of the United States flag. 

Students use historical thinking skills to explore continuity and change in their community, Utah, and the United States.

• Standard 2.1.4: Retell the histories of key people and events connected to state and national symbols, landmarks, and essential documents (for example, Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, Francis Scott Key and The Star Spangled Banner, Abraham Lincoln and the Lincoln Memorial, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and national parks, Utah pioneers and Utah’s nickname and motto).
• Standard 2.1.5: Identify the achievements of significant Americans, including those from local and other diverse perspectives, and explain their importance. 

Students are introduced to the concept of government. Students learn about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, explain how people must work together to resolve conflict, and understand the importance of respecting differences.

• Standard 2.3.2: Describe the rights and responsibilities of citizens in the United States and Utah.
• Standard: 2.3.6:  Identify celebrations and state and national holidays that remember and honor people and events in the history of Utah and the United States.

Students will learn about and compare different types of government. They will identify significant ideas in the United States and Utah Constitutions, as well as compare similarities and differences between the documents.

• Standard 3.1.1: Discuss the basic differences between different forms of government, including a constitutional republic, a pure democracy, an oligarchy, and a monarchy.
•  Standard 3.1.2: Explain why the first three words of the United States Constitution are vital to the workings of representative government.
• Standard 3.1.3: Summarize how the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and explain how laws provide order and stability.
• Standard 3.1.4: Identify the rights protected by the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, and analyze how those rights affect them.
• Standard 3.1.5: Explain how the Constitution balances power between the three branches of government at both the state and federal levels (checks and balances).

Students will demonstrate their understanding of the Constitution and its relevance in their lives, including the Bill of Rights, the branches of government, and how the Constitution has changed and been interpreted over time.

• Standard 5.3.1: Use examples from the Constitution to investigate and explain the development, general purpose, and significant foundational principles of the United States government (a compound constitutional republic), as well as earlier documents and philosophies used to help develop the Constitution (for example, the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Articles of Confederation, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy).
• 5.3.2: Apply the ideals found in the Preamble of the United States Constitution to historic and current events and issues.
• Standard 5.3.3: Explain why the Founders established a compound constitutional republic with three branches, and cite historic and current examples of checks and balances.
• Standard 5.3.4: Explain the significance of the Bill of Rights, and identify the impact of one of these amendments in history, a current event, and/or your daily life.
• Standard 5.3.5: Investigate how constitutional amendments are passed, and provide examples of how amendments to the Constitution have extended rights to groups originally denied protection under the Constitution (for example, women, enslaved people, immigrants, Black Americans, Native Americans).
• Standard 5.3.6: Describe the civic duties members of American society have today (for example, voting, holding public office, jury duty).