NEW JERSEY STATE STANDARDS

NEW JERSEY STATE STANDARDS

AND THE TOPIC OF

IRISH IMMIGRATION & RELATED HISTORY

The standards for New Jersey tend to be less specific and more general. Therefore those that seem most applicable are highlighted.

In order to ensure that students share a common core of knowledge, by the end of their school experience students of United States history should have studied all five of the following major periods in history:

The Colonial Period (to 1763)
The Revolution and Early National Period (to 1820)

The Age of Civil War and Reconstruction (to 1870)

Industrial America and the Era of World Wars (to 1945)
The Modern Age

The social studies standards are grouped for study and inquiry in the following manner:

Standards 6.1 and 6.2: educating students for democratic citizenship.

Standards 6.3 through 6.6: educating students for historical understanding.

Standards 6.7 through 6.9: educating students for geographical understanding.

Social Studies List Of Standards

6.1	All students will learn democratic citizenship and how to participate in the constitutional system of government of the United States.
6.2	All students will learn democratic citizenship through the humanities, by studying literature, art, history and philosophy, and related fields.
6.3	All students will acquire historical understanding of political and diplomatic ideas, forces, and institutions throughout the history of New Jersey, the United States, and the world.
6.4	All students will acquire historical understanding of societal ideas and forces throughout the history of New Jersey, the United States, and the world.
6.5	All students will acquire historical understanding of varying cultures throughout the history of New Jersey, the United States, and the world.
6.6	All students will acquire historical understanding of economic forces, ideas, and institutions throughout the history of New Jersey, the United States, and the world.
6.7	All students will acquire geographical understanding by studying the world in spatial terms.
6.8	All students will acquire geographical understanding by studying human systems in geography.
6.9	All students will acquire geographical understanding by studying the environment and society.