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Nevada standards alignment

Designed for high school. Below is every Nevadastandard these courses cover: the exact code, the standard's own words, and the lesson that covers it. Where we only cover part of a standard, it says so, and says which part.

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partially covered
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  • We mapped this ourselves. This alignment was done by Better Vice Club against the published standards. It has not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by Nevada's education authority or by anyone else.
  • Every code was fetched, then transcribed word for word. Each framework below shows the date its codes and text were retrieved from the publisher.
  • Standards get revised.A code can be renumbered or its wording changed without notice, and some states publish more than one live edition of the same document. Confirm anything you file against your own jurisdiction's current requirements, using the source links below.
  • We would rather claim less. Where the courses only partly cover a standard, this page says partially covered and explains the gap. Standards we considered and could not honestly claim are listed at the bottom, with the reasons.

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Nevada · Social Studies

Nevada Academic Content Standards for Social Studies — Grade 9-12 Civics & Economics

Nevada Academic Content Standards for Social Studies, Revised September 2018 · Grade 9-12 Civics & Economics · Nevada Department of Education (NDE) / Nevada State Board of Education · retrieved 2026-07-19

Nevada's Grade 9-12 Civics & Economics course is the anchor for the Nevada Civics flagship, folding civics and economics into one course (codes SS.9-12.CE.<n>). Two standards are specifically about Nevada — SS.9-12.CE.19 (compare the U.S. and Nevada constitutions) and SS.9-12.CE.18 (Nevada politics) — with SS.9-12.CE.51 on Nevada's economy; these host the flagship's own-state structure. The federal C-ladder (CE.27, .28, .29, .32, .33, .36) carries the general civics ladder, the Exchange/Markets and Global Economy standards (CE.43, .44, .52, .53) carry the commodity economics, and two inquiry standards (CE.3, .5) host the source-evaluation method. Transcribed verbatim from the NDE 2018 Social Studies Standards (see the file header for the mirror/provenance note).

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  • SS.9-12.CE.43

    Partially covered
    Analyze the determining factors that influence production and distribution in a market system.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
    • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
    • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
    • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
    • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
    • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
    • · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
    • · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
    • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
    • · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
    • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: production and distribution are analyzed through real commodity value chains — where commodities grow and why, and who is paid what along the chain (the smile curve). A general market-system unit is not.

  • SS.9-12.CE.44

    Partially covered
    Explain how changes in supply and demand cause changes of goods, services, labor, credit, price, and foreign currencies.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 1 · Price Shocks and Why You Keep Buying
    • · Ep 4 · From Luxury to the Cheapest Calorie

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: the supply-and-demand effect on price is taught through a worked commodity case — a Brazilian frost moving world coffee prices, and why inelastic demand absorbs the spike. The standard's fuller list (labor, credit, foreign currencies) is not worked.

  • SS.9-12.CE.3

    Partially covered
    Gather relevant information from multiple sources representing a wide range of views while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
    • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
    • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story, Beckford (1790) against Equiano (1789) and Mary Prince (1831) on the same plantation world
    • · Ep 3 · Two Ways of Seeing a Bean
    • · Ep 5 · Two Ways of Knowing
    • · Ep 18 · Whose Voice

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: multi-source evaluation using origin, authority, and corroborative value — differing accounts of the same event set side by side, with a checkable bibliography — is modeled throughout the BVC curriculum. The standard's full inquiry-selection process for a student's own research question is exercised only where a graded project runs.

  • SS.9-12.CE.5

    Partially covered
    Seek multiple media sources when investigating current issues and evaluate the credibility and reliability of each.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
    • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
    • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 8 · Misleading statistics and charts
    • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 4 · Fake urgency, fake scarcity, and fake discounts

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: evaluating the credibility and reliability of sources — reading messages for omission, fallacy, and misleading statistics, and checking claims against a bibliography — is the media-literacy method. Investigating a live current issue across multiple media sources is set up rather than assessed.

Nevada · Social Studies

Nevada Academic Content Standards for Social Studies — Grade 9-12 World History & Geography (1300-Present)

Nevada Academic Content Standards for Social Studies, Revised September 2018 · Grade 9-12 World History & Geography (1300-Present) · Nevada Department of Education (NDE) / Nevada State Board of Education · retrieved 2026-07-19

Nevada's Grade 9-12 World History & Geography course (1300-Present), coded SS.9-12.WH.<n>. Its standards are framed as historical-thinking and thematic skills; the BVC commodity, colonial, labor, and Cold-War history exercises several of them on specific cases. Nevada's regime-change, war, religion, and identity standards are not claimed (see notClaimed). Transcribed verbatim from the NDE 2018 Social Studies Standards.

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Nevada · English/Language Arts

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy

Grades 11-12 · Common Core State Standards Initiative · retrieved 2026-07-13

The Nevada State Board of Education adopted the Common Core State Standards in October 2010 as the Nevada Academic Content Standards (NVACS). Nevada adopted the CCSS as published, so the shared Common Core ELA file is adopted verbatim, keeping the canonical CCSS codes; the text here is the CCSS publisher's verbatim wording (thecorestandards.org). We claim no mathematics standards.

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  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.11-12.7

    Covered
    Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 1 · Assignment, all four options are 2-3 week research projects requiring synthesis across sources
    • · 19 · Your assignment: find a listing, then find the address today
    • · 20 · Your assignment: write one block
    • · 21 · Your assignment: write one firm
    • · 21 · Your assignment: test one connection of your own
    • · 17 · Your assignment: one schoolhouse, and the budget line that raised it
    • · 20 · Your assignment: write one property

    Note: The Coffee episode ships a graded assignment; the route series and the positive-track courses each close with a research capstone (find a listing, write one firm, test one connection) in which the student runs a self-directed inquiry and synthesizes multiple sources.

  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.11-12.8

    Covered
    Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the specific task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, 3+ peer-reviewed sources and an APA bibliography
    • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option C, interview ethics: informed consent, right to review
    • · 19 · Your assignment: find a listing, then find the address today
    • · 20 · Your assignment: write one block
    • · 21 · Your assignment: write one firm
    • · 21 · Your assignment: test one connection of your own
    • · 17 · Your assignment: one schoolhouse, and the budget line that raised it
    • · 20 · Your assignment: write one property

    Note: The route and positive-track capstones require the student to locate a primary record, corroborate it across independent sources, weigh each source's limits, and write it up with citations: the whole of this standard.

Nevada · Science

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

HS-ESS3 Earth and Human Activity · NGSS Lead States / nextgenscience.org · retrieved 2026-07-13

Nevada adopted the Next Generation Science Standards in February 2014 as the Nevada Academic Content Standards for Science (NVACSS), adopted by the Nevada State Board of Education. HS-ESS3-1, the one performance expectation we cite, is a standard NGSS PE, so the shared NGSS file is adopted verbatim. This is not a science course, so we claim exactly one NGSS performance expectation, partially — see the note on it.

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  • HS-ESS3-1

    Partially covered
    Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 1 · Climate Change Is Redrawing the Map
    • · Ep 3 · A Two-Degree Threat
    • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
    • · Ep 10 · Karst Limestone and Bourbon
    • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, assess a producing country's climate viability and defend the assessment

    What we do and don't cover: Read this one carefully before you rely on it. This is NOT a science course, it has no laboratory work, no investigations and no scientific modelling. What it does have is precisely the content of HS-ESS3-1: resource availability and climate change shaping what humans do and where. The lessons supply the evidence; the STUDENT constructs the explanation only in the Coffee project (Option B). If your science requirement is assessed on the three-dimensional NGSS performance, this contributes to it, it does not discharge it.

What we don't claim

A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:

  • Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Nevada Academic Content Standard for mathematics.
  • Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Nevada adopted the NGSS in February 2014 as the Nevada Academic Content Standards for Science, so our one honest science claim — HS-ESS3-1, partial — comes through the shared NGSS mapping with the limit stated on the entry. There is no laboratory work, investigation, or modelling in this catalog, and we will not claim more.
  • Nevada's own Nevada-history and civics detail that no single code captures. The Civics & Economics and U.S. History courses each carry Nevada-history standards (SS.9-12.CE.18/19, SS.9-12.US.20-22). CE.18 and CE.19 host the flagship as partial, but the Nevada Civics course teaches more of Nevada's own structure than any one code captures — the “None of These Candidates” ballot option, the biennial 120-day Legislature, the two-election amendment rule, the Gaming Control Board and Gaming Commission, the no-income-tax structure, and Carson City's consolidated city-county status. US.20-22 (Nevada's history and the evolution of Nevada's economy from 1877) are Nevada-specific history the catalog does not teach.
  • The political-media standards. SS.9-12.CE.30 and SS.9-12.CE.31 (the roles of U.S. media in shaping policy and political discourse, and the role of special-interest groups, lobbyists, and PACs), and SS.9-12.US.34 (the effects of media in shaping public perception and policies), are political-media and interest-group analysis. Our media-literacy course is consumer protection — reading ads and claims for omission and fallacy — not political-media analysis, so we do not claim these; the source-evaluation skill they share is claimed instead under the inquiry standards SS.9-12.CE.3 and SS.9-12.CE.5.
  • The disciplinary-skill and civic-disposition standards we checked and rejected. The disciplinary-skill standards that ask students to construct compelling/supporting questions, construct and present their own arguments, participate in rigorous academic discussions, and take deliberative action (SS.9-12.CE.1, .2, .4, .6-.12, and their US/WH equivalents) are procedures the courses exercise but do not deliver as a unit. On the content side, the Civics & Economics standards on political identity and ideology, founding-document interpretation over time, international relations, gerrymandering and redistricting, political behavior of population centers, immigration's effect on politics, and comparative political systems (SS.9-12.CE.13, .15-.17, .20, .21, .25, .26, .34, .37-.42), and the National Economy / Financial Literacy standards (SS.9-12.CE.45-.50, all of SS.9-12.FL) are not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
  • Most World History & Geography and U.S. History standards. The World History & Geography standards not mapped above (SS.9-12.WH.13-16, .18-25, .27-36, .39, .40) and the U.S. History standards not mapped above (SS.9-12.US.13, .15, .17-25, .28-42) are content or historical-thinking standards the courses do not exercise cleanly enough to claim. Where the catalog's globalization content overlaps SS.9-12.WH.40 and SS.9-12.US.42, it is claimed once under the closest fit (CE.53 / US.45) rather than padded across every near-duplicate.
  • The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Nevada's closest frameworks (Computer Science, World Languages) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Nevada claims this pass.

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