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North Dakota standards alignment
Designed for high school. Below is every North Dakotastandard 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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- 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 North Dakota'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.
Filtering by course: BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- All courses
- BVC: Beer — Liquid Bread
- BVC: Cannabis — The Green Revolution
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Coca — White Lines
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: Khat — The Afternoon Leaf
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Opioids — The Poppy's Promise
- BVC: Psychedelics — The Mushroom's Message
- BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: The Full Spectrum — Who Draws the Line?
- BVC: The Toast — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Tobacco — Sacred Smoke
- BVC: Whiskey — Fire Water
Showing 7 standards covered by BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis. Clear filters
North Dakota · Social Studies
North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards — 6-12 Economics (E.6_12)
North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards, Grades K-12 (adopted August 2019; formatting Revision 7, 2023-11-30) · 6-12 Economics (E.6_12) · North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) · retrieved 2026-07-19
North Dakota's Economics standards (adopted August 2019) are its own. The commodity curriculum reaches the trade, price, government-role, and economic-systems benchmarks below; North Dakota's own state-owned bank and mill give the 'role of government in a market economy' benchmark a distinctive local case. The remaining Economics benchmarks (scarcity and factors of production, market institutions, macroeconomic measures, and the full Personal Finance strand E.6_12.7) are rejected in notClaimed. Transcribed verbatim from the NDDPI Social Studies Content Standards.
Read the source document →E.6_12.6.1
CoveredDescribe how trade generates economic development and interdependence.
Covered by
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: The Toast — Season Synthesis
- BVC: The Full Spectrum — Who Draws the Line?
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- · 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
- · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
Note: How trade generates development and interdependence is the series' spine — real commodity value chains show who develops and who stays dependent, and the growing belts explain why trade follows climate and soil.
E.6_12.6.2
CoveredAnalyze the benefits and costs for individuals, producers, and governments in international trade.
Covered by
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: The Toast — Season Synthesis
- BVC: The Full Spectrum — Who Draws the Line?
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- · 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
- · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
- · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
Note: The benefits and costs of international trade for producers and governments are worked through real chains — who captures value and who is caught in the commodity trap — and through the U.S. sugar program's quotas, tariffs, and price supports.
E.6_12.4.2
Partially coveredEvaluate the role of government in a market economy.
Covered by
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
- · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 2 · The only state-owned bank (and a state-owned mill)
- · Ep 5 · The Reciprocity Economy
- · Ep 6 · Ceremony Meets the Market
- · Ep 7 · Two Ways of Doing Economics
What we do and don't cover: Partial, and with a North Dakota case: the role of government in a market economy is taught through the U.S. sugar program's quotas, tariffs, and price supports, and — uniquely for North Dakota — its own state-owned Bank of North Dakota and Mill and Elevator as public enterprises inside a market economy, set against the traditional-versus-market contrast. The standard's full fiscal and monetary policy (the Federal Reserve, expansionary/contractionary policy) is not covered.
E.6_12.2
Partially coveredCompare and contrast how varying economic systems impact a nation and its citizens.
Covered by
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- · Ep 5 · The Reciprocity Economy
- · Ep 6 · Ceremony Meets the Market
- · Ep 7 · Two Ways of Doing Economics
What we do and don't cover: Partial: the catalog contrasts traditional (reciprocity) economies against market economies directly and at length, and how each shapes a people's lives. The command/centrally-planned-versus-market contrast the benchmark's guiding topics center on (communism, socialism, capitalism) is not the comparison taught.
North Dakota · Social Studies
North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards — 6-12 Geography (G.6_12)
North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards, Grades K-12 (adopted August 2019; formatting Revision 7, 2023-11-30) · 6-12 Geography (G.6_12) · North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) · retrieved 2026-07-19
North Dakota's Geography standards (adopted August 2019) are built on the Five Themes of Geography. The Commodity Map's growing-belts, resource-map, human-environment, and colonial-cash-crop content reaches the physical-processes, human-environment, cultural-conflict, and migration benchmarks below; the geographic-tools and region/culture benchmarks are left in notClaimed. Transcribed verbatim from the NDDPI Social Studies Content Standards.
Read the source document →G.6_12.3.4
CoveredIdentify factors that contribute to conflict and cooperation between cultural groups from multiple perspectives.
Covered by
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: Opioids — The Poppy's Promise
- BVC: Khat — The Afternoon Leaf
- BVC: The Full Spectrum — Who Draws the Line?
- · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
- · Ep 5 · How Coca-Cola Got Its Name (biopiracy)
- · Ep 7 · The Same Story, Six Times
- · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom (the 1825 French indemnity and Haiti's modern poverty)
- · Ep 2 · Who Grows the Tea (colonial and plantation labour)
- · Ep 5 · Whose Knowledge Is It
- · Ep 6 · Kava Governs
- · Ep 17 · The Opium Wars
- · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence
- · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
- · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
- · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
Note: The standard's own factors — control of resources, imperialism, economic factors, and the distribution of wealth — are the plantation and colonial cash-crop systems the catalog traces across the Caribbean, West Africa, South Asia, and Oceania, and how those patterns persist today.
North Dakota · Social Studies
North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards — 6-12 World History (WH.6_12)
North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards, Grades K-12 (adopted August 2019; formatting Revision 7, 2023-11-30) · 6-12 World History (WH.6_12) · North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) · retrieved 2026-07-19
North Dakota's World History standards (adopted August 2019) are coded by era: six anchor standards (WH.6_12.1-6) applied through era benchmarks (WH.6_12.1-6.E<era>.<n>). The commodity curriculum's world history — agriculture and the first cities, the Columbian Exchange and imperialism, the Haitian Revolution, globalization, and cross-cultural source analysis — reaches the era benchmarks and skills anchors below. The science/technology and religion/ideology anchors are left in notClaimed. Transcribed verbatim from the NDDPI Social Studies Content Standards.
Read the source document →WH.6_12.1-6.E4.3
CoveredExplain the social, cultural, or economic changes influenced by globalization.
Covered by
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: The Toast — Season Synthesis
- BVC: The Full Spectrum — Who Draws the Line?
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
- · 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
- · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
- · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
- · Ep 5 · How Coca-Cola Got Its Name (biopiracy)
- · Ep 7 · The Same Story, Six Times
- · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom (the 1825 French indemnity and Haiti's modern poverty)
- · Mexico, Lesson 7 · Mexico rewrites its labor law, and the 68-year gap that explains why
- · Mexico, Lesson 10 · The Rapid Response Mechanism: an international labor rule with teeth
- · Mexico, Lesson 12 · The limits, honestly: the cases the United States lost
Note: Globalization's economic changes are the series' subject — who captures value along global commodity chains, the commodity trap, how colonial patterns persist in present markets, and the NAFTA-to-USMCA cross-border labor order the guiding topics' 'global markets' and 'migration movements' name.
WH.6_12.6
CoveredExplain how past events connect to the present.
Covered by
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
- · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
- · Ep 5 · How Coca-Cola Got Its Name (biopiracy)
- · Ep 7 · The Same Story, Six Times
- · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom (the 1825 French indemnity and Haiti's modern poverty)
Note: Connecting past to present is the catalog's method: how colonialism and imperialism persist and evolve in present-day commodity chains, debt, and trade.
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 North Dakota mathematics standard.
- English Language Arts — considered, deferred, not claimed this pass. North Dakota adopted its OWN English Language Arts & Literacy standards (2023), with North Dakota's own codes and wording — North Dakota is not mapped through our shared Common Core file. The catalog's media-literacy, rhetoric, and source-evaluation teaching would in principle map to North Dakota's grade-11/12 informational-reading and research standards, but we have not fetched and verified that document this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so ELA is deferred until the verbatim North Dakota text is in hand.
- Science — considered, deferred, not claimed this pass. North Dakota's 2019 science standards are North Dakota's own, derived from the NRC Framework rather than adopted verbatim from NGSS. The catalog's one honest science idea — resource availability and climate shaping human activity — would in principle map to a North Dakota science code, but verbatim-or-nothing means we will not alias the shared NGSS file to a North Dakota code we have not confirmed against North Dakota's own printed wording. Science is deferred until that verbatim text is retrieved.
- North Dakota's own state structure is taught more fully than any one benchmark names. North Dakota Civics teaches the Constitution of 1889, the two national 'onlys' (the only state with no voter registration; the only state-owned bank, the Bank of North Dakota, plus a state-owned Mill and Elevator), the farmer-populist Nonpartisan League, the strong initiative/referendum/recall, the large plural executive, the part-time biennial 94-Representative/47-Senator Legislative Assembly capped at 80 days per biennium, the elected nonpartisan Supreme Court, and the 53 counties — all from North Dakota's own sources. The Civics & Government benchmarks that name state and local government (C.6_12.2.4, C.6_12.2.5) and citizen influence (C.6_12.4.1, C.6_12.4.3) host most of it, but North Dakota's standards are broad U.S.-system anchors, not a North-Dakota-government checklist, so its no-registration voting, its state bank, and its biennial Legislature have no benchmark of their own.
- Civics benchmarks on political philosophy, forms of government, and British-colonial roots. Benchmarks the catalog's civics does not genuinely teach are not claimed: C.6_12.1.1 (evaluate the thoughts of major political philosophers — Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Marx), C.6_12.1.2 (the influence of British and colonial history — Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Mayflower Compact), and C.6_12.2.1 (differentiate and compare forms and origins of governments — monarchy, oligarchy, fascism, theocracy). These are named in the constitution course as background, not worked as their own content.
- Economics — the scarcity, institutions, macroeconomics, and Personal Finance strands. Beyond the trade, price, government-role, and economic-systems benchmarks claimed above, the Economics strand's other standards are not the substance of this catalog's commodity history and are left unclaimed: C-adjacent E.6_12.1 (scarcity, opportunity cost, and the factors of production), E.6_12.3.1/E.6_12.3.2 (the formal law of supply and demand, and perfect versus imperfect competition), E.6_12.4.1/E.6_12.4.3 (the stock market and financial institutions; the functions of money), E.6_12.5 (macroeconomic measurements — GDP, inflation, unemployment), and the entire Personal Finance strand E.6_12.7 (career and standard of living, taxes, budgeting, credit and debt) — a ♦ NDCC 15.1-21 strand this catalog does not teach.
- Geography — the geographic-tools and region/culture benchmarks. The Geography strand's tool-and-inquiry benchmarks (G.6_12.4 — maps, globes, GIS/GPS, and the skills of geographic inquiry) and its region/culture benchmarks (G.6_12.3.1-3 — comparing cultures, analyzing regions, and how perception shapes places) are not the catalog's focus; where its content maps squarely — climate and resources deciding where commodities grow, and resource-driven conflict — it is claimed under the physical-processes, human-environment, and cultural-conflict benchmarks above rather than padded into these.
- United States and World History — the eras and skills anchors not claimed above. North Dakota's history strands apply six skills anchors across five U.S. eras and four world eras. We claim only the source-analysis anchors and the specific era benchmarks the wider catalog genuinely reaches (labor and the Gilded Age, the Great Migration and Civil Rights, Prohibition, agriculture and the first cities, the Columbian Exchange and imperialism, the Haitian Revolution, and globalization). The Revolution and founding, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the World Wars and the Cold War, the post-1990 era, and the science/technology and religion/ideology anchors are not this catalog's focus and are left unclaimed rather than stretched.
- North Dakota Studies, Sociology, and Psychology — nothing. North Dakota's Social Studies standards include a distinctive North Dakota Studies strand (state and tribal history — including the required 'North Dakota Tribal Government' study) and 6-12 Sociology and Psychology strands. This catalog teaches North Dakota's state government (the civics flagship) but not North Dakota's own history at these standards' depth, and it teaches no sociology or psychology, so these strands are not claimed.
- The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. North Dakota's closest frameworks for these (its Computer Science and Cybersecurity standards and its world-languages standards) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no North Dakota claims this pass.
See it for yourself
Don't take the mapping on trust. Open the lesson and check it against the standard. Every course publishes its sources too.