Better Vice Club
New Jersey standards alignment
Designed for high school. Below is every New Jerseystandard 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 New Jersey'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: The Toast — Season Synthesis
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- 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 2 standards covered by BVC: The Toast — Season Synthesis. Clear filters
New Jersey · Social Studies
New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Social Studies — 6.1 U.S. History: America in the World, by the End of Grade 12
2020 (NJSLS-Social Studies) · New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) · retrieved 2026-07-18
New Jersey's Grade 12 U.S. History standards. Two Civics performance expectations name the New Jersey Constitution directly (6.1.12.CivicsPI.2.a, .13.a), which is where the New Jersey Civics flagship's constitutional-history lessons land; the federal civics content is claimed through the founding-era Civics standards, and the Commodity Map's U.S.-side geography and the Great Migration through the Economics and Geography standards.
Read the source document →6.1.12.EconGE.6.a
Partially coveredDetermine the role geography played in gaining access to raw materials and finding new global markets to promote trade.
Covered by
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: The Toast — Season Synthesis
- BVC: The Full Spectrum — Who Draws the Line?
- · 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 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
What we do and don't cover: Partial: how geography governs access to raw materials and global markets — and who captures the value along the chain — is taught in depth through the commodities themselves.
New Jersey · Social Studies
New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Social Studies — 6.2 World History/Global Studies, by the End of Grade 12
2020 (NJSLS-Social Studies) · New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) · retrieved 2026-07-18
New Jersey's Grade 12 World History standards are an unusually close match for the Commodity Map: they name essential commodities (sugar, cotton), mercantilism, imperialism, the Atlantic slave trade, the Columbian exchange, and the lingering effects of colonialism explicitly.
Read the source document →6.2.12.EconGE.1.a
Partially coveredTrace the movement of essential commodities (e.g., sugar, cotton) from Asia to Europe to America, and determine the impact trade on the New World's economy and society.
Covered by
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
- 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?
- · Ep 4 · The Sugar Islands
- · Ep 4 · From New Guinea to the New World
- · Ep 11 · Waste-Product Economics
- · 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
What we do and don't cover: The single closest match in the New Jersey document — it names commodity trade directly. Partial: of the commodities the standard names, the sugar industry is taught thoroughly; cotton is not a Commodity Map episode. ERRATUM: New Jersey's 2020 document prints a second, different performance expectation (on the economic policies of China and Japan) under this same code 6.2.12.EconGE.1.a; the text above is the commodities one.
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 New Jersey mathematics standard.
- Science — almost nothing. There is no laboratory work, no investigation and no scientific modelling here. New Jersey adopted the NGSS verbatim (as NJSLS-Science, 2014), and we claim a single NGSS performance expectation, partially, explaining exactly why on the entry itself. It is not a science course and we will not sell it as one.
- The flagship's distinctive New Jersey structure has mostly no code to cite. New Jersey Civics teaches the deliberately strong Governor (who appoints the Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Treasurer rather than voters electing them), the Lieutenant Governor created only in 2010, the appointed judiciary that earns tenure to age 70, the 40-district Legislature on its 2-4-4 Senate cycle, the absence of any citizen initiative, and the 21 counties whose boards were renamed from “Chosen Freeholders” to “county commissioners” in 2020-2021. New Jersey's 2020 standards reach the New Jersey Constitution of 1776 and 1947 (6.1.12.CivicsPI.2.a, .13.a), which the flagship backs, but the strong-governor design, the appointed judiciary, the no-initiative rule, and the county renaming have no New Jersey-specific code. The gap is in the standards, not the course.
- The Opium Wars, the sugar-vs-other-commodities split, and the War on Drugs. The catalog teaches the Opium Wars and the War on Drugs in depth, and covers sugar thoroughly. New Jersey's world-history standard names sugar and cotton (6.2.12.EconGE.1.a), so we claim the sugar content there — but it does not name the Opium Wars, and New Jersey's Active Citizenship history standards reach contemporary drug policy only through the broad “current foreign policy issue” framing (6.3.12.HistoryCA.12), which the courses do not squarely meet. We leave those unclaimed rather than stretch.
- The Amistad and climate-change teaching mandates. New Jersey law requires the Amistad curriculum (the history of the African slave trade and of African Americans) and climate-change education across subjects. These are instructional mandates layered onto the standards, not separate coded standards, so there is no distinct code to cite; the catalog's slavery, abolition, and climate content is claimed through the coded 6.1/6.2 standards above.
- The wider catalog — health, PE, AI-literacy, and languages. New Jersey's relevant frameworks for these (Comprehensive Health and Physical Education; Computer Science and Design Thinking; World Languages) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no New Jersey 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.