Better Vice Club
Washington, D.C. standards alignment
Designed for high school. Below is every Washington, D.C.standard 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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Read this before you rely on it
- 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 Washington, D.C.'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: Whiskey — Fire Water
- 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: Opioids — The Poppy's Promise
- BVC: Psychedelics — The Mushroom's Message
- BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: Tobacco — Sacred Smoke
- BVC: Whiskey — Fire Water
- BVC: Wine — Blood of the Earth
Showing 1 standard in Science covered by BVC: Whiskey — Fire Water. Clear filters
Washington, D.C. · Science
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
HS-ESS3 Earth and Human Activity · NGSS Lead States / nextgenscience.org · retrieved 2026-07-13
OSSE states that “In Dec. 2013, the Next Generation Science Standards were adopted by DC State Board of Education as the new K-12 Science Standards for the District of Columbia Schools.” This is not a science course, so we claim exactly one NGSS performance expectation, partially — see the note on it.
Read the source document →HS-ESS3-1
Partially coveredConstruct 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
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: Whiskey — Fire Water
- · 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 curriculum does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Common Core mathematics standard.
- Science — almost nothing. There is no laboratory work, no investigation and no scientific modelling here. We claim a single NGSS performance expectation, partially, and we explain exactly why on the entry itself. It is not a science course and we will not sell it as one.
- Prohibition and mass incarceration. The curriculum teaches both. D.C.'s 2023 social studies standards contain no standard on either (we searched the full document), so there is nothing for us to cite. The gap is in the standards, not the lessons.
- D.C.'s economics and geography strands. In the 2023 document these are un-numbered “statements of practice”, not coded standards. There is no code to cite, so we cite none — even though the economics content lines up well.
- The wider catalog — not yet mapped for D.C. The civics, U.S. history, health, and PE mapping done for Indiana has not been repeated against D.C.'s frameworks yet. D.C. currently carries the Commodity Map alignment only; the catalog-wide pass is queued.
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.