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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.

20
standards mapped
13
fully covered
7
partially covered
5
frameworks

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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.
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North Dakota · Social Studies

North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards — 6-12 Civics & Government (C.6_12)

North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards, Grades K-12 (adopted August 2019; formatting Revision 7, 2023-11-30) · 6-12 Civics & Government (C.6_12) · North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) · retrieved 2026-07-19

North Dakota's Civics & Government standards are its own (adopted August 2019). They band grades 6-12 in four broad anchor standards (C.6_12.1-4) with numbered benchmarks, so the North Dakota civics flagship — the Constitution of 1889, the two national 'onlys' (no voter registration; the state-owned Bank of North Dakota and Mill and Elevator), the Nonpartisan League, the biennial 94-Rep/47-Senator Legislative Assembly, the elected nonpartisan Supreme Court, strong direct democracy, and the 53 counties — maps onto the benchmarks that name state and local government and citizen influence and participation. Codes are cited exactly as printed; C.6_12.1.3 and C.6_12.4.2 carry the source's ♦ marker denoting standards tied to North Dakota Century Code 15.1-21 (Curriculum and Testing). Transcribed verbatim from the NDDPI Social Studies Content Standards (see the file header for provenance).

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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.

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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.

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North Dakota · Social Studies

North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards — 6-12 United States History (US.6_12)

North Dakota Social Studies Content Standards, Grades K-12 (adopted August 2019; formatting Revision 7, 2023-11-30) · 6-12 United States History (US.6_12) · North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) · retrieved 2026-07-19

North Dakota's United States History standards (adopted August 2019) are coded by era: six anchor standards (US.6_12.1-6) are applied to each era through era-specific benchmarks (US.6_12.1-6.E<era>.<n>). We claim the source-analysis anchor and the era benchmarks the wider catalog's labor, migration, and prohibition history genuinely reaches; the remaining eras and benchmarks (the Revolution, Civil War and Reconstruction, the World Wars, the Cold War, and the post-1990 era) are not this catalog's focus and are left in notClaimed. Transcribed verbatim from the NDDPI Social Studies Content Standards.

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  • US.6_12.1

    Covered
    Analyze primary and secondary sources with attention to reliability, impact, and purpose.

    Covered by

    • · 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
    • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
    • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
    • · The Great Migration · every lesson carries a primary-source pointer to its real archive
    • · The Great Migration, Lesson 5 · Arrival (the Philadelphia “500% growth” claim, checked against the raw census figures it fails)

    Note: Analyzing sources for reliability, impact, and purpose is the catalog's 'Whose Voice' method and the Great Migration's archive work — a planter's account read against formerly enslaved writers, and every migration claim pointed to its real record.

  • US.6_12.1-6.E3.5

    Partially covered
    Explain the political, social, and economic changes of the 1920s.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 8 · Prohibition, the Experiment That Failed
    • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition (the rhetoric that drove the movement)
    • · The Great Migration, Lesson 6 · The Black press as engine: the Chicago Defender
    • · The Great Migration, Lesson 7 · The Harlem Renaissance & the New Negro

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: two defining 1920s changes are taught — national Prohibition (its politics and its unintended consequences) and the Harlem Renaissance and the Black press. The decade's broader economics and politics (consumer culture, the Red Scare, nativism) are not surveyed.

  • US.6_12.1-6.E2.1

    Partially covered
    Analyze the impacts of social, religious, and/or cultural movements.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
    • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
    • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
    • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
    • · Ep 8 · Prohibition, the Experiment That Failed
    • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition (the rhetoric that drove the movement)

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: abolition and the resistance of enslaved people, and the temperance movement that produced Prohibition, are taught. The standard's fuller list (women's suffrage, the Second Great Awakening) is not.

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.

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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.

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