Research, Citation, & Class Guides: Social Studies Education Resources: Standards, Frameworks, Curricula

Social Studies Standards & Frameworks Online

Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies
NCSS: College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards: Guidance for Enhancing the Rigor of K-12 Civics, Economics, Geography, and History
(2013) For companion documents to specific disciplines, see Anthropology, p.77
Psychology, p.69; Sociology, p.73 (from National Council for the Social Studies)
NCSS: National Curriculum Standards For Social Studies: A Framework for Teaching, Learning and Assessment (2010)
This link provides an outline.
Complete curriculum is available in the library:
UW Whitewater Main Collection, 3rd Floor H62.5.U5 N35 2010
NCSS: National Standards for Social Studies Teachers
from National Council for the Social Studies (2002)
National Geography Standards Index
available online from the National Council for Geographic Education
National Standards for Civics and Government
the Center for Civic Education and funded by the U.S. Department of Education and The Pew Charitable Trusts (1994)
National Standards for Personal Financial Education
from the Council for Economic Education (2021)
National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula
American Psychological Association (2022)
National Standards for High School Sociology
American Sociological Association
National Standards for High School Sociology (2022 Addendum )
American Sociological Association
National Standards for History, Basic Edition
Available online from National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA (1996)
Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics K-12 Standards
from the National Council for Economic Education (2010)

To request an updated URL / web address for any of the standards, please email: Education Librarian

Curriculum Guides, Standards & Frameworks in the Library

Search Research@UWW for Curriculum Guides located in the Curriculum Collection on 2nd floor of the library. Using the limiters on the left of the page, limit the Location to Curriculum Collection Curr Guides.

A number of curriuclum guides are also available in Wisconsin and Federal Documents. Perform a wider search without limiting to location. This will include curriculum produced by government agencies as well.

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ERIC Full-Text (EBSCO)

ERIC database includes many of the following documents:

State Curriculum Guides
State Standards
Academic Standards
National standards
National Curriculum

Just start searching in ERIC