Gotham Center’s Education Department strives to assist New York City K–12 history teachers in providing quality history instruction aligned with the New York City Performance Standards and the New York State Learning Standards.

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments, the governmental system of the United States and other nations, the United States Constitution, the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy, and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.

For more standards-related information please go to:

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/social.html
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/ssrg.html
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/nysatl/standards.html
Visit the New York City Department of Education Office of Social Studies on the Web:
www.nycsocialstudies.org