The following standards have been taken from the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McRel) standards.

Students will work in groups to:

• Identify significant events and people in the major eras of United States and world history.
• Explain the history of slavery, racial and ethnic discrimination, and efforts to eliminate discrimination in the United States and elsewhere in the world.
• Analyze how radio, movies, newspapers, and popular magazines created mass culture.
• Understand the relationships between music, history, and culture.
• Understand issues concerning the disparities between ideals and reality in American political and social life.
• Use a variety of primary sources to gather information for research topics.
• Use a variety of print and electronic sources to gather information for research topics (e.g., news sources such as magazines, radio, television, and newspapers; government publications; microfiche; telephone information services; databases; field studies; speeches; technical documents; periodicals; the Internet).
• Practice working in a team environment and contribute to the overall effort of their group.
• Understand that family, gender, ethnicity, nationality, institutional affiliations, socioeconomic status, and other group and cultural influences contribute to the shaping of a person's identity.