Virginia SOL GOVT.SKILLS

What students need to be able to do

• Select and synthesize evidence from artifacts, primary and secondary sources, charts, graphs, and diagrams to analyze government and politics.
• Apply geographic skills to determine and predict patterns and trends in government and politics.
• Construct arguments using evidence from multiple sources to analyze government and politics.
• Investigate and analyze evidence from multiple sources to construct arguments and draw conclusions about government and politics.
• Compare and contrast historical, cultural, economic, and political perspectives in government and politics.
• Determine cause and effect to analyze connections in government and politics.
• Use economic decision-making models to analyze incentives and consequences of specific choices in government and politics.
• Engage and communicate as an informed individual with persons holding different perspectives on government and politics.
• Develop products that reflect understanding of research and content to make real-life connections in government and politics.
• Contextualize, corroborate, and evaluate sources for credibility, propaganda, and bias to determine patterns and trends in government and politics.