Alabama Social Studies SS24.S.9

SS24.S.9 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.S.9a

  Compare and contrast biological family with found or chosen family and develop an argument regarding why a person may select one over the other.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify who provides care and how adults and children share responsibilities in different families. They compare relatives by birth with people someone considers family, then support a claim about whom a person might rely on.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given a household example, a student names the family types that fit and explains the roles of two people without assuming every caregiver is married or related by blood. They use details from a case to explain why someone might rely on birth relatives, chosen family, or both.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may assume every household has two married parents or that a stepparent replaces a birth parent. They may think only blood ties count as family, or that family roles are the same in every home.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: A teen lives with her birth mother, stepfather, and grandmother and calls an unrelated neighbor “aunt.” Name two family types that fit, describe two care roles, and give one reason she might rely on the neighbor.

1. 01

   Give pairs cards showing five fictional households; have them build caregiver maps with yarn and label every family type that fits.

2. 02

   Write a claim: Sam’s aunt lives far away, but his neighbor picks him up daily; whom might Sam ask for help, and why?

3. 03

   Play scenario bingo: read household cards aloud, and have students mark every fitting family type, then explain one person’s role.

4. 04

   Show a school emergency contact form; ask students to revise one field so a student can list an unrelated caregiver.

• SS24.HG.8

  Compare and contrast the roles of men and women in societies around the world, including matrilineal and patrilineal societies.

• SS24.USG.5d

  Compare and contrast the structures of the federal bureaucracy, including cabinet departments, independent regulatory commissions, government corporations, and ...

• SS24.CWI.5a

  Explain the structure and roles of the United Nations and its specialized agencies and programs.