Idaho Social Studies 4.SS.4.1
The Standard
Identify the people and groups who make, apply, and enforce laws within state, local, and tribal governments how they function, and the relationships between them.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify who makes laws in state, local, and tribal governments. They explain how courts apply laws to cases, officials put laws into practice, and officers enforce them. They show how these groups work together.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a city ordinance, state law, or tribal law, a student can name the lawmakers, a court that might hear a case, and officers who might enforce it. They can explain that tribal governments have their own authority and are not part of state government.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think police make laws or that courts enforce them. They may assume every tribal government has the same structure, or that tribal governments report to state governments.
How to Assess It
- Give students this prompt: A tribal council passes a rule about littering. Who made the rule, who might apply it in a case, and who might enforce it?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards naming a state legislature, city council, tribal council, courts, and police groups; have them sort the cards by government and job.
Read a short case about a tribal council rule; ask who could apply it in court and who could enforce it.
Play a sequencing game with a city ordinance card: students place city council, municipal court, and city police cards in order of their roles.
Show a photo of a city park's 'No Dogs' sign; ask who could write the rule, hear a violation, and enforce it.
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Related Standards
- 2.SS.4.3
Identify the people or groups that make, apply, and enforce rules and laws at home, school, communities, and our state.
- 5.SS.4.1
Identify the people and groups who make, apply, and enforce laws within federal and tribal governments.
- 3.SS.4.2
Identify the people or groups that make, apply, and enforce laws in our local and national communities.
- 3.SS.4.3
Identify and explain the basic functions of local and state governments.
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