Idaho Social Studies 5.SS.4.1
The Standard
Identify the people and groups who make, apply, and enforce laws within federal and tribal governments.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify who makes, applies, and enforces laws in federal and tribal governments. They explain that tribal nations have their own governments and that their structures can differ.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name Congress as the federal lawmaking body, federal courts as places where laws are applied to cases, and federal agencies as law enforcers. They can give comparable examples for a tribal nation, such as a council, court, and police department, while noting that titles vary.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think state governments make laws for tribal nations or that every tribal government uses the same titles. They may also confuse courts, which apply laws to cases, with police, who enforce laws.
How to Assess It
- Give students a two-row chart labeled federal and tribal, with columns for make, apply, and enforce laws. Ask them to fill each box with a person or group and explain one choice.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have students sort six paper role cards, including Congress, federal courts, and tribal police, by government and job.
Ask students to write who would make, apply, and enforce a rule passed by a tribal council.
Play six rounds of “Who does it?” using scenarios such as Congress passing a law and tribal police responding to a violation.
Compare a printed Congress.gov page with a tribal council page from a tribal nation's website, and circle each lawmaking body.
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