This framework is designed to help Idaho schools develop a social studies curriculum and to formulate realistic goals for themselves and their students. The guide is correlated to Idaho's performance-based documents and the state-approved social studies textbooks. The framework is built around the 10 themes for social studies developed by the National Council for the Social Studies. The sections of the book include: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Questions and Answers on Performance Based Education"; (3) "Curricular Alignment"; (4) "Curricular Frameworks"; (5) "Elementary Grades (K-4)"; (6) "Idaho 4th Grade Benchmarks"; (7) "Middle Grades"; (8) "Idaho 8th Grade Benchmarks"; (10) "Secondary (9-12) Grades"; (11) "Secondary Exit Performance Standards"; and (12) "Bibliography." (EH)