(1) A fourth grade student at the nearing proficiency level demonstrates a partial mastery of prerequisite knowledge and skills fundamental for proficiency in social studies. He/she:

(a) recognizes and follows some of the steps of an inquiry process to locate and use information in decision making, but has difficulty evaluating the quality of the information;

(b) identifies, with assistance, the purpose and some of the levels of government in our lives;

(c) practices, with assistance, citizenship rights and responsibilities across various communities;

(d) sometimes applies geographic knowledge to other subject areas and relates obvious geographic knowledge to the world around him/her;

(e) locates and sometimes uses basic information of historical events to explain obvious connections between past and present;

(f) sometimes identifies basic economic principles, but incompletely describes their obvious effects on individuals and communities; and

(g) sometimes recognizes but has difficulty explaining how culture influences and diversity contributes to human development, identity, and behavior.