Missouri's Show Me Standards include performance and content standards. Social studies standards include study of constitutional democracy; state and national history, economic concepts, geography, relationships between individuals and government institutions. (5 CSR 50-375)

Missouri's Framework for Curriculum Development in Social Studies is organized around the Show Me Standards, five academic disciplines/perspectives and four fundamental questions, which relate to governance systems, individual and group interaction, events in this and other places, and the conditions of individuals and society.