First Grade Social Studies Essential Learning Goals
First Grade Social Studies Essential Learning Goals Geography Skills: 1. Read maps. 2. Use a compass rose to identify cardinal directions. 3. Locate a place by pointing it out on a map and by describing its relative location (description of a location by explaining where the place is in relation to one or more other places). 4. Construct maps, graphs, and other representations of familiar places. 5. Use maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations to describe places and the relationships and interactions that shape them. 6. Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places. 7. Explain how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people’s lives in a places or regions. 8. Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.
Culture Skills:
1. Human beings create, learn, share, and adapt to culture. 2. Cultures are dynamic and change over time. 3. Through experience, observation, and reflection, students will identify elements of culture as well as similarities and differences among cultural groups across time and place.
4. Learners interact with class members and discover culturally-based likenesses and differences. They begin to identify the cultural basis for some celebrations and ways of life in their community and in examples from across the world. 5. Studying the past makes it possible for us to understand the human story across time. 6. Locate themselves in time and space. They gain experience with sequencing to establish a sense of order and time, and begin to understand the historical concepts that give meaning to the events that they study. 7. Explain how people have common physical, social and emotional needs.
Economics Skills: 1. Identify examples of private goods and services. 2. Distinguish between wants and needs. 3. Explore economic decision making to compare differences between economic experiences with those of others and consider the wider consequences of those decisions on groups, communities, and the nation and beyond. 4. Explain how people earn income. 5. Explain why people save.
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First Grade Social Studies Essential Learning Goals Government Skills:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Examine how individual rights are protected. Propose peaceful resolutions of disputes in the classroom and on the playground. Describe how authoritative decisions are made, enforced and interpreted within schools. Explain what it means to make, enforce, carry out and interpret rules (i.e., explain what rules mean in specific cases). Students will explore their natural and developing sense of fairness and order as they experience relationships with others. They will develop an increasingly comprehensive awareness of rights and responsibilities in specific contexts. Explain how laws and rules are made and changed to promote the common good. List the rights and responsibilities of citizens. Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community.
History Skills:
1. Recognize and explain the significance of national symbols such as the Statue of Liberty and our nation’s capital.
2. Describe the contributions of famous Americans such as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
3. Create a chronological sequence of multiple events. 4. Compare life in the past to life today. 5. Compare perspectives of people in the past to those of people in the present.
Global Connections Skills: 1. Through exposure to various media and first-hand experiences students will become aware of how things that happen in one part of the world impact other parts of the world. Within this context, students will examine and explore various types of global connections as well as basic issues and concerns.
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Culture Skills:
1. Human beings create, learn, share, and adapt to culture. 2. Cultures are dynamic and change over time. 3. Through experience, observation, and reflection, students will identify elements of culture as well as similarities and differences among cultural groups across time and place.
4. Learners interact with class members and discover culturally-based likenesses and differences. They begin to identify the cultural basis for some celebrations and ways of life in their community and in examples from across the world. 5. Studying the past makes it possible for us to understand the human story across time. 6. Locate themselves in time and space. They gain experience with sequencing to establish a sense of order and time, and begin to understand the historical concepts that give meaning to the events that they study. 7. Explain how people have common physical, social and emotional needs.
Economics Skills: 1. Identify examples of private goods and services. 2. Distinguish between wants and needs. 3. Explore economic decision making to compare differences between economic experiences with those of others and consider the wider consequences of those decisions on groups, communities, and the nation and beyond. 4. Explain how people earn income. 5. Explain why people save.
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First Grade Social Studies Essential Learning Goals Government Skills:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Examine how individual rights are protected. Propose peaceful resolutions of disputes in the classroom and on the playground. Describe how authoritative decisions are made, enforced and interpreted within schools. Explain what it means to make, enforce, carry out and interpret rules (i.e., explain what rules mean in specific cases). Students will explore their natural and developing sense of fairness and order as they experience relationships with others. They will develop an increasingly comprehensive awareness of rights and responsibilities in specific contexts. Explain how laws and rules are made and changed to promote the common good. List the rights and responsibilities of citizens. Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community.
History Skills:
1. Recognize and explain the significance of national symbols such as the Statue of Liberty and our nation’s capital.
2. Describe the contributions of famous Americans such as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
3. Create a chronological sequence of multiple events. 4. Compare life in the past to life today. 5. Compare perspectives of people in the past to those of people in the present.
Global Connections Skills: 1. Through exposure to various media and first-hand experiences students will become aware of how things that happen in one part of the world impact other parts of the world. Within this context, students will examine and explore various types of global connections as well as basic issues and concerns.
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