GRADE 1 SOCIAL STUDIES

HISTORY

Living and Working Together in Families and Schools

Use historical thinking to understand the past

Students Will:

Demonstrate chronological thinking by distinguishing among past, present, and future using family or school events.

Use a calendar to distinguish among days, weeks, and months.

Investigate a family history for at least two generations, indentifying various members and their connections in order to tell a narrative about family life.

Retell in sequence important ideas and details from stories about families or schools.

Use historical records and artifacts (photos, diaries, oral histories, and videos) to draw possible conclusions about family or school life in the past.

Compare life of today with the life in the past using the criteria of family, school, jobs, or communication.

Identify the events or people celebrated during United States national holidays and why we celebrate them.

GEOGRAPHY

The World in Spatial Terms

Use geographic representations to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective

Students Will:

Construct simple maps of the classroom to demonstrate aerial space

Give examples of places that have absolute locations (home address, school address)

Use personal directions (left, right, front, back) to describe the relative location of significant places in the school environment

Distinguish between landmasses and bodies of water using maps and globes

Places and Regions

Understand how regions are created from common physical and human characteristics

Students Will:

Distinguish between physical (clouds, trees, weather) and human (buildings, playgrounds, sidewalks) characteristics of places.

Describe the unifying characteristics and/or boundaries of different school regions (playground, reading corner, library, etc.).

Human Systems

Understand how human activities help shape the Earth’s surface

Students Will:

Use components of culture (foods, language, religion, traditions) to describe diversity in family life.

Environment and Society

Understands the effects of human-environment interactions

Students Will:

Describe ways in which people modify (cutting down trees, building roads) and adapt to the environment (clothing, housing, transportation).

CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT

Purposes of Government

Explain why people create governments

Students Will:

Identify some reasons for rules in school (provide order, predictability, and safety).

Give examples of the use of power with authority in school (principal, teacher, or bus driver enforcing rules).

Give examples of the use of power without authority in school (types of bullying, taking cuts in line).

Values and Principles of American Government

Understand the values and principles of American constitutional democracy

Students Will:

Explain how decisions can be made or how conflicts might be resolved in fair and just ways (majority rules).

Identify important symbols of the United States of America (Statue of Liberty, Uncle Sam, White House, Bald Eagle).

Roles of the Citizen in American Democracy

Students Will:

Describe some responsibilities people have at home and at school (taking care of oneself, respect for the rights of others, following rules, getting along with others).

Identify situations in which people act as good citizens in the school community (thoughtful and effective participation in the school decisions, respect for the rights of others, respect for rule of law, voting, volunteering, compassion, courage, honesty).

ECONOMICS

Market Economy

Students Will:

Distinguish between producers and consumers of goods and services.

Describe ways in which families consume goods and services.

Explain why people cannot have everything they want (scarcity) and describe how people respond (choice) using examples.

Describe reasons why people voluntarily trade.

Describe ways in which people earn money (providing goods and services to others, jobs).

Describe how money simplifies trade.

PUBLIC DISCLOSURE, DECISION MAKING, AND CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT

Identifying and Analyzing Public Issues

Students Will:

Identify public issues in the school community

Use graphic data to analyze information about a public issue in the
school community

Identify alternative resolutions to a public issue in the school
community

Identifying and Analyzing Public Issues

Students Will:

Express a position on a public policy issue in the school community and justify the position with a reasoned argument.

Citizen Involvement

Students Will:

Develop and implement an action plan to address or inform others about a public issue