Objectives Overviews First Grade: Social Studies

Your first grade student will reflect on the ideals, principles, and practices of a citizenship in a democratic republic by:

Your first grade student will analyze culture and cultural diversity by:

Recognizing the roles of family members and other important people
Comparing various types of shelter, food, and clothing
Comparing and contrasting roles, customs, and activities of families
Using personal examples to identify shelter, food, and clothing, in addition to the need to belong to a group of some kind

Your first grade student will interpret the way human beings view themselves in and over time by:

Your first grade student will assess materials to study space and place by:

Using a map to locate and describe familiar places in home, classroom, school, and community
Identifying directions
Distinguishing between land and water masses on a globe
Explaining patterns of movement
Identifying different types of transportation for different communities depending on their location
Recognizing services in his own community
Identifying and locating places that provide these services

Your first grade student will recognize individual development and identity by:

Your first grade student will relate individuals, groups, and institutions to one another by:

Describing how a community depends upon its helpers
Participating on walks and trips to places in the community, and relating his own experiences

Your first grade student will examine the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services by:

Discussing the importance of sharing resources
Describing the concept of earning, saving, and spending
Describing how we depend upon workers with money specialized skills, and how this results in the exchange of goods and services

Your first grade student will analyze how people create and change structures of power, authority, and governance, so that the learner can:

Your first grade student will examine how science and technology are applied in society by:

Listing examples of pollution
Describing how our physical environment influences a family’s ability to obtain the required food, clothing, and shelter
Relating how the technological advances of communication and transportation affect society
Interpreting information from pictures, graphics, media

Your first grade student will determine global connections and interdependence by: