Standards
Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions
students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
- How can you organize the events in the
history of a community in the order they happened?
- What types of sources are used to
provide information about communities? How can we use them to learn
about communities?
- How do communities choose leaders?
- Who are the people and groups who make, enforce, and apply rules and
laws? Why are rules and laws needed?
- Citizens have rights, roles and responsibilities.
- What does a good citizen do?
- How do people and communities help each other?
Standards and Benchmarks
History 1: Students understand the
chronological organization of history and know how to organize events and
people into major eras to identify and explain historical relationships.
Benchmark B: Students use chronology to organize historical events and
people.
History 2: Students know how to use the processes and resources of
historical inquiry.
Benchmark B: Students know how to interpret and evaluate primary and
secondary sources of historical information.
Civics 1: Students understand the purposes of government, and the basic
constitutional principles of the United States republican form of
government.
Benchmark A: Students understand the purpose of government, and the basic
constitutional principles of the United States republican form of
government.
Civics 4: Students understand how citizens exercise the roles,
rights, and responsibilities of participation in civic life at all levels.
Benchmark A: Students know what citizenship is.
Elementary Social Studies D-11 Indicators, K-5
History
1.Chronological Organization: Organize events and people in history
chronologically (time lines, lists, sequencing).
2.Historical Inquiry: Use primary and secondary sources to ask and answer
questions (who, what, when, why, how) about the past and present, and to
determine cause and effect relationships.
3.Diverse and Changing Societies: Describe cultural similarities,
differences and interactions among various groups in both past and present.
4.Science, Technology, and Economic Activity: Identify and explain changes
in technology (scientific achievements and inventions) and how they changed
history.
5.Political Institutions and Theories: Describe how and why rules and laws
(government) have been made and enforced.
6.Religious and Philosophical Ideas: Identify beliefs of individuals and
groups and their effects on societies.
Geography
1.Use of Geographic Tools: Use tools (maps, globes, photographs, graphs,
charts, and databases) to locate information about places.
2.and 3.Physical Processes/Physical and Human Characteristics of Places and
Regions: Identify and describe human and physical characteristics of places,
and use them to define regions.
4.Patterns of Human Population: Explain why people migrate and settle in
different places.
5.Human and Physical Systems: Describe ways humans change the physical
environment and how the physical environment affects human activity.
6.Apply Knowledge of Geography: Describe how and why places change over
time.
Civics
1.Purpose of Government and US Constitutional Principles: Explain how people
get, use, and misuse power and authority.
2.Structure and Function of Government: Explain how governments are
organized at the local, state, and national levels and the responsibilities
of each.
3.Political Relationships: Describe ways that peoples and nations interact.
4.Citizenship Participation: Explain the rights, roles, and responsibilities
of students as citizens in the classroom, school, community, state, and
nation.
Economics
1.Scarcity and Decision-Making: Identify scarce natural, human, and capital
resources and evaluate decisions about how they are used.
2.Resources and Production of Goods and Services: Explain how, why, and for
whom goods and services are produced.
3.Trade, Exchange, and Economic Interdependence: Identify ways goods and
services are distributed through trade, exchange and interdependence. |
