HISTORY-SOCIAL SCIENCE

 
Standard K.1

Students demonstrate an understanding that being a good citizeninvolves 
acting in certain ways
 

 
Skills:

 
1. Recite examples of rules, such as sharing and taking turns, 
and the consequences of breaking them.

 
2. List examples of honesty, courage, determination, individual 
responsibility, and patriotism in American and world history, in
stories and folklore.

 
3. Identify the beliefs and related behavior of characters in
stories from times past, and the consequences of their actions

 
Standard K.2 

Students recognize national and state symbols and icons such as the 
national and state flags, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty.

 
Standard K.3

Students match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names 
of those jobs with examples from the school, local community and historical 
accounts 
 

 
Skills:

 
1. Identify characteristics of the people being studied.

 
2. Differentiate between types of work performed by school,
community, and historical characters.

 
3. Recognize that it takes many varied jobs for a community 
to operate.

 
4. Appreciate that many different jobs make a successful
community.

 
Standard K. 4 

Students compare and contrast the locations of people, places, and
environments and describe the human and physical characteristics 
 

 
Skills:

 
1. Determine the relative location of objects using near/far,
left/right, behind/in front .

 
2. Distinguish between land and water and locating general areas
referenced in historically-based legends and stories on maps and globes.

 
3. Identify traffic symbols and map symbols.

 
4. Construct maps and models of neighborhoods, incorporating
such structures as police and fire stations, airports, banks, hospitals, supermarkets, harbors, schools, homes, places of worship, and
transportation lines

 
5. Demonstrate familiarity with the school's layout environs and the jobs people do there.

 
Standard K.5 

Students put events in temporal order by using a calendar, placing days, weeks, and months in proper order.

 
Standard K.6

Students understand that history relates to events, people, and places of other times, in terms of:

 
1. The purposes of, and the people and events honored in,commemorative holidays, including the human struggles that were behind the events (e.g., Thanksgiving, Independence Day, Washington'sand Lincoln's Birthdays, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, and Veterans Day) 

 
2. The triumphs in American legends and historical accounts through the stories of such people as Pocahontas, George Washington, Booker T. Washington, Daniel Boone, and Benjamin Franklin.

 
3. The different ways people lived in earlier days and how their lives would be different today (e.g., the process of getting water from a well, growing food, making clothing, having fun, the type of organizations, rules and laws)