GR+1+Social+Studies


 * IOWA **** CORE CURRICULUM – SOCIAL SCIENCES **
 * 1ST GRADE **
 * BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

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 * ** Essential Concept and Skill ** || ** Standard ** || ** Aligned Benchmarks ** || ** What Taught ** || ** When Taught ** ||
 * BS1. Understand the changing nature of society ||  ||   || Unit 1-BS3

Unit 1 ||  ||
 * BS2. Understand all people have individual traits ||  ||   ||^   ||   ||
 * BS3. Understand interactions between self and the peer group || 4-Understands various meaning of social groups, the implications of group membership and different ways that groups function, including conflict, cooperation and interdependence.

6-Understand how the government established by the Constitution embodies the purposes, values and principles of American democracy. || 4.2-Understand the ways people solve problems by cooperating and listening

4.3-Understand they are accountable and responsible for their negative/positive actions

6.2-Recognize problems people face in getting along and determine ways to solve those problems. ||^  || ongoing all year Focus is during 1st Quarter ||
 * BS4. Understand the relationship of the individual to the components of society and culture. || 1-Understand concepts of location, place, human/environmental interaction, movement and region.

2-Understand the relationships among personal economic choices, broader (macroeconomic) events, and governmental systems. || 1.1-Understand neighborhoods are places in a community.

1.3 & 6.1-Recognize people in a community help others and make differences in their lives.

1.4-Recognize people live in different kinds of communities. ||^  || 1st Quarter ||
 * BS4. Understand the relationship of the individual to the components of society and culture continued: || 3-Understand the individual, group and cultural influences that contribute to human development, identity and behavior.

4-Understands various meanings of social groups, the implications of group membership and different ways that groups function, including conflict, cooperation and interdependence.

6-Knows the roles of the citizen in American democracy. || 4.1-Give examples of citizenship, politeness, achievement, courage, honesty and reliability.

6.4-Recognize that people can help each other and understand that helping others helps the community. || BS4 Unit 1 Rules and Laws || 1st Quarter ongoing also included in guidance lessons ||


 * ECONOMICS – 1ST GRADE **
 * ** Essential Concept and Skill ** || ** Standard ** || ** Aligned Benchmarks ** || ** What Taught ** || ** When Taught ** ||
 * E1. Understand the role of scarcity and economic trade-offs and how economic conditions impact people’s lives || 2-Understand the relationships among personal economic choices, broader (macroeconomic) events, and governmental systems. || 2.5-Recognize that individuals and groups make economic choices among alternatives || E1- Goods and Services

E2 - Math series also..talk about money.

E5. also teach with science

E6 - Buying and selling, trades, ect.. || E1 - Unit 6 ||
 * E2. Understand that the basic nature of economics is an exchange of resources. || 2-Understand the relationships among personal economic choices, broader (macroeconomic) events, and governmental systems. || 2.2-Identify the values of coins and bills. ||^  || E2 - Unit 6 ||
 * E3. Understand how governments throughout the world influence economic behavior ||   ||   ||^   ||   ||
 * E4. Understand people in all parts of the world trade with one another ||   ||   ||^   || E4 - Unit 6 ||
 * E5. Understand that changes in technology impact individuals and society. || 9-Understand the development of scientific/technological innovations and their impact on society, government, and economics throughout the world. || 9.1-Understand that famous inventors impacted our society by developing innovations that makes our way of life easier and safer. ||^  || E5 - Unit 4 ||
 * E6. Understand the universal economic concept of needs and wants. || 2-Understand the relationships among personal economic choices, broader (macroeconomic) events, and governmental systems. || 2.1-Understand the difference between needs and wants. ||^  || E6 - Unit 5 ||
 * GEOGRAPHY – 1ST GRADE **
 * ** Essential Concept and Skill ** || ** Standard ** || ** Aligned Benchmarks ** || ** What Taught ** || ** When Taught ** ||
 * G1. Understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and environments. || 1-Understand concepts of location, place, human/environmental interaction, movement and region.

|| 1.2-Analyze parts of an address

1.5-Know maps are drawings, use map key and cardinal directions, locate things on maps using directions

1.6-Understand the United Sta tes and other countries are part of the Earth || G1-- U1 L2 U2 L1, L3

G2- U2 L2 L3

G3 U2 L1-4

G4 U2 L4-5 || Q1 Q4 ||
 * G2. Understand how geographic and human characteristics create culture and define regions. || 1-Understand concepts of location, place, human/environmental interaction, movement and region. || 1.7-Recognize distinctive land and water features on a map ||^  || Q4 ||
 * G3. Understand how human factors and the distribution of resources affect the development of communities and the movement of populations. || 1-Understand concepts of location, place, human/environmental interaction, movement and region.

10-Understand the causes, nature, and effects of various movements of large groups of people into and within the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa now and long ago. || 1.8-Understand the concept of natural resources

10.3-Understand that ancestors of Americans came from places such as Europe, Asia and Africa

10.4-Understand that people from other countries are still coming to the United States to live today ||^  || Q4 ||
 * G4. Understand how geographic processes and human actions modify the environment and how the environment affects humans. || 1-Understand concepts of location, place, human/environmental interaction, movement and region.

6-Know the roles of the citizen in American democracy. || 6.3-Recognize that people can work together to make a difference in the environment ||^  || Q4 ||
 * HISTORY – 1ST GRADE **
 * ** Essential Concept and Skill ** || ** Standard ** || ** Aligned Benchmarks ** || ** What Taught ** || ** When Taught ** ||
 * H1. Understand people construct knowledge of the past from multiple and various types of sources || 11-Know and understand selected attributes and historical development of societies in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe || 11.1-After reading or listening to folktales, legends and stories from the Americas from around the world, describe the main characters and their distinctive traits

11.2-After reading or listening to stories about famous Americans of different ethnic groups, religions or historical periods, describe their qualities and distinctive traits || H1.1. Rosa Parks H1.2.Pilgrims/Native Americans H1.3.Holidays Around World H1.4.Martin Luther King Jr. H1.5.Presidents

H1 12-1. School rules, voting, government leaders

H3-1 Immigration and customs

H3-2. Expressing culture and religion

H3-3. Unit 5

H3-4. & H3-5. Why people celebrate holidays

H3.6 Customs || H1.1.Sep/Unit 1 H1.2.Nov/Unit 3 & Unit 5 H1.3.Dec

H1.4.Jan/Unit 3

H1.5.Feb/Unit 3 ||
 * H2. Understand how and why people create and participate in governance ||   ||   ||^   || H1 12-1 Unit 1 ||
 * H3. Understand how cultures and cultural diffusion affects the development and maintenance of societies || 3-Understand the individual, group and cultural influences that contribute to human development, identity and behavior.

7-Understand the evolution of thought and how it has impacted the religion, politics, philosophy, art, history and culture of societies throughout the world || 3.2-Understand that ancestors of Americans come from places such as Europe, Asia, and Africa

3.3-Undertand that Americans have a variety of different religions, community and family celebrations and customs held by members of the class and their families.

3.4-Know that language, customs and different forms of shelter are components of culture

7.1-Understand why people celebrate holidays

7.3-Understand Independence Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving Day, Martin Luther King Day as holidays

7.5-Understand Americans have a variety of different religious, community and family celebrations and customs ||^  || H3-1 Unit 5

H3-2 Unit 5

H3-3 Unit 5

H3- 4 Unit 3 and Unit 5

H3-5 Unit 5 ||
 * H4. Understand individuals and groups within a society may promote change or the status quo ||  ||   ||^   ||   ||
 * H5-Understand economic needs and wants affect individual and group decisions ||  ||   ||^   || H5 - Unit 6 ||
 * H6. Understand the relationship between geography and historical events continued- || 8-Understand global patterns of nationalism, territorial expansion, social reform and conflict.

10-Understand the causes, nature, and effects of various movements of large groups of people into and within the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa now and long ago. || 8.1-Introduced to these concepts: area that is now the United States was first populated by North Americans; pilgrim settlement; United States settled by immigrants from east to west

10.1-Identify North Americans as the 1st Americans

10.2-Know who early settlers were and that pilgrims were settlers who came to North America || H7-1. Comparing people from the past. || H6-1. Unit 3 and Unit 5 ||
 * H7-Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues || 3-Understand the individual, group and cultural influences that contribute to human development, identity and behavior.

9-Understand the development of scientific/technological innovations and their impact on society, government, and economics throughout the world.

12-Understand and analyze chronological relationships, historical patterns, historical perspectives and tools for historical research. || 3.1-Understand that both people and countries have a past

9.2-Compare and contrast the lives of families that lives in 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries

12.1-Read dates o a calendar

12.2-Place events in their own life in chronological order

12.4-Identify temporal sequences such as days, weeks, months, years, and season

12.5-Use correct terminology and phrases that relate to time and recognize the existences of changing historical periods

||^  || H7-1.Unit 4 ||
 * POLITICAL SCIENCE/CIVIC LITERACY – 1ST GRADE **
 * ** Essential Concept and Skill ** || ** Standard ** || ** Aligned Benchmarks ** || ** What Taught ** || ** When Taught ** ||
 * PS1. Understand the basic concepts of government and democracy and that the United States Constitution defines the rights and responsibilities of citizens || 5-Understand how the government established by the Constitution embodies the purposes, values and principles of American democracy

6-Know the roles of the citizen in American democracy.

7-Understand the evolution of thought and how it has impacted the religion, politics, philosophy, art, history and cultures of societies throughout the world || 5.1-Identify current United States president, describe what presidents do and explain their authority comes from a vote by the people

7.2-Understand why President’s Day is celebrated

7.4-Know symbols that stand for the United States including Pledge of Allegiance, flag, colors (red, white, blue), bald eagle, White House, Statue of Liberty || PS1 U2 L2-5

PS2 U1 L2-5 || Q1 ||
 * PS2. Understand how government affects citizens and how citizens affect government. || 5-Understand how the government established by the Constitution embodies the purposes, values and principles of American democracy

6-Know the roles of the citizen in American democracy. || 5.2-Understand the meaning of rules and laws, who makes and enforces them, and that they are made for our safety ||^  || Q2 ||
 * PS3. Understand the United States has a role in current world affairs ||   ||   ||^   ||   ||