How to learn Grade 1: Social studies

Colorado academic standards: Social studies, Grade 1

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1. First Grade · Plan how to spend, share, and save money.

1. What Money Is: What money is and why we use it; that money is exchanged for goods and services; brief history from barter to coins to digital payments
2. Coins & Notes: Recognising common coins and notes, knowing their values, and understanding that different combinations can make the same amount
3. Looking After Money: Keeping money safe; not losing coins or notes; understanding that money has real value and should be treated carefully; basic money responsibility

2. First Grade · Identify and explain how the significance of notable people, places, holidays, and civic symbols reflect the origins and values of the government and its citizens.

1. Similarities & Differences: Notice and appreciate ways that people are similar to and different from each other — including appearance, family structures, languages spoken, foods eaten, and celebrations observed — and understand that differences make communities interesting

3. First Grade · Summarize how effective groups have responsible leaders and team members.

1. Working Well in a Group: Work effectively as part of a small group — contributing their own ideas, listening to others' ideas, taking on a fair share of the work, and supporting the group to reach a shared goal
2. Roles in a Group: Understand different roles people play in groups — leader, supporter, mediator, idea-generator — and recognise that effective groups need a mix of roles, not everyone trying to be the leader

4. First Grade · Understand that individuals work in different types of jobs to earn an income.

1. Jobs People Do: Different kinds of work people do; that people earn money by working; how jobs help the community; linking personal interests to possible jobs
2. Earning Money: Ways that children and adults earn money; the connection between work, skills and pay; that harder or more skilled work often pays more

5. First Grade · Explain how the diverse perspectives and traditions of families from many cultures have shaped the United States.

1. The world contains many cultures, traditions: Understand that the world contains many cultures, traditions, and belief systems, and that learning about others' perspectives enriches our own understanding — developing genuine curiosity about and respect for cultural diversity

6. First Grade · Ask questions and discuss ideas about patterns and chronological order of events from the past.

1. Vocabulary: historical thinking: Know and use the vocabulary of historical thinking — source, evidence, primary source, secondary source, artefact, chronology, chronological order, BC/BCE, AD/CE, century, decade, era, period, timeline, excavation, archaeologist, interpretation, corroborate, bias, perspective — and apply these terms when discussing how we know about the past and how reliable our knowledge is
2. Evidence from the Past: Understand that everything we know about the past comes from evidence — objects, buildings, pictures, documents, and stories that have survived