How to learn Grade 1: Social studies

Indiana academic standards: Social studies, Grade 1

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1. Economics · Students explain how people in the school and community use goods and services and make choices as both producers and consumers.

1. Needs & Wants: The difference between things we need (food, shelter, clothing) and things we want (toys, treats); that we sometimes have to choose because money is limited
2. Goods & Services: Some people make things (goods) and some people do things for others (services); recognising both in everyday life and understanding that both have value

2. Geography · Students identify the basic elements of maps and globes. They identify selected geographic characteristics of their home, school, and neighborhood.

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. Civics and Government · Students explain the meaning of government and why rules and laws are needed in the school and community. They identify individual rights and responsibilities and use a variety

1. Rules and agreements exist: Understand why rules and agreements exist — that they help keep people safe, make things fair, and help groups work well together — and follow agreed rules willingly rather than only when being watched
2. Vocabulary: ethics and citizenship: Know and use the vocabulary of ethics and citizenship — bullying, cyberbullying, bystander, upstander, peer pressure, digital citizenship, rights, responsibility, and ethical — and understand the distinctions between these closely related terms

4. History · Students identify continuity and change in the different communities around them, including school and neighborhood communities, and identify individuals, events, and symbols that are import

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