How to learn Kindergarten: Social studies

Indiana academic standards: Social studies, Kindergarten

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1. Economics · Students explain that people do different jobs and work to meet basic economic wants.

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. Geography · Students understand that maps and globes are different representations of the Earth's surface and begin to explore the physical and human geographic characteristics of their school, neighb

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 learn they are citizens of their school, community, and the United States and identify symbols of the nation. They learn the importance of being a responsible citizen

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

4. History · Students examine the connections of their own environment with the past. They begin to distinguish between events and people of the past and the present and use a sense of time in classroom

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. Understanding People in Their Own Time: Understand that people in the past saw the world very differently from us — judge their actions by the context they lived in, not only by today's values

5. Economics

1. Buying Things: How buying and selling works: prices, paying for items, receiving change; the basic transaction process in shops and markets