How to learn Kindergarten: Social studies

Maine academic standards: Social studies, Kindergarten

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1. History · Students draw on concepts and processes using primary and secondary sources from history to develop historical perspective and understand issues of continuity and change in the community, Ma

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

2. Personal Finance & Economics · Students draw from concepts and processes in personal finance to understand issues of money management, saving, investing, credit, and debt; students draw from concepts

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

3. Civics & Government · Students draw on concepts from civics and government to understand political systems, power, authority, governance, civic ideals and practices, and the role of citizens in the co

1. 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
2. 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