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section contains social studies topics which a child 6 years of age might learn
while attending kindergarten at elementary school in the United States.
Curriculum is based on state and national content standards. |
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Learning and
Working Now and Long Ago - Students in
kindergarten are introduced to basic spatial, temporal,
and causal relationships, emphasizing the geographic and
historical connections between the world today and the
world long ago. The stories of ordinary and
extraordinary people help describe the range and
continuity of human experience and introduce the
concepts of courage, self-control, justice, heroism,
leadership, deliberation, and individual responsibility.
Historical empathy for how people lived and worked long
ago reinforces the concept of civic behavior: how we
interact respectfully with each other, following rules,
and respecting the rights of others. |
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Curriculum -
Kindergarten Social Studies |
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Geography
- Students compare and contrast locations of people, places, and environments and
describe their characteristics.
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Compare and contrast locations of people, places, environments
- Determine relative locations of
objects using the terms near/far, left/right, and
behind/in front.
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Determine relative locations of objects
- Distinguish between land and water
on maps and globes and locate general areas referenced
in historical legends and stories.
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Distinguish between land and water on maps and globes
- Identify traffic symbols and map
symbols (e.g., those for land, water, roads, cities).
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Identify traffic symbols and map symbols
- Construct maps and models of
neighborhoods, incorporating such structures as police
and fire stations, airports, banks, hospitals,
supermarkets, harbors, schools, homes, places of
worship, and transportation lines.
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Construct maps and models of neighborhoods
- Demonstrate familiarity with a
school layout, environs, and the jobs people do there.
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Demonstrate familiarity with a school
- Match simple descriptions
of work people do and names of related jobs at
the school, in the local community, and from historical
accounts.
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Match simple descriptions of work people do and names related jobs
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History
- Know way people lived in
earlier times and way their lives would be different
today (e.g., getting water from a well, growing food,
making clothing, having fun, forming organizations,
living by rules and laws).
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Know way people lived in earlier times
- Learn examples of honesty, courage,
determination, individual responsibility, and patriotism
in American and world history from stories and folklore.
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Learn examples in American, world history from stories and folklore
- Know beliefs and related behaviors
of characters in stories from times past and understand
the consequences of the characters' actions.
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Know beliefs and related behaviors of characters in stories
- Put events in temporal
order using a calendar, placing days, weeks, and months
in proper order.
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Put events in temporal order using a calendar
- Know history
relates to events, people, and places of other times.
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Know history relates to events, people, and places of other times
- Identify purposes of, people and events honored in, commemorative holidays,
including the human struggles that were the basis for
the events (e.g., Thanksgiving, Independence Day,
Washington's and Lincoln's Birthdays, Martin Luther King
Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans
Day).
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Identify purposes of people and events honored in holidays
- Know triumphs in American
legends and historical accounts through the stories of
such people as Pocahontas, George Washington, Booker T.
Washington, Daniel Boone, and Benjamin Franklin.
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Know triumphs in American legends and historical accounts
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Government
- Know being a
good citizen involves acting in certain ways.
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Know being a good citizen involves acting in certain ways
- Follow rules, such as sharing and
taking turns, and know the consequences of breaking
them.
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Follow rules and know the consequences of breaking them
- Recognize national and
state symbols and icons such as the national and state
flags, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty.
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Recognize national and state symbols and icons
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