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Standard 1.0 Political Science
Topic
A. The Foundations and Function of Government
Indicator
- 1. Explain how rules and laws are made and necessary to maintain order and protect citizens
Objectives
- Explain how school and community rules promote orderliness, fairness, responsibility, privacy, and safety
- Identify leadership positions and organizations in the community and explain how they can be helpful in maintaining safety and order
Indicator
- 2. Explain how democratic skills and attitudes are associated with being a responsible citizen
Objectives
- Use appropriate informational text to develop an understanding of democratic skills and attitudes, such as rights and responsibilities, respect, fairness, honesty, loyalty, and courage
- Connect certain people, symbols, songs and poems to the ideals they represent, such as George Washington portrays leadership, the American flag represents loyalty and respect, and the Star Spangled Banner represents courage and freedom
Topic
B. Individual and Group Participation in the Political System
Indicator
- 1. Explain how contributions and events are important to the American political system
Objectives
- Describe the contributions of local government leaders and current leaders of their school and community, such as county executives, county council or mayor, and city council
- Explain how contributions of people recognized in holidays, such as Memorial Day and Constitution Day, represent democratic beliefs and attitudes, that include rights and responsibilities, loyalty, respect, and courage
Topic
C. Protecting Rights and Maintaining Order
Indicator
- 1. Describe the rights and responsibilities of being a participating member of the school and the community
Objectives
- Recognize and describe how making choices affects self, family, school, and community
- Identify concerns in the community, such as safety issues and pollution problems and ways to resolve these concerns
Standard 2.0 Peoples of the Nation and World
Topic
A. Elements of Culture
Indicator
- 1. Analyze elements of two different cultures and how each meets their human needs and contributes to the community
Objectives
- Use fiction and non-fiction to compare the elements of two different cultures, and how they meet their human needs for food, shelter, and other commonalities such as recreation, music, and stories
- Explain ways people of different ages and/or cultural backgrounds can respect and help to pass on traditions and customs
Topic
B. Cultural Diffusion
Indicator
- 1. Explain that individuals and groups share and borrow from other cultures to form a community
Objectives
- Give examples of how families in the community share and borrow customs and traditions from other cultures
Topic
C. Conflict, Cooperation and Compromise
Indicator
- 1. Analyze ways in which people interact
Objectives
- Identify and demonstrate appropriate social skills necessary for working in a cooperative group, such as sharing concern, care, and respect among group members
- Analyze how different points of view in school situations may result in compromise or conflict.
Standard 3.0 Geography
Topic
A. Using Geographic Tools
Indicator
- 1. Use geographic tools to locate and describe places on Earth
Objectives
- Identify the purpose and use of a globe and a variety of maps and atlases, such as school maps, neighborhood maps and simple atlases
- Identify and use map elements, such as title, compass rose, simple grid system, legend/key, date, and author to interpret a map
- Identify the equator, poles, seven continents, four oceans, and countries on a map and globe
- Describe a place using bird's eye view, and satellite images, photographs, and pictures
Topic
B. Geographic Characteristics of Places and Regions
Indicator
- 1. Classify places and regions in an environment using geographic characteristics
Objectives
- Identify natural/physical features and human-made features using maps and photographs
- Describe and classify regions using climate, vegetation, animal life, and natural/physical features
- Classify places as rural and urban
- Describe how geographic characteristics determine choices, such as climate guides decisions about food, clothing, and shelter
Indicator
Objectives
- Compare types of transportation used to move goods and people today and long ago
- Compare ways people communicate ideas today and long ago
Topic
D. Modifying and Adapting to the Environment
Indicator
- 1. Explain how people modify, protect, and adapt to their environment
Objectives
- Describe ways, such as clearing trees and farming land, that people modify their environment and the impact of those modifications
- Describe how and why people protect or fail to protect the environment
- Explain how people adapt to changes in the environment
Standard 4.0 Economics
Topic
A. Scarcity and Economic Decision-making
Objectives
- Identify and explain economic choices people make
- Identify and give examples of the positive and negative aspects of each choice
- Explain that choices have consequences, some of which are more important than others
Indicator
- 2. Explain the production process
Objectives
- Identify the natural, capital, and human resources used in the production of a good or service
- Identify examples of specialized workers in the school and community, such as nurses, truck drivers, lawyers, and postal workers
Indicator
- 3. Examine how technology affects the way people live, work and play
Objectives
- Identify examples of technology used by consumers, such as automobiles, cameras, telephones, microwaves, televisions, and computers
- Analyze why consumers use technology in their daily lives
Topic
B. Economic Systems and the Role of Government in the Economy
Indicator
- 1. Describe different types of markets
Objectives
- Describe how people meet in market communities around the world, such as farmers' markets and door-to-door sales
Standard 5.0 History
Topic
A. Individuals and Societies Change Over Time
Indicator
- 1. Examine differences between past and present time
Objectives
- Develop a personal timeline in each students' life
- Describe the relationship among events in a variety of timelines
Indicator
- 2. Describe people, places and artifacts of today and long ago
Objectives
- Gather and interpret information about the past from informational sources and biographies
- Collect and examine photographs of the past and compare with similar, current images, such as, photographs of modes of transportation and communication
Standard 6.0 Social Studies Skills and Processes
Topic
A. Learn to Read and Construct Meaning about Social Studies
Indicator
- 1. Develop and apply social studies vocabulary through exposure to a variety of text and portions of text
Objectives
- Acquire new vocabulary through listening to and reading a variety of grade-appropriate print and non-print sources
- Discuss words and word meanings as they are encountered in texts, instruction, and conversation
- Make connections to prior knowledge and new vocabulary by listening, reading, and responding to a variety of texts
Indicator
- 2. Use strategies to prepare for reading (before reading)
Objectives
- Make and explain the connections made using prior knowledge and experiences with the text
- Make predictions or ask questions about the text by examining the title, cover, illustrations/photographs/text, and familiar author or topic
- Set a purpose for reading the text
Indicator
- 3. Use strategies to monitor understanding and derive meaning from text and portions of text (during reading)
Objectives
- Recall and discuss what they understand
- Identify and question what did not make sense
- Reread difficult parts slowly and carefully and use own words to restate difficult parts
- Read on, revisit, and restate the difficult parts in your own words
- Make, confirm, or adjust predictions
- Ask and answer questions about the text
- Periodically summarize while reading
- Visualize what was read
- Look back through the text to search for connection to the topic, characters, events, and actions in text
- Explain personal connections to the topics, events, characters, and actions in texts
Indicator
- 4. Use strategies to demonstrate understanding of the text (after reading)
Objectives
- Review/restate and explain what the text is mainly about
- Identify and explain what is directly stated in the text (details, literal meaning)
- Identify and explain what is not stated in the text (implied or inferential meaning)
- Summarize the text orally
- Confirm, refute, or make predictions to form new ideas
- Connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience
- Engage in conversation to understand what has been read
- Retell explicit and implicit main ideas of texts
- Answer questions (what if, why, and how) in writing
Topic
B. Learn to Write and Communicate Social Studies Understandings
Indicator
- 1. Compose oral, written, and visual presentations that express personal ideas, inform, and persuade
Objectives
- Write to express social studies ideas using a variety of forms, such as journals, narratives, letters, and reports
- Contribute to a shared writing experience about a social studies topic
- Write a variety of responses to text, such as response logs, journals, and constructed responses
Indicator
- 2. Locate, retrieve, and use information from various sources to accomplish a purpose
Objectives
- Identify and use sources of information on a topic
- Use note taking and organizational strategies to record and organize information
Topic
C. Ask Social Studies Questions
Indicator
- 1. Identify a topic that requires further study
Objectives
- Identify prior knowledge about the topic
- Pose questions about the topic
Indicator
- 2. Identify a situation or problem that requires study
Objectives
- Define the problem/situation
- Identify prior knowledge about the problem/situation
- Pose/Ask questions about the problem/situation
Topic
D. Acquire Social Studies Information
Indicator
- 1. Identify primary and secondary sources of information that relate to the topic/situation/problem being studied
Objectives
- Gather and read appropriate print sources, such as journals, textbooks, timelines, and trade books
- Read and obtain information from texts representing diversity in content and culture
- Locate and gather data and information from appropriate non-print sources, such as music, maps, graphs, photographs, and illustrations
Indicator
- 2. Engage in field work that relates to the topic/ situation/ problem being studied
Objectives
- Gather data
- Make and record observations
- Conduct surveys
Topic
E. Organize Social Studies Information
Indicator
- 1. Organize information from non-print sources
Objectives
- Distinguish factual from fictional information
- Find relationships between gathered information
- Display information on various types of graphic organizers and charts
Indicator
- 2. Organize information from print sources
Objectives
- Distinguish factual from fictional information
- Find relationships between gathered information
- Display information on various types of graphic organizers, maps, and charts
Topic
F. Analyze Social Studies Information
Indicator
- 1. Interpret information from secondary sources including pictures, graphics, maps, atlases, and timelines
Objectives
- Compare information from a variety of sources
- Compare information to prior knowledge
- Recognize relationships in and among ideas or events, such as cause and effect, sequential order, main idea, and details
Topic
G. Answer Social Studies Questions
Indicator
- 1. Describe how the community has changed over time and how people have contributed to its change, drawing from maps, photographs, newspapers, and other sources
Objectives
- Present social studies information in a variety ways, such as plays, skits, posters, songs, poems, murals, and oral presentations
- Plan and engage in school and community events, such as a mock election, playground clean-up, writing letters to community officials, and fund-raising for a cause
Date: 6/20/2006
