Social Studies Academic Standards (adopted in 2022): Kindergarten
Skills available for Arkansas kindergarten social studies standards
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Civics
C.1 Students will understand the impact of origins, structures, and functions of institutions and laws on society and citizens. This includes personal civic rights, roles, responsibilities, and processes by which laws are made and amended.
Civic and Political Institutions
Civic and Political Institutions
C.1.K.1: Identify the purpose of classroom or school rules in establishing communities and ways of living and working together.
C.1.K.1: Identify the purpose of classroom or school rules in establishing communities and ways of living and working together.
C.1.K.2: Identify the characteristics and responsibilities of a leader.
C.1.K.2: Identify the characteristics and responsibilities of a leader.
Participation and Deliberation
Participation and Deliberation
C.1.K.3: Recognize state and national symbols and patriotic songs: American flag, Star Spangled Banner, recitation of Pledge of Allegiance, Arkansas flag, apple blossom, honey bee, mockingbird, and pine tree.
C.1.K.3: Recognize state and national symbols and patriotic songs: American flag, Star Spangled Banner, recitation of Pledge of Allegiance, Arkansas flag, apple blossom, honey bee, mockingbird, and pine tree.
C.1.K.4: Demonstrate responsibilities of being a good citizen at school.
C.1.K.4: Demonstrate responsibilities of being a good citizen at school.
C.1.K.5: Follow agreed-upon rules for listening and having a discussion in the classroom.
C.1.K.5: Follow agreed-upon rules for listening and having a discussion in the classroom.
Process, Rules, and Laws
Process, Rules, and Laws
C.1.K.6: Discuss the need for rules.
C.1.K.6: Discuss the need for rules.
C.1.K.7: Discuss ways people improve communities which may include: being a good neighbor, volunteering/helping, recycling, and donating personal items/toys.
C.1.K.7: Discuss ways people improve communities which may include: being a good neighbor, volunteering/helping, recycling, and donating personal items/toys.
C.1.K.8: Discuss the importance of problem solving related to classroom issues.
C.1.K.8: Discuss the importance of problem solving related to classroom issues.
Economics
E.1 Students will understand the impact of economic decision-making. This includes the exchange of goods and services; role of producers, consumers, and government in the marketplace; and growth, stability, and interdependence within a global economy.
Economic Decision-Making
Economic Decision-Making
E.1.K.1: Discuss needs and wants and how they are restricted by limited resources.
E.1.K.1: Discuss needs and wants and how they are restricted by limited resources.
E.1.K.2: State the reasons behind making a personal decision.
E.1.K.2: State the reasons behind making a personal decision.
Exchange and Markets
Exchange and Markets
E.1.K.3: Identify ways people create goods and services.
E.1.K.3: Identify ways people create goods and services.
E.1.K.4: Discuss ways human, natural, and capital resources are used in the production of goods and services.
E.1.K.4: Discuss ways human, natural, and capital resources are used in the production of goods and services.
E.1.K.5: Identify ways people buy and sell goods (i.e., markets).
E.1.K.5: Identify ways people buy and sell goods (i.e., markets).
Growth and Stability
Growth and Stability
E.1.K.6: Recognize that consumers use money as a medium of exchange to satisfy economic wants and needs.
E.1.K.6: Recognize that consumers use money as a medium of exchange to satisfy economic wants and needs.
E.1.K.7: Identify the reasons for and places where people save money (e.g., piggy banks, wallets, banks).
E.1.K.7: Identify the reasons for and places where people save money (e.g., piggy banks, wallets, banks).
E.1.K.8: Discuss examples of goods and services.
E.1.K.8: Discuss examples of goods and services.
Global Economy
Global Economy
E.1.K.9: Identify common products that come from other countries.
E.1.K.9: Identify common products that come from other countries.
E.1.K.10: Identify where products used in daily life are produced.
E.1.K.10: Identify where products used in daily life are produced.
Geography
G.1 Students will understand the purpose of geographic tools (e.g., maps, globes, charts, graphs) to understand, analyze, and explain human interaction with each other and with the environment. This includes the spatial characteristics and patterns of human settlement and connections between global regions.
Geographic Representations
Geographic Representations
G.1.K.1: Describe familiar places using words that communicate location (e.g., beside, past, before), direction (e.g., right/left), and distance (e.g., long/short).
G.1.K.1: Describe familiar places using words that communicate location (e.g., beside, past, before), direction (e.g., right/left), and distance (e.g., long/short).
G.1.K.2: Identify and describe the physical characteristics of a place such as rivers, mountains, and forests using maps, globes, and photographs.
G.1.K.2: Identify and describe the physical characteristics of a place such as rivers, mountains, and forests using maps, globes, and photographs.
G.1.K.3: Create maps of familiar places such as the school, playground, or neighborhood.
Map features
G.1.K.3: Create maps of familiar places such as the school, playground, or neighborhood.
Map features
Human-Environment Interaction
Human-Environment Interaction
G.1.K.4: Describe ways humans have impacted the environment: planting trees, reducing waste, littering, polluting.
Identify human features
G.1.K.4: Describe ways humans have impacted the environment: planting trees, reducing waste, littering, polluting.
Identify human features
G.1.K.5: Discuss cultural characteristics among families and in the community such as art, celebrations, food, language, music, and traditions.
G.1.K.5: Discuss cultural characteristics among families and in the community such as art, celebrations, food, language, music, and traditions.
G.1.K.6: Identify the influence of weather and climate on people's daily lives.
G.1.K.6: Identify the influence of weather and climate on people's daily lives.
Spatial Patterns and Movement
Spatial Patterns and Movement
G.1.K.7: Identify natural resources that meet the needs of a community such as timber, minerals, oil, coal, and natural gas.
G.1.K.7: Identify natural resources that meet the needs of a community such as timber, minerals, oil, coal, and natural gas.
G.1.K.8: Identify people, goods, and ideas that move from place to place.
G.1.K.8: Identify people, goods, and ideas that move from place to place.
Global Interconnections
Global Interconnections
G.1.K.9: Discuss products and traditions that connect people around the world (e.g., where products are made, celebrations, dance, art, food, and toys).
G.1.K.9: Discuss products and traditions that connect people around the world (e.g., where products are made, celebrations, dance, art, food, and toys).
G.1.K.10: Discuss the needs of people during natural and human-made disasters.
G.1.K.10: Discuss the needs of people during natural and human-made disasters.
History
H.1 Students will understand chronology, patterns of continuity, and change over time. This includes the contextualization of historical events and ways people gather, view, construct, and interpret historical evidence.
Chronology, Change over time, Contextualization
Chronology, Change over time, Contextualization
H.1.K.1: Discuss a sequence of events using chronological terms such as first, next, last, before, after. Sequence of events may include: daily classroom activities, significant events in students' lives, typical day in the life of the student.
H.1.K.1: Discuss a sequence of events using chronological terms such as first, next, last, before, after. Sequence of events may include: daily classroom activities, significant events in students' lives, typical day in the life of the student.
H.1.K.2: Develop a timeline to sequence significant events in students' lives.
H.1.K.2: Develop a timeline to sequence significant events in students' lives.
H.1.K.3: Compare the life of a student today (present) to the life of a student in the past using visual representations (e.g., growing food, rules and laws, making clothing, transportation, and communication).
H.1.K.3: Compare the life of a student today (present) to the life of a student in the past using visual representations (e.g., growing food, rules and laws, making clothing, transportation, and communication).
H.1.K.4: Recognize historic figures and other people who have made an impact on history.
H.1.K.4: Recognize historic figures and other people who have made an impact on history.
H.1.K.5: Identify the purpose of national holidays and describe the people or events celebrated: Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President's Day, and Veteran's Day.
H.1.K.5: Identify the purpose of national holidays and describe the people or events celebrated: Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President's Day, and Veteran's Day.
Perspective, Evidence, Causation
Perspective, Evidence, Causation
H.1.K.6: Identify the different points of view represented in a single historical event.
H.1.K.6: Identify the different points of view represented in a single historical event.
H.1.K.7: Describe materials and methods that allow people to learn about the past (e.g., photos, artifacts, diaries, oral history, and stories).
H.1.K.7: Describe materials and methods that allow people to learn about the past (e.g., photos, artifacts, diaries, oral history, and stories).
H.1.K.8: Compare the differences in sources of information from the present and the past (e.g., telegraph, pony express, newspaper, telephone, TV, and Internet).
H.1.K.8: Compare the differences in sources of information from the present and the past (e.g., telegraph, pony express, newspaper, telephone, TV, and Internet).