SSK.1.1.a: Identify examples and configurations of a family unit, and explain the characteristics of what makes a family (e.g., adopted families, foster families, heterosexual couple families, families with same sex caregivers, interracial families, families with a single caregiver, extended families).

SSK.1.1.b: Identify roles people have in a family unit, and explain how the roles relate to each other.

SSK.1.1.c: Identify what rules and norms families have, and explain who makes them and why they exist.

SSK.1.1.d: Explain responsibilities that members of a family have to the family unit (including to pets).

SSK.1.1.e: Explain ways to help at home.

SSK.1.2.a: Identify the purpose and features of a map and a globe and the locations of where students and their classmates live (e.g., city/town, state, and country).

SSK.1.2.b: Identify resources near families and resources that are farther away (e.g., schools, stores, services for the unhoused, disability services).

SSK.1.2.c: Identify the location of the student's home address and addresses to important places and relative locations near their home.

SSK.1.2.d: Explain the physical environment where students live.

SSK.1.2.e: Explain how families make up neighborhoods and neighborhoods create, are a part of, and influence the larger community.

SSK.1.3.a: Identify the characteristics of culture (e.g., food, clothing, activities, holidays, religion).

SSK.1.3.b: Identify family traditions as they relate to culture (e.g., food, clothing, activities, holidays, religion).

SSK.1.3.c: Explain ways in which where people live can affect traditions.

SSK.1.3.d: Identify ways students can explore the different traditions of people in their community.

SSK.1.3.e: Identify differences and similarities between the traditions of their families, their classmates' families, and those represented in literature.

SSK.1.4.a: Identify family wants and needs, and explain how wants and needs are important in understanding the responsibilities individuals have to each other and the family as a whole.

SSK.1.4.b: Explain ways families share and distribute resources.

SSK.1.4.c: Explain scarcity and ways wants and needs play out with limited resources.

SSK.1.4.d: Explain what jobs are, different types of jobs, and how they are used to obtain wants and needs.

SSK.1.4.e: Identify ways jobs are determined by where one lives (e.g., closeness to the family) or ways jobs may determine where one lives (e.g., moving to be closer to a job).

SSK.1.4.f: Explain what income is and the role of money in obtaining goods and services.

SSK.1.4.g: Explain ways jobs provide resources to the community.

SSK.2.1.a: Identify the school's address and its location on a map.

SSK.2.1.b: Explain the relative location of the school in relation to where the students live.

SSK.2.1.c: Explain the relative location of the school in relation to other nearby resources such as stores, services, etc.

SSK.2.1.d: Analyze what the school provides for the local community socially and how the local community helps the school.

SSK.2.2.a: Identify rules and norms of school within the classroom and in other spaces at school (e.g., cafeteria, hallways).

SSK.2.2.b: Analyze differences in rules in different places like at home, at school, or in public.

SSK.2.2.c: Argue how the rules, norms, and rights at school help students to learn and teachers to teach and how they create a way for students to work together.

SSK.2.2.d: Analyze the responsibilities of people at school and at home and how they work together to help students to learn effectively (e.g., teachers, principal, class helpers, custodian, family caregivers).

SSK.2.3.a: Explain responsibilities that students have to each other.

SSK.2.3.b: Explain ways to help in the classroom and at school.

SSK.2.3.c: Identify school symbols (e.g., mascot, school colors) and ways to show school pride.

SSK.2.3.d: Identify the United States flag at school as a way to show national pride.

SSK.2.3.e: Explain the words in the Pledge of Allegiance and why it is recited at school.

SSK.2.4.a: Identify school traditions (e.g., special school-specific traditions like field day, spirit week).

SSK.2.4.b: Identify people, holidays, and traditions that are celebrated and the historical events they represent (e.g., Labor Day, Indigenous Peoples' Day / Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Juneteenth, Memorial Day).

SSK.2.4.c: Identify the differences and similarities between how holidays and traditions are celebrated at school and at home.

SSK.3.1.a: Identify buildings and places in students' neighborhoods (e.g., school, library, places of worship, community centers), and explain their locations in relation to each other.

SSK.3.1.b: Identify boundaries of a neighborhood versus the larger community.

SSK.3.1.c: Identify the geographical landscape of students' neighborhoods (e.g., urban, rural, suburban, has trees, hilly).

SSK.3.1.d: Explain what resources are available in students' neighborhoods and larger communities (e.g., schools, trees, stores, rivers, health services, recreation), and analyze how those resources are made available, and to whom.

SSK.3.1.e: Analyze the similarities and differences between students' neighborhoods and those of their classmates (e.g., landscape, population, availability of resources).

SSK.3.2.a: Explain why people have responsibilities to each other, and analyze actions people take to show civility to each other.

SSK.3.2.b: Explain community rules and norms, who makes them, and ways rules and norms contribute to the health of the community.

SSK.3.2.c: Identify different community helpers (e.g., mayor, police, firefighters, teachers, doctors, cashiers), and analyze the ways they help people.

SSK.3.2.d: Explain ways to help people in the local neighborhood or community.

SSK.3.2.e: Identify where in the community students can go for help (e.g., trusted adult, emergency services), and explain how to get help (e.g., call 911, talk to school counselor).

SSK.3.3.a: Identify local traditions and celebrations, and explain how different communities observe them.

SSK.3.3.b: Explain differences and similarities between cultural celebrations and traditions (e.g., Dominican Festival and Parade, Veterans Day commemorations, Founders' Day celebrations, Fourth of July parades).

SSK.3.3.c: Analyze similarities between celebrations and traditions learned in this unit to those learned during the unit on family and school and those learned through literature.

SSK.4.1.a: Identify on a map or globe where the families being studied live throughout the world.

SSK.4.1.b: Analyze similarities and differences between the characteristics of families around the globe and the students' families (e.g., homes, food, clothing, traditions).

SSK.4.1.c: Explain what the physical environment is like for the families being studied, and analyze how that influences their ways of life.

SSK.4.1.d: Identify what resources are available to the families being studied, and explain how they obtain those resources and how environment influences resource availability.

SSK.4.2.a: Identify the physical locations of the schools being studied and their locations on a map or globe.

SSK.4.2.b: Analyze similarities and differences between the characteristics of schools around the globe and the students' school (e.g., school buildings, schedules, who gets to go, grades/ages).

SSK.4.2.c: Explain what the physical environment is like at the school location, and analyze how that influences the ways a school is organized and run.

SSK.4.3.a: Identify the physical locations of the neighborhoods being looked at and their locations on a map or globe.

SSK.4.3.b: Analyze similarities and differences between the characteristics of neighborhoods around the globe and the students' neighborhoods (e.g., the way the neighborhood is organized spatially, who neighborhood leaders are, what traditions are celebrated, what buildings and places are there).

SSK.4.3.c: Analyze differences among urban, suburban, and rural neighborhoods around the globe and the relationship to population.

SSK.4.3.d: Explain what the physical environment is like for the neighborhoods being studied, and analyze how that influences the way a neighborhood is organized.

SSK.4.3.e: Identify what resources, goods, and services are available in the neighborhoods being studied, and explain how people obtain those resources and how the environment influences resource availability.