College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework: Kindergarten
Skills available for Vermont kindergarten social studies standards
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D1
Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries
Constructing Compelling Questions
D1.1.K-2 Explain why the compelling question is important to the student.
D1.1.K-2 Explain why the compelling question is important to the student.
D1.2.K-2 Identify disciplinary ideas associated with a compelling question.
D1.2.K-2 Identify disciplinary ideas associated with a compelling question.
Constructing Supporting Questions
D1.3.K-2 Identify facts and concepts associated with a supporting question.
D1.3.K-2 Identify facts and concepts associated with a supporting question.
D1.4.K-2 Make connections between supporting questions and compelling questions.
D1.4.K-2 Make connections between supporting questions and compelling questions.
Determining Helpful Sources
D1.5.K-2 Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions.
D1.5.K-2 Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions.
D2
Applying Disciplinary Concepts and Tools
Civics
Civic and Political Institutions
Civic and Political Institutions
D2.Civ.1.K-2: Describe roles and responsibilities of people in authority.
D2.Civ.1.K-2: Describe roles and responsibilities of people in authority.
D2.Civ.2.K-2: Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community.
D2.Civ.2.K-2: Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community.
D2.Civ.3.K-2: Explain the need for and purposes of rules in various settings inside and outside of school.
D2.Civ.3.K-2: Explain the need for and purposes of rules in various settings inside and outside of school.
D2.Civ.5.K-2: Explain what governments are and some of their functions.
D2.Civ.5.K-2: Explain what governments are and some of their functions.
D2.Civ.6.K-2: Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks, establish responsibilities, and fulfill roles of authority.
D2.Civ.6.K-2: Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks, establish responsibilities, and fulfill roles of authority.
Participation and Deliberation: Applying Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles
Participation and Deliberation: Applying Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles
D2.Civ.7.K-2: Apply civic virtues when participating in school settings.
D2.Civ.7.K-2: Apply civic virtues when participating in school settings.
D2.Civ.8.K-2: Describe democratic principles such as equality, fairness, and respect for legitimate authority and rules.
D2.Civ.8.K-2: Describe democratic principles such as equality, fairness, and respect for legitimate authority and rules.
D2.Civ.9.K-2: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions while responding attentively to others when addressing ideas and making decisions as a group.
D2.Civ.9.K-2: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions while responding attentively to others when addressing ideas and making decisions as a group.
D2.Civ.10.K-2: Compare their own point of view with others' perspectives.
D2.Civ.10.K-2: Compare their own point of view with others' perspectives.
Processes, Rules, and Laws
Processes, Rules, and Laws
D2.Civ.11.K-2: Explain how people can work together to make decisions in the classroom.
D2.Civ.11.K-2: Explain how people can work together to make decisions in the classroom.
D2.Civ.12.K-2: Identify and explain how rules function in public (classroom and school) settings.
D2.Civ.12.K-2: Identify and explain how rules function in public (classroom and school) settings.
D2.Civ.14.K-2: Describe how people have tried to improve their communities over time.
D2.Civ.14.K-2: Describe how people have tried to improve their communities over time.
Economics
Economic Decision Making
Economic Decision Making
D2.Eco.1.K-2: Explain how scarcity necessitates decision making.
D2.Eco.1.K-2: Explain how scarcity necessitates decision making.
D2.Eco.2.K-2: Identify the benefits and costs of making various personal decisions.
D2.Eco.2.K-2: Identify the benefits and costs of making various personal decisions.
Exchange and Markets
Exchange and Markets
D2.Eco.3.K-2: Describe the skills and knowledge required to produce certain goods and services.
D2.Eco.3.K-2: Describe the skills and knowledge required to produce certain goods and services.
D2.Eco.4.K-2: Describe the goods and services that people in the local community produce and those that are produced in other communities.
D2.Eco.4.K-2: Describe the goods and services that people in the local community produce and those that are produced in other communities.
D2.Eco.5.K-2: Identify prices of products in a local market.
D2.Eco.5.K-2: Identify prices of products in a local market.
D2.Eco.6.K-2: Explain how people earn income.
D2.Eco.6.K-2: Explain how people earn income.
D2.Eco.7.K-2: Describe examples of costs of production.
D2.Eco.7.K-2: Describe examples of costs of production.
D2.Eco.9.K-2: Describe the role of banks in an economy.
D2.Eco.9.K-2: Describe the role of banks in an economy.
The National Economy
The National Economy
D2.Eco.10.K-2: Explain why people save.
D2.Eco.10.K-2: Explain why people save.
D2.Eco.12.K-2: Describe examples of the goods and services that governments provide.
D2.Eco.12.K-2: Describe examples of the goods and services that governments provide.
D2.Eco.13.K-2: Describe examples of capital goods and human capital.
D2.Eco.13.K-2: Describe examples of capital goods and human capital.
The Global Economy
The Global Economy
D2.Eco.14.K-2: Describe why people in one country trade goods and services with people in other countries.
D2.Eco.14.K-2: Describe why people in one country trade goods and services with people in other countries.
D2.Eco.15.K-2: Describe products that are produced abroad and sold domestically and products that are produced domestically and sold abroad.
D2.Eco.15.K-2: Describe products that are produced abroad and sold domestically and products that are produced domestically and sold abroad.
Geography
Geographic Representations: Spatial Views of the World
Geographic Representations: Spatial Views of the World
D2.Geo.1.K-2: Construct maps, graphs, and other representations of familiar places.
D2.Geo.1.K-2: Construct maps, graphs, and other representations of familiar places.
D2.Geo.2.K-2: Use maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations to describe places and the relationships and interactions that shape them.
Location words
Characteristics of places
D2.Geo.2.K-2: Use maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations to describe places and the relationships and interactions that shape them.
Location words
Characteristics of places
D2.Geo.3.K-2: Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.
D2.Geo.3.K-2: Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.
Human-Environment Interaction: Place, Regions, and Culture
Human-Environment Interaction: Place, Regions, and Culture
D2.Geo.4.K-2: Explain how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people's lives in a place or region.
D2.Geo.4.K-2: Explain how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people's lives in a place or region.
D2.Geo.5.K-2: Describe how human activities affect the cultural and environmental characteristics of places or regions.
D2.Geo.5.K-2: Describe how human activities affect the cultural and environmental characteristics of places or regions.
D2.Geo.6.K-2: Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.
D2.Geo.6.K-2: Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.
Human Population: Spatial Patterns and Movements
Human Population: Spatial Patterns and Movements
D2.Geo.7.K-2: Explain why and how people, goods, and ideas move from place to place.
D2.Geo.7.K-2: Explain why and how people, goods, and ideas move from place to place.
D2.Geo.8.K-2: Compare how people in different types of communities use local and distant environments to meet their daily needs.
D2.Geo.8.K-2: Compare how people in different types of communities use local and distant environments to meet their daily needs.
D2.Geo.9.K-2: Describe the connections between the physical environment of a place and the economic activities found there.
D2.Geo.9.K-2: Describe the connections between the physical environment of a place and the economic activities found there.
Global Interconnections: Changing Spatial Patterns
Global Interconnections: Changing Spatial Patterns
D2.Geo.10.K-2: Describe changes in the physical and cultural characteristics of various world regions.
D2.Geo.10.K-2: Describe changes in the physical and cultural characteristics of various world regions.
D2.Geo.11.K-2: Explain how the consumption of products connects people to distant places.
D2.Geo.11.K-2: Explain how the consumption of products connects people to distant places.
D2.Geo.12.K-2: Identify ways that a catastrophic disaster may affect people living in a place.
D2.Geo.12.K-2: Identify ways that a catastrophic disaster may affect people living in a place.
History
Change, Continuity, and Context
Change, Continuity, and Context
D2.His.1.K-2: Create a chronological sequence of multiple events.
D2.His.1.K-2: Create a chronological sequence of multiple events.
D2.His.2.K-2: Compare life in the past to life today.
D2.His.2.K-2: Compare life in the past to life today.
D2.His.3.K-2: Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped a significant historical change.
Famous people
Holidays
D2.His.3.K-2: Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped a significant historical change.
Famous people
Holidays
Perspectives
Perspectives
D2.His.4.K-2: Compare perspectives of people in the past to those of people in the present.
D2.His.4.K-2: Compare perspectives of people in the past to those of people in the present.
D2.His.6.K-2: Compare different accounts of the same historical event.
D2.His.6.K-2: Compare different accounts of the same historical event.
Historical Sources and Evidence
Historical Sources and Evidence
D2.His.9.K-2: Identify different kinds of historical sources.
D2.His.9.K-2: Identify different kinds of historical sources.
D2.His.10.K-2: Explain how historical sources can be used to study the past.
Books
Photographs
D2.His.10.K-2: Explain how historical sources can be used to study the past.
Books
Photographs
D2.His.11.K-2: Identify the maker, date, and place of origin for a historical source from information within the source itself.
D2.His.11.K-2: Identify the maker, date, and place of origin for a historical source from information within the source itself.
D2.His.12.K-2: Generate questions about a particular historical source as it relates to a particular historical event or development.
D2.His.12.K-2: Generate questions about a particular historical source as it relates to a particular historical event or development.
Causation and Argumentation
Causation and Argumentation
D2.His.14.K-2: Generate possible reasons for an event or development in the past.
D2.His.14.K-2: Generate possible reasons for an event or development in the past.
D2.His.16.K-2: Select which reasons might be more likely than others to explain a historical event or development.
D2.His.16.K-2: Select which reasons might be more likely than others to explain a historical event or development.
D3
Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence
Gathering and Evaluating Sources
D3.1.K-2 Gather relevant information from one or two sources while using the origin and structure to guide the selection.
Passages about famous people
Passages about holidays
Photographs
D3.1.K-2 Gather relevant information from one or two sources while using the origin and structure to guide the selection.
Passages about famous people
Passages about holidays
Photographs
D3.2.K-2 Evaluate a source by distinguishing between fact and opinion.
D3.2.K-2 Evaluate a source by distinguishing between fact and opinion.
D4
Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action
Communicating Conclusions
D4.1.K-2 Construct an argument with reasons.
D4.1.K-2 Construct an argument with reasons.
D4.2.K-2 Construct explanations using correct sequence and relevant information.
D4.2.K-2 Construct explanations using correct sequence and relevant information.
D4.3.K-2 Present a summary of an argument using print, oral, and digital technologies.
D4.3.K-2 Present a summary of an argument using print, oral, and digital technologies.
Critiquing Conclusions
D4.4.K-2 Ask and answer questions about arguments.
D4.4.K-2 Ask and answer questions about arguments.
D4.5.K-2 Ask and answer questions about explanations.
D4.5.K-2 Ask and answer questions about explanations.
Taking Informed Action
D4.6.K-2 Identify and explain a range of local, regional, and global problems, and some ways in which people are trying to address these problems.
D4.6.K-2 Identify and explain a range of local, regional, and global problems, and some ways in which people are trying to address these problems.
D4.7.K-2 Identify ways to take action to help address local, regional, and global problems.
D4.7.K-2 Identify ways to take action to help address local, regional, and global problems.
D4.8.K-2 Use listening, consensus-building, and voting procedures to decide on and take action in their classrooms.
D4.8.K-2 Use listening, consensus-building, and voting procedures to decide on and take action in their classrooms.