Illinois

SS.K-2.IS Inquiry

• Constructing Essential Questions

  • SS.K-2.IS.1 Create questions that are relevant to self as they relate to the content of the Social Science Standards.

• Determining Helpful Resources

  • SS.K-2.IS.2 With guidance and support, students will use varied teacher-selected resources to learn procedures to locate evidence that assists with finding answers to their questions. Introduce the importance of informational resources that are reliable and distinguish fact from opinion.

• Gathering and Evaluating Sources

  • SS.K-2.IS.3 With guidance and support, gather relevant information from multiple sources to analyze information.

    • Martin Luther King Jr. Day (1-D.1)
    • Independence Day (1-D.2)

  • SS.K-2.IS.4 With guidance and support, evaluate a source by distinguishing between fact and opinion.

• Communicating Conclusions

  • SS.K-2.IS.5 With guidance and support, students will share their findings on the asked and answered questions with peers.

• Taking Informed Action

  • SS.K-2.IS.6 With guidance and support, reflect on one's inquiry process and findings.

  • SS.K-2.IS.7 Using various viewpoints, students will engage in reflective conversations to draw conclusions on inquiry findings and create action steps.

SS.1.CV Civics

• Civic and Political Institutions

  • SS.1.CV.1 With guidance and support, explain how individuals who live, learn, and work together make important decisions, and the effect that these decisions have on a variety of diverse communities.

    • Rules and laws (1-A.1)

• Processes, Rules, and Laws

  • SS.1.CV.2 Identify reasons for rules and explain how rules establish responsibilities and roles, and their effect on one's own and other groups and communities.

    • Rules and laws (1-A.1)

SS.1.EC Economics/Financial Literacy

• Economic Decision-Making

  • SS.1.EC.1 Explain and give examples of when choices are made that something else is given up.

    • Scarcity and choices (1-J.2)

  • SS.1.EC.2 Describe the skills and knowledge required to produce certain goods and services.

    • Jobs community helpers do (1-C.1)
    • Tools community helpers use (1-C.2)
    • Goods and services (1-J.3)
    • Producers and consumers (1-J.4)

• Financial Literacy

  • SS.1.EC.3 Explain how people are compensated for work.

SS.1.G Geography

• Geographic Representations: Spatial Views of the World

  • SS.1.G.1 With guidance and support, construct and interpret print and digital maps and other cultural representations of familiar places.

• Human-Environment Interaction: Place, Regions, and Culture

  • SS.1.G.2 With guidance and support, describe how human activities affect the cultural and environmental characteristics of places or regions.

    • Identify Earth's land features (1-G.1)
    • Identify Earth's water features (1-G.2)
    • Identify human and physical features (1-G.3)

• Human Population: Spatial Patterns and Movements

  • SS.1.G.3 Compare how people in different types of communities use local and worldwide environments to meet their daily needs.

    • Needs and wants (1-J.1)
    • Goods and services (1-J.3)
    • Natural resources (1-J.5)

SS.1.H History

• Change, Continuity, and Context

  • SS.1.H.1 Create a chronological sequence of multiple events based on current learning.

    • Days of the week (1-L.1)
    • Months of the year (1-L.2)

  • SS.1 H.2 Generate questions and investigate diverse individuals and groups who have shaped a significant historical change.

    • Martin Luther King Jr. Day (1-D.1)

• Perspectives

  • SS.1.H.3 With guidance and support, investigate how our perspectives of historical events have changed over time.

    • Then and now: transportation and communication (1-E.1)