Iowa

I Inquiry

• Constructing Compelling Questions

  • SS.K.1 Recognize a compelling question.

• Constructing Supporting Questions

  • SS.K.2 Identify the relationship between compelling and supporting questions.

• Communicating and Critiquing Conclusions

  • SS.K.3 Construct responses to compelling questions using examples.

• Taking Informed Action

  • SS.K.4 Take group or individual action to help address local, regional, and/or global problems.

    • Good citizenship (K-B.4)

  • SS.K.5 Use deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions about and act on civic problems in their classrooms.

    • Good citizenship (K-B.4)

BS Behavioral Science

• Recognize the Interaction Between the Individual and Various Groups

  • BS.SS.K.6 Describe students' roles in different groups of which they are members including their family, school, and community.

    • What is a community? (K-A.1)

• Examine Factors that Led to Continuity and Change on Human Development and Behavior

  • BS.SS.K.7 Describe ways in which students and others are alike and different within a variety of social categories.

    • What is a community? (K-A.1)

CG Civics/Government

• Interpret Processes, Rules and Laws

  • CG.SS.K.8 Determine a procedure for how people can effectively work together to make decisions to improve their classrooms or communities.

  • CG.SS.K.9 Compare and contrast rules from different places.

    • Rules and laws (K-B.1)
    • Authority figures (K-B.2)

E Economics

• Engage in Economic Decision Making

  • E.SS.K.10 Give examples of choices that are made because of scarcity.

    • Scarcity (K-G.2)

FL Financial Literacy

• Analyze Credit and Debt Levels

  • FL.SS.K.11 Explain the difference between buying and borrowing.

• Create a Saving and Spending Plan

  • FL.SS.K.12 Distinguish between appropriate spending choices. (21st century skills).

    • Needs and wants (K-G.1)
    • Goods and services (K-G.3)

G Geography

• Create Geographic Representations

  • G.SS.K.13 Create a route to a specific location using maps, globes, and other simple geographic models.

    • Left and right (K-E.1)
    • Above and below (K-E.2)
    • Next to and between (K-E.3)
    • Introduction to maps (K-F.1)
    • Use cardinal directions (K-F.2)
    • Use a map key (K-F.3)
    • Use maps of the community (K-F.4)

• Evaluate Human Environment Interaction

  • G.SS.K.14 Compare environmental characteristics in Iowa with other places.

    • Compare cities and rural areas (K-A.4)
    • Identify Earth's land features (K-D.1)
    • Identify Earth's water features (K-D.2)
    • Identify human and physical features (K-D.3)
    • Natural resources (K-G.5)

• Analyze Human Population Movement and Patterns

  • G.SS.K.15 Explain why and how people move from place to place.

    • Needs and wants (K-G.1)
    • Then and now: transportation and communication (K-H.1)

H History

• Analyze Change, Continuity, and Context

  • H.SS.K.16 Distinguish at least two related items or events by sequencing them from the past to the present.

    • Days of the week (K-L.1)
    • Months of the year (K-L.2)
    • Use time-order words (K-L.3)
    • Introduction to timelines (K-L.4)

  • H.SS.K.17 Compare life in the past to life today.

    • Then and now: transportation and communication (K-H.1)
    • Then and now: home and school (K-H.2)
    • Then and now: work and play (K-H.3)
    • George Washington (K-I.1)
    • Abraham Lincoln (K-I.2)
    • Helen Keller (K-I.8)
    • Independence Day (K-J.6)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. Day (K-J.9)
    • Memorial Day (K-J.10)

• Critique Historical Sources and Evidence

  • H.SS.K.18 Given context clues, develop a reasonable idea about who created the primary or secondary source, when they created it, where they created it, or why they created it.

    • Which source should you use? (K-K.1)

• Iowa History

  • H.SS.K.19 Compare and contrast local environmental characteristics to that of other parts of the state of Iowa.

    • Compare cities and rural areas (K-A.4)
    • Identify Earth's land features (K-D.1)
    • Identify Earth's water features (K-D.2)
    • Identify human and physical features (K-D.3)
    • Natural resources (K-G.5)