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Skills available for Minnesota first-grade social studies standards

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1 Citizenship and Government

  • Civic Skills

    • 1 Apply civic reasoning and demonstrate civic skills for the purpose of informed and engaged lifelong civic participation.

      • 1.1.1.1 Participate in the civic life of the community by demonstrating civic skills that reflect an understanding of civic values in order to work together to reach a community goal or need.

  • Democratic Values and Principles

  • Rights and Responsibilities

    • 3 Explain and evaluate rights, duties, and responsibilities in democratic society.

      • 1.1.3.1 List the rights of learners in the classroom community. Describe how individuals work together to respect and uphold the rights of the individuals in the community.

  • Governmental Institutions and Political Processes

    • 4 Explain and evaluate processes, rules and laws of United States governmental institutions at local, state and federal levels and within Tribal Nations.

      • 1.1.4.1 Identify characteristics of effective rules and participate in a process to establish classroom rules.

      • 1.1.4.2 Explain how voting determines who will be president and vice president and identify the president and vice president.

  • Tribal Nations

    • 6 Evaluate the unique political status, trust relationships and governing structures of sovereign Tribal Nations and the United States.

      • 1.1.6.1 Identify a Tribal Nation in Minnesota and list what unites the members as a nation.

2 Economics

  • Economic Inquiry

    • 7 Use economic models and reasoning and data analysis to construct an argument and propose a solution related to an economic question. Evaluate the impact of the proposed solution on various communities that would be affected.

      • 1.2.7.1 Use cost-benefit analysis for two available alternatives to make a decision.

  • Fundamental Economic Concepts

    • 8 Analyze how scarcity and artificial shortages force individuals, organizations, communities, and governments to make choices and incur opportunity costs. Analyze how the decisions of individuals, organizations, communities, and governments affect economic equity and efficiency.

  • Macroeconomics

    • 11 Measure and evaluate the well-being of nations and communities using a variety of indicators. Explain the causes of economic ups and downs. Evaluate how government actions affect a nation's economy and individuals' well-being within an economy.

      • 1.2.11.1 Explain that an economy is a system for using resources and distributing goods and services within a community.

  • Global and International

    • 12 Explain why people trade and why nations encourage or limit trade. Analyze the costs and benefits of international trade and globalization on communities and the environment.

3 Geography

  • Geospatial Skills and Inquiry

  • Places and Regions

    • 14 Describe places and regions, explaining how they are influenced by power structures.

      • 1.3.14.1 Describe the unifying characteristics of specific classroom and school regions.

  • Human Systems

    • 15 Analyze patterns of movement and interconnectedness within and between cultural, economic and political systems from a local to global scale.

      • 1.3.15.1 Describe patterns of movement of particular people, goods, or ideas within and between different communities and countries.

4 History

5 Ethnic Studies

  • Identity

    • 23 Analyze the ways power and language construct the social identities of race, religion, geography, ethnicity, and gender. Apply these understandings to one's own social identities and other groups living in Minnesota, centering those whose stories and histories have been marginalized, erased, or ignored.

      • 1.5.23.1 Identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power. Use those examples to construct meanings for those terms.

  • Resistance

    • 24 Describe how individuals and communities have fought for freedom and liberation against systemic and coordinated exercises of power locally and globally. Identify strategies or times that have resulted in lasting change. Organize with others to engage in activities that could further the rights and dignity of all.