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Skills available for Minnesota kindergarten 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.

      • K.1.1.1 Demonstrate civic skills in a classroom that reflect an understanding of civic values by identifying a classroom goal and listing ways that students work together using civic skills to address a need or goal.

  • Democratic Values and Principles

    • 2 Explain democratic values and principles that guide governments, societies, and communities. Analyze the tensions within the United States constitutional government.

  • Rights and Responsibilities

  • 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.

      • K.1.4.1 Identify examples of rules in the school and neighborhood community and explain why they exist. Describe incentives for following rules and consequences for breaking rules.

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.

      • K.2.7.1 Use cost-benefit analysis as a group to solve a problem.

  • Personal Finance

    • 9 Apply economic concepts and models to develop individual and collective financial goals and strategies for achieving these goals, taking into consideration historical and contemporary conditions that either inhibit or advance the creation of individual and generational wealth.

      • K.2.9.1 Distinguish between individual needs (conditions necessary to survive) and individual wants (conditions desired to be happy).

  • Microeconomics

    • 10 Explain and evaluate how resources are used and how goods and services are distributed within different economic systems. Analyze how incentives influence the decisions of consumers, producers, and governments. Evaluate the intended and unintended consequences of these decisions from multiple perspectives.

  • 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.

      • K.2.12.1 Explain why people agree to trade.

3 Geography

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.

      • K.5.23.1 Create a personal representation of themselves, including their family and/or ancestors. Discuss the choices made, describing what is special and important, including strengths and assets.

  • 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.

      • K.5.24.1 Retell a story about an unfair experience that conveys a power imbalance (a personal experience or one from a story). Share what can be learned from this story.

  • Ways of Knowing and Methodologies

    • 25 Use ethnic and Indigenous studies, methods, and sources in order to understand the roots of contemporary systems of oppression and apply lessons from the past that could eliminate historical and contemporary injustices.

      • K.5.25.1 Describe the importance of first peoples'/Indigenous peoples' relationships to land, water, and the nonhuman world.