Nevada

DS Disciplinary Skills

• Constructing compelling questions

  • SS.K.1 With prompting and support, generate compelling questions to explore how learning and working together builds a classroom community.

• Creating supporting questions

  • SS.K.2 With prompting and support, generate supporting questions related to compelling questions.

• Gathering and evaluating sources

  • SS.K.3 With prompting and support, using a primary source from your school or community, develop a reasonable idea about who created the source, when they created it, where they created it, and why they created it.

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

• Developing claims and using evidence

  • SS.K.4 With prompting and support, construct responses to compelling questions using examples.

• Communicating and critiquing conclusions

  • SS.K.5 With prompting and support, construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes.

  • SS.K.6 With prompting and support, participate in a structured academic discussion using evidence and reasoning.

    • George Washington (K-I.1)
    • Abraham Lincoln (K-I.2)
    • Helen Keller (K-I.8)
    • Rosa Parks (K-I.11)
    • Independence Day (K-J.6)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. Day (K-J.9)
    • Memorial Day (K-J.10)

• Taking informed action

  • SS.K.7 With prompting and support, list and discuss group or individual actions to help address local, regional, and or global problems.

  • SS.K.8 With prompting and support, use deliberative and democratic procedures to take action about an issue in your classroom, school, or community.

H History

• Identity

  • SS.K.9 Compare life in the past to life today within the community.

    • 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)

MC Multicultural

• Social justice, consciousness, and action

  • SS.K.10 Share and discuss stories that illustrate honesty, courage, friendship, respect, and responsibility.

    • Good citizenship (K-B.4)
    • George Washington (K-I.1)
    • Abraham Lincoln (K-I.2)
    • Helen Keller (K-I.8)
    • Rosa Parks (K-I.11)
    • Independence Day (K-J.6)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. Day (K-J.9)
    • Memorial Day (K-J.10)

  • SS.K.11 Explore strategies to resolve conflicts in the classroom.

• Respectful engagement with diverse people

  • SS.K.12 Identify diverse cultural events, holidays, and symbols and where appropriate, identify these celebrations on a calendar.

    • What is a community? (K-A.1)
    • Identify American symbols (K-C.1)
    • Identify American landmarks and monuments (K-C.2)
    • The American flag (K-C.3)
    • Pledge of Allegiance (K-C.4)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. Day (K-J.9)
    • Days of the week (K-L.1)
    • Months of the year (K-L.2)

• Diverse contributions made by men and women from various racial and ethnic backgrounds including, without limitation, information relating to contributions and impact

  • SS.K.13 Describe ways in which students and families are alike and different across cultures.

    • What is a community? (K-A.1)
    • 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)

C Civics

• Civic dispositions and democratic principles

  • SS.K.14 Describe an action that exemplifies civic dispositions, including but not limited to: deliberative discussion, equality, freedom, liberty, and respect for individual rights.

    • Good citizenship (K-B.4)
    • 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)

• Processes, rules, and laws

  • SS.K.15 Compare and contrast rules from different places and cultures.

    • What is a community? (K-A.1)
    • Rules and laws (K-B.1)
    • Authority figures (K-B.2)

  • SS.K.16 Describe how people work to improve their communities.

    • Jobs community helpers do (K-A.2)
    • Tools community helpers use (K-A.3)
    • Government services (K-B.3)

G Geography

• Geographic representations

  • SS.K.17 Use simple geographic models to describe spaces at school and home.

    • Left and right (K-E.1)
    • Above and below (K-E.2)
    • Next to and between (K-E.3)
    • Use location words (K-E.4)
    • 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)

• Human population, movement, and patterns

  • SS.K.18 Explain why and how people move from place to place within the community.

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

E Economics

• National economy

  • SS.K.19 Give examples of choices that are made because of scarcity.

    • Needs and wants (K-G.1)
    • Scarcity (K-G.2)