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Individual Development and Cultural Identity

• 1.1 Language, beliefs, customs, and traditions help shape the identity and culture of a family and a community.

  • 1.1a Families are a basic unit of all societies, and different people define family differently.

  • 1.1b People and families of diverse racial, religious, national, and ethnic groups share their beliefs, customs, and traditions, which creates a multicultural community.

    • What is a community? (1-C.1)

  • 1.1c Awareness of America's rich diversity fosters intercultural understanding.

• 1.2 There are significant individuals, historical events, and symbols that are important to American cultural identity.

  • 1.2a The study of historical events, historical figures, and folklore enables Americans with diverse cultural backgrounds to feel connected to a common national heritage.

    • Independence Day (1-D.6)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. Day (1-D.9)
    • Memorial Day (1-D.10)
    • George Washington (1-F.1)
    • Abraham Lincoln (1-F.2)
    • Helen Keller (1-F.8)

  • 1.2b The Pledge of Allegiance and patriotic songs play an important role in understanding and examining the nation's history, values, and beliefs.

    • Pledge of Allegiance (1-B.4)

Civic Ideals and Practices

• 1.3 A citizen is a member of a community or group. Students are citizens of their local and global communities.

  • 1.3a An engaged and active citizen participates in the activities of the group or community and makes positive contributions.

    • Jobs community helpers do (1-C.2)

  • 1.3b Traits of a responsible citizen include respecting others, behaving honestly, helping others, obeying rules and laws, being informed, and sharing needed resources.

    • Good citizenship (1-A.4)

  • 1.3c As global citizens, we are connected to people and cultures beyond our own community and nation, and we have a shared responsibility to protect and respect our world.

• 1.4 People create governments in order to create peace and establish order. Laws are created to protect the rights and define the responsibilities of individuals and groups.

  • 1.4a Rules and laws are developed to protect people's rights and for the safety and welfare of the community.

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

  • 1.4b Governments exist at the local, state, and national levels to represent the needs of the people, create and enforce laws, and help resolve conflicts.

    • Government services (1-A.3)
    • Local government (2-D.2)
    • State government (2-D.3)
    • Federal government (2-D.4)

  • 1.4c Children can participate in problem solving, decision making, and conflict resolution within their home, school, and community.

Geography, Humans, and the Environment

• 1.5 The location and place of physical features and man-made structures can be described and interpreted by using symbols and geographic vocabulary.

  • 1.5a Maps and map tools, such as legends and cardinal directions, can help us navigate from one place to the next, provide directions, or trace important routes.

    • Introduction to maps (1-I.1)
    • Use cardinal directions (1-I.2)
    • Use a map key (1-I.3)
    • Use maps of the community (1-I.4)

  • 1.5b Maps are used to locate important places in the community, state, and nation, such as capitals, monuments, hospitals, museums, schools, and cultural centers.

  • 1.5c Symbols are used to represent physical features and man-made structures on maps and globes.

    • Use a map key (1-I.3)
    • Use maps of the community (1-I.4)

• 1.6 People and communities depend on and modify their physical environment in order to meet basic needs.

  • 1.6a People and communities depend on the physical environment for natural resources.

    • Natural resources (1-J.5)

  • 1.6b Roads, dams, bridges, farms, parks, and dwellings are all examples of how people modify the physical environment to meet needs and wants.

    • Identify human and physical features (1-G.3)

  • 1.6c People interact with their physical environment in ways that may have a positive or a negative effect.

    • Compare cities and rural areas (1-C.4)

Time, Continuity, and Change

• 1.7 Families have a past and change over time. There are different types of documents that relate family histories.

  • 1.7a Personal and family history is a source of information for individuals about the people and places around them.

    • Use time-order words (1-L.3)
    • Introduction to timelines (1-L.4)

  • 1.7b Families change over time, and family growth and change can be documented and recorded.

    • Then and now: home and school (1-E.2)

  • 1.7c Families of long ago have similarities and differences with families today.

    • Then and now: transportation and communication (1-E.1)
    • Then and now: home and school (1-E.2)
    • Then and now: work and play (1-E.3)

  • 1.7d Sequence and chronology can be identified in terms of days, weeks, months, years, and seasons when describing family events and histories.

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

• 1.8 Historical sources reveal information about how life in the past differs from the present.

  • 1.8a Various historical sources exist to inform people about life in the past, including artifacts, letters, maps, photographs, and newspapers.

    • Then and now: transportation and communication (1-E.1)
    • Then and now: home and school (1-E.2)
    • Then and now: work and play (1-E.3)
    • Which source should you use? (1-K.1)

  • 1.8b Oral histories, biographies, and family time lines relate family histories.

    • Independence Day (1-D.6)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. Day (1-D.9)
    • George Washington (1-F.1)
    • Abraham Lincoln (1-F.2)
    • Helen Keller (1-F.8)

Economic Systems

• 1.9 People have many economic wants and needs, but limited resources with which to obtain them.

  • 1.9a Scarcity means that people's wants exceed their limited resources.

    • Scarcity and choices (1-J.2)

  • 1.9b Families and communities must make choices due to unlimited needs and wants, and scarce resources; these choices involve costs.

    • Scarcity and choices (1-J.2)

  • 1.9c People use tools, technologies, and other resources to meet their needs and wants.

    • Tools community helpers use (1-C.3)
    • Then and now: transportation and communication (1-E.1)

• 1.1 People make economic choices as producers and consumers of goods and services.

  • 1.10a Goods are consumable, tangible products; services are actions performed by a person or group of people with a certain skill.

    • Goods and services (1-J.3)

  • 1.10b A producer makes goods or provides a service, while a consumer uses or benefits from the goods or services.

    • Producers and consumers (1-J.4)

  • 1.10c People and families work to earn money to purchase goods and services that they need or want.

  • 1.10d People make decisions about how to spend and save the money that they earn.