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History, Civics & Social Studies · Kindergarten
Kindergartners build an 'identity puzzle' of the many parts that make them who they are, discover that each person belongs to several groups at once, and practise noticing how classmates are alike and different with respect and curiosity.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Kindergarten
Kindergartners test rules for fairness (does the rule treat everyone the same way and help the group?), learn that a responsibility is a job others count on you to do, and help a class make and change a rule by sharing ideas and voting.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Kindergarten
Kindergartners connect community helpers to the services they give everyone (fire safety, health care, mail, libraries, trash pickup), learn who the people in authority are at school and in the community and how they keep us safe, and find service buildings on a picture map using position words.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Kindergarten
Kindergartners decide why needs come before wants when money or time is limited, discover the natural resources that everyday things come from (trees, animals, water, soil), and learn that because resources are limited, people make choices and take care not to waste them.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Kindergarten
Kindergartners put events in order with first, next, last and yesterday, today, tomorrow, learn the seven days of the week on a calendar, and compare going to school long ago in a one-room schoolhouse with going to school today, noticing what changed and what stayed the same.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Kindergarten
Kindergartners become history detectives. They learn that old objects (artifacts) and pictures are clues about how people lived, practise asking who, what, when, where and how questions about a clue, and compare an old picture and a new picture of the same street to find what changed and what stayed the same.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Kindergarten
Kindergartners meet five fictional families and the traditions they celebrate, learn how traditions are passed down from grandparents to children, discover that all people share the same basic needs even when they meet them in different ways, and practise respectful, curious responses to traditions that are new to them.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Kindergarten
Room 5 at the fictional Willow School wants more new books to read. Kindergartners follow the class from noticing the problem, to listening to everyone's ideas and voting, to asking the principal for permission and running a Book Swap Box with a job for everyone, and finally checking whether the plan worked.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 1
First graders look at the roles people play in groups (leader, member, helper), the responsibilities that come with each role, and the qualities of a good citizen: honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness and caring. Short stories from a fictional school give practice choosing actions that show those qualities.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 1
First graders tell rules (made by families, schools and groups) from laws (made by governments for everyone in a place), match rules and laws to their purposes, compare fair ways to make a group decision (taking turns, voting, drawing names, agreeing) and count tally marks to find which choice won a vote.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 1
First graders learn which services a community provides for everyone (libraries, parks, fire protection, roads, trash pickup) and that people pay for them together through taxes, trace how many workers and volunteers depend on each other to get one job done, and read a map key to find community services on a symbol map.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 1
First graders tell goods (things you can touch) from services (work done for someone), see that producers make goods and provide services while consumers buy and use them, and learn why money makes trading easier, how people earn it, and how they choose between spending and saving for needs and wants.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 1
First graders build a timeline of a life, learn four kinds of sources that tell us about the past (photographs, objects, documents and oral histories), and use evidence from a grandparent's letter to compare school in 1965 with school today.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 1
First graders learn that culture is a group's way of life (language, food, clothing, celebrations, stories and art), read an original fable to find the lesson a traditional story teaches, and see how families keep some traditions and add new ones when they move to a new place.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 1
First graders investigate the past of Maple Creek, a made-up Illinois town. They ask who, what, when, where, why and how questions, find the maker, date and place of local sources such as an old newspaper notice and a photo, and put the town's events on a timeline to see how it changed.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 1
Room 1 at the fictional Cedar Street School worries that cars drive too fast past the school crosswalk. First graders follow the class as they gather information by counting and asking, weigh the benefits and costs of three ideas, vote, write a polite letter to the town's leaders and check what happened.
