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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.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 2
Second graders compare urban, suburban and rural communities using Illinois examples, find places on a community map with a compass rose and the four cardinal directions, and learn who makes the rules and laws in families, schools and towns, and why communities need them.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 2
Second graders meet local government: the mayor (or village president) and the council, the services they run and the budget they decide. They see how leaders are elected and how a council makes a decision at a public meeting, and they sort the many ways children and adults can take part in their community.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 2
Second graders see how producers use resources and skills, and how specializing (each worker doing one part) helps a team make more. They follow an Illinois pumpkin from a farm to a family's pie, and they compare barter with money and discover why communities and countries trade with each other.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 2
Second graders classify the three kinds of resources (natural, human and capital), learn that scarcity forces every person and community to choose, name the opportunity cost of a choice (the next-best thing given up), and plan a simple budget for spending and saving.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 2
Second graders explore what changes and what stays the same in communities over time: how people travel, the tools they use and the buildings they live in. They connect causes to effects (a railroad arrives, a highway passes a town by) and use a population chart and a short history of Chicago to describe how a real city grew and rebuilt after the fire of 1871.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 2
Second graders read and build timelines with equal spaces for each ten years, count the years between events, tell primary sources (made at the time by someone who was there) from secondary sources (made later), and question a source: who made it, when, and why.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 2
Second graders learn that people can see the same event or decision differently because of their experiences and needs. They compare perspectives on a town decision, compare two accounts of the same snowstorm, and practise collecting community stories (oral histories) respectfully, noticing how people's views can change over time.
History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 2
Second graders run a full history investigation about Riverbend, a made-up Illinois river town: they ask a big question and smaller supporting questions, gather evidence from a map, a photo caption, an interview and a population chart, and then make a claim backed by evidence and share it.
