School Improvement in Maryland

VSC: Social Studies Grade 1

Date: 6/20/2006
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Standard 1.0 Political Science

Topic

A. The Foundations and Function of Government

Indicator

  • 1. Explain the importance of rules

Objectives

  1. Explain how rules promote fairness, responsibility, and privacy in the school and community
  1. Identify leadership positions in the school and community and recognize their authority in keeping students safe, following rules, and maintaining order

Indicator

  • 2. Identify and discuss the meaning of symbols and practices associated with the United States of America

Objectives

  1. Identify and discuss the meaning of common symbols associated with the United States of America, such as bald eagle, White House, and the Statue of Liberty
  1. Describe how actions, such as pledging allegiance to the American flag and singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "America" are associated with being a citizen

Topic

B. Individual and Group Participation in the Political System

Indicator

  • 1. Identify and describe people important to the American political system

Objectives

  1. Describe the contributions of people, past and present, such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the current president
  1. Explain how contributions of people may be recognized with holidays and celebrations, such as Presidents' Day and Veterans' Day

Topic

C. Protecting Rights and Maintaining Order

Indicator

  • 1. Describe the rights and responsibilities of being a participating member of the family, school and neighborhood

Objectives

  1. Identify the rights, responsibilities and choices that students have in the family, school, and neighborhood
  1. Demonstrate ways to work together to maintain a clean and safe home, school, and neighborhood environment

Standard 2.0 Peoples of the Nation and World

Topic

A. Elements of Culture

Indicator

  • 1. Observe and describe ways that people of different cultural backgrounds meet human needs and contribute to the community

Objectives

  1. Observe and describe ways people in their school and community meet human needs for food, clothing, shelter, and other commonalities, such as recreation, music, and stories
  1. Discuss and respect traditions and customs of families in the community

Topic

B. Cultural Diffusion

Indicator

  • 1. Recognize that individuals and groups share and borrow from other cultures

Objectives

  1. Identify how families choose to share and borrow traditions from other cultures

Topic

C. Conflict and Compromise

Indicator

  • 1. Explain how groups of people interact

Objectives

  1. Describe, discuss, and demonstrate appropriate social skills necessary for working in a cooperative group, such as sharing concern, care, and respect among group members

Standard 3.0 Geography

Topic

A. Using Geographic Tools

Indicator

Objectives

  1. Locate the continents and oceans using maps and a globe
  1. Use photographs and pictures to describe a place
  1. Identify a place using bird's eye view
  1. Define map elements as parts of a map that make it easy to use
  1. Describe where places are located on a map using relative distance and direction, such as near-far, above-below and cardinal directions (north, south, east, and west)

Topic

B. Geographic Characteristics of Places and Regions

Indicator

Objectives

  1. Identify and describe physical characteristics of a place (physical features, climate, vegetation and animal life)
  1. Identify human characteristics of a place (human-made features, language, political system, how people make a living)
  1. Describe places by how people make a living and where they live

Topic

C. Movement of People, Goods and Ideas

Indicator

  • 1. Explain how transportation and communication link people and places by the movement of goods, messages, and people

Objectives

  1. Identify how transportation links people and goods between places
  1. Explain how communication links people and messages between places

Topic

D. Modifying and Adapting to the Environment

Indicator

  • 1. Explain how people modify, protect, and adapt to their environment

Objectives

  1. Describe how people in a community modify their environment to meet changing needs for shelter, such as clearing land for a housing community
  1. Describe why and how people protect the environment
  1. Explain how people adapt to changes in the environment, such as using less water in the drought

Standard 4.0 Economics

Topic

A. Scarcity and Economic Decision-making

Indicator

  • 1. Describe economic choices people make about goods and services

Objectives

  1. Identify and discuss goods and services provided in the community
  1. Explain how getting something one wants may mean giving up something in return

Indicator

Objectives

  1. Give examples of natural and human resources used in production, such as making butter, making ice cream, and building houses
  1. Describe the skills people need for their work in the home, school, and community

Indicator

  • 3. Explain how technology affects the way people live, work, and play

Objectives

  1. Describe how tools and products have affected the way people live, work, or play

Topic

B. Economic Systems and the Role of Government in the Economy

Indicator

  • 1. Describe types of markets in the community

Objectives

  1. Explain how markets operate
  1. Identify markets in the local community, such as grocery stores, farmers' markets, toy stores, and fast food restaurants

Indicator

Objectives

  1. Describe how people earn money by working at a job
  1. Compare goods that have different values, such as same item at different stores

Standard 5.0 History

Topic

A. Individuals and Societies Change Over Time

Indicator

  • 1. Examine differences between past and present time

Objectives

  1. Use terms related to time to order events sequentially that have occurred in the school
  1. Classify events as belonging to past or present

Indicator

  • 2. Compare people and objects of today and long ago

Objectives

  1. Construct meaning from informational text and text features about the past
  1. Collect and examine photographs of the past and compare with current photographs of similar images, such as old photographs of the school and community

Standard 6.0 Social Studies Skills and Processes

Topic

A. Learn to Read and Construct Meaning about Social Studies

Indicator

  • 1. Develop and apply social studies vocabulary through exposure to a variety of text and portions of text

Objectives

  1. Acquire new vocabulary through listening to and reading a variety of grade-appropriate print and non-print sources
  1. Discuss words and word meanings as they are encountered in texts, instruction, and conversation
  1. Make connections to prior knowledge and new vocabulary by listening, reading, and responding to a variety of texts

Indicator

  • 2. Use strategies to prepare for reading (before reading)

Objectives

  1. Make and explain the connections made using prior knowledge and experiences with the text
  1. Make predictions or ask questions about the text by examining the title, cover, illustrations/photographs/text, and familiar author or topic
  1. Set a purpose for reading the text

Indicator

  • 3. Use strategies to monitor understanding and derive meaning from text and portions of text (during reading)

Objectives

  1. Recall and discuss what they understand
  1. Identify and question what did not make sense
  1. Reread difficult parts slowly and carefully and use own words to restate difficult parts
  1. Read on, revisit, and restate the difficult parts in your own words
  1. Make, confirm, or adjust predictions
  1. Ask and answer questions about the text
  1. Periodically summarize while reading
  1. Visualize what was read
  1. Look back through the text to search for connection to the topic, characters, events, and actions in text
  1. Explain personal connections to the topics, events, characters, and actions in texts

Indicator

  • 4. Use strategies to demonstrate understanding of the text (after reading)

Objectives

  1. Review/restate and explain what the text is mainly about
  1. Identify and explain what is directly stated in the text (details, literal meaning)
  1. Identify and explain what is not stated in the text (implied or inferential meaning)
  1. Summarize the text orally
  1. Confirm, refute, or make predictions to form new ideas
  1. Connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experience
  1. Engage in conversation to understand what has been read
  1. Retell explicit and implicit main ideas of texts
  1. Answer questions (what if, why, and how) in writing

Topic

B. Learn to Write and Communicate Social Studies Understandings

Indicator

  • 1. Compose oral, written, and visual presentations that express personal ideas, inform, and persuade

Objectives

  1. Write to express social studies ideas using a variety of forms, such as journals, narratives, letters, and reports
  1. Contribute to a shared writing experience about a social studies topic
  1. Write a variety of responses to text, such as response logs, journals, and constructed responses

Indicator

  • 2. Locate, retrieve, and use information from various sources to accomplish a purpose

Objectives

  1. Identify and use sources of information on a topic
  1. Use note taking and organizational strategies to record and organize information

Topic

C. Ask Social Studies Questions

Indicator

  • 1. Identify a topic that requires further study

Objectives

  1. Identify prior knowledge about the topic
  1. Pose questions about the topic

Indicator

  • 2. Identify a situation or problem that requires study

Objectives

  1. Define the problem/situation
  1. Identify prior knowledge about the problem/situation
  1. Pose/Ask questions about the problem/situation

Topic

D. Acquire Social Studies Information

Indicator

  • 1. Identify primary and secondary sources of information that relate to the topic/situation/problem being studied

Objectives

  1. Gather and read appropriate print sources, such as journals, textbooks, timelines, and trade books
  1. Read and obtain information from texts representing diversity in content and culture
  1. Locate and gather data and information from appropriate non-print sources, such as music, maps, graphs, photographs, and illustrations

Indicator

  • 2. Engage in field work that relates to the topic/ situation/ problem being studied

Objectives

  1. Gather data
  1. Make and record observations
  1. Conduct surveys

Topic

E. Organize Social Studies Information

Indicator

  • 1. Organize information from non-print sources

Objectives

  1. Distinguish factual from fictional information
  1. Find relationships between gathered information
  1. Display information on various types of graphic organizers and charts

Indicator

  • 2. Organize information from print sources

Objectives

  1. Distinguish factual from fictional information
  1. Find relationships between gathered information
  1. Display information on various types of graphic organizers, maps, and charts

Topic

F. Analyze Social Studies Information

Indicator

  • 1. Interpret information from secondary sources including pictures, graphics, maps, atlases, and timelines

Objectives

  1. Compare information from a variety of sources
  1. Compare information to prior knowledge
  1. Recognize relationships in and among ideas or events, such as cause and effect, sequential order, main idea, and details

Topic

G. Answer Social Studies Questions

Indicator

  • 1. Describe how the community has changed over time and how people have contributed to its change, drawing from maps, photographs, newspapers, and other sources

Objectives

  1. Present social studies information in a variety ways, such as plays, skits, posters, songs, poems, murals, and oral presentations
  1. Plan and engage in school and community events, such as a mock election, playground clean-up, writing letters to community officials, and fund-raising for a cause

Date: 6/20/2006