Grade K • Social Studies What Your Child Will Learn

Grade K Social Studies

What YOur Child Will Learn

Civics

Being a responsible citizen includes knowing your role, rights, and responsibilities within a community and being able to identify individuals in a position of authority within a family, school, or community and their responsibilities. Responsible citizenship relies on our ability to view ourselves as a part of the larger civic community. In this unit, students will examine the concept of freedom and the role of compromise. They will also analyze the purpose of rules.

• What are the rights and responsibilities of people in a group, and those in authority?

Geography

Personal identity is shaped by community. Location, families, schools, and institutions create and support the broader community culture. In the geography unit, students will be able to explain how location makes their community special. They will also analyze the human and environmental interactions in their school community. Additionally, students will describe how transportation and communication link people and places by the movement of goods and ideas

• What makes my school community special?

Economics

Economic systems are created to address scarcity of resources. Economic thinking helps individuals and groups make decisions and allocate resources. In the economics unit, students will analyze the role of scarcity in their lives, decision-making, and choices made regarding career-paths.

• How do choices impact us?  

History

Historians use tools to understand the past. In this unit, students will analyze life in the past and change over time.

• What was school like in the past?