Curriculum Guide
Social Studies
Social Studies Philosophy
Citizen participation in public life is essential for the
health of our democratic system. Effective social studies programs help prepare
students to identify, understand and work to solve problems that face our
increasingly diverse nation and interdependent world organization. Lakeland's
social studies program will foster individual and cultural identity beginning in
the primary grades and continuing through the secondary level. Our program will
include observation of and participation in the school and community. It will
deal with critical issues in the real world and prepare students to make
decisions based on American principles. The program will establish high
standards of performance and measure student's success in terms of application,
analysis and problem solving.
District Goals
Lakeland's Social Studies program will:
- Lead to citizenship participation in public affairs.
- Foster attitudes and values for participating in a
democratic society. Such attitudes will include an understanding of the
principles of justice, equality, responsibility, freedom, diversity, and
personal privacy.
- Foster identity as a member of the global human family.
- Lead to the acquisition of knowledge in the social
studies by understanding the various disciplines of the social studies; (i.e.
anthropology, geography, government, and economics).
- Lead to the development of study skills for functioning
effectively in a complex society. Such study skills include data gathering,
intellectual skills, interpersonal skills and decision-making.
- Develop knowledge in the geography of the U.S. and the
world.
- Develop the ability to read, analyze and evaluate graphs
and charts.
- Foster awareness of the world's interdependence and how
knowledge of the past and present will affect our place in the future.
- Foster awareness of how our economy works and the place
of the citizen, worker and producer in the economy.
Kindergarten
Revised 2007
Course Description
Kindergarten children are able to understand an idea best
by relating it to their own background and experience. It starts with
self-awareness and moves outward to the world. Social Studies concepts are an
integral part of the kindergarten experience of becoming aware of self, rules,
and the need for interdependence.
I. Self Awareness
Goal: Students will understand that every person is unique
and has special needs.
Objectives: Students will
- (372I) Identify ways in which they themselves are
special and unique.
-
(372.01i)Describe how each person is special and unique within the classroom.
- Share stories, pictures
and music of one’s own personal life, family and culture
- (375e) Express personal opinions and share them while
respecting others.
- (375f) Develop independence and assume responsibility
for one's actions.
- (372f) Demonstrate an understanding of our own personal
history as part of family, school, and neighborhood.
- (372h) Describe how families are similar and different.
- Describe how families
celebrate in many different ways
- (375b) Know ways to be helpful.
-
Describe how individuals have similarities and differences
II. Government
Goal: Students will understand that rules help people get
along together and stay safe.
Objectives: Students will
- (373c) Identify family, school, and community rules and
the reasons for them.
- Discuss how groups make
decisions and solve problems
- (375g) Identify and interpret safety-oriented symbols
and signs.
- (373b) Learn to work with and respect others.
- (372c/374b) Recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
- (373c) Sing This Land is Your Land.
- (374a) Identify U.S. symbols, such as the flag, bald
eagle, and red, white, and blue.
- (372c) Participate in patriotic activities.
- (366c) Identify (has knowledge of) current community
events.
- (374c/375c and d) Develop awareness of leadership roles
in our country, community, and family.
- (374c/375c and d) Know that people in the U.S. vote for
their leaders.
- (373.01c)Name
some rules and reasons for them.
-
(371.01a, 372.01b) Describe holidays and tell why they are commemorated in the
United States, such as Thanksgiving, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday,
President’s Day.
-
(375.01a) Identify Individuals who are helpful to people in their everyday
lives.
III. History
Goal: Students will understand that all life changes over
time and that the past and present shape our future.
Objectives: Students will
- (366 a and b) Understand that time is measured in weeks,
months and years.
- (366 a and b) Name in order, the days of the week and be
introduced to the months of the year.
- (371 a and b) Learn when and why we observe national
holidays (Independence Day, Veterans' Day, Martin Luther King Day, and
Presidents' Day).
- (372a) Listen to stories that reflect the cultural
heritage of our past.
- (370 a and b) Investigate different methods of
transportation, past and present.
- (370 c) Identify forms of communication, past and
present.
- (372 a) Listen to and view stories, pictures, and music
of other cultures.
- (372 d) Realize that people celebrate holidays in
different ways.
- (366 d) Have an awareness of historical events.
- 372.01f)
Name family traditions that came to North
America from other parts of the world. (Global Perspectives)
IV. Geography
Goal: Students will understand that their surroundings
affect their lives.
Objectives Students will
- (37802. c) Identify different geographic environments
and some animals and plants associated with them.
- (378) Recognize that the earth's rotation determines day
and night.
- (378) Name their community, their state, and country.
- (378 b)Use the globe to identify geographic features
(i.e. water and land).
- (378 a) Identify/recognize globe as a model of the
earth.
- (378 e) Make and use a map of a familiar area.
- (378 c) Identify North and South Poles
on a map or globe.
- (378 d) Recognize map of U.S. and know it is the country
we live in.
- (37802. A) Identify the four seasons.
- (378 f) Use terms bigger and smaller; near and far.
- (378.01c)
Distinguish between land masses and water on a
globe or map.
V. Community
Relations/Economics
Goal: Students will understand that people are
interdependent.
Objectives: Students will
- (376 c and d) Identify paid services provided by workers
in the community.
- (376 a) Identify the universal needs and wants of all
people.
- Describe some jobs that
people do to earn money
- (376 b) Recognize that people meet their needs by
sharing, trading, and using money.
- (372 g) Describe how people in communities help each
other.
- (372 g) Recognize that gender or race should not limit
occupations.
- Recognize that people
have limited resources
- (37802. B) Practice the concept of reducing, reusing and
recycling.
- (375 a) Identify individuals that are helpful in their
everyday lives.
- (376.01a)
Observe that all people have needs and wants.
Kindergarten
BENCHMARKS
Date Score Benchmark
- Identify ways that they themselves are important and
unique.
- State reasons that families, schools, and communities
have rules.
- Identify safety-oriented signs.
- Identify U.S. symbols (flag, bald eagle, and red, white,
and blue).
- State why we observe some national holidays.
- Give examples of how life has changed from past to
present.
- Name their community, state, and country.
- Know that a globe is a model of the Earth.
- Recognize a map of the U.S.
- Name a way that people need each other and help others.
VI. Proficiency
Expectations for Technology
Goal: Students will be able to use and care for computer
components and identify specific terms related to technology.
Objectives: Students will
- Identify the CPU, keyboard, mouse, floppy disk drive,
monitor, printer and CD-ROM.
- Understand terms of: login, exit, and cursor.
- Demonstrate care of: keyboard, mouse, computer disks
CDROMs, and printers.
- Turn the computer on, access and exit software, and
shutdown the computer.
VII. Information
Processing
Goal: Students access and retrieve electronic information.
Objectives Students will
- Understand that computers can store information.
VIII. Personal
Productivity
Goal: Students use technology to accomplish personal
productions and to develop life-long learning skills.
Objectives: Students will
- Type names and words with assistance.
- Understand that computers can print documents.
Kindergarten Benchmarks
for Technology
Date Score Benchmark
- Identify basic computer components and peripherals.
- Understand related computer terms
- Demonstrate appropriate care and use of computer
components.
First Grade
Revised
2007
Course description
The first grade Social Studies program is based on family
life experiences and understandings. The children will begin to understand the
cultural and social development of the United States. They begin to develop an
identity as a member of the family group, a resident of Idaho and a citizen of
the U.S. They will begin to understand that all citizens of the United States
have responsibilities and rights. The classroom is a laboratory where children
explore values, learn rules, and respect for individual differences.
STANDARD 1: HISTORY
Goal 1.1:
Build an understanding of the cultural and
social development of the United States.
Objectives: Students will
- (388 a) Recognize that
each person belongs to many groups, such as family, school, friends, and
neighborhoods.
- (388 b and 385 b) Recognize that Americans come from
many diverse backgrounds.
- (387 b) Understand that some people were not free in
Early America.
- (387 a) Explain why we celebrate Independence Day,
Veterans' Day, Civil Rights Day, and Presidents' Day.
- (389 a) Recognize important American leaders, past and
present and specify the significance of American symbols.
- (388 f) Compare
personal histories, pictures, and music of other selected times and places in
America’s past.
- (386 b) Compare the way
American families live now to the past.
- (384 a and 385 a) Study why the Pilgrims came to the
U.S. and that Native Americans were already on the continent.
- (388 e) Describe how people of different cultures have
the same basic needs but may meet them in different ways.
- (384 b) Describe the voyage of Christopher Columbus in
1492.
- (382 a and c) Use the calendar to measure days, weeks,
months, and years.
- (282 d) Use timelines
to show personal and family history.
STANDARD 2: GEOGRAPHY
Goal 2.1: Analyze the
special organizations of people, places, and environment on the earth’s surface.
Goal 2.2: Explain how
human actions modify the physical environment and how physical systems affect
human activity and living conditions.
Objectives: Students will
- (394 d) Identify the difference between continents and
water on a globe or map.
- (394 a) Explain what maps and globes represent and how
they are used.
- (394 b) Use directions
on a map: East, West, North, South
- (394 e) Name and locate the community, state, country,
and continent in which they live.
- (394 b and c) Recognize
legends, map keys, symbols and directions.
- (394 a and e) Explore picture maps.
- (394 a and e) Know that the United States has 50 states.
- (394 d) Recognize various geographic forms (i.e. rivers,
mountains, lakes, and deserts).
- (39402. A) Describe ways people adjust to their
environment.
- (394 a) Identify the
ways people modify their environment.
STANDARD 3: ECONOMICS
Goal 3.1: Explain basic
economic concepts.
Objectives: Students will
- (392 a) Identify
shelter,
food, and clothing as basic needs of people.
- (392 c) Name things
that people may want, but do not need, and explain the difference.
- (392 d) Identify ways
to save money for future needs and wants.
- (392 b) Identify ways people meet their needs by
sharing, trading, and using money to buy goods and services.
- (388 e) Recognize that family members do many kinds of
work to provide for the wants and needs of the family.
- (388 c) Explain how families vary in structure and size.
- (386 c) Identify workers, machines, and technology that
help to provide the services needed in the home and at school.
- (392 e and b) Explore careers available to all
regardless of race or gender.
- (39502. A) Practice the concept of reducing, reusing and
recycling and understand their importance to our natural resources.
- (382 a) Identify current events involving the community.
- (386 a) Compare different types of transportation and
their uses.
STANDARD 4: CIVICS AND
GOVERNMENT
Goal 4.1: Build an
understanding of the foundational principles of the American political system.
Goal 4.2: Build an
understanding of the organization and the formation of the American system of
government.
Goal 4.3: Build an
understanding that all people in the United States have rights and assume
responsibilities.
Objectives: Students will
1. (389 a) Understand the use of symbols and songs that honor our nation.
2. (389 b) Discuss how groups make decisions and solve problems, such as
voting and consensus.
3. (391 a and 389 c) Describe some rules and explain why they are
necessary in homes and schools.
4. (390 c) Know that people in the United States vote for their leaders.
5. (391 b) Explain why people in authority must apply rules fairly.
6. (391 c) Name some
responsibilities that students have in the classroom, at home, and in the
community.
7. (389 a) Recite the Pledge of
Allegiance.
8. (388 f) Listen to the Star
Spangled Banner, America, or other national songs of the U.S.
9. (388 f) Sing America and This
Land is Your Land.
10. (390 a and b) Identify
famous presidents, such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham
Lincoln, as well as know the current president.
11. (391 d) Know that voting is
one way in which rules are developed.
12. (391 e) Demonstrate good
citizenship.
13. (391) Identify individuals who are helpful to people in their everyday
lives.
14. (371) Describe holidays and events and tell why they are commemorated in
the United States.
STANDARD 5: GLOBAL
PERSPECTIVES
Goal 5.1: Build an
understanding of multiple perspectives and global interdependence.
Objectives: Students will
1.
(388 e) Compare family life in other
parts of the world.
2.
(388 e) Discuss family structures and
daily routines of various cultures around the world.
BENCHMARKS
First Grade
Date Score Benchmark
- Describe some rules and explain why they are necessary
in homes and schools.
- Name some responsibilities that students have in the
classroom, at home, and in the community.
- Explain why we celebrate Independence Day, Veterans'
Day, Civil Rights Day, and Presidents' Day.
- Recognize important American leaders, past and present,
and the significance of American symbols.
- Describe the voyage of Christopher Columbus.
- Name and locate, on a map, their community, state,
country, and continent.
- Recognize map keys, symbols, and directions.
- Recognize various geographic forms (i.e. rivers,
mountains, lakes and deserts).
- Identify workers, machines, and technology that help to
provide services needed in the home and at school.
- List different types of transportation and their uses.
- Explain the differences between needs and wants.
V. Proficiency
Expectations for Technology
Goal: Students will be able to use and care for computer
components and identify specific terms related to technology.
Objectives: Students will
- Identify the CPU, keyboard, mouse, floppy disk drive,
monitor, printer and CD-ROM.
- Understand terms of: edit, hardware, software, and word
processing.
- Demonstrate care of: keyboard, mouse, computer disks,
and CDROMs and printers.
- Manage files by saving and opening with assistance.
VI. Information
Processing
Goal: Students access and retrieve electronic information.
Objectives: Students will
- Understand that computers can store information.
- Introduce resources such as Internet and CD-ROM.
- Access Internet sites with assistance and guidance.
- Save and print with assistance.
VII. Personal
Productivity
Goal: Students use technology to accomplish personal
productions and to develop life-long learning skills.
Objectives: Students will
- Type names and words.
- Print documents with assistance.
- Produce a document using text and graphics with
assistance.
- Use multimedia tools: Internet, CD-ROM, video, audio.
- Format documents including size and color.
- Introduce output devices.
Grade 1
Benchmarks for Technology
Date Score Benchmark
- Identify basic computer components and peripherals.
- Understand related computer terms.
- Demonstrate appropriate care and use of computer
components.
Second Grade
Revised 2007
Course Description:
The second grade social studies program is based on
neighborhood life experiences and understandings. Students will recognize that
they are members of different groups and that members of these groups contribute
in a variety of ways. Students will begin to develop a global awareness through
work with maps, globes and studies of other cultures. Students will begin to
explore their roles as citizens, producers and consumers. Students will
recognize that technology will affect their jobs, communities and place in the
world. Students will be able to obtain information from a variety of sources.
I. Government
Goal: Students will develop an understanding of rules,
respect for others and responsibilities within their community, family and
school.
Objective: Students will
- (407) Identify rules used in various groups and
explain the consequences of how
rules
and laws help people stay safe and get along with each other.
- Identify the people or
groups that make, apply and enforce the rules.
- (407) Explain ways neighbors work together to make
decisions for their community.
- (404) Develop an understanding of the worth and dignity
of all individuals.
- Identify
characteristics of good citizens.
- Names historic and
contemporary people who model characteristics of good citizenship.
- (408) Explain that people in a community pay taxes to
provide services shared by all people in the community.
- (406) Explain that adult leaders in our society are
selected by voters.
- (405) Recognize there are certain documents (i.e. U.S.
Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence) that insure our
basic freedoms.
- (406) Experience voting and understand the basic
democratic ideal of citizen participation.
- (405) Recite the Pledge of Allegiance and discuss the
meaning of the words.
- (405) Listen to national songs.
A.
(405) Sing "America", "America the Beautiful", "This Land is Your Land".
B.
(406) Name the current President of the United States and the current
Governor of Idaho.
C.
(405) Identify symbols of the United States, such as the American flag.
D.
(406) Recognize that Washington, D.C. is the capitol of the United States
and that every state has a capitol city.
13.
Explain
important customs, symbols and celebrations that represent the development of
American beliefs and principles.
II. History
Goal: Students will understand the past can be used to
understand the present.
Objectives: Students will
- (402) Contrast the ways in which people long ago and
people today meet the same needs.
- (404) Understand that celebrating holidays is a way of
remembering the past.
- Recognize that places change over time.
- (398) Observe that time lines can show the order in
which things happen.
- (400) Study the reasons for Christopher Columbus'
voyages and what affect they had on Native Americans, the first inhabitants of
North America.
- (405) Identify George Washington's importance to
American History.
- Identify significant early American leaders.
- (405) Identify Abe Lincoln's importance to American
History.
- (398) Use the calendar to measure days, weeks, months,
and years.
- (400) Identify Native American tribes, their cultures,
and their influences on the development of the United States.
- 400) Know that people come from different countries to
live in the United States, such as pilgrims.
- Discuss different
groups that a person belongs to such as family and neighborhood and how those
roles and/or groups have changed or stayed the same.
- (401) Describe life during the Westward Movement and
Pioneer America.
III. Geography
Goal: Students will understand that maps and globes are
graphic representations of actual places and things.
Objectives: Students will
- (410) Read a map using a map key, a compass rose, and
recognize a star denotes a capital.
- (410) Locate and name Idaho and the Idaho Panhandle on a
U.S. map.
- Illustrate that
boundary lines separate states.
- (410) Name and locate the U.S., the equator and the
Poles on a world map and globe.
- Show that map symbols
such as key, legend, and scale represent a real object or place.
- Identify landforms,
bodies of water, and human made features such as cities and dams on a map and
globe.
- (410) Name and locate Canada and Mexico on a map.
- (410) Compare climates of different areas.
- (410) Identify ways that the physical environment
affects the way people live and work.
- Describe how humans
depend on the environment to meet their basic needs.
- Compare how
environmental conditions affect living styles and clothing in different parts
of the country.
- (402) Identify various modes of transportation.
- (406) Contrast the difference between a country, state,
and community.
- (410) Use cardinal directions to find locations.
- State the cardinal
directions and how to use a compass.
IV. Economics
Goal: Students will understand people are both producers
and consumers of goods and services.
Objectives: Students will
- (408) Understand/identify
that people everywhere have needs and wants.
- (408) Recognize that people work at many different kinds
of jobs to provide money for goods and services and savings for future needs
and wants.
- Explain how natural
resources affect economic activities in the local community.
- (408) Explain that people are producers and consumers.
- (407) Practice the concept of reducing, reusing and
recycling and understand their importance to our natural resources.
- (409) Recognize that changes in technology tools also
change homes, schools, and communities.
- (409) Explain how technology can affect jobs.
- (402) Compare and contrast current transportation with
transportation of the past.
V.
Global Perspectives
Goal: Students will better understand his/her role in
social groups.
Objectives: Students will
- (404) Recognize that they are members of different
groups (a family, a neighborhood, a community, a state, and a nation) who
contribute a variety of customs and traditions that make up American beliefs
and principles.
- (404) Understand that neighborhoods are made up of
people of different ages and different backgrounds and therefore each
neighborhood is unique.
- Compare
neighborhoods/communities in various parts of the world.
- (404) Read stories that illustrate cultural differences.
- Recognize all human beings have feelings, emotions, and
desires that influence behavior.
- (404) Understand the importance of special community
events and be able to name events specific to his/her community.
- (402) Explain how people in the past and present used
many types of communications, such as: Internet, newspapers, books,
television, etc.
- (404) Describe some family traditions.
- Compare traditions
practiced in other parts of the world.
BENCHMARKS