First Grade Social Studies

• Sequence of Study
  • Family
  • Neighborhoods
• Core Democratic Values
  • Truth
  • Equality
  • Life
  • Liberty
• Geographical Concepts
  • Environment (landforms)
  • Community
  • Global Address (street, city, state, country)
  • map skills
  • (compass, read a map)
  • Region
  • 5 Themes of Geography
• Historical Concepts
  • past, present, future
  • intervals of time (days, weeks, months)
  • stories from the past
  • evaluate decisions of others
• Civics Concepts
  • authority
  • freedom
  • decisions
  • rules
  • conflict resolution
• Economic Concepts
  • good and services
  • money
  • resources
  • needs and wants
• Websites
  • enchantedlearning.com
  • unitedstreaming.com
  • crayola.com
  • scholastic.com
  • nationalgeographic.com/kids
  • Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
  • People and Places (big books)