Social Studies - 1st Grade
Title: Civics and Government
Objectives:
Essential Questions:
 Why do schools have rules?
 How do rules help us?
 What does it mean to be treated equally or fairly?
 What does fairness and unfairness look like?
 What activities or organizations do you participate in at school or in your community?
 Why are rules and laws being written down important?
 What responsibilities do you have at school and in the community?
 What are the behaviors of responsible classroom citizens?
 What should the consequences look like for those not being responsible classmates?
 How do we identify problems and communicate to solve them?
 How can the classroom community find solutions to problems?
 How does our school help the community?
 What are symbols that represent America?
 Why is the American Flag an important symbol and what does it represent?
 Who are the leaders of our school?
 What are some important services provided by our local government?
 How do we avoid conflict?
 How would being represented by an elected official help in a school or community conflict?
 How are taxes applied?
 How is news sent and received?
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Social Studies - 1st Grade
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
5.1.1.A,B,C,D,E
Principles and Documents of
Government
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Rules of Classroom
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 Purpose of
 Needs for
How Government Works
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5.3.1.F
Performance (What the Student will Do)
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5.1.1.F
Responsibilities and Rules in a
Classroom and School Community
 Rules
 Routines
Principles and Documents of
Government
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National Symbols
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Rights and Responsibilities of
Citizenship
Rights and Responsibilities
At school and home
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5.2.1.B
5.4.1.E
Rights and Responsibilities
How Government Works
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5.2.1.C
Problem Solving Strategies
How Government Works
5.2.1.A,D
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Activities/Assessments
Explain the purpose and importance for rules
and consequences in the classroom and
school community.
Define equality and provide an example and
non-example and reason for importance of
equality for everyone.
Explain the importance of written rules and
laws.
Describe their responsibilities in the school
and community.
Identify and explain behaviors for responsible
classroom citizens and consequences for
inappropriate actions
Students will identify and name national
symbols: ex. The American Flag, Bald Eagle,
White House, and Capital.
Students will explain symbolism of American
flag.
Identify and describe importance of
responsibilities at school and home.
Describe responsible school behavior.
Identify school and community activities they
participate in.
Identify a problem and attempt to solve using
communication.
Describe how classroom community can work
together to compromise and find solutions.
Identify school activities or projects that
support our community.
Public Service
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Social Studies - 1st Grade
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
5.3.1.A, B, C, D
How Government Works
Performance (What the Student will Do)
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Identify the roles, services, and providers of
services by local government.
Identify positions of authority in school.
Local Government Organization and
Services
(police, trash, mail)
5.3.1.E
5.3.1.J
5.4.1.A
5.4.1.B
Name principal, teacher, and support
personnel in room.
How Government Works
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Importance of Elections
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5.3.1.I
How Government Works
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5.3.1.H
Taxes
How Government Works
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5.4.1.D
Identify and explain situations in school or
community when it is useful to be represented
by an elected official.
Identify ways to avoid conflict.
Describe ways to avoid conflict and how
voting can ease conflict.
List examples of taxation.
Identify and describe how information and
news is sent and received.
Media
How International Relationships
Function
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Social Studies - 1st Grade
Title: Economics
Objectives:
Essential Questions:
 How are resources limited?
 How are wants and needs different?
 How do we decide what a classroom needs vs. want the classroom wants?
 How does advertising influence what we buy?
 How can needs and wants influence what we buy?
 What are the differences between goods, consumers and producers?
 What are the similarities between goods, consumers and producers?
 How does a new business affect the local community?
 What is an individual economic system within a family setting?
 What are some examples of goods and services?
 How is it determined where a product is made?
 What are a few examples of United States made products?
 What are three types of work unique to Fairfield?
 How do values affect a person’s needs and wants?
 What are a few examples of different types of pay and the jobs associated with them?
 What are a few businesses in the community and identify what they produce or sell?
 How do you determine what tools you need to complete a certain job?
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
6.1.1.A
6.1.1.B
Scarcity and Choice
Limited Resources
6.2.1.C
6.1.1.C
Advertising and Media
Opportunity Costs
Performance (What the Student will Do)
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Activities/Assessments
Identify scarcity of resources in the family.
Identify personal and classroom wants and
needs
Identify advertisements that influence us to
buy things based on want rather than need.
Identifies choice based on needs versus a
want.
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Social Studies - 1st Grade
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
6.1.1.D
Incentives and Choice
6.2.1.A
Performance (What the Student will Do)
Identify a choice based on classroom interest.
Goods and Services
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6.2.1.D
6.2.1.E
Price Determination
Economic Health
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6.2.1.G
Economic Systems
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6.3.1.A
Goods and Services
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Identify effect on community of a business
opening.
Define an economic system at the individual
level.
Identify examples of goods and services
produced in the United States.
6.3.1D
6.4.1.A
Government’s Role in
International Trade
Specialization
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6.5.1.A
Factors Influencing Wages
Identify individuals who work in the
community, locally available jobs and there
purpose, and examples of specialization
within specific jobs.
6.5.1.B
6.4.1.D
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6.5.1.C
Labor Productivity
Factors Contributing to Economic
Interdependence
Types of Businesses
Describe how individuals differ in wants and
needs and why people buy and sell things.
Identify businesses and their corresponding
goods and service as buyers and sellers.
6.5.1.F
6.5.1.D
Entrepreneurship
Profits and Losses
6.5.1.E
Distribution of Wealth
6.5.1.G
Costs and Benefits of Savings
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Identify goods, consumers, producers and role
of money in determining price.
Describe what tools are necessary to
complete a task, how money is earned, and
the need to save money.
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Social Studies - 1st Grade
Title: Geography
Objectives:
Essential Questions:
 What are some geographical tools?
 How do you read a map?
 Identify different parts of a map
 How do you find a place based on local geography?
 What is the geography of Fairfield?
 What physicals processes affect the physical characteristics of the community?
 What is the local climate and how does it affect us?
 How do lakes, rivers and streams affect people?
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
Performance (What the Student will Do)
7.1.1.A
Geographic Tools
7.1.1.B
Location of Places and Regions
7.2.1.A
Physical Characteristics
7.2.1.B
Physical Processes
7.3.2.A
7.4.1.A
Human Characteristics
Impact of People on Physical Systems
Identify geographic tools. (Maps, Globes,
Photographs, Compass Rose, Legend or Key)
Describe places in geographic reference by physical
features.
Identify physical characteristics in the community and
local region of neighboring towns.
Identify the basic physical processes that affect the
physical characteristics of places. (identify land and
water forms Mountains, creeks, pond, lake, valley,
Identify the local climate and how it affects daily life.
Describe how lakes, rivers, and streams impact
people.
Activities/Assessments
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Social Studies - 1st Grade
Title: History
Objectives:
Essential Questions:
 How do we put things into chronological order?
 Why do we put things into chronological order?
 How do we know when there is a problem during an event?
 Where do we find information about the past?
 What separate groups are of people who within the community?
How do these groups affect the community?
 What is the state motto?
 What are three other symbols or slogans that represent the state?
 How does the community celebrate holidays?
 What is the historical past of the community?
 How does the historical past of the community affect it now?
 Who are some American’s who helped shape America?
 What are some American landmarks?
 How has America changed in the last 100 years?
 How can making smart choices help people cooperate and avoid conflict?
 What is the purpose of celebrations?
 Why are landmarks around the world important?
 How do different cultures celebrate their individual holidays?
 What does conflict in the classroom look like?
 What does cooperation in the classroom look like?
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
Performance (What the Student will Do)
8.1.1.A
8.1.1.B
8.1.1.C
Continuity and Change over Time
Fact/Opinion and View Points
Research
Demonstrate an understanding of chronology.
Identify a problem or dilemma surrounding an event.
Identify sources of historical information.
Activities/Assessments
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Social Studies - 1st Grade
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
Performance (What the Student will Do)
8.2.1.A
Contributions from Individuals and
Groups
Historical Documents, Artifacts, and
Places (PA)
Impact of Continuity and Change on PA
History
Conflict and Cooperation (PA)
Contributions from Individuals and
Groups(US History)
Historical Documents, Artifacts, and
Places (US History)
Impact of Continuity and Change on US
History
Contributions from Individuals and
Groups(World)
Historical Documents, Artifacts, and
Sites (World)
Impact of Continuity and Change
(World)
Conflict and Cooperation (World)
Identify groups of people who contribute to a local
community.
Identify symbols, slogans, or mottos that are
representative of the state.
Identify holiday and cultural celebrations in a
community and why they are celebrated.
Identify historical conflict in the community.
Identify Americans who played a significant role in
American history.
Identify American landmarks and their significance.
8.2.1.B
8.2.1.C
8.2.1.D
8.3.1.A
8.3.1.B
8.3.1.C
8.4.1.A
8.4.1.B
8.4.1.C
8.4.1.D
Activities/Assessments
Identify examples of change.
Explain why cultures celebrate.
Explain the importance of world landmarks.
Identify holidays and ceremonies of selected world
cultures.
Describe examples of conflict and cooperation in the
classroom community.
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