SOCIAL STUDIES
Kindergarten
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Understand the origin of different holidays and U.S. celebrations.
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Understand how historical figures, patriots, and good citizens helped shape the community,
state, and nation.
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Understand the concept of chronological order.
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Understand the concept of location (near, far, left, right).
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Use maps to find locations.
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Understand physical characteristics of landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and
weather.
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Identify human characteristics of a place (jobs, shelter, clothing, food, and activities).
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Understand basic student needs and wants.
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Understand the purpose of rules.
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Understand important symbols, customs, and responsibilities that represent American
beliefs and principles and contribute to our national identity.
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Understand similarities and differences among people.
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Understand the importance of family customs and traditions.
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Understand ways technology is used in the home and school and how technology affects
people’s lives.
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Apply critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid
sources, including electronic technology.
Grade 1
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Understand the origins of customs, holidays, and celebrations.
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Understand how historical figures, patriots, and good citizens helped shape the community,
state, and nation.
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Understand the concept of chronological order.
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Understand the cardinal directions and the relative location of objects and places.
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Use maps and globes to find locations.
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Understand physical and human characteristics (landforms, bodies of water, weather, jobs,
shelter, clothing, food, etc.).
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Understand how families meet basic needs.
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Understand the concepts of goods and services.
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Understand the condition of not being able to have all the goods and services one wants.
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Understand the value of work.
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Understand the purpose of rules and laws.
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Understand the role of authority figures, public officials, and citizens.
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Understand characteristics of good citizenship as shown by historical figures and
individuals.
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Understand important symbols, customs, and celebrations that represent American beliefs
and principles and contribute to our national identity.
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Understand the importance of family and community beliefs, customs, language, and
traditions.
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Understand how technology affects daily life, past and present.
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Apply critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid
sources, including electronic technology.
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Communicate in oral, visual and written forms.
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Use problem-solving skills, working independently and with others, in a variety of settings.
Grade 2
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Understand the importance of landmarks and celebrations in the community, state, and
nation.
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Understand the concept of chronological order and time.
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Understand how information about the past and present can be gained from a variety of
sources.
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Understand how historical figures, patriots, and good citizens helped shape the community,
state, and nation.
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Use geographical tools, including maps and globes.
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Understand that locations have characteristics unique to the place and region (community,
state, and nation).
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Understand how physical characteristics of places and regions affect people’s activities and
settlement patterns.
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Understand that humans use and modify their physical environment.
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Understand the value of work.
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Know that producers and consumers play a role in the production of goods and services.
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Understand the purpose of governments and role of public officials.
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Understand the purpose of good citizenship as exemplified by historical figures and other
individuals.
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Identify customs, symbols, and celebrations that represent American beliefs and principles
that contribute to our national identity.
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Understand the significance of art in the local community.
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Understand ethnic and/or cultural celebrations.
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Understand how technology affects daily life, past and present.
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Apply critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid
sources, including electronic technology.
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Communicate in oral, visual and written forms.
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Use problem-solving skills, working independently and with others, in a variety of settings.
Grade 3
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Understand how individuals, events, and ideas have influenced the history of various
communities.
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Understand common characteristics of communities, past and present.
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Understand the concept of time and chronology.
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Understand how humans adapt to variations in the physical environment.
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Understand the concept of location, distance, and direction on maps and globes.
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Understand the purpose of earning, spending, saving, and donating money.
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Understand the concept of the free enterprise system and how businesses operate within it.
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Understand the structure and function of various levels of government (local, state, and
national).
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Understand important ideas in historical government documents (i.e. Declaration of
Independence).
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Understand good citizenship as shown by historical and present figures.
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Understand the impact of decisions on communities in a constitutional republic.
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Understand ethnic and/or cultural celebrations.
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Understand the role of heroes in shaping the culture of communities, state, and the nation.
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Understand the importance of writers and artists to the cultural heritage of communities.
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Understand how technology affects daily life, past and present.
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Apply critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid
sources, including electronic technology.
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Communicate in oral, visual and written forms.
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Use problem-solving skills, working independently and with others, in a variety of settings.
Grade 4 * Effective for incoming fourth graders, 2018-19
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Understand the origins, similarities, and differences of American Indian groups in Texas and
North America before European exploration.
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Understand the causes and effects of European exploration and colonization of Texas and
North America.
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Understand the importance of the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas, and the
annexation of Texas to the United States.
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Understand the political, economic, and social changes in Texas during the last half of the
19th century.
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Understand important issues, events, and individuals of the 20th century in Texas.
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Use geographical tools to collect, analyze, and interpret data (grid systems, symbols, scales,
compass rose, maps, graphs, etc.)
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Understand the concept of regions.
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Understand the location and patterns of settlement and the geographic factors that influence
where people live.
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Understand how people adapt to and modify their environment.
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Understand the basic economic activities of early societies in Texas and North America.
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Understand the characteristics and benefits of the free enterprise system in Texas.
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Understand patterns of work and economic activities in Texas.
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Understand how Texas, the United States, and other parts of the world are economically
interdependent.
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Understand how people organized governments during the early development of Texas.
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Understand important ideas in historical documents of Texas and the United States.
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Understand customs, symbols, and celebrations of Texas.
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Understand the importance of participation in the democratic process.
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Understand the importance of effective leadership in a constitutional republic.
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Understand the contributions of people of racial, ethnic, and religious groups to Texas.
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Understand ways science and technology affect life in Texas.
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Apply critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid
sources, including electronic technology.
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Communicate in written, oral, and visual forms.
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Use problem-solving and decision-making skills to work independently and with others.