Kindergarten Social Studies

Kindergarten Social Studies

Accomplishments - Culture

K.1.01	Understand the diversity of human cultures.	4 Children - A Powerpoint show that helps pupils to explore their own lives – and the world around them – by looking at the lives of four children from around the world. Wake Up World! - 4 children from around the world share a day in their lives.
a.	Identify personal attributes, such as physical characteristics, that are common to all people such as physical characteristics.
b.	Identify differences among people.
c.	Recognize how individuals learn to do skills and customs from their culture.
d.	Recognize all cultures have family units where decisions are made.
K.1.02	Discuss cultures and human patterns of places and regions of the world.
a.	Understand that some differences among people are a result of their culture.
b.	Identify similarities and differences in food, clothes, homes, games, and families in different cultures.	Games From Around the World - Directions for playing games from several cultures.
c.	Explain how means of transportation may be diversified in different cultures in response to the environment.
d.	Compare family customs and traditions among cultures.
e.	Describe customs of the local community.
K.1.03	Recognize the contributions that individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic groups have made to the development of civilizations.
a.	Recognize contributions of different cultures around the world.
b.	Explain the value of family traditions and customs.

Accomplishments - Economics

K.2.01	Describe potential costs and benefits of personal economic choices in a market economy.
a.	Identify basic human needs.
b.	Explain how basic human needs of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation are met.
c.	Understand that people create shelter according to both culture and environment.
K.2.02	Give examples of the interaction of businesses and governments in a market economy.
a.	Recognize how jobs are similar and different from one community to another.
b.	Identify jobs in the home, and school.
K.2.03	Understand fundamental economic concepts.
a.	Explain why people have jobs.
b.	Distinguish between needs and wants.	Want vs. Need: Basic Economics - A want is something you could have, and a need is something you have to have. Sounds simple, right? Sometimes, it's not that easy. Could be used as an introduction- not interactive.
c.	Recognize that all jobs are significant and realize that some jobs are interdependent.

Accomplishments - Geography

K.3.01	Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective.
a.	Explain what a globe and map represent.
b.	Use personal directions such as up, down, left, right, near and far to describe relative direction.
c.	Locate places in community such as the student's home and the classroom on the campus.
K.3.02	Recognize the interaction between human and physical systems around the world.
a.	Identify the human characteristics of places such as types of houses and ways of earning a living.
b.	Describe how weather impacts every daily life.
c.	Describe seasons.
K.3.03	Demonstrate how to identify and locate major physical and political features on globes and maps.
a.	Identify the concept of physical features as in mountains, plains, hills, oceans, and islands.
b.	Describe how landforms and bodies of water influence where and how people live.
c.	Describe personal connections to place, especially place as associated with immediate surroundings.

Accomplishments - Governance & Civics

K.1.01	Understand the diversity of human cultures.
a.	Identify personal attributes, such as physical characteristics, that are common to all people such as physical characteristics.
b.	Identify differences among people.
c.	Recognize how individuals learn to do skills and customs from their culture.
d.	Recognize all cultures have family units where decisions are made.
K.1.02	Discuss cultures and human patterns of places and regions of the world.
a.	Understand that some differences among people are a result of their culture.
b.	Identify similarities and differences in food, clothes, homes, games, and families in different cultures.
c.	Explain how means of transportation may be diversified in different cultures in response to the environment.
d.	Compare family customs and traditions among cultures.
e.	Describe customs of the local community.
K.1.03	Recognize the contributions that individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic groups have made to the development of civilizations.
a.	Recognize contributions of different cultures around the world.
b.	Explain the value of family traditions and customs.

Accomplishments - History

K.5.01	Identify major events, people, and patterns Tennessee, United States, and world history.
a.	Define history as the story of our past.
b.	Recall events in the past and present in order to recognize that individuals have a personal history.
c.	Illustrate a family history to demonstrate that every family has a heritage.
K.50.2	Understand the place of historical events in the context of past, present, and future.
a.	Recognize that change occurs over time.
b.	observe how sites in neighborhoods and communities change over time.
K.5.03	Explain how to use historical information acquired from a variety of sources.
a.	Recognize that each family has a family tree.
b.	Recall family stories and celebrations to develop a personal history.

Accomplishments - Individuals, Groups, & Interactions

K.6.01	Recognize the impact of individual and group decisions on citizens and communities.
a.	Describe how individuals meet their needs and wants through different means.
b.	Know that individuals choose jobs that impact their lives, families and communities.
c.	Explain that people learn in the context of families, peers, schools, and communities.
d.	Give examples of how learning and physical development affect behavior.
e.	Explain the consequences of an individual's decisions and actions.
K.6.02	Understand how groups can impact change at the local, state, national, and world levels.
a.	Recognize individuals have a space or develop an understanding of space and spatial relationships.
b.	Understand that cooperation is necessary when working within large and small groups to complete tasks.
c.	Work independently and cooperatively to accomplish goals.
d.	Describe how groups are made up of people who work, play, or learn together and share common interests.