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 ROSS UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS Kindergarten‐Second Grade Social Studies Kindergarten 1st Citizenship History • Recognize history as • Identify the American events that have Flag, bald eagle, already happened. Washington • Describe the lives of Monument, and people long ago. Statue of Liberty • Celebrate holidays to • Demonstrate respect remember people and for the American by learning about the events of long ago. pledge of Allegiance • Compare changes in everyday life in the Timelines present to life in the past. • Interpret information presented in picture Geography timelines to show sequence of events • Use positional words •
Distinguish between to describe people, the past, present, and places and things. future • Maps and globes • Recognize basic map represent the Earth. concepts • Use maps and globes • Use cardinal directions to locate land and on maps water features. • Identify the shape of the United States of • Use maps and globes America on maps and to teach basic map globes concepts. • Locate Washington, Economics D.C., the capital of the • Identify and list the United States. various jobs that people do. Great Americans • Match work that • Describe stories of people do to names of American leaders and those jobs. their contributions to • Understand that the United States of people cannot have America 2nd Citizenship • Respecting and protecting the rights and property of others • Taking part in voting process when making classroom decisions • Describing actions that can improve the school and community • Demonstrate self‐
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reliance • Practice honesty and trustworthiness Map Skills • Locating the equator, the seven continents, and the five oceans on maps and globes • Locating selected rivers, mountain ranges, and lakes in the United States and other countries •
Demonstrate map skills by constructing simple maps, using title, map legend, and compass rose. Economics • Describe natural resources (water, soil, wood, and coal) human resources (people at work), and •
everything they want. Recognize that people work to earn money to buy the things they want. •
Discuss the lives of people associated with Presidents’ Day, Columbus Day, and the events of Independence Day. Civics • Discuss traits of a good Geography citizen. • Describe how the • Recognize the purpose location of a of rules and practicing community, climate self‐control. and physical • Practice and surroundings affect demonstrate the way people live responsibilities of including their food, clothing, shelter, good citizens. transportation, and • Compare the national recreation symbols of the United States to those of Economy Dominica. • Explain the difference • Know the leader of the between goods and U.S. is called the services President. • Describe how people are consumers and producers of goods and services • Explain that people make choices because they cannot have everythting they want • Recognize that people save money for the future to purchase goods and services •
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Communities and Government Recognize that communities: capital resources (machines, tools, and buildings) Distinguish between the use of barter and the use if money in the exchange fro goods and services Explain that scarcity (limited resources) requires people to make choices about producing and consuming goods and services. •
Locate the United States, China, and Egypt on world maps; Explain how the contributions of ancient China and Egypt and how these have influenced the present world in terms of architecture, inventions, the calendar, and written language Understand the relationship between the environment and the culture of ancient China and Egypt Compare the lives and contributions of three •
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governments Benefit from people who volunteer Include people who have diverse ethnic origins, customs, and traditions •
American Indian cultures of the past and present with emphasis on the Powhatan of the Eastern Woodlands, the Lakota of the Plains, and the Pueblo people of the Southwest Identify and compare changes in community life over time in terms of buildings, jobs, transportation, and population Economics •
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and property of others; taking part in the voting process when making classroom decisions; Describing actions that can improve the school and community; Demonstrate self‐
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reliance; practicing honesty and trustworthiness. Identify George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Antony, Helen Keller, Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther King as Americans whose contributions improved the lives of other Americans. •
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Identify diverse ethnic origins, customs and traditions, who make contributions to their communities, and who are united as Americans by common principles Third‐Fifth Grade Social Studies 3rd History • Explore ancient civilizations and their way of life. • Investigate the great explores of the past and study how these explores affected history and the reasons for their journeys. Geography • Perform map skills by locating and describing some of the great civilizations of the past. • Identify the location of the continents and oceans. • Identify the equator and prime meridian and the hemispheres it divides the Earth into. • Investigate the countries and regions explored by some of the great explores of the past. • Use a grid system to find specific locations. • Analysis and construct maps, tables, graphs and charts. 4th
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Locate the 7 continents and 5 oceans Understand the difference between latitude and longitude Understand different landforms on maps Locate geographic regions in North America Identify bodies of water that were important to colonial America Define water and land related features Early Cultures of North America 5th Maps/Pictures/Globes/Tables •
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Determine how climate and physical features contributed to westward movement Understand how resources were transported Know how goods were made Locate the 50 states and know the historical significance Reconstruction of America •
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Connect the past to the present • Know the order in American Life After Civil War which events • Know why happened immigration increased • Identify different • Know why cities Native American tribes became more (where they lived, successful different traditions • Identify attempts to fix and lifestyles) immigration problems • Know types of • Problems faced by resources (natural, cities human, capital) • Changes in city and European Exploration of North rural life America and West Africa • Positive and negative • Understand why effects of Europeans wanted to industrialization explore Economics • Identify problems that Late 19th Century through WWI • Evaluate the economic • Reasons and effects of hindered exploration systems of ancient Spanish American War • Know the civilizations and their •
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resources. Evaluate production and trading of different regions. Civics • Evaluate different laws and rules of the past and present. Understand the role laws and rules play in local government and the United States of America. • Investigate the governments power and duty to the people they serve. • Explore the basic principles that have come to form a republican form of government that rules over the people of the United States of America. People • Evaluate the diversity of people in America. Investigate how equal protection and principles are formed to insure individual rights and freedoms. accomplishments of • Theodore Roosevelt’s explorers foreign policy • Identify who explored • Know why the United the different areas of States participated in North America WWI • Understand the • Understand US positive and negative involvement in WWI cultural interactions • Know how West Africa Early Twentieth Century • Understand how affected North development and America inventions changed Shaping Colonial America the standard of living • Determine how and • Understand the why colonies were reasons for established discrimination and • Describe the different migration lifestyles and what • Know the cultural each region provided influences in the arts • Understand colonial • Know the causes and life through different effects of the Great perspectives Depression • Understand World War II connection between • Know why America the colonies and Great decided to become Britain involved in WWII • Understand American American Revolution involvement • Know causes of the American Revolution • Identify turning points • Compare and contrast • Know how it affected perspectives of America directly colonist and people • Understand from Great Britain transformation after • Know key events and the war people who • Know why economic participated in the and social growth was revolution so fast • Understand the • Understand American struggles both sides involvement in the endured and how the Cold War, Korea and colonist were able to Vietnam, Cuban defeat Great Britain missile crisis, end of The New Nation •
communism in Europe Know how society changed for military veterans, women and minorities Understand the important of global connections Know challenges the •
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nation • The creating of the Constitution Twentieth and Twenty‐first • Struggles and Century accomplishments of • Understand the the first five presidents
components of the Civil Rights Movement Westward Expansion and Reformation and how women’s roles changed • How America gained new land • Know the effects of technology • Economic and geographic factors • Identify different that pushed westward people who have movement impacted America scientifically, • Define and understand academically, vocabulary culturally, and • Describe different economically movements during reformation Civil War •
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Understand causes of the Civil War Know what issues divided the nation Know ways they tried to resolve the issues Describe the southern reaction to the division issues Identify important people who played a major role in the Civil War Identify major events and battles Understand the effects after the war on different groups Sixth‐Eighth Grade Social Studies 6th 1. Latin America a. Geography‐ Learn the locations of countries, landforms, and bodies of water for each region/country b. Government‐Identity various levels of government and the rights of society for each region/country c. Economics‐Learn about the impact of small businesses to large corporations have on the economy d. Understand how the government and trade between countries impact the world’s economy e. History‐ Discuss the past of each region/country and how it affects the present time 2. Caribbean a. Geography‐ Learn the locations of countries, landforms, and bodies of water for each region/country b. Government‐ Identify various levels of government and the rights of society for each region/country c. Economics‐ Learn about the impact of 7th 1. Africa a. Geography‐ Learn the locations of countries, landforms, and bodies of water for each region/country b. Government‐ Identity various levels of government and the rights of society for each region/country c. Economics‐ Learn about the impact of small businesses to large corporations have on the economy d. Understand how the government and trade between countries impact the world’s economy e. History‐ Learn about the past of each region/country and how it affects the present time 2. East Asia a. Geography‐ Learn the locations of countries, landforms, and bodies of water for each region/country b. Government‐ Identify various levels of government and the rights of society for each region/country c. Economics‐ Learn about the impact of small 8th 1. Prehistory‐ 1800B.C. a. Paleolithic Era, Ancient River Valley Civilizations (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus River Valley, China) i. Location ii. Important People iii. Living Environment iv. Government v. Religion vi. Language vii. Contributions 2. 1000 B.C. – 1500 A.D. a. Persia, India, China, Greece, and Rome i. Location ii. Important People iii. Living Environment iv. Government v. Religion vi. Language vii. Contributions 3. 300 A.D. – 1,000 A.D. a. Byzantine Empire, Russia, and Western Europe i. Location ii. Important People iii. Living Environment iv. Government v. Religion vi. Language small businesses to large corporations have on the economy d. Understand how the government and trade between countries impact the world’s economy e. History‐ Learn about the past of each region/country and how it affects the present time 3. Canada a. Geography‐ Learn the locations of countries, landforms, and bodies of water for each region/country b. Government‐ Identify various levels of government and the rights of society for each region/country c. Economics‐ Learn about the impact of small businesses to large corporations have on the economy d. Understand how the government and trade between countries impact the world’s economy e. History‐ Learn about the past of each region/country and how it affects the present time 4. Europe a. Geography‐ Learn the locations of countries, landforms, and bodies of water for each businesses to large corporations have on the economy d. Understand how the government and trade between countries impact the world’s economy e. History‐ Learn about the past of each region/country and how it affects the present time 3. Southern Asia a. Geography‐ Learn the locations of countries, landforms, and bodies of water for each region/country b. Government‐ Identify various levels of government and the rights of society for each region/country c. Economics‐ Learn about the impact of small businesses to large corporations have on the economy d. Understand how the government and trade between countries impact the world’s economy e. History‐ Learn about the past of each region/country and how it affects the present time 4. Eastern Asia a. Geography‐Learn the locations of countries, landforms, and bodies of vii. Contributions region/country b. Government‐ Identify various levels of government and the rights of society for each region/country c. Economics‐ Learn about the impact of small businesses to large corporations have on the economy d. Understand how the government and trade between countries impact the world’s economy e. History‐ Learn about the past of each region/country and how it affects the present time 5. Australia a. Geography‐ Learn the locations of countries, landforms, and bodies of water for each region/country b. 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water for each region/country Government‐ Identify various levels of government and the rights of society for each region/country Economics‐ Learn about the impact of small businesses to large corporations have on the economy Understand how the government and trade between countries impact the world’s economy History‐Learn about the past of each region/country and how it affects the present time region/country and how it affects the present time