Kindergarten Social Studies

Written by Joanne Harriman Monday, 31 January 2011 16:20

Bold-faced standards are the MDIRSS essential standards and the standards in regular font are supporting standards. Click on the green bold-faced MDIRSS essential standards to see the unpacked version, list of resources, and corresponding performance rubric for that standard.

Kindergarten Social Studies Context: Self and Classroom Community

A. Process Skills

A.1 Identify and investigate research questions related to social studies by locating, organizing, and sharing information.
A.2 Make individual and collaborative decisions on matters related to social studies using research and discussion skills.
A.3 Select, plan, and participate in a civic action or service-learning project based on a classroom or school asset or need, and describe the project’s potential civic contribution.

B. Civics and Government

K.SS.B.1a. Describe and provide examples of the democratic ideals of truth, justice, and the common good.
K.SS.B.1b. Recognize the American flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, the White House, and that the President is the leader of the United States.

B.1c Label school community workers and identify the roles they play in promoting the common good in the school community.

B1c. Identify themselves as a worker in their classroom community contributing to the common good.

B2a. Recognize classroom responsibilities that reflect good citizenship including (taking turns and sharing; taking responsibility for certain classroom chores; taking care of personal belongings and respecting what belongs to others; following rules and understanding the consequence of breaking rules; practicing honesty, self-control, and kindness to others.

B.2b. Create, practice, and use classroom rules.
B.3a. Identify classroom traditions and decisions.

B3a. Participate in classroom traditions and decision-making processes.

B3b. Recognize that there are other cultures and nations (including the Wabanaki nations in Maine) that have different traditions and practices.

C. Economics

C.1a Identify the differences between wants and needs.

C1a. Make or draw a list of their own wants and needs and identify which are wants and which are needs.

C.1b Identify various ways to make (earn) money.

C1b. Draw pictures of ways to make (earn) money.

C2a. Name goods and services that they need money to get.

C.2b Describe the work of various community workers.

C2b. Label simple descriptions of work that people do with the names of those jobs.

D. Geography [see research on student learning in Geography for this age level]

D.1a Understand how maps are representations of real-world objects and locations.

D.1b Create a schematic map of a small surface, such as a table top, where objects have been strategically placed.

D.1c Identify the equator and north and south on a globe.

D.1c Identify similarities and differences between maps and globes.

D.1c Identify landforms: mountain, island, beach, and ocean.

D.2a Understand how mountains, islands, beaches, and oceans affect their daily life.

E. History

E1a. Understand that “history” is made up of stories of the past and that history can be viewed from many different perspectives that don’t necessarily tell the same story.

E .1a Understand that history is never simple.

E .1b Sequence photographs or drawings from their own life into a timeline.

E.1c Create a timeline that shows a sequence of events from a story in correct order.

E.1d Understand the concepts of before and after, and past and present, through narrative formats.

E.2a Understand the value of differences within a group.

E.2b Describe traditions of Maine Native Americans and various historical and recent immigrant groups and traditions common to all.

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