Grade K - (2025-)

Organizing Idea: Time and Place: Exploring the dynamic relationships between people, place, and time supports understanding of perspectives and events to make meaning of the world.

Organizing Idea: Systems: Evaluating processes and structures of organizations builds understanding of decision making in the world.

Organizing Idea: Citizenship: Understanding local, national, and global issues empowers individual and collective action toward an inclusive society.

Learning Outcome: Children examine places in communities.

Learning Outcome: Children explore expressions of traditions, cultures, and histories.

Learning Outcome: Children explore needs and wants.

Learning Outcome: Children investigate the role of leaders in communities.

Learning Outcome: Children relate cooperation and collaboration to achieving common goals.

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

A variety of places can be part of a community, for example,

Places in communities have distinct symbols.

Recognize familiar places in the local community.

Share places that have personal, family, or group meaning.

Traditions are beliefs and behaviours that are passed down through generations, for example,

Culture can be expressed through traditions and languages.

Histories are records of events that happened in the past (family history, personal history).

Events can be described according to sequence in time, for example,

Traditions, cultures, and histories can build understanding of self and others.

Describe traditions, cultures, languages, and histories of diverse groups in the local community.

Share traditions, cultures, languages, and histories of personal or family significance.

Share experiences with reference to time.

People have basic physical and social needs.

Physical needs, including food, water, and shelter, are necessary for survival.

Social needs, including safety and belonging, relate to comfort and well-being.

Due to individual differences, people can have unique needs, for example, they may need eyeglasses, medicine, or service animals.

Wants are unnecessary for survival.

People can have wants based on personal interests, preferences, and experiences.

People make decisions about ways to satisfy needs and wants.

People can have needs and wants.

Differentiate between needs and wants.

Explain ways to meet personal needs and wants.

Provide reasons for personal wants.

Leaders guide group members and help communities achieve goals.

Leaders contribute skills, knowledge, and experience to communities.

There are many leadership roles in communities such as schools and families, for example,

Leaders can contribute to the well-being of a community by acting with fairness.

Leaders guide communities.

Identify leaders in the local community.

Recognize ways leaders guide communities.

Brainstorm ways leaders can act with fairness.

People in groups cooperate and collaborate in many ways, for example,

People in groups can set rules and expectations about how members work together.

People in groups take responsibility to achieve common goals (civic responsibility and citizenship).

People can work more effectively in groups when members cooperate.

Identify groups of personal belonging.

Evaluate the benefits of cooperation and collaboration.

Demonstrate ways that people can cooperate.

Determine rules and expectations for group work.

playgrounds

natural areas

schools

fire stations

police stations

town or city halls

Places in a community can be recognized by distinctive features and symbols.

celebrations

ceremonies

holidays

foods

music

activities

stories

recently

long ago

daily

yearly

teachers

principals

parents

Elders

coaches

helping others

interacting fairly and respectfully

participating in activities

considering the needs of others

sharing ideas and stories

solving problems