Social Studies Grade 1

1st Grade ILSSS

Inquiry Skills

Civics

Economics and Financial Literacy

Geography

History

Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries

Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence

Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action

Civic and Political Institutions

Processes, Rules, and Laws

Economic Decision Making

Financial Literacy

Geographic Representations: Spatial Views of the World

Human-Environment Interaction: Place, Regions, and Culture

Human Population: Spatial Patterns and Movements

Change, Continuity, and Context

Perspectives

Constructing Essential Questions

Determining Helpful Resources

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Developing Claims and Using Evidence

Communicating Conclusions

Taking Informed Action

With guidance and support, explain how individuals that live, learn, and work together make important decisions, and the effect that these decisions have on a variety of diverse communities.

Identify reasons for rules and explain how rules establish responsibilities and roles, and their effect on one's own and other groups and communities.

Explain and give examples of when choices are made that something else is given up.

Describe the skills and knowledge required to produce certain goods and services.

Explain how people are compensated for work.

With guidance and support, construct and interpret print and digital maps and other cultural representations of familiar places.

With guidance and support, describe how human activities affect the cultural and environmental characteristics of places or regions.

Compare how people in different types of communities use local and world-wide environments to meet their daily needs.

Create a chronological sequence of multiple events based on current learning.

Generate questions and investigate diverse individuals and groups who have shaped a significant historical change.

With guidance and support, investigate how our perspectives of historical events have changed over time.

Create questions that are relevant to self as they relate to the content of the Social Science Standards.

With guidance and support, students will use varied teacher-selected resources to learn procedures to locate evidence that assists with finding answers to their questions. Introduce the importance of informational resources that are reliable and determine fact from opinion.

With guidance and support gather relevant information from multiple sources to analyze information.

With guidance and support, evaluate a source by distinguishing between fact and opinion.

Construct explanations for a specific audience using reasoning, correct sequences, examples, and details, while acknowledging their strengths and weaknesses.

With guidance and support, students will reflect on one’s inquiry process and findings

Using various viewpoints, students will engage in reflective conversations to draw conclusions on inquiry findings and create action steps.