Grade 1

History

Geography

Civics and Government

Economics

Students are able to identify important people and events in order to analyze significant patterns, relationships, themes, ideas, beliefs, and turning points in New Mexico, United States, and world history in order to understand the complexity of the human experience.

Students understand how physical, natural, and cultural processes influence where people live, the ways in which people live, and how societies interact with one another and their environments.

Students understand the ideals, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship and understand the content and history of the founding documents of the United States with particular emphasis on the United States and New Mexico constitutions and how governments function at local, state, tribal, and national levels.

Students understand basic economic principles and use economic reasoning skills to analyze the impact of economic systems (including the market economy) on individuals, families, businesses, communities, and governments.

New Mexico: Describe how contemporary and historical people and events have influenced New Mexico communities and regions.

United States: Understand connections among historical events, people, and symbols significant to United States history and cultures.

World: Students will identify and describe similar historical characteristics of the United States and its neighboring countries.

Skills: Understand time passage and chronology.

Understand the concept of location by using and constructing maps, globes, and other geographic tools to identify and derive information about people, places, and environments.

Distinguish between natural and human characteristics of places and use this knowledge to define regions, their relationships with other regions, and patterns of change.

Be familiar with aspects of human behavior and man-made and natural environments in order to recognize their impact on the past and present.

Understand how physical processes shape the Earth's surface patterns and biosystems.

Describe how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, and their interdependence, cooperation, and conflict.

Describe how natural and man-made changes affect the meaning, use, distribution, and value of resources.

Know the fundamental purposes, concepts, structures, and functions of local, state, tribal, and national governments.

Identify and describe the symbols, icons, songs, traditions, and leaders of local, state, tribal, and national levels that exemplify ideals and provide continuity and a sense of community across time.

Become familiar with the basic purposes of government in New Mexico and the United States.

Understand rights and responsibilities of "good citizenship" as members of a family, school and community.

Understand that individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies make decisions that affect the distribution of resources and that these decisions are influenced by incentives (both economic and intrinsic).

Understand that economic systems impact the way individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies make decisions about goods and services.

Understand the patterns and results of trade and exchange among individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies, and their interdependent qualities.

Identify common attributes of people living in New Mexico today.

Identify the significance of United States historical events and symbols (e.g., Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, United States flag, bald eagle).

Identify and recognize major political and social figures in the United States.

Identify the local, state, and national symbols (e.g., flag, bird, song).

Identify and compare celebrations and events from the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

Demonstrate the use of timelines in order to show events in relation to one another.

Understand maps and globes as representations of places and phenomena.

Identify and use the four cardinal directions to locate places in community, state, and tribal districts.

Create, use, and describe simple maps to identify locations within familiar places (e.g., classroom, school, community, state).

Identify and classify characteristics of places as human or natural.

Identify how traditional tribal and local folklore attempt to explain weather, characteristics of places, and human origins and relationships.

Identify examples of and uses for natural resources in the community, state, and nation.

Describe the human characteristics of places such as housing types and professions.

Describe the Earth-Sun relationship and how it affects living conditions on Earth.

Identify characteristics of culture (e.g., language, customs, religion, shelter).

Describe the role of resources in daily life.

Describe ways that humans depend upon, adapt to, and affect the physical environment.

Understand the purpose of rules and identify examples of rules and the consequences of breaking them.

Describe different groups and rules that apply to them (e.g., families, classrooms, communities).

Identify the President of the United States and the Governor of New Mexico.

Describe how local, state, tribal and national leaders exemplify the ideals of the communities they represent.

Describe different ways to determine a decision (e.g., majority rule, consensus, authoritarian [parent, teacher, principal]).

Identify examples of honesty, courage, fairness, loyalty, patriotism, and other character traits seen in American history.

Explain and apply "good citizenship" traits within the school and community using the elements of fair play, good sportsmanship, the idea of treating others the way you want to be treated, and being trustworthy.

Understand how resources are limited and varied in meeting human needs.

Define and differentiate between needs and wants.

Understand the concept of goods and services.

Understand the condition of not being able to have all of the goods and services one wants.

Understand the value of work.

Define the simplest form of exchange (the barter system being the direct trading of goods and services between people).