Grade K

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 the customs, celebrations, and holidays of various cultures in New Mexico.

Demonstrate an awareness of community leaders.

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

Understand the concept of past and present.

Define relative location of items in the physical environment in terms of over, under, near, far, up, and down.

Define personal direction of front, back, left, and right.

Identify natural characteristics of places (e.g., climate, topography).

Identify family customs and traditions and explain their importance.

Describe the natural characteristics of places (e.g., landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather).

Describe the Earth's physical characteristics.

Identify classroom population.

Identify natural resources.

Identify authority figures and describe their roles (e.g., parents, teachers, principal, superintendent, police, public officials).

Recognize and name symbols and activities of the United States, New Mexico, and tribes, to include:<ol type="a"><li>United States symbols to include the flag, bald eagle, monuments</li><li>New Mexico symbols to include the flag, Smokey Bear, State Bird, chili</li><li>tribal symbols and activities to include Feast Days, pottery, arts, storytelling.</li></ol>

Recognize patriotic activities including The Pledge of Allegiance, The Star Spangled Banner, salute to the New Mexico flag, and New Mexico state songs.

Describe and provide examples of fairness.

Describe what is meant by citizenship.

Explain what is meant by "good citizenship," to include:<ol type="a"><li>taking turns and sharing</li><li>taking responsibility for own actions, assignments, and personal belongings within the classroom and respecting the property of others.</li></ol>

Understand that basic human needs are met in many ways.

Understand the concept of product (something produced by human, mechanical, or natural process).

Understand the importance of jobs.

Describe trade (e.g., buying and selling, bartering, simple exchange).