Geography-1st Grade

Understand world geography and the effects of geography on society, with an emphasis on the United States. Understand world geography and the effects of geography and religion on society with an emphasis on the United States.

Locate, describe and explain places, regions and features on the Earth. Locate, describe and explain places, regions and features of God’s creation. 

Analyze and explain characteristics and interactions of the Earth’s physical systems. Analyze and explain the moral implications of our interactions with the Earth’s physical systems.

Understand relationships between geographic factors and society. Understand relationships between geographic factors, society and the Church.

Understand the historical significance of geography. Understand the historical significance of geography and the Church.

Describe how physical and person-made features look between home and school (e.g., hilly, flat, a river, trees).

Construct a model of the physical and person-made features on the school and Parish grounds or in the neighborhood (e.g., using a sandbox and toys).

Describe daily changes in the weather and in the seasons in your community.

Identify land and water areas on a map of the local community and on a globe.

Identify the globe as a model of Earth.

Locate objects in the classroom using a simple map.

Understand that God created all things: the Earth and all living things.

Compare physical features of different places around the community using photographs. 

Describe physical features seen on a field trip or a vacation.

Show seasonal change (e.g., marking the changing length of a student’s shadow at various times throughout the year, drawing or taking a picture of a student by a tree at various times throughout the year.

Recognize the characteristics and physical features of earth as God’s gift. 

Identify pictures showing how people use air, water, and land in different ways.

Describe how people dress for various activities (e.g., making a snowman, going to the beach, going on a picnic).

Identify food resources coming from farms and water resources from rivers.

Identify ways we can be good stewards of God’s earth.

Identify changes in natural vegetation in your neighborhood during the four seasons.

Observe and record changes in the school and local community through pictures or photos.

Tell how shopping areas, housing, play areas, and businesses in the local neighborhood have changed over time.

Tell how parish, church and community have changed over time.