Kindergarten Social Studies Content Standards

Students develop an understanding of society and the ability to describe the past through the eyes and experiences of those who were there.

Students develop an understanding of the history of the world’s many cultures.

Students see the connection between ideas and behavior, between the values and ideals that people hold and the ethical con-sequences of those beliefs in order to foster the kind of mutual respect, patience, and civic courage required in our increasingly independent world.

Students differentiate past, present and future time. They seek and evaluate evidence, use resources to distinguish bias in text, compare and contrast historical information, interpret the historical record and construct their own historical narratives.

• Kindergarten students are expected to:
  • Learn to work together
    • Learn to share, to take turns, to respect the rights of others and to take care of themselves and their possessions
    • Build a sense of self and self worth by assuming individual and group responsibility in classroom activities
    • Begin to work cooperatively in large and small groups
    • Have opportunities to discuss why problems arise and how to deal with them
    • Listen and discuss examples from (stories/folklore) of honesty, courage, determination, individual responsibility and patriotism
• Learn about now and long ago — our community
  • Recognize national and state symbols (national flag, bald eagle, statue of Liberty)
  • Match simple descriptions of work that people do (school and local community) and the names of their jobs
  • Use calendars, poems and songs to explore concepts of time and to learn the names of days and months
  • Determine relative location of objects – near/far, left/right, behind/in front of
  • Explore maps and models of the local community (school, home)
  • Know basic map and traffic symbols (stop sign, pedestrian)
  • Distinguish between land/water on maps and globes
  • Listen to stories, both fiction and non-fiction that relate to events, people and places of other times
  • Develop an awareness, through both language and fine arts, of culture, places and environments now and long ago
  • Students understand that history relates to events, people, and places of other times

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