Social Studies concepts will be embedded with our Literacy block. Students will be conducting research, using various types of media, and centers to enhance these concepts. Like Science, Social Studies will receive the EE - Exceeds Expectations, M - Meets Expectations, and N - Needs Improvement scale.
Needs and Wants
·Identify needs and wants
·Differentiate the difference between needs and wants
·Identify goods and services
·Differentiate the difference between goods and services
·Describe the roles of a consumer and a producer
·Recognize the need to earn money to provide for needs and wants
Government
·Recognize and discuss civil holidays
·Recognize the roles and responsibilities of government leaders
·Recognize different United States symbols
Community
·Explain what a community is
·Identify and locate places on a community map
·Name different kinds of transportation and explain why it’s important to a community
·Identify and locate places in the Deptford community
·Identify characteristics of different communities
·Recognize different community helpers
·Identify rules and responsibilities of a community
Map Skills and Landforms
·Identify and research information using an atlas
·Identify a map and give characteristics
·Identify a globe and give characteristics
·Understand the purpose of a map key, compass rose, and a map scale
·Recall the four major cardinal directions (North, South, East,and West)
·Understand and Label continents and oceans on a map
·Identify the difference on a map between land and water
·Recognize a variety of landforms.
·Analyze the characteristics of different landforms.
·Identify the three types of views to observe earth features(birds-eye view, eye-level, and map view)
·Recall the town, state, county, state, country, and continent we live in.