- Explain citizen’s rights and responsibilities at home, at school, and in the community.
- Identify the structure of local and state government
- Describe why we need leaders and how we choose them
- Identify the local, state and national leaders and their contributions
- Describe how community services meet people needs
- Compare and contrast the three types of communities (urban, suburban and rural
- Understand how a community changes over time. Students will compare and contrast their town now and then
- Compare and contrast types of maps.
- Interpreting map key symbols to locate places on a map.
- Name and locate 7 continents and 4 oceans on a globe.
- Identify different types of landforms (mountain, ocean, hill, valley, river, etc.).
- Understand how landforms impact where people work and live.
- Identify the 4 cardinal directions.
- Describing how a community is affected by seasonal and climate changes.
- Describing the role of natural resources in our everyday lives (such as air, land, water).
- Understand the importance of American Symbols and Monuments.
- American Flag- significance of colors, number of stars and stripes
- Pledge of Allegiance- recite it, understand the meaning of words in the pledge
- Bald eagle- significance as our National Bird
- The White House- understand the President lives and works there
- Mount Rushmore- identify the four Presidents on the monuments (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt)
- Understand the importance of National Holidays (Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Labor Day, Independence Day, Presidents Day and Thanksgiving).
- Identify famous Americans who contributed to the development of American life (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, etc.).
- Understand and explain why these people are famous and discuss their contributions to the development of American culture.
- Explore the use of timelines to mark important events in a person’s life.
- Identify common household expense categories and sources of income
- Identify common sources of credit (bank, credit card company)
- Explain why people borrow money and the relationship between credit and debt (interest)
- Compare and contrast credit cards and debit cards and the advantages and disadvantages of each
- Determine personal responsibility related to borrowing and lending (what happens if you don’t meet your responsibility)
- Summarize ways to avoid credit problems
- Determine ways to save
- Determine factors that influence consumer decisions related to money
- Apply comparison shopping skills to purchase decisions