Minnesota Academic Standards



KINDERGARTEN – Social Studies Standards

My World and Me, Harcourt Brace Social Studies, Kindergarten

Vocabulary: address, alike, apartment, calendar, change, choice, citizen, city, clothing, community, continent, desert, Earth, family, flag, food, friends, future, globe, holiday, island, map, month, mountain, mountain range, needs, neighbor, neighborhood, ocean, past, place, planet, present, river, school, season, services, shelter, symbol, time line, tomorrow, wants, weather, week, world, year, yesterday.

|Strand |Sub-Strand |Standards |Benchmarks |Examples |

|I. U.S. HISTORY |A. Family Life Today and|The student will understand how|Students will compare family life in his or her community from |Discuss how, for families, the following things have changed |

| |In The Past |families live today and in |earlier times and today. |from the past to the present: transportation, communication, |

| | |earlier times, recognizing that| |kitchens, schooling, etc. May want to focus on how things |

| | |some aspects change over time | |are different, and what has remained the same, from the time |

| | |while others stay the same. | |when their parents or grandparents were children. |

| | | | |•Old Store, New Store, HM, SS Leveled Reader |

|IV. HISTORICAL SKILLS |A. Concepts of Time |The student will demonstrate |Students will define and use terms for concepts of historical |Lots of talk about yesterday, today, and tomorrow; past, |

| | |chronological thinking. |time. |present and future; chronology of days of the week, months |

| | | | |of the year, seasons. |

| | | | |Construct lots of time lines: events in a day, week or |

| | | | |month. Classify photographs or pictures by categories: |

| | | | |pictures taken a long time ago, those taken not so long ago,|

| | | | |and those that could have been taken today. |

|IV. HISTORICAL SKILLS |B. Historical Resources |The student will understand |Students will compare different kinds of historical sources and|Students learn about (and make inferences about) the past by|

| | |that we can learn about the |describe the different sorts of information the sources |studying artifacts from a different time: toys, dolls, |

| | |past from different sorts of |provide. |books, tools, etc. |

| | |evidence. | |• Old Store, New Store, HM, SS Leveled Reader |

|V. GEOGRAPHY |A. Concepts of Location|The student will use |Students will describe the location of people, places and |Near/far, above/below, left/right, behind/in front |

| | |directional and positional |things by using positional words |Street address, apartment number, classroom number |

| | |words to locate and describe |Students will explain that an address locates a specific place.| |

| | |people, places and things. | | |

|V. GEOGRAPHY |C. Physical Features |The student will distinguish |Students will name and locate physical features of the United |Deserts, mountain ranges, rivers, oceans, Great Lakes |

| |and Processes |between physical and human-made|States, including places about which they have read. | |

| | |features of places on the | |• ON Earth, K. SS Leveled Reader |

| | |Earth’s surface. | | |

|V. GEOGRAPHY |B. Maps and Globes |The student will use and create|Students will locate places by using simple maps, and |Find their desk in a map of their classroom |

| | |maps and globes to locate |understand that maps are drawings of locations and places as | |

| | |people, places and things. |viewed from above. | |

|VI. ECONOMICS |A. Economic Choices |The student will understand |Students will identify the difference between basic needs |Food vs. video game |

| | |that economic choices are |(food, clothing, and shelter) and wants (things people would | |

| | |necessary in life. |like to have). | |

| | | |. | |

|VII. GOVERNMENT AND |A. Civic Values, |The student will describe civic|Students will demonstrate knowledge of civic values that |Introduction of rights and responsibilities; connections and|

|CITIZENSHIP |Skills, Rights and |values, rights and |facilitate thoughtful and effective participation in civic |cooperation with others in classroom and school. |

| |Responsibilitis |responsibilities in a republic.|life. |•At Home and At School, SS Leveled Reader |

| | | | |•Our Classroom, SS Leveled Reader |

|VII. GOVERNMENT AND |B. Beliefs and |The student will understand the|Students will give examples of rules in the classroom/school |Personal and group safety, promote positive classroom |

|CITIZENSHIP |Principles of United |role of government, rules, and |and community. |environment, promote fairness, respect, etc. |

| |States Democracy |law and why we have them. | |•At Home and At School, SS Leveled Reader |

| | | | |•Our Classroom, SS Leveled Reader |

|VII. GOVERNMENT AND |B. Beliefs and |The student will know key |Students will recognize the symbols, songs, locations that |U.S. flag, the bald eagle, the National Anthem. |

|CITIZENSHIP |Principles of United |symbols, songs and locations |uniquely identify our nation. |Students will learn about Thanksgiving –its history, purpose|

| |States Democracy |that represent our nation and |Students will describe key national holidays and explain why |and meaning. |

| | |state. |people celebrate them. | |

| | | | |•Our Flag, SS Leveled Reader |

| | | | |•Our Money, SS Leveled Reader |

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