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HSS-K.4 Students compare and contrast the locations of people, places, and environments and describe their characteristics.

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Construct maps and models of neighborhoods, incorporating such structures as police and fire stations, airports, banks, hospitals, supermarkets, harbors, schools, homes, places of worship, and transportation lines.

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HSS-K.4 Students compare and contrast the locations of people, places, and environments and describe their characteristics.

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Demonstrate familiarity with the school’s layout, environs, and the jobs people do there.

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Students put events in temporal order using a calendar, placing days, weeks, and months in proper order.

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Students understand that history relates to events, people, and places of other times.

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HSS-K.6 Students understand that history relates to events, people, and places of other times.

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Identify the purposes of, and the people and events honored in, commemorative holidays, including the human struggles that were the basis for the events (e.g., Thanksgiving, Independence Day, Washington’s and Lincoln’s Birthdays, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day).

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HSS-K.6 Students understand that history relates to events, people, and places of other times.

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Know the triumphs in American legends and historical accounts through the stories of such people as Pocahontas, George Washington, Booker T. Washington, Daniel Boone, and Benjamin Franklin.

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HSS-K.6 Students understand that history relates to events, people, and places of other times.

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Understand how people lived in earlier times and how their lives would be different today (e.g., getting water from a well, growing food, making clothing, having fun, forming organizations, living by rules and laws).

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Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

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HSS-8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

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Describe the relationship between the moral and political ideas of the Great Awakening and the development of revolutionary fervor.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

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Analyze the philosophy of government expressed in the Declaration of Independence, with an emphasis on government as a means of securing individual rights (e.g., key phrases such as “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”).