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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 explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

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HSS-PoAD.12.1 Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

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Analyze the influence of ancient Greek, Roman, English, and leading European political thinkers such as John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and William Blackstone on the development of American government.

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HSS-PoAD.12.1 Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

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Discuss the character of American democracy and its promise and perils as articulated by Alexis de Tocqueville.