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Overarching Standard:
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.

Overarching Standard:
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.

Overarching Standard:
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).

Overarching Standard:
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.

Overarching Standard:
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 describe the rights and individual responsibilities of citizenship.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-1.1 Students describe the rights and individual responsibilities of citizenship.

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Understand the rule-making process in a direct democracy (everyone votes on the rules) and in a representative democracy (an elected group of people make the rules), giving examples of both systems in their classroom, school, and community.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-1.1 Students describe the rights and individual responsibilities of citizenship.

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Understand the elements of fair play and good sportsmanship, respect for the rights and opinions of others, and respect for rules by which we live, including the meaning of the “Golden Rule.”