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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.

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.

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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.

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 what is known through archaeological studies of the early physical and cultural development of humankind from the Paleolithic era to the agricultural revolution.

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HSS-6.1 Students describe what is known through archaeological studies of the early physical and cultural development of humankind from the Paleolithic era to the agricultural revolution.

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Describe the hunter-gatherer societies, including the development of tools and the use of fire.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-6.1 Students describe what is known through archaeological studies of the early physical and cultural development of humankind from the Paleolithic era to the agricultural revolution.

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Identify the locations of human communities that populated the major regions of the world and describe how humans adapted to a variety of environments.