Grade 1 Social Studies North Carolina standards Standards

History

Geography

Economics

Civics and Government

Behavioral Sciences

Taking Informed Action

Communicating Ideas

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Supporting Questions

Compelling Questions

Inquiry K-2

Summarize ways that culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse people help shape a community.

Identify cultural practices and traditions in local communities and places around the world.

Explain how the artistic expressions of diverse people and cultures contribute to communities around the world..

Explain how culture, values, and beliefs influence how disagreements are resolved in classrooms, local communities, and the world.

Understand how culture, values, and beliefs shape people, places, and environments.

Understand how people engage with and participate in the community.

Exemplify ways individuals and groups play a role in shaping communities.

Identify the differences between rights and responsibilities of citizens in various communities.

Compare various processes or strategies people can use to improve communities.

Exemplify ways individuals and groups contribute to the making of rules and laws.

Understand the role of basic economic concepts in the decisions people make.

Distinguish the relationship between scarcity and limited resources.

Recognize the relationship between supply and demand.

Exemplify how supply and demand affect the choices people make.

Summarize reasons why people and countries trade goods and services.

Apply geographic representations, tools, and terms to describe surroundings.

Use maps, globes, and/or digital representations to identify various types of landforms of places around the world.

Exemplify how geographic features are represented by symbols on maps or digital representations.

Understand interactions between humans and the environment in different places and regions around

Explain the various ways the physical environment impacts people in different regions around the world.

Explain the various ways people impact the physical environment in different regions around the world.

Understand how people and events have changed society over time.

Explain how the experiences and achievements of people throughout history have helped contribute to the changes in various local communities and communities around the world over time.

Use primary and secondary sources to compare multiple perspectives of various events in history.

Identify inquiry as a process to answer questions and solve issues.

Recognize a compelling question with prompting and support.

Explain why or how a compelling question is important to a topic or issue.

Identity what questions are needed to support the compelling question.

Recognize how supporting questions connect to compelling questions.

Demonstrate an understanding of facts, opinions, and other details in sources.

Identify the information surrounding a primary or secondary source including who created it, when they created it, where they created it, and why they created it.

Construct responses to compelling questions using information from sources.

Identify problems related to the compelling question that students think are important.