Kindergarten Social Studies North Carolina standards Standards

History

Geography

Economics

Civics and Government

Behavioral Sciences

Communicating Ideas

Starting in Grade 3

Developing Claims and Using Evidence

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Supporting Questions

Compelling Questions

Inquiry K-2

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.

Identify 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.

Understand cultural practices in local communities and around the world.

Identify cultural practices in local communities and around the world.

Compare cultural practices of people in local communities and around the world.

Summarize stories that illustrate how positive character traits such as empathy, resilience, and respect, help people contribute to their communities.

Understand that people work together to create and follow rules.

Explain why people follow rules in the classroom, school, and community.

Exemplify ways people follow rules in the classroom, school, and community.

Identify the consequences of following or not following rules in the classroom, school, and community.

Use a procedure for how people can effectively work together to improve classrooms and communities.

Analyze basic economic concepts.

Differentiate between needs and wants.

Differentiate between goods and services.

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

Use maps, globes, and/or digital representations to locate places in the classroom, school, community, and around the world.

Identify physical features of places using maps, globes, and/or digital representations.

Identify locations in the classroom, community, and around the world with positional words.

Understand interactions between humans and the environment.

Explain ways people around the world use natural resources.

Explain how the environment influences people to move from place to place.

Understand change over time.

Exemplify ways in which people change over time.

Explain how various events have shaped history.

Compare life in the past to life today within the home, community, and around the world.