Grade 1 - Social Studies

In first grade, students will explore the culture of their own communities by examining leadership in their community, the role goods and services play in a community, and the history of diverse cultures over time.

Inquiry Anchor Standard

Constructing Compelling Questions

SS.1.1. Explain why a compelling question is important.

Constructing Supporting Questions

SS.1.2. Generate supporting questions across the social studies disciplines related to compelling questions.

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

SS.1.3. Determine if a source is primary or secondary and distinguish whether it is mostly fact or opinion.

Communicating and Critiquing Conclusions

SS.1.4. Construct responses to compelling questions using examples.

Taking Informed Action

SS.1.5. Take group or individual action to help address local, regional, and/or global problems.

SS.1.6. Use deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions about and act on civic problems in their classrooms.

Content Anchor Standard

Behavioral Science

Recognize the Interaction Between the Individual and Various Groups

SS.1.7. Investigate how social identities can influence students’ own and others’ thoughts and behaviors.

Examine Factors that Led to Continuity and Change on Human Development and Behavior

SS.1.8. Identify students’ own cultural practices and those of others within the community and around the world.

Civics/Government

Apply Civic Virtues and Democratic Principals

SS.1.9. Describe a situation that exemplifies democratic principles including, but not limited to, equality, freedom, liberty, respect for individual rights, and deliberation.

Interpret Processes, Rules and Laws

SS.1.10. Compare and contrast rules or laws within different communities and cultures.

Economics

Engage in Economic Decision Making

SS.1.11. Compare the goods and services that people in the local community produce with those that are produced in other communities.

Assess the Global Economy

SS.1.12. Explain why people in one country trade goods and services with people in other countries.

Financial Literacy

Develop Financial and Career Goals

SS.1.13. Explain why people have different jobs in the community.

Analyze Credit and Debt Levels

SS.1.14. Explain why something borrowed must be returned.

Evaluate Savings and Long Term Investments

SS.1.15. Describe the role of financial institutions in the community in order to save and invest.

Geography

Create Geographic Representations

SS.1.16. Using maps, globes, and other simple geographic models, compare and contrast routes for people or goods that consider environmental characteristics.

Evaluate Human Environment Interaction

SS.1.17. Describe how environmental characteristics and cultural characteristics impact each other in different regions of the U.S.

Analyze Human Population Movement and Patterns

SS.1.18. Use a map to detail the journey of particular people, goods, or ideas as they move from place to place.

SS.1.19. Compare how people in different types of communities use goods from local and distant places to meet their daily needs.

History

Analyze Change, Continuity, and Context

SS.1.20. Create a chronological sequence of multiple related events in the past and present using specific times.

SS.1.21. Compare life in the past to life today within different communities and cultural groups, including indigenous communities.

Critique Historical Sources and Evidence

SS.1.22. Given context clues, develop a reasonable idea about who created a primary or secondary source, when they created it, where they created it, and why they created it.

Iowa History

SS.1.23. Describe the diverse cultural makeup of Iowa’s past and present in the local community, including indigenous and agricultural communities.

Iowa Social Studies Standards Document