Grades K, 1, 2

Other National Council for the Social Studies Social Studies sets

• Early Grades
• Grades 3, 4, 5
• Grades 6, 7, 8
• NCSS Framework: Middle Grades
• Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Describe roles and responsibilities of people in authority.D2.Civ.1.K-2

Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community.D2.Civ.2.K-2

Explain the need for and purposes of rules in various settings inside and outside of school.D2.Civ.3.K-2

Begins in grades 3–5D2.Civ.4.K-2

Explain what governments are and some of their functions.D2.Civ.5.K-2

Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks, establish responsibilities, and fulfill roles of authority.D2.Civ.6.K-2

Apply civic virtues when participating in school settings.D2.Civ.7.K-2

Describe democratic principles such as equality, fairness, and respect for legitimate authority and rules.D2.Civ.8.K-2

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions while responding attentively to others when addressing ideas and making decisions as a group.D2.Civ.9.K-2

Compare their own point of view with others' perspectives.D2.Civ.10.K-2

Explain how people can work together to make decisions in the classroom.D2.Civ.11.K-2

Identify and explain how rules function in public (classroom and school) settings.D2.Civ.12.K-2

Begins in grades 3–5D2.Civ.13.K-2

Describe how people have tried to improve their communities over time.D2.Civ.14.K-2

Explain how scarcity necessitates decision making.D2.Eco.1.K-2

Identify the benefits and costs of making various personal decisions.D2.Eco.2.K-2

Describe the skills and knowledge required to produce certain goods and services.D2.Eco.3.K-2

Describe the goods and services that people in the local community produce and those that are produced in other communities.D2.Eco.4.K-2

Identify prices of products in a local market.D2.Eco.5.K-2

Explain how people earn income.D2.Eco.6.K-2

Describe examples of costs of production.D2.Eco.7.K-2

Begins in grades 3-5D2.Eco.8.K-2

Describe the role of banks in an economy.D2.Eco.9.K-2

Explain why people save.D2.Eco.10.K-2

Begins in grades 3–5D2.Eco.11.K-2

Describe examples of the goods and services that governments provide.D2.Eco.12.K-2

Describe examples of capital goods and human capital.D2.Eco.13.K-2

Describe why people in one country trade goods and services with people in other countries.D2.Eco.14.K-2

Describe products that are produced abroad and sold domestically and products that are produced domestically and sold abroad.D2.Eco.15.K-2

Construct maps, graphs, and other representations of familiar places.D2.Geo.1.K-2

Use maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations to describe places and the relationships and interactions that shape them.D2.Geo.2.K-2

Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.D2.Geo.3.K-2

Explain how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people's lives in a place or region.D2.Geo.4.K-2

Describe how human activities affect the cultural and environmental characteristics of places or regions.D2.Geo.5.K-2

Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.D2.Geo.6.K-2

Explain why and how people, goods, and ideas move from place to place.D2.Geo.7.K-2

Compare how people in different types of communities use local and distant environments to meet their daily needs.D2.Geo.8.K-2

Describe the connections between the physical environment of a place and the economic activities found there.D2.Geo.9.K-2

Describe changes in the physical and cultural characteristics of various world regions.D2.Geo.10.K-2

Explain how the consumption of products connects people to distant places.D2.Geo.11.K-2

Identify ways that a catastrophic disaster may affect people living in a place.D2.Geo.12.K-2

Create a chronological sequence of multiple events.D2.His.1.K-2

Compare life in the past to life today.D2.His.2.K-2

Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped a significant historical change.D2.His.3.K-2

Compare perspectives of people in the past to those of people in the present.D2.His.4.K-2

Begins in grades 3–5D2.His.5.K-2

Compare different accounts of the same historical event.D2.His.6.K-2

Begins in grades 9–12D2.His.7.K-2

Begins in grades 9–12D2.His.8.K-2

Identify different kinds of historical sources.D2.His.9.K-2

Explain how historical sources can be used to study the past.D2.His.10.K-2

Identify the maker, date, and place of origin for a historical source from information within the source itself.D2.His.11.K-2

Generate questions about a particular historical source as it relates to a particular historical event or development.D2.His.12.K-2

Begins in grade 3–5D2.His.13.K-2

Generate possible reasons for an event or development in the past.D2.His.14.K-2

Begins in grades 6–8D2.His.15.K-2

Select which reasons might be more likely than others to explain a historical event or development.D2.His.16.K-2

Begins in grades 3–5D2.His.17.K-2