Grade 1

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Explain the meaning of communitySS1.1.1.a

Identify the people who make up a communitySS1.1.1.b

Explain the use of buildings and places that are part of a communitySS1.1.1.c

Explain the availability of resources, goods, and services that are available in a community (e.g., stores, library, schools)SS1.1.1.d

Identify students' home addresses and addresses for other family members and friendsSS1.1.2.a

Identify components of maps (e.g., compass rose, where things are in relation to each other, taking a bird's eye view of a place)SS1.1.2.b

Identify places of the world on physical and electronic mapsSS1.1.2.c

Explain how to give directions using a physical map and an electronic mapping toolSS1.1.2.d

Identify the landscape around students' homes and in their communities (such as urban, rural, suburban, has trees, hilly)SS1.1.3.a

Identify places that provide resources, goods, and services near their homes and in the community, and explain how those resources are made available, and to whomSS1.1.3.b

Explain the different types of homes in students' communities (e.g., houses, apartments, shelters)SS1.1.3.c

Identify that there may be people who are unhoused in their communities and there may be shelters and services that are available to themSS1.1.3.d

Identify natural resources (e.g., forests, water, land) in the local community, and explain how the community uses those resourcesSS1.1.4.a

Explain how humans can change those resources (e.g., by adding things such as buildings and fisheries, damming a river to make a reservoir for drinking water, community expansion over open land)SS1.1.4.b

Explain how natural resources can contribute to jobs (e.g., forestry, construction, fishing, and mining)SS1.1.4.c

Identify the meanings of "culture" and "diversity," and explain the characteristics of cultureSS1.2.1.a

Identify cultures represented in students' communities and where in the world those cultures originated from, and explain characteristics of their cultures (e.g., food traditions, clothing traditions, art and musical traditions, religious beliefs, heritage celebrations)SS1.2.1.b

Identify local Indigenous communities (e.g., Nahaganset (Narragansett), Nehantick and Eastern Nehantick (Niantic), Nipmuc, Manissean, Massachuset, and Wampanoag (Pokanoket), and explain characteristics of their cultures (e.g., food traditions, regalia, art and musical traditions, heritage celebrations)SS1.2.1.c

Analyze similarities and differences between cultures in their communitiesSS1.2.1.d

Explain ways people show pride or belonging to their communitySS1.2.1.e

Identify narratives of immigrant populations within the local community, what they brought to the community (e.g., skills, cultural items from their home country, traditions from their home country), and how immigration can change what a community is likeSS1.2.2.a

Explain factors that may attract people to migrate into a community (e.g., access to jobs, affordable housing, access to parks and greenspaces, quality of schools, availability of goods and services, family)SS1.2.2.b

Explain factors that may cause people to migrate out of a community (e.g., change in jobs, cost of living, family)SS1.2.2.c

Analyze human-environmental factors that have changed the local community (e.g., damming a river to make a reservoir, cutting down trees for buildings and to make space for more housing, severe weather events)SS1.2.2.d

Identify what goods and services are available in students' communitiesSS1.3.1.a

Identify individuals, organizations and businesses that provide goods and services within students' communities (e.g., schools, stores, police, senior centers, shelters, town/city government)SS1.3.1.b

Explain scarcity, and analyze ways community organizations and businesses respond to community needsSS1.3.1.c

Explain how goods and services are distributed in times of emergency (e.g., clean water, community shelters)SS1.3.1.d

Explain the purpose of jobsSS1.3.2.a

Identify different types of jobs and careers, and explain the tools and resources needed to fulfill these jobsSS1.3.2.b

Explain job opportunities within students' communities and why some jobs are not locally available, and analyze how different jobs make different contributions to the communitySS1.3.2.c

Explain how people's wants and needs can be different and how different incomes support different types of wants and needsSS1.3.2.d

Explain ways people make, buy, and sell goods and servicesSS1.3.3.a

Explain ways people may change how they budget for needs and wants if they face a scarcity of money and/or resourcesSS1.3.3.b

Explain how people can have abundance of money and/or resources that may allow them to save for the future and/or share with othersSS1.3.3.c

Identify the characteristics of, and explain the responsibilities of citizenshipSS1.4.1.a

Analyze the differences between human rights (e.g., access to food, shelter, clean water) and civil rights (e.g., voting rights, having representation in governments)SS1.4.1.b

Identify the characteristics of human rights (e.g., equality, universality, inclusivity), and explain how students can help to promote human rights (e.g., volunteering at a food bank, running a food drive, trash clean up at a park, other service projects)SS1.4.1.c

Explain the roles of people who make rules and laws (e.g., mayor, school committee, town/city council)SS1.4.1.d

Explain ways that people who participate in making the laws and rules can help to create equality and fairness for all peopleSS1.4.1.e

Explain the election process for leaders and the responsibilities (e.g., decision making, serving the community) that come with leadershipSS1.4.2.a

Explain how leaders create and enforce rules and laws for the common good of the communitySS1.4.2.b

Explain how leaders represent the members of a communitySS1.4.2.c

Explain how leaders such as community and grassroot leaders are leaders not through elections, but because they have worked to bring change to their communitiesSS1.4.2.d

Explain ways rules, norms, and rights in all settings create a way for people to live and work togetherSS1.4.3.a

Explain the rules and norms of home, school, and the local community, and analyze the ways power is distributed between people at school, at home, and in publicSS1.4.3.b

Analyze ways rules may change depending on the settingSS1.4.3.c

Identify leaders who have helped people resolve their problems (e.g., mayor, judge, Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Susan B. Anthony, Mahatma Gandhi, Malala Yousafzai), and explain their roles in resolutionSS1.4.4.a

Explain ways problems at home or school can be resolved (e.g., asking for help from trusted adults, communicating)SS1.4.4.b

Explain ways people in a society work together to resolve conflicts in the communitySS1.4.4.c

Explain the meaning of social changeSS1.4.5.a

Identify people who have brought change to society, and explain the actions they took to achieve changeSS1.4.5.b

Explain how to create change through votingSS1.4.5.c

Explain how to create change through service and community actions (e.g., town hall meetings, peaceful protests, marches), and ways students can be a part of those actionsSS1.4.5.d

Identify neighboring communities around students' homes and school (e.g., another city/town, an Indigenous community, a nearby ethnic enclave) and their locations on a mapSS1.5.1.a

Identify the topography of the neighboring communities (e.g., trees or no trees, hills, beach), and analyze differences between urban, suburban, and rural communities and the relationship to populationSS1.5.1.b

Identify the availability of resources in the neighboring communitiesSS1.5.1.c

Analyze the similarities and differences of the neighboring communities and those of the studentsSS1.5.1.d

Identify the physical locations of the communities being studied and their locations on a map or globe, explain what the physical environment is like for the communities being looked at, and analyze the ways environment influences their ways of lifeSS1.5.2.a

Identify the resources, goods, and services available, and explain how people obtain those resources and the influences of environment on resource availabilitySS1.5.2.b

Analyze the similarities and differences of the communities being looked at and those of the students (e.g., ways of life, traditions, celebrations, the way communities are organized spatially, types of government)SS1.5.2.c

Identify physical locations of the communities being looked at and their locations on a map, explain what the physical environment is like for the communities being looked at, and analyze the ways environment influences their ways of lifeSS1.5.3.a

Identify what resources, goods, and services are available to the communities being looked at, and explain ways they obtain those resources and the influences of environment on resource availabilitySS1.5.3.b

Analyze the similarities and differences of the communities being looked at and those of the students (e.g., ways of life, traditions, celebrations, the way communities are organized spatially, community leaders, language, currency)SS1.5.3.c