Grade 1 Social Studies New Mexico standards Standards

Geography

Economics/Personal Financial Literacy

History

Ethnic, Cultural, and Identity Studies

Civics

Inquiry

First Grade

Recognize a compelling question.

Personal Financial Literacy

Geographic Representations and Reasoning

Location, Place, and Region

Human- Environmental Interactions and Sustainability

Historical Change, Continuity, Context, and Reconciliation

Historical Thinking

Critical Consciousness and Perspectives

Diversity and Identity

Identity in History

Community Equity Building

Construct Compelling and Supporting Questions

Gather and Evaluate Sources

Communicate and Critique Conclusions

Take Informed Action

Roles and Responsibilities of a Civic Life

Incentives and Choices

Money and Markets

Compare fact and opinion in stories and narratives from the past.

Demonstrate chronological thinking by distinguishing among past, present, and future using family, school, or community events.

Examine and identify cultural differences within their community.

Investigate significant events, people, and observances in history and discuss their effects on local and national communities.

Examine choices that families make in purchasing general goods and identify costs associated with these choices.

Examine decisions that people make about spending and saving money.

Create geographic representations to identify the location of familiar places and demonstrate how these Geographic representations can help us navigate from one place to the next, provide directions, or trace important Representations and routes.

Identify the common symbols used on maps for human-made structures and physical features.

Use a variety of maps to locate specific places and identify major landforms, bodies of water, and other places of significance around the United States.

Explain how human-made structures are all examples of how people modify the physical environment to meet needs and wants.

Generate supporting questions related to compelling questions within a variety of social studies topics.

Explain how people interact with their physical environment in ways that may have a positive or a negative effect on natural resources.

Explain how groups of people believe different things and live in unique ways.

Explain how student and individual identities are part of what makes each person unique and special.

Identify examples of producers and consumers.

Examine how earning money through work is related to the purchase of goods and services.

Interact with a variety of primary and secondary sources.

Construct responses to compelling questions using examples.

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

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

Explain and provide examples of how people play important roles in society.

Investigate how people work together to accomplish a common task and how this benefits and challenges people when working together.

Compare life in New Mexico in the past to life in New Mexico today.