Illinois Social Studies Standards (Grade 1)

With guidance and support, explain how individuals who live, learn, and work together make important decisions, and the effect that these decisions have on a variety of diverse communities.

Explain and give examples of when choices are made that something else is given up.

Describe the skills and knowledge required to produce certain goods and services.

Explain how people are compensated for work.

With guidance and support, construct and interpret print and digital maps and other cultural representations of familiar places.

With guidance and support, describe how human activities affect the cultural and environmental characteristics of places or regions.

Compare how people in different types of communities use local and worldwide environments to meet their daily needs.

Create a chronological sequence of multiple events based on current learning.

Generate questions and investigate diverse individuals and groups who have shaped a significant historical change.

With guidance and support, investigate how our perspectives of historical events have changed over time.

Create questions that are relevant to self as they relate to the content of the Social Science Standards. This standard applies to grades K-2.

With guidance and support, students will use varied teacher-selected resources to learn procedures to locate evidence that assists with finding answers to their questions. This standard applies to grades K-2.

With guidance and support, gather relevant information from multiple sources to analyze information. This standard applies to grades K-2.

With guidance and support, evaluate a source by distinguishing between fact and opinion. This standard applies to grades K-2.

With guidance and support, students will share their findings on the asked and answered questions with peers. This standard applies to grades K-2.

Using various viewpoints, students will engage in reflective conversations to draw conclusions on inquiry findings and create action steps. This standard applies to grades K-2.