NOTE:
Asterisks (*) have been used to identify standards and objectives that must be
assessed by the
local school district. All other skills may be assessed by the Oklahoma School
Testing Program
(OSTP).
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identify Information Literacy skills. Students are best served when these are
taught in collaboration and cooperation between the classroom teacher and the
library media
specialist.
Standard 2: The student will examine neighborhoods/communities from a
spatial perspective.
2.2
Place objects (e.g., on a map, on the wall, or in the classroom) and describe
their locations using near/far, up/down, left/right, about/below, and in front
of/behind.
Standard 3: The student will analyze the human characteristics of
communities.
3.1
Identify how choices in behavior and action are related to consequences and have
an impact upon the student himself/herself and others.
3.4
Identify and write the names of the school, town/city, state, and nation.
3.5 Identify the events and people associated with commemorative holidays, such
as Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran’s Day, and Thanksgiving.
Standard 4: The student will examine the interaction of the environment and
the people of the community.
4.1
Identify the three basic needs of all people: food, clothing, shelter.
4.2 Recognize that people in different parts of the world eat different foods,
dress differently, speak different languages, and live in different kinds of
“houses” (e.g., read and discuss children’s literature that has characters and
settings in other countries).
Standard 5: The student will understand basic economic elements found in
communities.
5.1
Describe how people get their basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter (e.g.,
make/grow their own, trade with others for what they need, and earn money to buy
the things they need).
Standard 1: The student will develop and practice the process skills
of social studies.
1.2
Use children’s literature to compare and contrast one’s own
neighborhood/community to others.
Standard 2: The student will examine neighborhoods/communities from a spatial
perspective.
2.1
Name, identify pictorial examples, and describe distinguishing features of the
two basic areas in which people live: cities (urban) and the country (rural).
2.3
Construct individually and with other students maps with the cardinal directions
(north = N, south = S, east = E, west – W) indicated, locations on the map
(e.g., school, playground, and classroom).
Standard 2: The student will examine neighborhoods/communities from a spatial
perspective.
2.4
Locate the local neighborhood, community, the United States, bodies of water,
and land masses (e.g., the four oceans and seven continents) using maps and
globes.
Standard 3: The student will analyze the human characteristics of
communities.
3.2 Recognize and learn about patriotic traditions and activities
(e.g., the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of the
“Star-Spangled Banner).
3.3 Identify traditionally patriotic symbols associated with the United States
(e.g., the flag, the bald eagle, and monuments).
Standard 5: The student will understand basic economic elements found in
communities.
5.2
Identify ways people in the neighborhood/community earn money (e.g., match
pictures or simple descriptions of work people do with the names of the jobs).
Standard 1: The student will develop and practice the process skills
of social studies.
1.1
Use information located in resources such as encyclopedias, timelines, visual
images, atlases, maps, globes, and computer-based technologies.
Standard 2: The student will examine neighborhood/communities from a spatial
perspective.
2.5
Describe events and tell whether they belong in the past, present, or future
(e.g., place representations of events such as pictures, words, or phrases on a
simple past, present, future timeline).
Standard 4: The student will examine the interaction of the environment and
the people of a community.
4.3
Describe the impact of physical changes, such as seasons, on people in the
neighborhood/community (e.g., how seasons affect what people eat and wear).