Kindergarten Social Studies Nebraska Standards

Exchange and Markets

Civics

Regions

Movement

Global Economy

Economics

History

Civic Participation

Geospatial Skills and Geo-literacy

Geography

Historical Inquiry and Research

Multiple Perspectives

Change, Continuity, and Context

Human-Environment Interaction

Economic Decision Making

Forms and Functions of Government

Financial Literacy

Location and Place

National Economy

Historical Analysis and Interpretation

Communicate the purpose of rules and the roles within learning and living environments.

Describe a rule and analyze its purpose.

Identify roles in a family structure and explain their importance.

Demonstrate positive and productive citizenship skills.

Model citizenship skills.

Communicate patriotic symbols, songs, actions, and cultural celebrations.

Communicate historical background and significance of national holidays.

Differentiate between wants and needs in decision-making.

Classify wants and needs and explain subsequent choices.

Recognize money is used to purchase goods and services to satisfy economic wants and needs.

Explain the purposes of money.

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Explore where (spatial) and why people, places and environments are organized in the world.

Communicate personal directions to describe relative locations of people and objects.

Identify locations in the school and around the classroom.

Identify geographic tools as representations of local and distant places.

Identify the difference between land and water on a globe.

Explore places and regions.

Identify physical characteristics of place.

Identify human characteristics of place.

Explore the relationship between humans and their physical environment.

Identify types of weather and the impact of weather on everyday life.

Identify the four seasons.

Inquire about how people prepare for and respond to severe weather.

Recognize that people belong to different groups and live in different settings.

Identify students as members of various groups.

Identify places in the community where people may live.

Use geographic skills to make connections to students' lives.

Apply geographic knowledge and techniques to navigate the classroom.

Recognize patterns of continuity and change over time in themselves and others.

Identify concepts of time and chronology.

Identify the sequence of personal events and their impact.

Recognize different perspectives of events.

Compare perspectives of self and others.

Identify historical people, events, and symbols.

Recognize historical people from a variety of cultures.

Identify symbols of the United States.

Differentiate between stories from the present and the past.

Develop historical inquiry and research skills.

Construct questions about personal history.

Identify and cite appropriate sources when conducting historical research.

Gather and communicate historical information.