Arkansas: 1st-Grade Standards
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AR.G. Strand / Content Standard: Geography
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G.1. Standard / Student Learning Expectation: Physical and Spatial
Students shall develop an understanding of the physical and spatial characteristics and applications of geography.
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G.1.1.1. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
Identify and locate student's town/city on an appropriate map.
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G.1.1.2. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
Locate Arkansas on a United States map.
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G.1.1.3. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
Identify and locate the United States on a world map or globe.
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G.1.1.4. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
Identify the North and South Poles and the Equator on a map or globe.
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G.1.1.5. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
Recognize that there are seven major continents.
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G.1.1.6. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
Recognize that there are four major oceans in the world.
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G.1.1.7. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
Explain how climate, location, and physical surroundings affect the way people live (e.g., food, clothing, shelter, transportation, recreation).
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G.1.1.8. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
Understand how and why maps and globes are used.
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G.1.1.9. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
Recognize that pictorial symbols on a map represent real objects.
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G.1.1.10. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
Show a relationship between places using directional words (e.g., school, home, community).
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G.1.1.11. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
Name and label the cardinal directions on a map: north, south, east, and west.
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G.1.1.12. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
Recognize physical features of maps and globes: rivers, lakes, oceans, mountains, islands, desert, and coast (e.g., use pictures, visual aids, stories).
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G.1.1.13. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
Illustrate and label a map of a familiar place.
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G.2. Standard / Student Learning Expectation: Culture and Diversity
Students shall develop an understanding of how cultures around the world develop and change.
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G.2.1.1. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Culture and Diversity
Discuss elements of culture (e.g., food, clothing, housing, language, sports/ recreation, customs, traditions, art, music, religion).
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G.2.1.2. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Culture and Diversity
Explain ways in which the location of a community affects people's lives, dress, and occupation.
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G.2.1.3. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Culture and Diversity
Explain the difference between rural and urban areas.
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G.3. Standard / Student Learning Expectation: Interaction of People and the Environment
Students shall develop an understanding of the interactions between people and their environment.
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G.3.1.1. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Movement
Recognize reasons people need various types of transportation.
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G.3.1.2. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Human Environment Interaction
Identify ways to take personal action to protect the environment (e.g., cleaning up litter, recycling, Earth Day, Arbor Day).
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G.3.1.3. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Human Environment Interaction
Identify ways in which people depend on the physical environment.
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AR.C. Strand / Content Standard: Civics
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C.4. Standard / Student Learning Expectation: Government
Students shall develop an understanding of the forms and roles of government.
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C.4.1.1. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
Understand that government is an organized form of rules and procedures.
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C.4.1.2. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
Explain the importance of government in the classroom and school.
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C.4.1.3. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
Discuss the roles of people in families and schools who hold positions of authority.
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C.4.1.4. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
Discuss the basic role of the current president of the United States and current governor of Arkansas
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C.5. Standard / Student Learning Expectation: Citizenship
Students shall develop an understanding of how to participate, develop, and use the skills necessary for effective citizenship.
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C.5.1.1. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Roots of Democracy
Identify and discuss national symbols that represent American democracy: American flag, Bald Eagle, Statue of Liberty, White House, and United States Constitution.
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C.5.1.2. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
Demonstrate the rights and responsibilities of being a good citizen (e.g., politeness, reliability, fairness, honesty, patriotism).
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C.5.1.3. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
Discuss the voting process as it relates to an election.
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C.5.1.4. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
Demonstrate the appropriate procedures for reciting the Pledge of Allegiance: standing up straight, placing the right hand over heart, removing hats, and observing location of the flag.
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AR.H. Strand / Content Standard: History
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H.6. Standard / Student Learning Expectation: History
Students shall analyze significant ideas, events, and people in world, national, state, and local history and how they affect change over time.
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H.6.1.1. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Regionalism/ Nationalism
Identify people and events observed in national celebrations and holidays: Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving, Columbus Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President's Day, Independence Day, and Constitution Day .
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H.6.1.2. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Regionalism/ Nationalism
Identify state symbols of Arkansas: flower, bird, fruit/vegetable, folk dance, and instrument.
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H.6.1.3. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Regionalism and Nationalism
Identify historical sites of Arkansas (e.g., Old Washington, Arkansas Post).
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H.6.1.4. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Continuity and Change
Recognize time equivalency using chronological terms: yesterday/past, today/present, and tomorrow/ future.
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H.6.1.5. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Continuity and Change
Determine the sequential order of events on a timeline (e.g., school events, holidays, birthday, historical events).
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H.6.1.6. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Continuity and Change
Explore people and events from the past using primary and secondary sources (e.g., photos, artifacts, maps).
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H.6.1.7. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Continuity and Change
Discuss daily life in the past and present.
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H.6.1.8. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Continuity and Change
Recognize that the Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower and arrived at Plymouth Rock.
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H.6.1.9. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Continuity and Change
Understand that the name of Arkansas originated from the Quapaw Indians.
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H.6.1.10. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Continuity and Change
Discuss methods of transportation of today and long ago.
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H.6.1.11. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Movement
Describe the voyage of Christopher Columbus.
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H.6.1.12. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Cultural Diversity and Uniformity
Demonstrate the relationship between the American Indians and the Pilgrims (e.g., play, skit, song).
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AR.E. Strand / Content Standard: Economics
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E.7. Standard / Student Learning Expectation: Choices
Students shall analyze the costs and benefits of making economic choices.
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E.7.1.1. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Costs and Benefits
Identify the categories and priorities of wants and needs.
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E.7.1.2. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Costs and Benefits
Describe how people satisfy basic wants (e.g., grow food; earn money to buy things, trade with others).
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E.7.1.3. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Costs and Benefits
Determine the relationships between unlimited wants and limited resources (e.g., scarcity).
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E.8. Standard / Student Learning Expectation: Resources
Students shall evaluate the use and allocation of human, natural, and capital resources.
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E.8.1.1. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Factors of Production
Recognize that people are producers of goods and services (e.g., make a bed, turn in homework, make a craft).
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E.8.1.2. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Factors of Production
Recognize that people are consumers of goods and services (e.g., buy a toy, get a haircut, go to a movie).
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E.8.1.3. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Factors of Production
Discuss skills and education necessary to perform a job.
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E.8.1.4. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Factors of Production
Identify uses for natural resources.
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E.8.1.5. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Factors of Production
Understand that capital resources are the tools of trade (e.g., carpenter uses hammer and nails, painter uses paint).
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E.9. Standard / Student Learning Expectation: Markets
Students shall analyze the exchange of goods and services and the roles of governments, businesses, and individuals in the market place.
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E.9.1.1. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Financial Markets
Discuss barter as a method of exchange.
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E.9.1.2. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Financial Markets
Recognize that money is a medium of exchange.
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E.9.1.3. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Financial Markets
Discuss the role of a financial institution.
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E.9.1.4. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Goods and Services
Understand that the production of any good or service requires: natural resources, human resources, and capital resources.
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E.9.1.5. Student Learning Expectation / Benchmark: Goods and Services
Recognize that markets exist in various places (e.g., physical locations home, Internet)
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