First Grade Essential and Non-Essential Indicators
1-1.1 Summarize the characteristics that contribute to personal identity, including physical growth,the development of individual interests, and family changes over time.
It Is Essential For Students To Know:
- It is essential for students to know characteristics that pertain to personal identity such as physical growth, appearance, and individual interests such as hobbies, collections and habits.
- It is essential for students to know how families change over time, including things such as the addition of a brother or sister, aging grandparents moving in, siblings leaving for college or moving out, job changes by parents, moving to different houses or communities and other related examples.
It Is Not Essential For Students To Know:
- It is not essential for students to know how groups of families in neighborhoods, towns, and cities change over time.
- It is not essential for students to understand aggregate or macro concepts such as population or general economic changes within a community.
1-1.2 Summarize ways in which people are both alike and different from one another in different regions of the United States and the world, including their culture, language, and jobs.
It Is Essential For Students To Know:
- It is essential for students to know different characteristics of regions of the United States such as the North, East, West and South.
- Students should realize that jobs in each region of the United States, as well as the world, are often related to geography and related issues of weather. Thus, regions with access to good soil, ocean access, river access, appropriate rainfall, and other characteristics will have industries and jobs related to these strengths.
- Students should understand that English is the main language of the United States although other languages, such as Spanish and French or dialects such as Gullah, may be spoken in some regions of America.
- Students should know that countries in other regions of the world do not necessarily speak English and that their culture and jobs differ from those in America.
- Students should understand that culture is comprised of acquired characteristics such as language, religion, marriage, holidays, food and the diversity of attributes that a society values.
It Is Not Essential For Students To Know:
- It is not essential for students to know the specific languages that are spoken in other countries around the world.
- It is not essential for students to know examples of specific corporations or businesses in different regions across the country.
- Students do not need to know the differences in government or economic systems among nations.
1-1.3 Illustrate personal and family history on a time line.
It Is Essential For Students To Know:
- It is essential for students to know how to construct a time line.
- Students should construct a simple time line of their personal history and the history of their family.
- Students should connect dates to specific family events and to make the connections across time.
It Is Not Essential For Students To Know:
- It is not essential for students to know how to construct a timeline beyond their personal family history.
1-1.4 Compare the daily life of families across the world—including the roles of men, women, and children; typical food, clothes, and style of homes; and the ways the families earn their living.
It Is Essential For Students To Know:
- It is essential for students to know that there are diverse family types within their own communities and around the world.
- Students should compare the roles of men, women and children in different communities around the world.
- Students should compare foods, clothes, styles of homes and ways families earn their living.
It Is Not Essential For Students To Know:
- It is not essential for students to know the religious characteristics of different communities and groups around the world.
- Students do not need to know about the local government or political systems of other communities around the world.
- It is not essential for students to make assessments about the economic health (i.e. underprivileged, middle class, wealthy, etc) of families around the world.
1-1.5 Illustrate different elements of community life, including the structure of schools; typical jobs; the interdependence of family, school, and the community; and the common methods oftransportation and communication.
It Is Essential For Students To Know:
- It is essential for students to know specific elements of community life including education, jobs, issues of transportation and communication, and the relationship between family, school, and community.
- Students should recognize that schools are normally arranged by grades K-12, with specific grade levels representing elementary, middle, and high school.
- Students should know examples of typical jobs in their communities. This includes teachers, doctors, lawyers, and police officers; and should include jobs unique to each individual community.
- Students should understand the interdependence of family, school and community through such organizations as the PTA, community recreation departments, churches and others.
- Students should recognize that communities are protected through their local fire and police departments.
- The communication systems available across communities include radio, TV, satellite, cell phones, high-speed internet, and e-mail.
- Typical types of transportation in communities include bicycles, cars, taxis, or buses.
It Is Not Essential For Students To Know:
- It is not essential for students to know the hierarchy and management structure of schools or the types of wages earned in different jobs.
- It is not essential for students to understand how schools, along with transportation and communication systems, are financed and built.
- Students do not need to have a technical understanding of communication or transportation systems.