USD #434 Santa Fe Trail Essential Skills for Social
Studies.
(K-8 revised 2004)
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Kindergarten
Social Studies Essential Skills
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The learner
will……….
- Identify roles of self in
relation to family and school.
- Examine the rights and
responsibilities of self in relation to family and
school.
- Discuss safety rules pertaining
to home and school.
- Identify community workers and
describe how they contribute to the exchange of goods and
services.
- Explain and demonstrate the
role of money in everyday life.
- Recognize significant
contributions of important historical
individuals.
- Learn about the importance of
groups of people who have contributed to our United
States heritage.
- Learn about the significance of
holidays and symbols related to United States as well as
Kansas.
- Recognize various
representations of the earth, such as maps and
globes.
- Locate and distinguish between
land forms and oceans using a globe.
- Identify the equator, North
Pole, South Pole on a globe.
- Locate Kansas on a United
States map.
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1st
Grade Social Studies Essential Skills
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The learner
will……
- Describe the need for rules in
the family, school, and community.
- Know various American symbols
(i.e., eagle, flag, seals, pledge).
- Discuss the right to
vote.
- Become familiar with
governmental terms.
- Explain the role of goods and
services.
- Give examples of wants and
needs.
- Explain why it is important to
plan spending and saving decisions.
- Use maps to locate information
about countries and states.
- Describe characteristics of the
local community (e.g., location, land, weather, seasons,
people, jobs, houses, food, recreation, and
customs).
- Report local weather patterns
accurately.
- Know the importance of United
States social and political leaders (i.e., George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King
Jr.).
- Compare life conditions
&endash; past and present.
- Identify some U.S. national
holidays (i.e., Columbus Day, Independence Day, Martin
Luther King Jr. Day, President's Day,
Thanksgiving).
- Identify three official symbols
of the state of Kansas.
- Describe the different food
sources produced in Kansas.
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2nd
Grade Social Studies Essential Skills
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The learner
will……
- Describe the need for rules,
rights, privileges, and responsibilities in the family,
school, and community.
- Describe U.S. and state
government in terms of people who make, apply, and
enforce rules and laws for others in their
communities.
- Identify examples of producers,
consumers, goods, and services.
- Explain why it is important to
plan spending decisions and why it is important to
save.
- Describe the purposes of maps
and globes.
- Describe the physical and
cultural characteristics in the community and changes
that have taken place over time.
- Describe seasonal changes in
the local environment and how people adapt to those
changes.
- Identify settlement patterns
and basic needs in the community.
- Know the importance of various
historical leaders and scientists.
- Compare and contrast the life
conditions of the earliest settlements to the present
settlements.
- Identify the United States flag
and several United States holidays.
- Name and locate the state of
Kansas on a map.
- Identify three symbols of
Kansas.
- Explain the origin of the name,
"Kansas".
- Describe land use in his/her
community.
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3rd
Grade Social Studies Essential Skills
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The learner
will……
- Identify the characteristics of
a democracy.
- Understand the importance of
good citizenship.
- Define import and
export.
- Identify goods and services and
be able to give examples.
- Use key features on maps to
answer geographic questions.
- Identify major landforms and
bodies of water.
- Describe the physical processes
and human activities that shape the characteristics of
regions and communities.
- Identify ways that people
utilize the different physical environments of the
Earth.
- Identify the human
characteristics of Kansas (i.e., people, religions,
languages, customs, economics, activities, housing,
foods, customs).
- Explain the origin of his or
her community using local resources.
- Compare and contrast local land
uses to other communities' land uses.
- Describe the development of
trails, railroads, and highways in the
community.
- Illustrate the development of
different forms of transportation and communication now
and long ago.
- Describe the history of
families through the use of primary sources (e.g.,
photographs and interviews).
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4th
Grade Social Studies Essential Skills
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The learner will...
- Explain the purpose and
importance of rules and laws.
- Describe similarities and
unique qualities of cultures.
- Identify three branches of
government and their functions.
- Understand rights and
responsibilities of being an informed
citizen.
- Identify characteristics of a
democracy.
- Understand that choices involve
both costs and benefits.
- Define imports and exports and
give examples of each.
- Identify goods and services
provided by the local, state, and federal
governments.
- Locate major physical and
political features of Earth from memory, such as the 50
states and capitals and geographic locations.
- Compare physical and cultural
characteristics of Kansas with regions of the
U.S.
- Describe human activities that
shape the characteristics of a region.
- Compare reasons that brought
settlers to Kansas.
- Describe experiences of
explorers who came to Kansas before
statehood.
- List hardships encountered by
travelers on the Santa Fe and Oregon-California
Trails.
- Recognize and locate national
and local landmarks and historical sites.
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5th
Grade Social Studies Essential Skills
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The learner will...
- Explain and use map essentials
such as scale, directional indicators, symbols, legend,
latitude and longitude to present information about
people, places, and environments.
- Identify types of regions,
physical features, and patterns on Earth's
surface.
- Understand the 3 branches of
government and their basic responsibilities.
- Demonstrate a working knowledge
and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas, and
developments in exploration, colonization, and settlement
of U.S. to 1763.
- Describe the importance of the
Revolutionary War to American independence by identifying
the major battles and significant Patriots and founding
fathers involved.
- Identify the basic ideas of the
Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of
Rights.
- Engage in historical thinking
skills such as timeline, cause/effect, and author's point
of view.
- Use a working knowledge of
major economic concepts such as scarcity of resources,
supply and demand, wants and needs, goods and
services.
- Learn how to make decisions as
a consumer, producer, saver, and citizen.
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6th
Grade Social Studies Essential Skills
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The learner will...
- Explain different ecosystems
and locate them within hemispheres.
- Identify renewable and
nonrenewable resources and locate where they are
distributed on a map.
- Understand economic
interdependence of different forms of
government.
- Show an understanding of supply
and demand and its relationship to the price of goods,
and an understanding of opportunity cost.
- Understand these types of
government: republic, democracy, monarchy, and
dictatorship.
- Explain the origins and
development of the civilizations (i.e., Sumeria, Babylon,
China, India, Rome).
- Describe the contrast between
the Greek governments of Sparta and Athens.
- Develop an understanding of the
differences between Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and
Buddhism.
- Describe feudalism in Medieval
Europe.
- Define important advances in
the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan societies.
- Use mapping skills and make
interpretations.
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7th
Grade Social Studies Essential Skills
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The learner will...
- Understand the various systems
of governments and how national and international
organizations interact.
- Understand how the market
economy works in the United States and the
world.
- Understand how different
economic systems, institutions, and incentives affect
people.
- Understand the role of the
government in the economy.
- Use maps, graphic
representations, tools and technologies to locate, use,
and present information about people, places, and
environments.
- Analyze the spatial
organization of people, places, and environments that
form regions on Earth's surface.
- Understand how economic,
political, and cultural, and social processes interact to
shape patterns of human populations, interdependence,
cooperation and conflict.
- Understand the effects of
interactions between human and physical
systems.
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8th
Grade Social Studies Essential Skills
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The learner will...
- Compare the U.S. and Kansas
Constitutions to identify the major responsibilities of
the federal, state, and local governments.
- Understand the important
individual, groups, ideas, events, and developments in
Kansas history during these eras:
- Early Settlement
- Territorial
Period
- Civil War
- Immigration
- Industrial
development
- 20th century
- Understand the diversity of
American society including individual rights,
responsibilities, and respect for the law.
- Develop an understanding of
constitutional law including the systems of government
and how national and international organizations
interact.
- Develop an understanding of
individuals, groups, ideas, developments and turning
points in United States history from 1800-1850 including
expansionism, the Industrial Revolution, inventions,
immigration, politics, nationalism, sectionalism and
reform.
- Develop an understanding of
individuals, groups, ideas, developments and turning
points in United States history from 1850-1900 including
the development of business and industry, treatment of
Native Americans, and westward expansion.
- Research, analyze, investigate,
compare and contrast United States history during the
1800's.
- Learn how the economic concepts
of market economy, economics systems, institutions and
the role of government which will help citizens make
effective decisions about economics.
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10th
Grade Social Studies Essential
Skills
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The students will learn about
significant individuals, groups, ideas, developments, and
turning points in the history of the world. . . . . . .
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- From prehistoric times through
the pre-classical civilizations including the early
Middle Eastern civilizations, China, and
India.
- During the time of the great
classical civilizations of Greece, Rome, India, and
China.
- During the time of the rising
new civilizations from 500-1450 A.D. including the
Byzantine Empire, Islam, and the origins of
representative government in England.
- During the emerging global age
from 1400-1750 A.D. including the Renaissance,
Reformation, Absolute monarchies, Scientific Revolution,
English Civil War, European expansion, and the
significance the early Asian Powers.
- During the Age of Revolutions
from 1650-1914 A.D. including the Enlightenment,
political revolutions, Industrial Revolution, Western
nationalism and imperialism, developments for democracy,
Meiji Japan, and major figures in science and
medicine.
- During the Era of the Global
Wars from 1914-1945 A.D. including WWI, development of
the Soviet Union, WWII, movements directed against
European imperialism, and changes in economic conditions,
social structures, science, and technology.
- Since W.W. II. including the
Cold War, collapse of the Soviet Union, role of ideology,
nationalism, religion, and the struggle for human rights,
analyze the advances in science, technology, economics,
and culture, and changes in economic conditions, social
structures, science, and technology.
- The students will learn
historical thinking skills including the ability to
analyze historical materials, develop effective research
strategies for investigating a given historical topic,
examine primary and secondary sources, compare competing
historical narratives, and contrast different historians'
points of view.
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11th
Grade Social Studies Essential
Skills
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The student will use a working
knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments and turning points in . . . . . .
- The emergence of the modern
United States from 1990 to 1930 including political
influences on elections, government regulation of private
business and industry, United States foreign policy,
causes of World War I, effects of World War I on the
homeland, and the various social and cultural changes of
the 1920's.
- The era of the Great Depression
through World War II including the causes and impact of
the Great Depression, the New Deal, the impact of
Franklin Roosevelt, the effect of Pearl Harbor and US
entry into World War II, the effects of World War II on
the homeland, the evolution of Hitler's Germany, the
impact of the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb, and US
development as a superpower.
- The era of contemporary United
State History since 1945 including domestic programs, the
shift from industrial to service information economies,
population shifts after World War II, the Cold War, the
Korean conflict, McCarthyism, Vietnam, civil rights,
recent presidencies, modern changes in technology,
communication and transportation, current social,
educational and economic issues.
- The students will learn
historical thinking skills including the ability to
analyze historical materials, develop effective research
strategies for investigating a given historical topic,
examine primary and secondary sources, compare competing
historical narratives, and contrast different historians'
points of view.
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12th
Grade Social Studies Essential
Skills
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The student will:
- Understand the rule of law as
it applies to family, school, local, state, and national
governments including limitations on government, purpose
and function of law, restrictions on citizens and
government, civic participation, political activities,
and government systems.
- Understand the shared ideals
and the diversity of American society and political
culture including the personal rights and
responsibilities of citizens, the development of national
values, interests for the public good, basic inherent
freedoms, values and principles of constitutional
government, and citizenship.
- Understand how the US
Constitution allocates and restricts the power and
responsibility of government including identifying
constitutional powers, majority rule, the three branches
of government, government agencies, federal and states'
rights, the republican form of government, and
governmental role in economic and foreign
policy.
- Identify and examine the
rights, privileges and responsibilities of citizens as
active participants including the role of political
parties, individual roles in public policy, analysis of
policies, actions and issues dealing with the rights of
individuals, examination of economic rights, analysis of
political rights, limitations of rights, civic
responsibility, and the role of interest
groups.
- Understand the various systems
of government and how national and international
organizations interact including a comparison of various
political and economic systems, examination of the
relationships between national, state and local
governments, native American tribal governments,
international relations and organizations, and US foreign
policy.
- Learn historical thinking
skills including the ability to analyze historical
materials, develop effective research strategies for
investigating a given historical topic, examine primary
and secondary sources, compare competing historical
narratives, and contrast different historians' points of
view.
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