Grade 1 Social Studies Hawaii standards Standards

Content Standards

Anchor and Inquiry Standards

Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Creating Claims

Communicating Conclusions

Taking Informed Action

Investigate historically significant events, people, and observances in history

Use maps and map features to describe places

Explain shared democratic values

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and listen attentively to others

Describe some physical features of continents and oceans in the world

Investigate cultural and environmental characteristics of your community

Describe the ways climate, weather, and natural disasters affect your community

Explain how people improve their communities and the environment

Explain how scarcity is a result of limited resources

Compare life in the past to life today

Compare fact and opinion in stories and narratives from the past

Compare differences between goods and services

Identify different ways of acquiring what you need and want

Explain causes and effects of an event in your life or in your family's life

Construct a variety of questions about social studies topics with guidance from adults and/or peers

Construct supporting questions to help answer compelling questions with guidance from adults and/or peers

Determine whether a source is primarily fact or opinion

Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

Gather facts from teacher and/or adult-curated sources to answer questions

Begins in grades 3-5

Begins in grades 3-5

Construct explanations using correct sequence and relevant information

Respectfully ask and answer questions about arguments and explanations

Present explanations using a variety of print, oral, and digital technologies

Identify problems or issues in classrooms, schools, or communities

Identify ways in which people are trying to address problems or issues in classrooms, schools, or communities

Use deliberative and democratic procedures (e.g., listening, consensus building, voting) to identify ways to take action on classroom, school, or community problems or issues

Show evidence of taking individual or group action on one or more problems or issues