• analyze their role as a citizen in a community.

    • Describe the need for written laws and the main purpose of government, including the concept of consequences for one’s actions when a law or rule is violated.

    • Describe how citizens within communities work together to accomplish common tasks and fulfill roles of authority.

    • Explain patriotic traditions including The Pledge of Allegiance, describe appropriate flag etiquette and proper behavior during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner.

    • Identify important symbols of the United States including the Bald Eagle and the Liberty Bell, and explain their meanings.

  • demonstrate knowledge of basic geographic concepts.

    • Describe the difference between physical and political maps; construct basic maps of specific places.

    • Identify cardinal directions and use them to identify specific locations on a map.

    • Identify the difference between continents and oceans.

    • Compare the features of urban and rural communities.

    • Describe community customs and traditions as basic elements of culture.

  • examine important events and historical figures in the nation’s past.

    • Explain why people may see events from different points of view.

    • Describe the contributions of people and groups who have shaped our history and ways we commemorate important places and events of the past.

    • Read and construct basic timelines to understand the chronology of events in history.

    • Identify primary sources and how they help us to learn about the past.

  • describe the characteristics of the American economic system.

    • Explain the costs and benefits of spending and saving in order to meet needs and wants.

    • Describe ways people are paid for their labor and how goods and services are purchased using money and credit.

    • Identify and explain the roles of consumers and producers in the American economy.

    • Describe the role of banks in the community.