Appendix A Social Studies Practices Progression: PreK-Grade 1
Oklahoma Academic Standards · Oklahoma 2019
Engage in Democratic Processes
demonstrate an understanding of the virtues that citizens should use when interacting with each other and the virtues that guide official government institutions.
Discuss democratic principles such as equality, fairness, and respect for legitimate authority.
Discuss how people can improve their communities in the present and over time.
demonstrate an understanding of the important institutions of their society and the principles that these institutions are intended to reflect.
Describe roles and responsibilities of people in authority in school and community settings.
Explain how all informed citizens play important roles in the community.
Explain the need for and purposes of rules in various settings such as the family, classroom, and school.
Explain how rules are made and the consequences for violating those rules.
demonstrate understanding of the processes and rules by which groups of people make decisions, govern themselves, and address public problems.
Describe how people can work together to make decisions in the classroom and school.
Engage in democratic processes to address authentic, real-world problems in the classroom or school.
Analyze and Address Authentic Civic Issues
develop skills and practices which demonstrate an understanding that historical inquiry is based on the analysis and evaluation of evidence and its credibility.
Collaboratively ask and respond to enduring essential questions of common concerns to the student and the community.
Recognize connections between compelling and supporting questions which help answer an essential social studies question.
Practice inquiry skills by responding to various levels of open-ended questions on a regular basis.
demonstrate the ability to investigate problems taking into consideration multiple points of view represented in arguments, structure of an explanation and other sources.
Discuss local problems and ways in which people are trying to address these problems.
With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of social studies content through completion of authentic tasks and assessments.
Acquire, Apply, and Evaluate Evidence
develop skills and practices which demonstrate an understanding that historical inquiry is based on the analysis and evaluation of evidence and its credibility.
Identify a primary source of information and gather basic information from such sources.
Identify the author and date of a primary source using information found within the source itself with guidance and support.
With guidance and support, compare two primary or secondary sources about a particular event in history or contemporary events.
Make simple timelines from given information with guidance and support.
Discuss possible reasons for an event or development in the past.
Discuss how individuals and groups have shaped significant historical changes.
Identify point of view and give examples relevant to the student’s experiences.
demonstrate an understanding of geographic concepts and develop mastery of geographic tools and ways of thinking in order to become geographically informed.
Answer geographic questions using geographic information about the student’s own community.
Create and use basic maps, graphs, and other simple models to identify the physical and human features of the community.
Describe the community’s human and physical environment through the use of simple geographic representations and photographs.
Identify examples of how humans modify and adapt to their physical environment using its natural resources.
Discuss how the physical environment impacts our daily lives and affects human activities.
Discuss why and how people and goods move from place to place.
analyze the principles of economic systems and develop an understanding of the benefits of a market system in local, national, and global settings.
Collaboratively gather simple economic data from charts and tables.
Describe freedom of choice when determining needs and wants.
Discuss the concept that personal decisions have costs and benefits.
Identify examples of the goods and services that school and community workers provide.
Explain why people in the community trade goods and services with people in other communities.
Read Critically and Interpret Informational Sources
comprehend, evaluate, and synthesize textual sources to acquire and refine knowledge in the social studies.
Locate the main idea and supporting details of a text.
Use titles and graphic features, including photographs and illustrations, to understand a text.
Acquire new academic vocabulary and relate new words to prior knowledge.
apply critical reading and thinking skills to interpret, evaluate, and respond to a variety of complex texts from historical, ethnic, and global perspectives.
Explain and discuss the author’s purpose, with guidance and support.
Locate facts that are clearly stated in a text (e.g. who, what, where, when, why, and how).
Ask and answer basic questions and engage in collaborative discussions about appropriate topics in a social studies text.
Engage in Evidence-Based Writing
summarize and paraphrase, integrate evidence, and cite sources to create written products, research projects, and presentations for multiple purposes related to social studies content.
Draw, label, dictate and write a narrative with guidance and support.
Draw, label, dictate, and write an informative product with guidance and support.
With guidance and support, draw, label, dictate, and write to express an opinion, providing reasons as support.
Express ideas independently through a combination of drawing and emergent writing.
engage in authentic inquiry to acquire, refine, and share knowledge through written presentations related to social studies.
With guidance and support, generate a list of topics of interest and questions about social studies.
Organize information found during group research, using graphic organizers and other aids with guidance and support.
With guidance and support, create a simple presentation, using audio, visual, or multimedia tools to communicate ideas and thoughts.