National History Education Clearinghouse

AK.4. Performance / Content Standard: Cognition and General Knowledge

• 4.45. Grade Level Expectation: Social Studies - History

  Children differentiate between events that happen in the past, present, and future.

  • 4.45.1. Grade Level Example:

    Retells a more complex story or event in somewhat sequential order

  • 4.45.2. Grade Level Example:

    Begins to use the vocabulary for days of the week and names of the months

  • 4.45.3. Grade Level Example:

    Describes events or objects from his/her personal or family history

  • 4.45.4. Grade Level Example:

    Begins to understand that people in the past lived differently than people do today

  • 4.45.5. Grade Level Example:

    Uses the future tense to discuss plans

  • 4.45.6. Grade Level Example:

    Progresses in understanding similarities and respecting differences among people, such as genders, race, special needs, culture, language, and family structures

  • 4.45.7. Grade Level Example:

    Recognizes pictures of parents or grandparents when they were young.

• 4.46. Grade Level Expectation: Social Studies - Geography

  Children demonstrate awareness of location and spatial relationships.

  • 4.46.1. Grade Level Example:

    Talks about location using appropriate vocabulary (e.g., near/far, over/under, next to)

  • 4.46.2. Grade Level Example:

    Describes some concepts of distance or space (e.g., knows it's far to Grandpa's house)

  • 4.46.3. Grade Level Example:

    Recognizes that real places can be represented with symbols

• 4.47. Grade Level Expectation: Social Studies - Geography

  Children demonstrate knowledge of the relationship between people, places, and regions.

  • 4.47.1. Grade Level Example:

    Describes some physical characteristics (e.g., bodies of water, mountains, weather) and some of the social characteristics of the corresponding communities (e.g., types of shelter, clothing, food, jobs)

  • 4.47.2. Grade Level Example:

    Helps to navigate on journeys (e.g., 'After you pass the big red barn, then my house is next.' Or 'I live by the bus stop.')

  • 4.47.3. Grade Level Example:

    Understands that there are different places that people live

• 4.48. Grade Level Expectation: Social Studies - Economics

  Children demonstrate awareness of economic concepts.

  • 4.48.1. Grade Level Example:

    Realizes that making one choice means that you may not be able to do something else

  • 4.48.2. Grade Level Example:

    Recognizes that people rely on others for goods and services

  • 4.48.3. Grade Level Example:

    Understands the concept of saving resources for use in the future

  • 4.48.4. Grade Level Example:

    Accurately names some coins and money bills (e.g., penny, nickel, dollar bill)

  • 4.48.5. Grade Level Example:

    Recognizes that some things are owned by people and other things are collective goods

  • 4.48.6. Grade Level Example:

    Demonstrates understanding that coins of different sizes and colors have different names

• 4.49. Grade Level Expectation: Social Studies - Ecology

  Children demonstrate awareness of the relationship between humans and the environment.

  • 4.49.1. Grade Level Example:

    Recognizes, with adult support and guidance, how people can take care of the earth's limited resources or damage the earth

  • 4.49.2. Grade Level Example:

    Exhibits simple concepts of conservation (e.g., uses paper judiciously, does not waste water)

  • 4.49.3. Grade Level Example:

    Shows interest in understanding how animals gather and store food, sleep, and live

• 4.50. Grade Level Expectation: Social Studies - Technology

  Children use technology appropriately.

  • 4.50.1. Grade Level Example:

    Identifies ways in which technology helps people accomplish specific tasks (e.g., 'The wheelchair helps Alfonso get from one place to another.' 'E-mail lets you communicate with your friend Qavvik who lives far away.')

  • 4.50.2. Grade Level Example:

    Identifies alternate ways of doing things with and without technology (e.g., can use hands or dishwasher to clean dishes; can travel by foot or by car)

  • 4.50.3. Grade Level Example:

    Considers, with adult guidance, what it must have been like to live without technology in an earlier time

  • 4.50.4. Grade Level Example:

    Uses computer for simple 'point and click' operations on child-appropriate Web sites or software

• 4.51. Grade Level Expectation: Family, Community, and Culture - Family

  Children demonstrate awareness of family characteristics and functions.

  • 4.51.1. Grade Level Example:

    Recognizes extended family members (e.g., cousins, aunts, uncles)

  • 4.51.2. Grade Level Example:

    Talks about how other children have different family compositions other than own

• 4.52. Grade Level Expectation: Family, Community, and Culture - Community

  Children demonstrate awareness of their community, human interdependence, and social roles.

  • 4.52.1. Grade Level Example:

    Recognizes others' capabilities in specific areas (e.g., 'That woman is good at fixing cars.')

  • 4.52.2. Grade Level Example:

    Identifies some types of jobs and some of the tools used to perform those jobs

  • 4.52.3. Grade Level Example:

    Demonstrates an understanding of social behavior and personal responsibility as a member of a group (e.g., 'If you put away the toys, then I'll clean up the art table.')

• 4.53. Grade Level Expectation: Family, Community, and Culture - Community

  Children demonstrate civic responsibility.

  • 4.53.1. Grade Level Example:

    Exhibits positive citizenship behaviors by sharing, taking turns, following rules, and taking responsibility for classroom jobs

  • 4.53.2. Grade Level Example:

    Participates in democratic group processes as a way of making choices (e.g., voting or discussion)

  • 4.53.3. Grade Level Example:

    Demonstrates awareness for the reasons for rules and laws

  • 4.53.4. Grade Level Example:

    Exhibits personal responsibility, choice, and leadership in the context of self-help skills and duties/roles that benefit the family or class

  • 4.53.5. Grade Level Example:

    Participates in community events that promote interdependence, with assistance

• 4.54. Grade Level Expectation: Family, Community, and Culture - Culture

  Children demonstrate awareness and appreciation of their own and others' cultures.

  • 4.54.1. Grade Level Example:

    Talks about, compares, and explores similarities and differences in daily practices across cultures

  • 4.54.2. Grade Level Example:

    Expresses understanding about other children's cultures through conversations, dramatic play, interactions, and items from home

  • 4.54.3. Grade Level Example:

    Recognizes and celebrates similarities and differences between people of different cultures

  • 4.54.4. Grade Level Example:

    Recognizes stereotypes and culturally or linguistically unfair or biased behavior