Arkansas's Kindergarten Standards

Standards

  • AR.G. Strand/content Standard: Geography

    • G.1. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Physical and Spatial

      Students shall develop an understanding of the physical and spatial characteristics and applications of geography.
      • G.1.K.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Identify home address.
      • G.1.K.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Identify the school attended and the city in which the school is located.
      • G.1.K.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Identify the state of Arkansas on a map of the United States.
      • G.1.K.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Recognize the United States on a world map or globe.
      • G.1.K.5. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Identify land on maps and globes.
      • G.1.K.6. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Identify water on maps and globes.
      • G.1.K.7. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Identify different types of weather.
      • G.1.K.8. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Recognize the difference between maps and globes.
      • G.1.K.9. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Recognize that maps and globes represent models of the Earth.
      • G.1.K.10. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Use words related to location, direction, and distance: here/there, near/far, over/under, left/right, up/down, top/bottom, and between.
      • G.1.K.11. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Illustrate a map of a familiar place (e.g. bedroom, playground, school).

    • G.2. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Culture and Diversity

      Students shall develop an understanding of how cultures around the world develop and change.
      • G.2.K.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Culture and Diversity
        Discuss similarities and differences in families.
      • G.2.K.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Culture and Diversity
        Discuss the location of a community and the ways that location affects the people of a community.

    • G.3. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Interaction of People and the Environment

      Students shall develop an understanding of the interactions between people and their environment.
      • G.3.K.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Movement
        Identify different types of transportation.
      • G.3.K.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Human Environment Interaction
        Recognize the importance of protecting the air, water, and land.
      • G.3.K.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Human Environment Interaction
        Define physical environment.

  • AR.C. Strand/content Standard: Civics

    • C.4. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Government

      Students shall develop an understanding of the forms and roles of government.
      • C.4.K.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
        Recognize the need for rules and the consequences of violating rules.
      • C.4.K.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
        Identify people in the family and school who hold positions of authority.
      • C.4.K.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
        Identify the name and picture of the current president of the United States and current governor of Arkansas.

    • C.5. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Citizenship

      Students shall develop an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
      • C.5.K.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Roots of Democracy
        Recognize national symbols that represent American democracy: American flag, Bald Eagle, Statue of Liberty, White House, and United States Constitution.
      • C.5.K.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
        Discuss the rights and responsibilities of being a good citizen (e.g., respect others, cooperate, share).
      • C.5.K.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
        Identify voting procedures by participating in a classroom voting process (e.g., which book to read, what game to play).
      • C.5.K.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
        Identify the appropriate procedures for the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance: standing up straight, placing the right hand over heart, removing hats, and observing location of the flag.

  • AR.H. Strand/content Standard: History

    • H.6. Standard/student Learning Expectation: History

      Students shall analyze significant ideas, events, and people in world, national, state, and local history and how they affect change over time.
      • H.6.K.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Regionalism/ Nationalism
        Recognize celebrations and holidays as a way of remembering and honoring events and people of the past: Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving, Columbus Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President's Day, Independence Day, and Memorial Day
      • H.6.K.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Regionalism/ Nationalism
        Identify state symbols of Arkansas: flag, tree, insect, and beverage.
      • H.6.K.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Regionalism and Nationalism
        Identify famous Arkansans.
      • H.6.K.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Discuss how things change over time using chronological terms: before/after, first/next/last, now/long ago, and yesterday/ today/tomorrow.
      • H.6.K.5. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Identify events that take place in sequential order (e.g., family photos, pictures from magazines).
      • H.6.K.6. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Discuss how historical events relate to the present day (e.g., stories of George Washington Carver, Wright Brothers).
      • H.6.K.7. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Recognize that family activities have changed over time.
      • H.6.K.8. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Understand that Pilgrims came to America from another part of the world.
      • H.6.K.9. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Recognize examples of current and early transportation.
      • H.6.K.10. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Movement
        Discuss Christopher Columbus and his discovery of America.
      • H.6.K.11. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Cultural Diversity and Uniformity
        Recognize the relationship between the American Indians and the Pilgrims (e.g., story, song).

  • AR.E. Strand/content Standard: Economics

    • E.7. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Choices

      Students shall analyze the costs and benefits of making economic choices.
      • E.7.K.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Cost and Benefits
        Recognize that all people have economic wants and needs.
      • E.7.K.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Cost and Benefits
        Discuss the concept of making choices related to wants and needs.
      • E.7.K.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Cost and Benefits
        Identify the concept of scarcity (e.g., not enough items available).

    • E.8. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Resources

      Students shall evaluate the use and allocation of human, natural, and capital resources.
      • E.8.K.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Identify human resources (e.g., community workers).
      • E.8.K.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Discuss the roles of producers and consumers.
      • E.8.K.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Discuss how people earn a living in the community and the places they work.
      • E.8.K.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Discuss natural resources.
      • E.8.K.5. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Discuss capital resources.

    • E.9. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Markets

      Students shall analyze the exchange of goods and services and the roles of governments, businesses, and individuals in the market place.
      • E.9.K.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Financial Markets
        Recognize that money is used to purchase items.
      • E.9.K.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Goods and Services
        Identify goods that people use.
      • E.9.K.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Goods and Services
        Identify services people do for each other.
      • E.9.K.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Goods and Services
        Recognize that people choose among a variety of goods and services.
      • E.9.K.5. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Goods and Services
        Recognize that people work to earn money to purchase items.
      • E.9.K.6. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Goods and Services
        Understand that markets exist in a community.