Arkansas's First Grade 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.1.1.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Identify and locate student's town/city on an appropriate map.
      • G.1.1.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Locate Arkansas on a United States map.
      • G.1.1.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Identify and locate the United States on a world map or globe.
      • G.1.1.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Identify the North and South Poles and the Equator on a map or globe.
      • G.1.1.5. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Recognize that there are seven major continents.
      • G.1.1.6. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Recognize that there are four major oceans in the world.
      • G.1.1.7. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Explain how climate, location, and physical surroundings affect the way people live (e.g., food, clothing, shelter, transportation, recreation).
      • G.1.1.8. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Understand how and why maps and globes are used.
      • G.1.1.9. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Recognize that pictorial symbols on a map represent real objects.
      • G.1.1.10. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Show a relationship between places using directional words (e.g., school, home, community).
      • G.1.1.11. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Name and label the cardinal directions on a map: north, south, east, and west.
      • G.1.1.12. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Recognize physical features of maps and globes: rivers, lakes, oceans, mountains, islands, desert, and coast (e.g., use pictures, visual aids, stories).
      • G.1.1.13. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Illustrate and label a map of a familiar place.

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

      Students shall develop an understanding of how cultures around the world develop and change.
      • G.2.1.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Culture and Diversity
        Discuss elements of culture (e.g., food, clothing, housing, language, sports/ recreation, customs, traditions, art, music, religion).
      • G.2.1.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Culture and Diversity
        Explain ways in which the location of a community affects people's lives, dress, and occupation.
      • G.2.1.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Culture and Diversity
        Explain the difference between rural and urban areas.

    • 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.3.1.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Movement
        Recognize reasons people need various types of transportation.
      • G.3.1.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Human Environment Interaction
        Identify ways to take personal action to protect the environment (e.g., cleaning up litter, recycling, Earth Day, Arbor Day).
      • G.3.1.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Human Environment Interaction
        Identify ways in which people depend on the 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.4.1.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
        Understand that government is an organized form of rules and procedures.
      • C.4.1.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
        Explain the importance of government in the classroom and school.
      • C.4.1.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
        Discuss the roles of people in families and schools who hold positions of authority.
      • C.4.1.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
        Discuss the basic role 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.5.1.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Roots of Democracy
        Identify and discuss national symbols that represent American democracy: American flag, Bald Eagle, Statue of Liberty, White House, and United States Constitution.
      • C.5.1.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
        Demonstrate the rights and responsibilities of being a good citizen (e.g., politeness, reliability, fairness, honesty, patriotism).
      • C.5.1.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
        Discuss the voting process as it relates to an election.
      • C.5.1.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
        Demonstrate the appropriate procedures for reciting 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.6.1.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Regionalism/ Nationalism
        Identify people and events observed in national celebrations and holidays: Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving, Columbus Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President's Day, Independence Day, and Constitution Day .
      • H.6.1.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Regionalism/ Nationalism
        Identify state symbols of Arkansas: flower, bird, fruit/vegetable, folk dance, and instrument.
      • H.6.1.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Regionalism and Nationalism
        Identify historical sites of Arkansas (e.g., Old Washington, Arkansas Post).
      • H.6.1.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Recognize time equivalency using chronological terms: yesterday/past, today/present, and tomorrow/ future.
      • H.6.1.5. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Determine the sequential order of events on a timeline (e.g., school events, holidays, birthday, historical events).
      • H.6.1.6. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Explore people and events from the past using primary and secondary sources (e.g., photos, artifacts, maps).
      • H.6.1.7. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Discuss daily life in the past and present.
      • H.6.1.8. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Recognize that the Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower and arrived at Plymouth Rock.
      • H.6.1.9. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Understand that the name of Arkansas originated from the Quapaw Indians.
      • H.6.1.10. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Discuss methods of transportation of today and long ago.
      • H.6.1.11. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Movement
        Describe the voyage of Christopher Columbus.
      • H.6.1.12. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Cultural Diversity and Uniformity
        Demonstrate the relationship between the American Indians and the Pilgrims (e.g., play, skit, 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.7.1.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Cost and Benefits
        Identify the categories and priorities of wants and needs.
      • E.7.1.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Cost and Benefits
        Describe how people satisfy basic wants (e.g., grow food, earn money to buy things, trade with others).
      • E.7.1.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Cost and Benefits
        Determine the relationships between unlimited wants and limited resources (e.g., scarcity).

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

      Students shall evaluate the use and allocation of human, natural, and capital resources.
      • E.8.1.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Recognize that people are producers of goods and services (e.g., make a bed, turn in homework, make a craft).
      • E.8.1.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Recognize that people are consumers of goods and services (e.g., buy a toy, get a haircut, go to a movie).
      • E.8.1.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Discuss skills and education necessary to perform a job.
      • E.8.1.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Identify uses for natural resources.
      • E.8.1.5. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Understand that capital resources are the tools of trade (e.g., carpenter uses hammer and nails, painter uses paint).

    • 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.9.1.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Financial Markets
        Discuss barter as a method of exchange.
      • E.9.1.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark:
        Recognize that money is a medium of exchange.
      • E.9.1.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Financial Markets
        Discuss the role of a financial institution.
      • E.9.1.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Goods and Services
        Understand that the production of any good or service requires: natural resources, human resources, and capital resources.
      • E.9.1.5. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Goods and Services
        Recognize that markets exist in various places (e.g., physical locations home, Internet)