Idaho: Prekindergarten Standards

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  • ID.370.01. Standard: Social Studies Political, Social, and Economic Response to Industrialization and Technological Innovation: Understand the political, social, and economic responses to industrialization and technological innovations that have occurred in the United States.
    • 370.01.a. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Identify different means of transportation used today to travel from place to place (e.g., airplanes, boats, automobiles, buses, trains, and bicycles).
    • 370.01.b. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Identify examples of simple machines, inventions and technology used in the home.
  • ID.371.01. Standard: Social Studies International Relations and Conflicts: Understand significant conflicts in United States history.
    • 371.01.a. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Explore why we celebrate Independence Day, Veterans' Day, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
  • ID.372.01. Standard: Social Studies Cultural and Social Development: Understand the cultural and social development of the United States.
    • 372.01.a. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Explore experiences, stories, pictures, and music of other cultures.
    • 372.01.b. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Demonstrate understanding that holidays commemorate special events.
    • 372.01.c. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Participate in patriotic activities.
    • 372.01.d. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Recognize that people celebrate in many different ways.
    • 372.01.e. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Identify personal and school experiences with large seasonal changes.
    • 372.01.f. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Demonstrate an understanding of own personal history as part of family, school, and community.
    • 372.01.g. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Demonstrate understanding of how people in the community help each other.
    • 372.01.h. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Demonstrate understanding of how all children families have similarities and differences.
    • 372.01.i. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Demonstrate understanding of how each person is special and unique.
  • ID.373.01. Standard: Social Studies Foundations of the American Political System: Understand the foundations and principles of the American political system.
    • 373.01.a. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Listen to stories that reflect the cultural heritage of the United States-present, past, real, and fiction.
    • 373.01.b. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Participate with groups to make decisions and solve problems.
    • 373.01.c. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Demonstrate understanding of some rules and reasons for them.
  • ID.375.01. Standard: Social Studies Citizenship Responsibilities and Rights: Understand that all citizens of the United States have responsibilities and rights.
    • 375.01.a. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Begin to identify individuals who are helpful to people in their everyday lives (e.g., principal, police officer).
    • 375.01.b. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Demonstrate ways to be helpful to family, school community.
    • 375.01.c. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Demonstrate understanding of the need for leadership in the family, school, and community.
    • 375.01.d. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Begin to demonstrate respect for the opinions feelings, and actions of others.
    • 375.01.e. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Demonstrate the ability to make choices and take responsibility for one's own actions.
    • 375.01.f. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Begin to demonstrate respect for rules at home, school, and community.
  • ID.376.01. Standard: Social Studies Economic Fundamentals: Understand basic economic concepts.
    • 376.01.a. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Observe that people have needs and wants.
    • 376.01.b. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Recognize that people meet their needs by sharing, trading, and using money to buy goods and services.
    • 376.01.c. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Demonstrate understanding of some of the jobs that people do to earn money.
    • 376.01.d. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Begin to demonstrate knowledge of people who work in the school or in the community and become aware of their products and services.
  • ID.378.01. Standard: Social Studies Geography: Understand the spatial organization of people, places, and environment on the earth's surface.
    • 378.01.a. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Begin to demonstrate understanding of the natural features of the earth in the immediate environment and in pictures.
    • 378.01.b. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Distinguish between masses of land and water.
    • 378.01.c. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Begin to demonstrate an understanding that a map represents the physical environment.
    • 378.01.d. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Use simple terms such as near, far, smaller and bigger.
  • ID.378.02. Standard: Social Studies Geography: Understand that human actions modify the environment and how physical systems affect human activity and living conditions.
    • 378.02.a. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Begin to demonstrate understanding of the ways that the four seasons affect our lives.
    • 378.02.b. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Demonstrate ways to be helpful to the environment and the community.
    • 378.02.c. Content Knowledge And Skills / Goal: Recognize that many kinds of plants and animals live on earth.

Texas: Prekindergarten Standards

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  • TX.PK.1. Teks: Individual, Culture, and Community - All children live in some type of group or social organization. Prekindergarten children must learn the skills of communicating, sharing, cooperating, and participating with others. These individual skills are necessary for all groups to function successfully and fairly. The better children are able to understand others, the more they will feel a sense of community and connection with other people and with their world.
    • PK.1. (A) Student Expectation: The child shares ideas and takes turns listening and speaking
    • PK.1. (B) Student Expectation: The child cooperates with others in a joint activity
    • PK.1. (C) Student Expectation: The child identifies and follows classroom rules
    • PK.1. (D) Student Expectation: The child participates in classroom jobs and contributes to the classroom community
    • PK.1. (E) Student Expectation: The child identifies similarities among people like himself/herself and classmates as well as among himself/herself and people from other cultures
    • PK.1. (F) Student Expectation: The child begins to examine a situation from another person's perspective.
  • TX.PK.2. Teks: History - Prekindergarten children are aware of time and begin to organize their lives around it. Three- and four-year-old children learn to depend on events and routines that occur in a regular and predictable order. They begin to understand past events and how these events relate to present and future activities, demonstrating evidence of their growing understanding of time, change, and continuity.
    • PK.2. (A) Student Expectation: The child identifies common events and routines (e.g., snack time, storytime)
    • PK.2. (B) Student Expectation: The child begins to categorize time intervals using words (e.g., ''today,'' ''tomorrow,'' ''next time'')
    • PK.2. (C) Student Expectation: The child recognizes changes in the environment over time (e.g., growth, seasonal changes)
    • PK.2. (D) Student Expectation: The child connects past events to current events (e.g., linking yesterday's activity with what will happen today)
    • PK.2. (E) Student Expectation: The child begins to understand cause-and-effect relationships (e.g., if one goes outside in the rain, one will get wet).
  • TX.PK.3. Teks: Geography - Geographic thinking for young children begins with the concepts of location and direction. Children use directions to locate their relative position in space and to locate their home and school in their community. They learn to recognize common features in their immediate environment and begin to represent them symbolically through drawings and constructions.
    • PK.3. (A) Student Expectation: The child identifies common features in the home and school environment (e.g., the library, the playground)
    • PK.3. (B) Student Expectation: The child creates simple representations of home, school, or community through drawings or block constructions
    • PK.3. (C) Student Expectation: The child begins to use words to indicate relative location (e.g., ''front,'' ''back,'' ''near,'' ''far'')
    • PK.3. (D) Student Expectation: The child identifies common features of the local landscape (e.g., houses, buildings, streets).
  • TX.PK.4. Teks: Economics - In prekindergarten, children learn about the world of work in their community. They explore the roles and relationships of consumers and producers, and become aware that people produce services as well as goods. Children learn that their community benefits from many different people working in many different ways.
    • PK.4. (A) Student Expectation: The child understands the basic human needs of all people for food, clothing, and shelter
    • PK.4. (B) Student Expectation: The child understands the roles, responsibilities, and services provided by community workers
    • PK.4. (C) Student Expectation: The child becomes aware of what it means to be a consumer.

West Virginia: Prekindergarten Standards

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  • WV.3. Content Standard / Course: Social and Emotional Development - Knowledge of Family and Community
    • 3.1 Content Standard / Objective: Each child will progress in understanding their role and identity in the family and community.
      • 3.1.1. Objective / Grade Level Expectation: Understands and describes the interactive roles and relationships among family members
      • 3.1.2. Objective / Grade Level Expectation: Identifies and describes the roles and relationships of community members
      • 3.1.3. Objective / Grade Level Expectation: Understands similarities and respects differences among people, such as genders, race, special needs, cultures, language, and family structures
      • 3.1.4. Objective / Grade Level Expectation: Identifies themselves as a member of groups within a community
      • 3.1.5. Objective / Grade Level Expectation: Identifies and describes locations and places in their environment
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