People, Culture & Community

Understanding human relationships, community roles, cultural diversity, and basic historical and geographical concepts.

Examples & Achievements

• Describes roles of community helpers (firefighter, doctor, teacher, mail carrier)
• Knows own cultural traditions and can describe one or two
• Understands that people live in different places and have different customs
• Recognizes and discusses similarities and differences among people
• Understands concepts of past, present, and future
• Can identify own country on a map or globe

How to Measure

• Names and describes 5+ community helper roles
• Describes 2+ cultural traditions from own or others' families
• Uses past/present/future correctly when describing events
• Places 3 life events in chronological order (personal timeline)
• Teaching Strategies GOLD Objective 29-32 (social studies)