First Grade Social Studies Learning Standards American Holidays Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions: Key Knowledge: Key Skills: Demonstrate Understanding through Overarching “big ideas” and What will be Students will know . Students will be able to . Performance: questions. investigated? Products, projects, assessments, observations, technology • What happened in the past • What happened in • Important American • Use correctly words and phrases • Chart holidays on a monthly calendar by affects our lives. the past? holidays and the related to time (now, in the past, writing holiday names • America celebrates many • Why do we celebrate month and season they future) • Match pictures of holidays with sentences holidays to commemorate holidays in occur • Provide examples of heroes and • Create a “hero’s ribbon” for a person and important events and America? Labor Day explain why they consider them explain why the person has been people. • Why is it important Columbus Day to be a hero considered a hero. • America is home to a to celebrate Veterans’ Day • Describe Martin Luther King, • Illustrate a family celebration of diverse group of people. holidays? Thanksgiving Jr.’s beliefs Thanksgiving and use words to explain the • There are many important • What are the Martin Luther • Identify by name and picture the picture. American heroes who qualities of a hero? King current president of the U.S. • Complete and assemble a mobile influenced and changed the • How is our world Presidents’ Day • Relate facts about other highlighting personal dreams (modeled world. different as a result Patriots’ Day presidents after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s) of American heroes? Memorial Day • Identify the American flag and • Complete Venn diagram for two presidents • Who are the people Flag Day explain the meaning of the stars that shows at least one similarity or in our world? Independence Day and stripes difference • Several American • Identify and explain the meaning heroes and their of American national symbols contributions to • Recite the Pledge of Allegiance America (with respect for individual • Qualities of politeness, religious beliefs) and explain the achievement, courage, general meaning honesty, and • Sing national songs and explain reliability. the general meaning for the • Circumstances in the lyrics world led Martin • Give examples of several Luther King, Jr. to different religious, community, form his beliefs or family celebrations. .