First Grade Social Studies Checkpoints
First Nine Weeks
Unit 1: Government/Civic Understandings (Positive Character Traits and Patriotic Words)
● Describe how historical figures display positive character traits (fairness, respect for
others/environment, conservation, courage, equality, tolerance, perseverance, and
commitment) (SS1CG1)
● Explain the meaning of the patriotic words to America (My Country ‘Tis of Thee) and
America the Beautiful (SS1CG2)
Unit 2: Our National Heritage (American Folktales/Heroes)
● Explain how folktales characterize our national heritage (John Henry, Johnny Appleseed,
Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, and Annie Oakley) (SS1H2)
Second Nine Weeks
Unit 3: Geography
● Describe cultural and geographic systems associated with historical figures (SS1G1)
● Identify and locate city, county, state, nation, and continent on a simple map or a globe
(SS1G2)
● Locate all continents (SS1G3a)
● Locate major oceans (SS1G3b)
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Identify and describe landforms (SS1G3c)
Third Nine Weeks
Unit 4: Historical Figures
● Identify the contributions made by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis
and William Clark with Sacagawea, Harriet Tubman, Theodore Roosevelt, George
Washington Carver (SS1H1a)
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Describe how everyday life of these figures is similar and different from everyday life in the
present (SS1H1b)
Fourth Nine Weeks
Unit 5: Economics
● Identify goods and services (SS1E1)
● Explain that people have to make choices about goods and services because of scarcity
(SS1E2)
● Describe how people are both producers and consumers (SS1E3)
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Describe the costs and benefits of personal spending and saving choices (SS1E4)