Social Studies Academic Vocabulary Kindergarten Unit 1: Who We Are Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Family House School Mother Father Brother Sister Homes Townhouse Apartment Listen Learn Cooperate Respect Friend Classmate Work Play Teacher Principal Custodian Nurse Librarian Unit 2: Communities Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Neighborhood Rules Helpers Streets Town Stores Citizen Community Near Far Above Below Police Firefighter Mayor City Country Suburb Farm Celebrations Social Studies Academic Vocabulary Kindergarten Continued Unit 3: Work Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Work Job Then Now Money Needs Wants Food Clothing Shelter Unit 4: Earth Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Maps Globe Forests Plains Mountains Oceans Peak Salt Pacific Atlantic Map key Country World Model Recycle Social Studies Academic Vocabulary Kindergarten Continued Unit 5: U.S.A. Critical Terms Supplemental Terms America Country National Symbols Presidents U.S.A. First Americans Native Americans Past Present Explorers Thanksgiving Celebrations Transportation Travel Unit 6: Family Stories Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Alike Different Celebrations Similar Birthday Celebrate Weddings Traditions Recipe Food Games Jobs Chores Shopping Picnics Camping Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 1st Grade Unit 1: Time for School Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Group Flag Country School Home Pledge Rules Calendar Then/now Education Unit 2: In My Community Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Community Continent Ocean Leader Neighborhood Cities Towns Farms Law State Symbols (on a map) Past/present Cardinal directions North South East West Unit 3: Work, Work, Work Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Needs Wants Volunteer Job Tools Goods Service Money Spending Saving Transportation Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 1st Grade Continued Unit 4: Our Earth Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Mountain Plain Lake River Natural resources History Weather Resources Land Water Reduce Reuse Recycle Unit 5: This is Our Country Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Native Americans Holidays Pilgrim Thanksgiving Citizen Colony President Freedom Vote Capital Symbol Unit 6: Our Country, Our World Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Communicate World Invention Market Inventor Technology Market Travel Transportation Communication Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 2nd Grade Unit 1: Where People Live Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Community Urban Suburb Rural Vote Capital History Law Unit 2: Our Earth Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Landform Producer Consumer Natural resource Ancestor Geography Ocean Continent State Country Conservation Unit 3: Working Together Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Goods Services Transportation Income Trade Barter Tax Factory Unit 4: Our Country Today Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Government President Citizen Freedom Mayor Governor Motto Congress Monument Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 2nd Grade Continued Unit 5: Our Country Long Ago Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Independence Tradition Pioneer Colony Colonist Shelter Explorer Unit 6: People and Places in History Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Custom Landmark Communication Invention Immigrant Holiday Artifact Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 3rd Grade Unit 1: Community Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Population Law Map title Map key Climate Geography Region Capital Compass rose Coast Desert Community Citizen Urban area Suburb Rural area Landform Climate map Environment Natural resources Renewable resource Nonrenewable resource Pollution Canal Unit 2: History Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Explorer Colony Heritage Timeline Democracy Symbol Trade route Decade Century Mission Independence Decision Unit 3: Changes Over Time Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Immigrant Slavery Primary source Secondary source Diversity Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 3rd Grade Continued Unit 4: Citizenship Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Compromise Conflict Monument Legislature Executive branch Judicial branch Common/good Volunteer Governor Point of view Country Council Ambassador Treaty Inset map Capitol Mayor Tax Unit 5: Economics Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Budget Supply Demand Factory Human resources Income Interest Opportunity Competition Consumer Producer Assembly line Cost Scarcity Flow chart Capital resources Unit 6: Culture Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Ethnic group Legend Liberty Justice Patriotism Custom Participate Holiday Principle Legacy Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 4th Grade Unit 1: Cultures Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Migration Ice age Archaeologists Tribe Drought League Reservation Native Americans Totem pole Bering Strait Artifact Theory Mesa Ceremony Longhouse Lodge Teepee Travois Pow wow Pueblo Shaman Potlatch Traditions Customs Unit 2: Exploration Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Cash Crop Indentured servant Northwest passage Persecution Separatists Dissenter Proprietor Debtor 13 colonies Stock Charter House of Burgesses Mayflower Compact Puritans New England Colonies Southern Colonies Middle Colonies Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 4th Grade Continued Unit 3: English Colonies Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Apprentice Artisan Self-sufficient Southern plantation Rebellion Pueblo revolt Trading post Tributary French & Indian War Proclamation of 1763 Haciendas Presidios Triangular trade routes Middle passage Town common Great Awakening Slavery King Philip’s War Backcountry Unit 4: Revolutionary War Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Parliament Stamp act Tariff Protest Boston Massacre Boston Tea Party Tax Traitor American Revolution Declaration of Independence Sons/Daughters of Liberty Townshend Acts Intolerable acts Loyalists Patriots First Continental Congress Minutemen Committee of Correspondence Tea Act Battle of Bunker Hill Second Continental Congress Continental Army Olive Branch Petition Mercenary Treaty of Paris Boycott Repeal Militia Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 4th Grade Continued Unit 5: Government Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Articles of Confederation Ratify Delegate Preamble Veto Checks/balances Constitution Amendment Bill of Rights Political party Louisiana Purchase Frontier Branches of Government Inflation Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Constitutional convention Compromise Separation of powers Federalists/Anti-Federalists Debate Electoral college Inauguration Pioneer War of 1812 National Anthem Unit 6: Times of Change Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Nationalism Industrial revolution Manufacture Abolitionist Reform Revival Annex Gold rush Discrimination Suffrage Technology Cotton gin Mechanical reaper Canal Temperance Seneca Falls Convention Manifest Destiny Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 5th Grade Unit 1: Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Civil War Confederacy Union Gettysburg Address Underground Railroad Emancipation Proclamation Reconstruction Secede Slavery Economics Blockade Anaconda Plan Assassination Impeachment Jim Crow Laws State’s rights Strategy Compromise Segregation Unit 2: Critical Terms Investor Monopoly Free enterprise Diversity Ellis Island Supplemental Terms Human Resources Capital Resources Sweatshop Child labor Consumers Prejudice Poverty Persecution Justice Angel Island Immigration Unit 3: Critical Terms Mechanization Urbanization Suffrage Nationalism Isolationism Alliances/treaties Supplemental Terms Manual labor Reaper Threshing machine Enfranchise Yellow journalism Settlement house Tenant Great Migration 19th Amendment Buffalo Soldier Trust gulag Tenement Progressive Muckraker League of nations Allies Axis Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 5th Grade Continued Unit 4: Critical Terms Mass Production Prohibition Stock market Great depression New Deal Dictator Rationing WWII Atomic Bomb Holocaust Supplemental Terms Assembly Line Mass Media Jazz Harlem Renaissance Bootleggers Unemployment Credit Black Tuesday Social Security Drought Migrant Worker Dust Bowl Inflation FDR Hitler Tuskegee Airmen Manhattan Project Draft Anne Frank Concentration Camp Battle of Midway Battle of Bulge Battle of Stalingrad Unit 5: Critical Terms Aggressor Ideology Cold War Korean War Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis Civil Rights Vietnam Boycott Supplemental Terms United Nations Communism Propaganda NATO Berlin Airlift Credit Red Scare Arms Race Passive Resistance Malcolm X Space Race United Farm Workers of America Americans with Disabilities G.I. Bill Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 6th Grade World Geography Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Primary Source Secondary Source Latitude Longitude Hemisphere Artifacts Regions Resources Cultures Era Society Migration Domestication City-state Social order Religion Alliance Agreement Philosophy Neutral Government Innovation Influence Structure Doctrine Caste system Empire Dynasty Globalization Chronological order Paleolithic Mesolithic Neolithic Rural Urban Monotheism Polytheism Priests Buddhism Hinduism Socrates Aristotle Plato Euclid Hippocrates Confucianism Democracy Oligarchy Dictator Anarchy Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 7th Grade Current Events Critical Terms Supplemental Terms News Sources Issues/Events Point of View Connections Stakeholders (individuals or groups) Newspapers Magazines Radio Television Internet Credibility Primary sources Secondary sources Format Context clues Decoding Explicit Implicit Problem/solution Summary Cause/effect Analysis Compare/contrast Keywords KWL 5 W’s and How Deductive Reasoning/Argument Inductive Reasoning/Argument Conclusion, Valid, Unsound Straight/Hard/Breaking News Feature Opinion-Editorial Review Press Release Inference Hypothesis Personal (individuals and/or self) Politics Society Economy Religion/Beliefs Background (historical) information Impact/Effect Social Studies Academic Vocabulary 8th Grade Project Citizen Critical Terms Supplemental Terms Citizenship Political Systems Public Policy Issues Problem Solution U.A. Born Naturalization Economic rights Political rights Personal rights Legal rights Voluntary rights Responsibilities – personal Participatory and Justice Oriented Patriotism Bill of Rights Amendments Civic Branches of Government Executive Judicial Legislative Federal State Local School Congress Administrative Agencies Court President Governor Mayor Interest Groups Lobbyists Enforcement Constitution Democracy Community Organizations Congressional districts Rule Law Policy Common Good Government Action Bill Substantive policy Symbolize policy Triggering mechanism Scope Intensity Duration Resources Purposeful Responsive Authoritative Resolve conflict Public input Actors Institutions Levels of government Zoning Basic Liberties Primary source Secondary source Community standards Zoning Specifications Self-interest Demonstrate Evidence Conflict Debate Status quo Trends Outcomes Values Triggering Mechanism Scope Intensity Duration Opinions Analysis Source Abstract Data Statistics Interview Alternatives Evidence Research Editorials Constitutionality Data Statistics Interview Recommendation Persuasiveness Demonstrate Rationalize Action plan 8th Grade Project Citizen Continued