Michigan State Standards for Social Studies: Kindergarten

MI.I.1. Historical Perspective: All students will sequence chronologically the following eras of American history and key events within these eras in order to examine relationships and to explain cause and effect: The Meeting of Three Worlds (beginnings to 1620); Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763); Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1815); Expansion and Reform (1801-1861); and Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877); The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900); The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930); The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945); Post War United States (1945-1970); and Contemporary United States (1968-present). (Time and Chronology).

I.1.1. Use analog and digital clocks to tell time. 12
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I.1.2. Use weeks, months and years as intervals of time. 16
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I.1.3. Distinguish among the past, the present and the future. 8
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I.1.4. Place events of their lives and the lives of others in chronological order. 3
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MI.I.2. Historical Perspective: All students will understand narratives about major eras of American and world history by identifying the people involved, describing the setting, and sequencing the events. (Comprehending the Past)

I.2.1. Identify who was involved, what happened and where it happened in stories about the past. 61
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I.2.2. Describe the past through the eyes and experiences of those who were there as revealed through their records. 61
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I.2.3. Recount events from simple biographies of women and men representing a variety of societies from the past. 61
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I.2.4. Identify and explain how individuals in history demonstrated good character and personal virtue. 61
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MI.I.3. Historical Perspective: All students will reconstruct the past by comparing interpretations written by others from a variety of perspectives and creating narratives from evidence. (Analyzing and Interpreting the Past)

I.3.1. Use a variety of records to construct a narrative about their personal or family histories. 37
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I.3.2. Differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations. 28
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I.3.3. Explain why accounts of the same event differ. 28
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MI.I.4. Historical Perspective: All students will evaluate key decisions made at critical turning points in history by assessing their implications and long-term consequences. (Judging Decisions from the Past)

I.4.1. Recall situations in their lives that required decisions and evaluate the decisions made in light of their consequences. 35
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I.4.2. Evaluate decisions made by others as reported in stories about the past. 61
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MI.II.1. Geographic Perspective: All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of places, cultures, and settlements. (People, Places and Cultures)

II.1.1. Describe the human characteristics of places and explain some basic causes for those characteristics. 24
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II.1.2. Describe the natural characteristics of places and explain some basic causes for those characteristics. 7
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MI.II.2. Geographic Perspective: All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of ecosystems, resources, human adaptation, environmental impact, and the interrelationships among them. (Human/Environment Interaction)

II.2.1. Describe how people use the environment to meet human needs and wants. 6
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II.2.2. Describe the ways in which their environment has been changed by people, and the ways their lives are affected by the environment. 20
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II.2.3. Suggest ways the people can help improve their environment. 34
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MI.II.3. Geographic Perspective: All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of economic activities, trade, political activities, migration, information flow, and the interrelationships among them. (Location, Movement and Connections)

II.3.1. Identify locations of significance in their immediate environment and explain reasons for their location. 39
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II.3.2. Identify people and places in other locations and explain their importance to the community. 5
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II.3.3. Identify people, goods, services and ideas in their local community which have come from other places and describe why they moved. 13
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MI.II.4. Geographic Perspective: All students will describe and compare characteristics of ecosystems, states, regions, countries, major world regions, and patterns and explain the processes that created them. (Regions, Patterns and Processes)

II.4.1. Identify regions in their immediate environment and describe their characteristics and boundaries.

II.4.2. Compare their community and region with others. 4
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II.4.3. Describe changes in the region over time as well as presently. 9
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MI.II.5. Geographic Perspective: All students will describe and explain the causes, consequences, and geographic context of major global issues and events. (Global Issues and Events)

II.5.1. Locate and describe major world events that are having an impact on their community and explain why they are important to the community. 4
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MI.III.1. Civic Perspective: All students will identify the purposes of national, state, and local governments in the United States, describe how citizens organize government to accomplish their purposes, and assess their effectiveness. (Purposes of Government)

III.1.1. Cite examples of government carrying out its legal authority in their local community. 5
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III.1.2. Describe consequences of not having rules. 7
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MI.III.2. Civic Perspective: All students will explain the meaning and origin of the ideas, including the core democratic values expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and other foundational documents of the United States. (Ideals of American Democracy)

III.2.1. Identify aspects of life at school and in the local community that illustrate justice and freedom. 49
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MI.III.3. Civic Perspective: All students will describe the political and legal processes created to make decisions, seek consensus and resolve conflicts in a free society. (Democracy in Action)

III.3.1. Explain how conflicts at school or in the local community might be resolved in ways that are consistent with core democratic values. 13
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MI.III.4. Civic Perspective: All students will explain how American governmental institutions, at the local, state, and federal levels, provide for the limitation and sharing of power and how the nation's political system provides for the exercise of power. (American Government and Politics)

III.4.1. Identify rules at school and in the local community and consider consequences for breaking rules. 7
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III.4.2. Describe fair ways for groups to make decisions. 21
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III.4.3. Describe ways that individuals influence each other. 7
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MI.III.5. Civic Perspective: All students will understand how the world is organized politically, the formation of American foreign policy and the roles the United States plays in the international arena. (American Government and World Affairs)

III.5.1. Distinguish between events in this country and events abroad. 5
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III.5.2. Recognize that events in other countries can affect Americans. 5
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MI.IV.1. Economic Perspective: All students will describe and demonstrate how the economic forces of scarcity and choice affect the management of personal financial resources, shape consumer decisions regarding the purchase, use, and disposal of goods and services and affect the economic well-being of individuals and society. (Individual and Household Choices)

IV.1.1. Identify ways families produce and consume goods and services. 11
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IV.1.2. List ways that individuals can conserve limited resources. 23
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MI.IV.2. Economic Perspective: All students will explain and demonstrate how businesses confront scarcity and choice when organizing, producing, and using resources, and when supplying the marketplace. (Business Choices)

IV.2.1. Connect economic needs with businesses that meet them. 11
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IV.2.2. Select a particular good or service and describe the types of resources necessary to produce and distribute it. 11
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MI.IV.3. Economic Perspective: All students will describe how government decisions on taxation, spending, public goods, and regulation impact what is produced, how it is produced, and who receives the benefits of production. (Role of Government)

IV.3.1. Describe a good or service provided by the local government and the method of payment. 2
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IV.3.2. Identify the goods and services their school provides and the people who provide them. 11
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IV.3.3. Identify an unmet local economic need and propose a plan to meet it. 5
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MI.IV.4. Economic Perspective: All students will explain how a free market economic system works, as well as other economic systems, to coordinate and facilitate the exchange, production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. (Economic Systems)

IV.4.1. Identify examples of markets they experience in their daily life. 11
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IV.4.2. Distinguish between producers and consumers in a market economy. 11
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IV.4.3. Describe how the choices they make impact business decisions. 1
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MI.IV.5. Economic Perspective: All students will describe how trade generates economic development and interdependence and analyze the resulting challenges and benefits for individuals, producers, and government. (Trade)

IV.5.1. Recognize economic exchanges in which they participate. 35
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IV.5.2. Identify United States coin and currency denominations and describe the role of cash in the exchange of goods and services. 25
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MI.V.1. Inquiry: All students will acquire information from books, maps, newspapers, data sets and other sources, organize and present the information in maps, graphs, charts and timelines, interpret the meaning and significance of information, and use a variety of electronic technologies to assist in accessing and managing information. (Information Processing)

V.1.1. Locate information using people, books, audio/video recordings, photos, simple maps, graphs and tables. 18
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V.1.2. Acquire information from observation of the local environment. 15
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V.1.3. Organize information to make and interpret simple maps of their local surroundings and simple graphs and tables of social data drawn from their experience. 9
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MI.V.2. Inquiry: All students will conduct investigations by formulating a clear statement of a question, gathering and organizing information from a variety of sources, analyzing and interpreting information, formulating and testing hypotheses, reporting results both orally and in writing, and making use of appropriate technology. (Conducting Investigations)

V.2.1. Pose a question about life in their school or local community. 49
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V.2.2. Gather and analyze information in order to answer the question posed. 49
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V.2.3. Construct an answer to the question posed and support their answer with evidence. 49
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V.2.4. Report the results of their investigation. 49
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MI.VI.1. Public Discourse and Decision Making: All students will state an issue clearly as a question of public policy, trace the origins of the issue, analyze various perspectives people bring to the issue and evaluate possible ways to resolve the issue. (Identifying and Analyzing Issues)

VI.1.1. Pose a question about matters of public concern that they have encountered in school or in the local community. 45
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VI.1.2. Compare their own viewpoint about the matter raised with that of another individual. 16
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MI.VI.2. Public Discourse and Decision Making: All students will engage their peers in constructive conversation about matters of public concern by clarifying issues, considering opposing views, applying democratic values, anticipating consequences, and working toward making decisions. (Group Discussion)

VI.2.1. Engage each other in conversations about issues pertaining to governing their school. 24
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MI.VI.3. Public Discourse and Decision Making: All students will compose coherent written essays that express a position on a public issue and justify the position with reasoned arguments. (Persuasive Writing)

VI.3.1. Compose brief statements expressing a decision on an issue in the school or local community. 44
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MI.VII.1. Citizen Involvement: All students will consider the effects of an individual's actions on other people, how one acts in accordance with the rule of law, and how one acts in a virtuous and ethically responsible way as a member of society. (Responsible Personal Conduct)

VII.1.1. Help to determine, interpret and enforce school rules. 7
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VII.1.2. Participate in projects designed to help others in their local community. 2
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