What does a student learn in StateNew Mexico,GradeGrade 1,SubjectSocial Studies?

Construct Compelling and Supporting Questions

Recognize a compelling question.

Generate supporting questions related to compelling questions within a variety of social studies topics.

Gather and Evaluate Sources

Interact with a variety of primary and secondary sources.

Communicate and Critique Conclusions

Construct responses to compelling questions using examples.

Take Informed Action

Take group or individual action to help address local, regional, and/or global problems or issues.

Use deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions about and act on civic problems or issues in their classrooms.

Roles and Responsibilities of a Civic Life

Explain and provide examples of how people play important roles in society.

Community Equity Building

Investigate how people work together to accomplish a common task and how this benefits and challenges people when working together.

Identity in History

Investigate significant events, people, and observances in history and discuss their effects on local and national communities.

Diversity and Identity

Explain how groups of people believe different things and live in unique ways.

Explain how student and individual identities are part of what makes each person unique and special.

Historical Change, Continuity, Context, and Reconciliation

Compare life in New Mexico in the past to life in New Mexico today.

Historical Thinking

Compare fact and opinion in stories and narratives from the past.

Demonstrate chronological thinking by distinguishing among past, present, and future using family, school, or community events.

Critical Consciousness and Perspectives

Examine and identify cultural differences within their community.

Incentives and Choices

Examine choices that families make in purchasing general goods and identify costs associated with these choices.

Money and Markets

Examine decisions that people make about spending and saving money.

Personal Financial Literacy

Identify examples of producers and consumers.

Examine how earning money through work is related to the purchase of goods and services.

Geographic Representations and Reasoning

Create geographic representations to identify the location of familiar places and demonstrate how these Geographic representations can help us navigate from one place to the next, provide directions, or trace important Representations and routes.

Identify the common symbols used on maps for human-made structures and physical features.

Use a variety of maps to locate specific places and identify major landforms, bodies of water, and other places of significance around the United States.

Location, Place, and Region

Explain how human-made structures are all examples of how people modify the physical environment to meet needs and wants.

Human- Environmental Interactions and Sustainability

Explain how people interact with their physical environment in ways that may have a positive or a negative effect on natural resources.