ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF NATURAL RESOURCES

GRADES K-8

SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM  FRAMEWORKS

STRAND: GEOGRAPHY

            STANDARD 1: Physical and Spatial

 Students shall develop an understanding of the physical and      spatial characteristics and applications of geography.  

 LOCATION, PLACE AND REGION

            KINDERGARTEN:

G.1.K.3 Identify the state of Arkansas on a map of the United States.

G.1.K.4 Recognize the United States on a world map or globe

G.1.K.5 Identify land on maps and globes

G.1.K.6 Identify water on maps and globes

G.1.K.10 Use words related to location, direction, and distance:

            here/there

            over/under

            up/down

            top/down

            between

       STANDARD 2: Culture and Diversity

Students shall develop an understanding of how cultures around the world develop and change.

CULTURE AND DIVERSITY

 G2.K.2 Discuss the location of a community and the ways that location affects the people of a community.

       STANDARD 3: Interaction of People and the Environment

 Students shall develop an understanding of the interactions between people and their environment.

 MOVEMENT

 G.3.K.1 Identify different types of transportation

 HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION:

G.3.K.2 Recognize the importance of protection the air, water, and land

G.3.K.3 Define physical environment

 STRAND: CIVICS

            STANDARD 4: GOVERNMENT

 Students shall develop an understanding of the forms and roles of government.

 FORMS AND ROLES OF GOVERNMENT

C.4. K.1 Recognize the need for rules and the consequences of violation rules.

C.4. K.3 Identify the name and picture of the current president of the United States and current governor of Arkansas.

          STANDARD 5: CITIZENSHIP

Students shall develop an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizens

 RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF CITIZENS

C.5.K.2 Discuss the rights and responsibilities of being a good citizen

 STRAND: HISTORY

            STANDARD 6: HISTORY

Students shall analyze significant ideas, events, and people in world, national, state, and local history and how they affect change over time.

 REGIONALISM/NATIONALISM

H.6.K.2 Identify state symbols of Arkansas.

H.6.K.3 Identify famous Arkansans

 CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

H.6.K.4 Discuss how things change over time using chronological terms.

H.6.K.6 Discuss how historical events relate to the present day

H.6.K.7 Recognize that family activities have changed over time

H.6.K.9 Recognize examples of current and early transportation

 STRAND: ECONOMICS

            STANDARD 7: CHOICES

Students shall analyze the cost and benefits of making economic choices.

 COSTS AND BENEFITS

E.7.K.1 Recognize that all people have economic wants and needs

E.7.K.3 Identify the concept of scarcity

          STANDARD 8: RESOURCES

Students shall evaluate the use and allocation of human, natural, and capital resources.

 FACTORS OF PRODUCTION

E.8.K.1 Identify human resources

E.8.K.2 Discuss the roles of producers and consumers

E.8.K.3 Discuss how people earn a living in the community and the places they work

 FACTORS OF PRODUCTION

E.8.K.4 Discuss natural resources

E.8.K.5 Discuss capital resources

       STANDARD 9: MARKETS

Students shall analyze the exchange of goods and services and the roles of governments, businesses, and individuals in the market place

 FINANCIAL MARKETS

E.9.K.1 Recognize that money is used to purchase items.

 GOODS AND SERVICES

E.9.K.3 Identify services people do for each other

E.9.K.4 Recognize that people choose among a variety of goods and services

E.9.K.5 Recognize that people work to earn money to purchase items

 STRAND: GEOGRAPHY

            STANDARD 1: PHYSICAL AND SPATIAL

Students shall develop and understanding of the physical and spatial characteristics and applications of geography.

 LOCATION, PLACE, AND REGION

                        GRADE 1

G.1.1.1 Identify and locate student’s town/city on a map

G.1.1.2 Locate Arkansas on a United States map

G.1.1.5 Recognize that there are seven major continents

G.1.1.6 Recognize that there are four major oceans in the world

 MAP AND GLOBE SKILLS

G.1.1.12 Recognize physical features of maps and globes

G.1.1.13 Illustrate and label a map of a familiar place

            STANDARD 2: CULTURE AND DIVERSITY

Students shall develop an understanding of how cultures around the world develop and change.

 CULTURE AND DIVERSITY

G.2.1.1 Discuss elements of culture

G.2.1.2 Explain ways in which the location of a community affects people’s lives, dress, and occupation

G.2.1.3 Explain the difference between rural and urban areas

             STANDARD 3: INTERACTION OF PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Students shall develop an understanding of the interactions between people and their environment

 MOVEMENT:

      G.3.1.1. Recognize reasons people need various types of transportation

 HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

G.3.1.2 Identify ways to take personal action to protect the environment

G.3.1.3 Identify ways in which people depend on the physical environment

 STRAND: CIVICS

            STANDARD 5: CITIZENSHIP

Students shall develop an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizens

 ROOTS OF DEMOCRACY

C.5.1.2 Demonstrate the rights and responsibilities of being a good citizen

 STRAND: HISTORY

            STANDARD 6: HISTORY

Students shall analyze significant ideas, events, and people in world, national state, and local history and how they affect change over time.

 REGIONALISM/NATIONALISM

 H.6.1.3 Identify historical sites of Arkansas

 CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

H.6.1.4 Recognize time equivalency using chronological terms:

H.6.1.6 Explore people and events from the past using primary and secondary sources

H.6.1.7 Discuss daily life in the past and present

H.6.1.10 Discuss methods of transportation of today and long ago

 STRAND: ECONOMICS

            STANDARD 7: CHOICES

Students shall analyze the cost and benefits of making economic choices

 COSTS AND BENEFITS

E.7.1.1 Identify the categories and priorities of wants and needs

E.7.1.3 Determine the relationships between unlimited wants and limited resources

            STANDARD 8: RESOURCES

Students shall evaluate the use and allocation of human, natural, and capital resources.

 FACTORS OF PRODUCTION

E.8.1.1 Recognize that people are producers of goods and services

E.8.1.2 Recognize that people are consumers of goods and services

E.8.1.4 Identify uses for natural resources

E.8.1.5 Understand that capital resources are the tools of trade

             STANDARD 9: MARKETS

Students shall analyze the exchange of goods and services and the roles of government, businesses, and individuals in the market place.

GOODS AND SERVICES

   E.9.1.4 Understand that the production of any good or service requires:

            Natural resources

            Human resources

            Capital resources

 STRAND: GEOGRAPHY

            STANDARD 1: PHYSICAL AND SPATIAL

Students shall develop an understanding of the physical and spatial characteristics and applications of geography.

 LOCATION, PLACE, AND REGION

            GRADE 2

G.1.2.1 Define relative location

G.1.2.2 Locate the county in which the student lives on an Arkansas map

G.1.2.4 Identify and locate countries bordering the United States

G.1.2.6 Locate the seven continents using a map or globe

G.1.2.7 Name and locate the four major oceans

 MAP AND GLOBE SKILLS

G.1.2.10 Understand the purpose of map components

G.1.2.12 Identify and locate physical features on maps and globes:

     STANDARD 2: CULTURE AND DIVERSITY

Students shall develop an understanding of how cultures around the world develop and change

G.2.2.2 Compare the lifestyle, dress and occupations of Arkansans to those of people in other parts of the world

G.2.2.3 Compare and contrast how people in rural and urban areas live and work

     STANDARD 3: INTERACTION OF PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Students shall develop an understanding of the interactions between people and their environment

 MOVEMENT

G.3.2.1 Identify the various types of transportation and communication links between communities

HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

G.3.2.2 Explore the roles of responsible citizens in preserving the environment

G.3.2.3 Examine ways in which people affect the physical environment

 STRAND: CIVICS

    STANDARD 4: GOVERNMENT

Students shall develop an understanding of the forms and roles of government

 C.4.2.1 Explain the basic purposes of government at the local level

 STRAND: HISTORY

            STANDARD 6: HISTORY

Student shall analyze significant ideas, events, and people in world, national, state, and local history and how they affect change over time.

 REGIONALISM/NATIONALISM

  H.6.2.2 Identify state symbols of Arkansas

            Gem

            Mineral

            Rock

            Mammal

  H.6.2.3 Discuss historical people of Arkansas

 CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

H.6.2.5 Determine the data to be included on a personal timeline

H.6.2.6 Determine how photos and documents are used to gather information about the past.

H.6.2.7 Define technology and list examples

H.6.2.8 Describe the ways in which communities have changed over time

H.6.2.12 Compare past and present means of transportation and communication in Arkansas

 STRAND: ECONOMICS

            STANDARD 7: CHOICES

Students shall analyze the cost and benefits of making economic choices

 COSTS AND BENEFITS

E.7.2.2 Discuss that because of scarcity people must make choices and incur opportunity costs.

            STANDARD 8: RESOURCES

Students shall evaluate the use and allocation of human, natural, and capital resources

 FACTORS OF PRODUCTION

E.8.2.1 Distinguish between consumers and producers in a local community

E.8.2.2 Research the skills and education needed for specific jobs

E.8.2.3 Discuss the availability of natural resources

E.8.2.4 Give examples of capital resources

             STANDARD 9:  MARKETS

Students shall analyze the exchange of goods and services and the roles of government, businesses, and individuals in the market place.

GOODS AND SERVICES

E.9.2.4 Classify productive resources into the following categories:

            Natural resources

            Human resources

            Capital resources

 STRAND: GEOGRAPHY

            STANDARD 1: PHYSICAL AND SPATIAL

Students shall develop an understanding of the physical and spatial characteristics and applications of geography

 LOCATION, PLACE AND REGION

            GRADE 3

G.1.3.1 Define absolute location

G.1.3.3 Discuss the characteristics that define a region

G.1.3.4 Identify on which continent and in which hemispheres the United States is located.

G.1.3.7 Identify the seven continents

G.1.3.8 Locate Mountain ranges in Arkansas

 MAP AND GLOBE SKILLS

G.1.3.14 Label physical features on maps and globes

G.1.3.15 Create a physical map that includes the following

         STANDARD 2: CULTURE AND DIVERSITY

Students shall develop an understanding of how cultures around the world develop anc change

 CULTURE AND DIVERSITY

G.2.3.3 Identify reasons people live in rural, urban, and suburban areas

     STANDARD 3: INTERACTION OF PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Students shall develop an understanding of the interactions between people and their environment.

 MOVEMENT

G.3.3.1 Discuss different types of transportation and communication links between communities.

G.3.3.2 Describe human settlements

 HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

G.3.3.3 Describe how people affect and alter their environment

G.3.3.4 Discuss ways in which the school and community can improve the physical environment by practicing conservation

 STRAND: HISTORY

            STANDARD 6: HISTORY

Students shall analyze significant ideas, events, and people in world, national state, and local history and how they affect change over time.

 REGIONALISM AND NATIONALISM

 H.6.3.2 Examine historical people and events of Arkansas

CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

H.6.3.7 Analyze a timeline that illustrates selected historical events

H.6.3.8.Compare artifacts from events in various periods of history

H.6.3.10 Examine land development and its impact on a community

H.6.3.15 Identify the modes of transportation in the westward movement

STRAND: ECONOMICS

            STANDARD 8: RESOURCES

Students shall evaluate the use and allocation of human, natural, and capital resources

FACTORS OF PRODUCTION

E.8.3.3 Recognize the product associated with the natural resources from which it is created.

E.8.3.4 Explain how capital resources are related to specific jobs

E.8.3.5 Define and discuss characteristics of an entrepreneur

E.8.3.6 Define profit

            STANDARD 9: MARKETS

Students shall analyze the exchange of goods and services and the roles of governments, businesses, and individuals in the market place.

GOODS AND SERVICES

E.9.3.4 Identify and explain the role of each productive resource in producing a good and service.

E.9.3.5 Research goods and services provided by markets in the local community

E.9.3.8 Define supply and demand

GLOBAL MARKETS

E.9.3.9 Define import and export

 STRAND GEOGRAPHY:

            STANDARD 1: PHYSICAL AND SPATIAL

Students shall develop an understanding of the physical and spatial characteristics and applications of geography.

 LOCATION, PLACE, AND REGION

            GRADE 4

G.1.4.1 Discuss the difference between relative and absolute location

G.1.4.2 Locate and describe physical characteristics of the six natural regions of Arkansas.

G.1.4.6 Explain the difference between a continent and a country

G.1.4.9 Locate major rivers in the United States

 MOVEMENT

G.3.4.1 Examine different types of transportation and communication links between communities in Arkansas

G.3.4.2 Discuss the reasons for human settlement patterns

            STANDARD 3. INTERACTION OF PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Students shall develop an understanding of the interactions between people and their environment.

HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

G.3.4.4 Explain how people influenced by, adapt to, and alter the environment

G.3.4.6 Research ways in which the school and community can improve the physical environment by practicing conservation

STRAND: HISTORY

            STANDARD 6: HISTORY

Students shall analyze significant ideas, events, and people in world, national, state and local history and how they affect change over time.

 REGIONALISM AND NATIONALISM

 H.6.4.3 Examine historical settlements in Arkansas

 CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

H.6.4.9 Evaluate data presented on timeline of Arkansas history

H.6.4.10 Examine artifacts relation to events in Arkansas history

H.6.4.11 Discuss advances in technology

H.6.4.12 Analyze changes in Arkansas from past to present

H.6.4.16 Describe how new forms of transportation and communication impacted the Westward Expansion

MOVEMENT

H.6.4.19 Discuss the causes and effects of the Westward Expansion (resources)

 STRAND: ECONOMICS

            STANDARD 7: CHOICES

Students shall analyze the cost and benefits of making economic choices

COSTS AND BENEFITS

E.7.4.1 Evaluate the priority of the economic wants and consequences of the opportunity cost

E.7.4.2 Analyze how scarcity caused early exploration

             STANDARD 8: RESOURCES

Students shall evaluate the use and allocation of human, natural, and capital resources

 FACTORS OF PRODUCTION

E.8.4.1 Discuss productivity

E.8.4.2 Compare the increase in productivity when improved human capital is available

E.8.4.3 Examine the impact of scarcity of natural resources on production decisions

E.8.4.5 Identify Arkansas entrepreneurs

E.8.4.6 Describe how profit is an incentive for entrepreneurship

            STANDARD 9: MARKETS

Students shall analyze the exchange of goods and services and the roles of government, businesses, and individuals in the market place.

GOODS AND SERVICES

E.9.4.3 Research the productive resources that go into the production of a product.

E.9.4.5 Explain why countries trade

E.9.4.7 Discuss the effect of supply and demand in a community

GLOBAL MARKETS

E.9.4.9 Identify imported and exported goods

E.9.4.10 List exported goods associated with Arkansas

E.9.4.11 Explain how foreign trade affects daily life

STRAND: GEOGRAPHY

            STANDARD 1: PHYSICAL AND SPATIAL

Students shall develop an understanding of the physical and spatial characteristics and applications of geography

LOCATION, PLACE, AND REGION

            GRADE 5

G.1.5.1 Classify locations as absolute or relative

G.1.5.3 Distinguish between the major regions of the United States and evaluate their interdependence

G.1.5.6 Distinguish between geography terms that describe or indicate region, place, or location.

 MAP AND GLOBE SKILLS

G.1.5.10 Compare and contrast major landforms characterized as physical features of Earth

             STANDARD 2: CULTURE AND DIVERSITY

Students shall develop an understanding of how cultures around the world develop and change.

CULTURE/DIVERSITY

G.2.5.2 Understand the contributions of people of various racial, ethnic, and religious groups in Arkansas and the United States.

 MOVEMENT

G.3.5.1 Recognize factors that influence migration (natural resources)

HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

G.3.5.5 Identify renewable and nonrenewable resources

G.3.5.6 Identify ways people have modified the physical environment

STRAND: HISTORY

            STANDARD 6: HISTORY

Students shall analyze significant ideas, events, and people in world, national, state, and local history and how they affect change over time.

CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

 H.6.5.6 Identify important people and events during Arkansas’ Territorial period

H.6.5.7 Analyze the impact of the American Revolution

 STRAND: ECONOMICS

            STANDARD 7: CHOICES

Students shall analyze the costs and benefits of making economic choices.

COSTS AND BENEFITS

 E.7.5.3 Identify the causes of scarcity and why scarcity of resources makes it necessary to make choices

             STANDARD 8: RESOURCES

Students shall evaluate the use and allocation of human, natural, and capital resources

 FACTORS OF PRODUCTION

E.8.5.1 Research the role that entrepreneurs have played in the development of the economy of Arkansas.

E.8.5.2 Discuss the impact additional capital goods

E.8.5.4 Examine the need for natural resources in determining settlement patterns

             STANDARD 9: MARKETS

Students shall analyze the exchange of goods and services and the roles of government, businesses, and individuals in the market place.

 FINANCIAL MARKETS

 E.9.5.5 Identify the meaning of economic inflation

 GOODS AND SERVICES

 E.9.5.10 Identify how changes in supply and demand affect prices

 STRAND: GEOGRAPHY

            STANDARD 1: PHYSICAL AND SPATIAL

Students shall develop an understanding of the physical and spatial characteristics and applications of geography.

 LOCATION, PLACE, AND REGION

            GRADE 6

 G.1.6.2 Examine the location, place, and region of Arkansas and determine the characteristics of each

             STANDARD 2: CULTURE AND DIVERSITY

Students shall develop an understanding of how cultures around the world develop and change.

 CULTURE AND DIVERSITY

G.2.6.1 Examine the effects of the contributions of people from selected racial, ethnic and religious groups to the cultural identify of Arkansas and the United States

             STANDARD 3: INTERACTION OF PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Students shall develop an understanding of the interactions between people and their environment.

 MOVEMENT

G.3.6.1 Describe the location of major cities in Arkansas and the United States and the availability of resources and transportation in those areas.

G.3.6.2 Distinguish between push-pull factors

 HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION

G.3.6.5 Describe the physical processes that produce renewable and nonrenewable resources

G.3.6.7 Analyze the consequences of environmental modification on Arkansas and specific area of the United States.

 STRAND: HISTORY

           STANDARD 6: HISTORY

Students shall analyze significant ideas, events, and people in world, national, state, and local history and how they affect change over time.

 CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

H.6.6.6 Explain the impact of the American industrial revolution

 STRAND: ECONOMICS

            STANDARD 7: CHOICES

Students shall analyze the costs and benefits of making economic choices

 COSTS AND BENEFITS

E.7.6.2 Demonstrate an understanding that choices have both present and future consequences

 COSTS AND BENEFITS

E.7.6.5 Explain why federal, state, and local governments have to make choices because of limited resources

             STANDARD 8: RESOURCES

Students shall evaluate the use and allocation of human, natural, and capital resources.

 FACTORS OF PRODUCTION

E.8.6.1 Analyze the impact of entrepreneurship in the development of the economy of the United States

E.8.6.4 Evaluate the influences the discovery of natural resources has on the movement of people

             STANDARD 9: MARKETS

Students shall analyze the exchange of goods and services and the roles of governments, business, and individuals in the market place.

 GLOBAL MARKETS

E.9.6.8 Examine the cost/benefits associated with development of global trade

GOODS AND SERVICES

E.9.6.10 Examine the changes in supply and demand and the resulting effect on prices

E.9.6.11 Discuss methods used to reduce or eliminate competition

 STRAND: GEOGRAPHY

            STANDARD 1: PHYSICAL AND SPATIAL

Students shall develop an understanding of the physical and spatial characteristics and applications of geography.

 LOCATION, PLACE AND REGION

            GRADE 7

 G.1.7.1 Determine the absolute and relative location of a specific place.

             STANDARD 3: INTERACTION OF PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Students shall develop an understanding of the interactions between people and their environment.

MOVEMENT

 G.3.7.1 Discuss push-pull factors that influenced the growth of population centers, location, transportation, corridors and barriers, distribution of resources

STRAND: ECONOMICS

            STANDARD 7: CHOICES

Students shall analyze the costs and benefits of making economic choices.

 COSTS AND BENEFITS

E.7.7.1 Discuss economic wants and needs of people over time

E.7.7.4 Discuss opportunity costs associated with decision- making

E.7.7.5 Determine influences of limited resources on economies due to choices made by leaders.

 FACTORS OF PRODUCTION

E.8.7.3 Discuss changing factors of production over time: (natural resources)

E.8.7.4 Analyze ways distribution of natural resources determined settlement patterns

             STANDARD 9: MARKETS

Students shall analyze the exchange of goods and services and the roles of governments, businesses, and individuals in the market place.

 GOODS AND SERVICES

 E.9.7.7 Compare effects of supply and demand on prices in early markets applications of geography.

STRAND: GEOGRAPHY

            STANDARD 3: INTERACTION OF PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Students shall develop an understanding of the interactions between people and their environment.

MOVEMENT

GRADE 8

 G.3.8.1 Examine effects of push-pull factors on various regions (resources)

 HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

 G.3.8.4 determine the impact of population growth on renewable and nonrenewable resources

 STRAND: HISTORY

            STANDARD 6: HISTORY

Students shall analyze significant ideas, events, and people in world, national, state, and local history and how they affect change over time.

 CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

H.6.8.20 Examine reasons for the transformation of world economies in the late 20^th century (organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Resources)

COSTS AND BENEFITS

E.7.8.3 Analyze periods of time when scarcity affected economic wants and needs of people in regions or countries.

E.7.8.4 Analyze scarcity of productive resources and the need for people to make choices and incur opportunity costs

E.7.8.5 Evaluate limited resources of nations and choices governments must make

FACTORS OF PRODUCTION

E.8.8.3 Examine consequences of changing factors of production

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