African American History
The child meets African Americans whose courage, ideas and work shaped the United States, follows their story from African homelands and slavery to freedom, civil rights and today, and explains why the country remembers…
Kindergarten Social Studies
Kindergarten Social Studies consists of mapping skills, community roles, cultural traditions, rules and responsibilities, and historical awareness.
Kindergarten Social Studies topics
American Symbols and Holidays
Read together: the child recognizes the American flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell and the White House, and says why Americans celebrate Independence Day,…
Caring for Our Shared World
The child takes part in caring for shared spaces and nature: tidying, reducing waste, sorting for recycling and being gentle with living things.
Changes within Living Memory
The child compares daily life, toys, school, technology and transport now and when parents and grandparents were young, and explains what changed and what stayed the same.
Focus and Persistence
The child keeps going with a challenging task, tries another way and remembers simple rules in games; the parent uses play that builds attention, memory and self-control.
Healthy Habits for Food, Teeth, Sleep and Screens
The child follows healthy routines for eating, brushing teeth, sleep and screen time and can say why they matter in simple words.
Maps and Compass Directions
The child reads simple maps and plans, uses a globe and compass directions, and makes a map of a familiar place with a key.
My Neighborhood and Simple Maps
The child describes familiar places and routes, uses position words to talk about them and reads and draws simple maps.
Goods and Services
The child sorts needs from wants and goods from services, meets the jobs people do in the community and why they work, and sees that people make choices because they cannot have everything.
Children's Rights
Explain why groups need rules and make fair ones, understand rights and responsibilities, get to know the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and know what to do when rights are not respected.
Significant People and Why We Remember Them
The child learns about the lives of significant people from different times and places, and discusses why people are remembered and how they changed things.
Keeping Children Safe
The child follows simple safety rules at home, near roads and water, and knows how to get help from a trusted adult.
Then and Now
The child talks about the past using family photos, old objects and stories from older relatives, and notices what has changed.
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