Scope+and+Sequence

**Kindergarten** **Self & Others** || Students will understand themselves and the ways they are connected to others in their home and school. || Examine their personal history and how individuals change over time. Recognize important events in their family and school as presented on a timeline. || Learn to participate in a group, respect the rights of self and others, and contribute to making rules and guidelines for the classroom and school. || Develop simple map skills, identify the physical aspects of the world, understand directionality and demonstrate how they use this knowledge in their daily life. || Identify earth’s natural resources that can be used up or made un-useable through pollution. Learn about conserving resources. || **Grade 1** **Family &** **Local Community** || Students will understand the importance of community and culture, the roles of community members, and the ways in which various communities work, celebrate, and operate. || Examine how present and past events influence traditions of the family, school and the Darien community. Study the American flag, its significance and appropriate use. || Recognize the roles of group members in establishing rules and the need for rules in home, school and community. Demonstrate a respect for themselves and for others as well as strategies for conflict resolution. || Examine the function of maps and the globe and recognize various elements of geography including basic land and water forms and cardinal directions. || Understand the difference between needs and wants and develop an understanding of how we acquire goods and who provides services. || **Grade 2** **National** **Communities** || Students will understand features of urban, suburban and rural communities from historical, economic, and geographical perspectives drawing on examples of communities across the United States. || Explore how urban, suburban and rural communities developed over time and how they are alike and different in their populations, traditions, and daily life events. Study the history and celebration of national holidays. || Examine the roles of citizenship in urban, suburban, and rural communities and understand how they participate in decision-making, problem-solving, and conflict resolution. || Environmental and geographic factors affect the development, growth, and sustenance of communities. || Production and acquisition of goods and services differs among communities. Citizens make decisions about the use of taxes. ||
 * **CONTENT STANDARDS** || || **HISTORY** || **CIVICS & GOVERNMENT** || **GEOGRAPHY** || **ECONOMICS** ||

**CONTENT STANDARDS** || || **HISTORY** || **CIVICS & GOVERNMENT** || **GEOGRAPHY** || **ECONOMICS** || **Grade 3** **Global Communities** || Students will understand diversity in the world through a study of the social, political, geographic, economic and historic characteristics of different world communities. || Examine the social, political, economic, and cultural similarities and differences of world communities and how they developed. Create timelines to illustrate how world communities change over time and map important events in their development. || Explore and compare how people in world communities form/operate governments, identify leaders and resolve conflicts. Identify and compare how people in world communities exercise their rights and responsibilities. || Identify significant environmental and geographic features of world communities and examine how they have an impact on the development and growth of those communities. Compare how people in world communities have utilized or modified environmental and geographical features to support their existence. || Study how world communities organize themselves and make decisions about production, distribution and consumption of goods and services to meet the economic needs and wants of their members. Examine how providing goods and services are determined by environmental and geographic features of a world community. || **Grade 4** **Connecticut & Regions of the United States** || Students will understand the development of Connecticut’s state history, geography, governance, citizenship and economy and compare them to similar features of other regions/ states of the United States. || Analyze the significance of historical people, places and events in the growth and development of Connecticut and other regions/states of the United States. Create timelines to illustrate change over time. || Study and develop an understanding of the basic form and function of the government of Connecticut and that of the United States and understand of the responsibilities of citizenship. || Identify and compare the environmental and geographic features of Connecticut with other regions/states of the United States and their impact on the economic, cultural, and historical development of these regions. || Examine and understand the connection between the natural resources of each region and their impact on the economy of that region. Develop an understanding of how regions of the United States are interdependent and support production, distribution and consumption of goods and services nationally. ||

**CONTENT STANDARDS** || || **HISTORY** || **CIVICS & GOVERNMENT** || **GEOGRAPHY** || **ECONOMICS** || **Grade 5** **Discovery, Founding and Early Development of the** **United States** || Students will study the major events and trends in the discovery, founding and early development of the United States. || Trace the development of the United States from exploration to westward expansion and discuss resulting changes in the lives of Europeans and Native Americans with a focus of historical people, places, and events. Use timelines to illustrate changes over time. || Examine how exploration, colonization, and the quest for independence have shaped the development of the society and government of the United States with a focus on the creation of our nation and its constitution. || Explore the impact of the geography of North American on the discovery, founding and early development of the Unites States and how settlers utilized or modified the environment and geographical features to support their existence. || Explain the economic conditions that influenced exploration, colonization and the quest for independence. Examine, over time, the environmental impact of colonization of North America and identify means for conserving and protecting natural resources. ||  ||