Mississippi K–6 social studies standards

Define authority figures and leaders.

Define a productive citizen and citizenship.

Describe character traits of productive citizens.

List examples of productive citizenship at home and school.

Identify the purpose of rules and explain why rules should be followed.

Recognize that leaders and authority figures establish rules to provide order, security, and safety.

Differentiate between positive and negative consequences.

Relate how leaders can be authority figures.

Describe the responsibilities of authority figures and leaders.

Identify authority figures and leaders at home, school, and in the community

Define similarity and difference.

Identify examples of similarities and differences.

Explain the importance of both similarities and differences to individuals, families, and communities.

Define unity and diversity.

Identify types of diversity in the classroom (e.g., cultural, ethnic, students with disabilities, etc.).

Propose different ways to encourage unity and appreciate diversity at home and within the classroom.

Describe family customs, traditions, and celebrations held by members of the class and their families (e.g., literature, language, games, songs, dances, etc.).

Describe the role that customs, traditions, and celebrations play at school.

Compare and contrast school customs, traditions, and celebrations with those of home and family.

Identify different types of jobs and describe their work.

Explain that money is earned through work.

Recognize monetary units.

Distinguish saving from spending.

Illustrate how money is used in daily life.

Define goods and services.

Identify and classify examples of goods and services.

Explain how goods and services are obtained.

Define needs and wants.

Classify items as needs or wants.

Compare and contrast needs and wants.

Illustrate and label a map of familiar places.

Identify elements of a physical address.

Explain a place using terms related to location, direction, size, and distance (e.g., up, down, left, right, far, near, etc.).

Examine routes and modes of transportation between home and school.

Differentiate landforms from bodies of water.

Define physical features and analyze how physical features of the Earth impact the way of life in various places.

Define and describe the way physical environments may change over time (e.g., flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc.).

Discuss various representations of the Earth.

Explain that maps and globes help identify location and physical features of the Earth.

Compare and contrast maps and globes.

Identify cardinal directions (e.g., north, south, east, west).

Locate the local community, Mississippi, and the United States using maps and globes.

Define symbols and customs (e.g., school mascot, community logo, Mississippi state flag, United States flag, American eagle, etc.).

Identify school, community, state, and national symbols.

State the Pledge of Allegiance and patriotic songs as expressions of patriotism.

Identify historical figures that are used as symbols of American culture (e.g., currency, monuments, and place names, etc.).

Examine historical events that are significant to American culture (4th of July, Thanksgiving, Presidents Day, Juneteenth, etc.).

Interpret how oral traditions helped express important cultural and historical beliefs.

Define and identify rights and responsibilities.

Compare and contrast children's rights and responsibilities at home, school, and in the community.

Identify the various ways that citizens participate in their communities such as voting and volunteering.

Compare and contrast rules and laws.

Differentiate the consequences of breaking rules versus breaking laws.

Recognize that the governments establish laws to create peace and provide order.

Define patriotism.

Discuss how citizens show patriotism and respect for their communities and country.

Identify patriotic symbols of the local community, Mississippi, and the United States

Explain the importance of the Pledge of Allegiance and National Anthem

Define cooperation and compromise.

Identify examples of cooperation and compromise at home and school.

Analyze how cooperation and compromise supports problem solving in and among different cultures, customs, and traditions.

Define culture.

Identify various cultures at school and in the local community.

Recognize ways people celebrate their diverse cultural heritage.

Compare and contrast ways people celebrate their diverse cultural heritage.

Define employment, income, salary, and wages.

Describe what it means to be employed.

Explain that people earn income through work.

Illustrate the exchange of money for goods and services to meet needs and wants.

Identify basic needs.

Explain how basic needs are met.

Classify items or services as needs and wants.

Examine how people prioritize spending and saving to meet their needs.

Identify the seven continents and five major oceans.

Classify the major landforms, and bodies of water on a map (e.g., mountains, hills, lakes, oceans, rivers, etc.).

Describe places in relation to one another using cardinal and intermediate directions.

Understand the relationship of the location of a place from community to county, state, nation, and continent (Jackson is in Hinds County, which is in the state of Mississippi, which is in the country of the USA and on the continent of North America).

Recognize characteristics of the local region.

Compare and contrast the climate, weather, and seasons of the regions of the United States.

Describe how location impacts daily life for residents in various communities (e.g., shelter, clothing, food, activities, etc.).

Demonstrate map skills through vocabulary.

Identify and define cardinal and intermediate directions, compass rose, map symbol and map key.

Construct maps using cardinal and intermediate directions, a compass rose, map symbols, and a map key.

Identify historical figures who are used as symbols in United States culture.

Examine the significant contributions of historical figures to the local community, state, and United States.

Examine how the United States commemorates historical events through the celebration of national holidays.

Compare and contrast historic and modern forms of communication and sharing of information.

Identify forms of technology and illustrate changes in how it was made and used from its conception to the present (e.g., telephone, assistive technology devices, etc.).

Evaluate how apparel has changed through history, including how and why items are chosen and purchased.

Compare and contrast Americans' use of free time in the past and present.

Identify civic virtues and civic responsibilities.

Discuss how common civic virtues among citizens help create peaceful and orderly communities.

Compare civic responsibilities to responsibilities of home and school.

Discuss importance of fair rules and laws applied to all citizens.

Analyze the fairness of rules and laws.

Identify who is responsible for creating and enforcing rules and laws.

Discuss how laws are fairly created and fairly enforced to protect all the citizens of a community (e.g., civil rights, laws to protect Americans with disabilities, etc.).

Recognize the cultural contributions of various groups within our community.

Examine how cultures, and their traditions and customs, have changed over time.

Evaluate the qualities that build unity among diverse populations.

Define respect, tolerance, and acceptance.

Examine the relationship between respect, tolerance, and acceptance and building unity across cultures.

Recognize similarities from the various cultures of the local community.

Define economy and resource.

Categorize resources as natural, renewable, and non-renewable.

Explain people as a resource in the local community.

Examine the relationship between resources and jobs in the local community.

Define consumers and producers.

Differentiate consumers from producers.

Examine the interdependence of consumers and producers.

Discuss the connection between resources and producers in the local community.

Define barter system and monetary system.

Compare and contrast the barter and monetary systems of trade to meet needs.

Define supply and demand.

Evaluate how the availability of resources impacts the price of goods and services.

Examine how budgets help individuals and families choose how to spend and save money.

Identify various types of financial institutions and their role in the community.

Identify services provided by the various financial institutions in the community.

Categorize map types by representation and usage (e.g., topographic, physical, political, thematic, etc.).

Identify political and physical borders in the United States and across the globe.

Define urban, suburban, and rural.

Locate urban, suburban, and rural areas in Mississippi and United States.

Define human settlements and population distribution.

Evaluate human settlements and population distribution around physical features of the Earth.

Determine reasons for human settlement near physical features of the Earth.

Define latitude and longitude.

Locate the major lines of latitude and longitude of the Earth.

Identify then compare hemispheres of the Earth.

Identify human modifications to the Earth.

Compare and contrast the positive and negative impacts of human modifications on the Earth.

Identify various primary sources (e.g., Primary – letters, diaries, autobiographies, speeches, interviews; Secondary – magazine articles, textbooks, encyclopedia entries, biographies, etc.).

Use various primary sources to investigate significant people and events of the past.

Examine historical events from multiple perspectives by utilizing primary sources.

Identify vocabulary to express periods of time.

Illustrate events chronologically on a timeline.

Compare and contrast the eras of United States history.

Define democracy.

Recognize fundamental democratic values.

Discuss the evidence of democratic values at home, school, and local organizations.

Identify the three branches of government and the purpose of each branch.

Discuss the roles of leaders in each branch of government at the federal, state, and local levels, including both municipal and county governments.

Recognize locations where government is practiced at the national, state, and local levels.

Compare and contrast services provided to communities and citizens by the federal, state, and local governments (e.g., security, people with disabilities, human services, etc.).

Identify the qualifications for candidacy at the federal, state, and local levels.

Analyze the common character traits and civic virtues of national, state, and local leaders.

Contrast the responsibilities of elected leaders and citizens in maintaining peaceful and orderly communities.

Identify principals of democracy within the Declaration of Independence.

Define and identify civil liberties within the First Amendment.

Compare and contrast principles of democracy and civil liberties.

Explain how individuals exercise principles of democracy and civil liberties in daily life.

Define voting, suffrage, and franchise.

Explain the voting process.

Illustrate the expansion of voting rights in America.

Identify how citizens participate in democracy apart from exercising the right to vote.

Define tax.

Discuss the types and purpose of taxes paid by citizens to the government (e.g., sales tax, property tax, income tax, etc.).

Identify goods and services provided by a local government to its community.

Examine how a local community benefits from the goods and services provided by the local government.

Define trade, import, and export.

Contrast imports and exports.

Identify local resources and products exported from the local community and state.

Trace the origin of products for sale in the local community.

Compare and contrast producing and buying goods to meet needs.

Define economic development.

Examine the relationship between economic development, employment opportunities, and where people choose to live.

Evaluate the impact of an individual's knowledge and skills on their opportunities for employment and income.

Explain how the availability of resources influences where people live.

Define residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural.

Describe the residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural areas of the local community and state.

Explain how humans have altered the physical environment for shelter, work, and recreation.

Discuss how human modifications have affected the environment.

Define natural disaster.

Identify characteristics of a natural disaster.

Explain how local, state, and national governments cooperate to manage natural disasters.

Evaluate settlement patterns after a natural disaster.

Define renewable and nonrenewable resources.

Identify sources of energy (e.g., oil, petroleum, nuclear power, solar power, etc.).

Categorize energy sources as renewable and nonrenewable.

Examine the impact that human use of resources has on the Earth.

Analyze patterns of population distributions.

Define dictatorship, monarchy, aristocracy, representative democracy, and direct democracy.

Cite an example of each type of government from history.

Compare and contrast the different types of government related to source of authority, how leaders are chosen, limits on power, and the role of citizens.

Discuss why the United States was established as a representative democracy.

Evaluate the importance of checks and balances to a representative democracy.

Identify on a map the ten geographical regions of Mississippi (Yazoo Delta, Black Belt, Jackson Prairie, Gulf Coast, Loess Hills, North Central Hills, Flatwoods, Pontotoc Ridge, Tennessee River Hills, and Piney Woods).

Describe features of each region.

Compare and contrast the ten geographical regions of Mississippi in terms of soil, landforms, etc.

Compare and contrast major natural resources throughout Mississippi on a map (e.g., oil, agricultural, etc.).

Map and describe the settlements of the Mississippi Territory (e.g., Natchez, Washington, Port Gibson, Columbia, Winchester, Mobile, Huntsville, etc.).

Trace the routes of explorers (e.g., Hernando de Soto, Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Pierre Le Moyne d 'Iberville, Jacques Marquette, Louis Jolliet, etc.) and discuss the impact on settlements in the Mississippi Territory.

Explain how differing beliefs regarding land ownership, religion, and culture led to conflicts between Europeans and Native Americans in the Mississippi Territory.

Identify the location of major tribes within Mississippi: Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez.

Compare and contrast the cultures and lives of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez tribes of historic Mississippi (e.g., homes, roles, beliefs, clothes, games, traditions, food, etc.).

Discuss the impact of the removal of Native Americans from Mississippi.

Trace Mississippi's progression from territory to statehood.

Define political and geographic reasons for changes in location of Mississippi's state capitol.

Outline the rise of Mississippi cotton culture.

Link cotton culture to the rise of slavery.

Discuss the leaders of the abolition movement and the importance to the end of slavery in the South.

Identify the Mississippi leaders of the secession and the Civil War.

Outline the cause and effects of slavery that led Mississippi to secede from the Union in 1861 and subsequently enter the Civil War.

Investigate how Mississippi supported the Civil War through economic and military efforts.

Compare and contrast the societal roles on the homefront and battlefront during and after the Civil War.

Contrast life from the Antebellum period to post Civil War (e.g., population, economy, government, infrastructure, etc.).

Explain the use of sharecroppers as a response to the end of slavery.

Describe how the Jim Crow laws disenfranchised African Americans in Mississippi.

Define discrimination, prejudice, segregation, integration, suffrage, and civil rights.

Identify important figures of the modern Civil Rights Movement including Mississippians (e.g., Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, James Meredith, Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles Evers, etc.).

Identify and explain events of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Jim Crow laws, Freedom Summer, and James Meredith's admission to the University of Mississippi.

Analyze the importance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as it relates to Mississippians.

Identify Mississippians known for their artwork, music, architecture, and literature (e.g., Wyatt Waters, William Herd, Walter Anderson, B.B. King, Elvis Presley, Marty Stewart, Eudora Welty, Willie Morris, etc.).

Describe how literature, the arts, architecture, and music affect tourism within the state.

Cite symbols and explain historical figures that are used in Mississippi's culture (e.g., monuments, place names, etc.).

Examine events that are significant to Mississippi culture.

Describe the division of labor within Mississippi (e.g., government, industry, agriculture, etc.).

Determine how land use impacts Mississippi's economy (e.g., cotton farming vs. soybean farming, pastureland vs. industrial development, beaches vs. casinos, landfills vs. parks, etc.).

Explain the benefits and challenges of trade for Mississippi.

Describe the economic impact of natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc.).

Map the seven continents and five oceans.

Identify and locate the main mountain ranges, rivers, and other key bodies of water.

Locate on a map and discuss the pre-Columbian civilizations in North and South America.

Identify the major Native American tribes of North America and the Caribbean Basin at the beginning of the Columbian Era.

Map the territories of the major Native American Tribes of North America and the Caribbean Basin at the beginning of the Columbian Era.

Determine how tribes in different regions used their environment to obtain, food, clothing, and shelter.

Differentiate the lives and cultures of Native American tribes by region or territory.

Map the European countries of Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, and France and their initial settlements in North America and Caribbean Basin with respect to trade routes and mitigation.

Identify significant European explorers (e.g., Ferdinand Magellan, Hernando de Soto, Rene' Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, John Cabot, Christopher Columbus, Samuel de Champlain, etc.), their motivation to and through North America and the Caribbean Basin.

Explain the causes and effects of the Columbian Exchange.

Identify the influential leaders (e.g., Willian Penn, John Smith, Roger Williams, Lord Baltimore, William Bradford, John Winthrop, etc.) responsible for founding colonial settlements.

Describe the role of indentured servitude and slavery in early settlements (e.g., Triangular Trade, indentured servitude, enslaved and free Africans, etc.).

Compare and contrast colonial life in the different regions (e.g., New England, Middle, Southern, etc.) including resources, way of life, economics, local government, etc.

Contrast the views of land use and ownership by Native Americans and colonists.

Identify the causes and consequences of the French and Indian War.

Explain the reasons for the American Revolution.

Examine the actions taken by the British and colonists and explain how each led to the Revolutionary War (e.g., British Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts, Boston Massacre, Tea Act, etc.).

Describe the roles of major contributors (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Haym Salomon, etc.).

Identify key battles of the American Revolution and their outcomes (e.g., Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Cowpens, Yorktown, etc.).

Discuss the contributions of African Americans, women, and ordinary citizens in general to the American Revolution.

Examine efforts to mobilize support for the American Revolution by the Minutemen, Committees of Correspondence, First Continental Congress, Sons of Liberty, and the Second Continental Congress.

Explain the colonial victory of the American Revolution.

Summarize the effects of the Treaty of Paris of 1783 on the development of the United States.

Analyze the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the purpose of government.

Analyze the shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation.

Explain how the Northwest Ordinance influenced the framers of the Constitution.

Identify significant attendees of the Constitutional Convention.

Identify key political members of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists.

Contrast the ideology of Federalists from that of the Anti- Federalists.

Describe the plans and compromises that contributed to the creation of the Constitution.

Evaluate the features of the Bill of Rights.

Compare and contrast the treatment of African Americans, Native Americans, and women regarding the principles in the Bill of Rights.

Compare and contrast the three branches of government.

Define symbols and customs.

Identify school, community, state, and national symbols (e.g., United States flag, American eagle, etc.).

Compare and contrast the Pledge of Allegiance, Preamble, and patriotic songs as expressions of patriotism.

Explain historically significant people and events that shaped America (e.g., our first president, etc.).

Identify the United States on a map.

Identify and label each of the 50 states on a map.

Demonstrate the use of map essentials (e.g., directions, latitude and longitude, globes, maps, etc.).

Interpret global connections by using maps to form a geographic spatial perspective.

Explain how experiences and cultures influence perceptions and help people create mental maps.

Define atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere.

Describe how Earth-Sun relationships regulate seasonal changes in temperature, precipitation, vegetation, and weather patterns at various locations on Earth.

Explain the major processes and natural phenomena that shape the physical environment and how humans adapt to them.

Investigate ways humans change their environments.

Define formal, functional, and perceptual regions.

Identify physical and human features used as the criteria for establishing each type of region.

Identify the formal world regions.

Differentiate the formal regions by their main characteristics.

Characterize and differentiate renewable and non-renewable resources.

Identify important resources in the contemporary world and their usage.

Construct maps showing major deposits of important resources (e.g., continents, oceans, major landforms, trade routes on maps, etc.).

Analyze the impact of globalization on modern economic interactions.

Describe the distinguishing physical and human characteristics of the United States and other countries.

Investigate how people bring meaning to places when they live in a location.

Describe how places impact personal, community, national identities, and culture.

Explain how place-based identities can create stereotypes.

Identify the spatial patterns of population distribution and density.

Explain how physical and human factors impact the population of a place.

Identify major migration patterns in the United States and the world.

Examine the push/pull factors that drive the major migration patterns of the United States and the world.

Classify spatial patterns of settlement, including types, sizes, and models.

Explain why some locations are more conducive for settlement than others.

Describe the relationship between settlement patterns and the location of resources.

Identify and describe ways in which humans modify the physical environment.

Explain how people use technology to access resources.

Assess the opportunities and constraints for human activities created by the physical environment.

Locate environmental hazards and the proximity of human populations.

Describe how people respond to natural hazards.

Define state, country, and nation-state.

List and explain the features of a sovereign state (nation-state) as a territory with a population that has a defined border, a government to make and enforce laws, and the sovereignty to interact with other nations.

Locate and describe different types of territorial divisions.

Identify political boundaries that are based on physical and human factors.

Assess ways the use of land and resources has led to conflict, cooperation, and compromise among nation-states.

Cite evidence of conflict, cooperation, and compromise among nation-states including treaties and wars.

Identify and give examples of governments with rule by one, few, or many.

Compare the ways other sovereign nation-states (e.g., China, Germany, India, North Korea, Russia, etc.) organize government and how they function.

Connect the origins of democracy to Athens (present-day Greece) and the republic to the Roman Republic.

Describe examples of limited and unlimited government.

Explain the rule of law and that government powers are defined by laws that limit its actions (United States Constitution , Bill of Rights, Civil Rights, Americans with Disabilities Act, etc.).

Explain reasons for limiting the power of governments.

Examine governments of nations that abuse the citizens by oppressing religious, ethnic, or political groups.

Define U.S. citizenship.

Examine the naturalization process (e.g., the citizenship exam, etc.).

Describe being an informed citizen.

Explain the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

Plan ways a citizen can participate at the local, state, and national level.

Define civic.

Categorize the positive and negative impacts of new media resources when obtaining reliable information for informed decision making.

Assess how growing concerns about security have impacted civil liberty protection.

Define civil and citizenship.

Formulate an understanding of citizenship roles in sovereign nation-states within cultural regions of the world.

Compare and contrast human rights and liberties of other sovereign nation-states to those in American founding documents.

Compare and contrast the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Amendments with the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Define and give examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary economic activities in the United States and other countries.

Define the factors of production.

Illustrate traditional, command and market economic systems.

Chart the characteristics of communism, socialism, and free enterprise by how they answer the three basic economic questions.

Applying the concept of the basic economic questions contrast modern economic interactions with those from the past.

Analyze the impact of globalization on modern economic interactions by investigating the origins of things such as personal belongings or various foods.

Compare and contrast economic and social metrics of various countries (e.g., GDP per capita, Human Misery Index, Gross National Happiness, Infant and Child Mortality Rates, Life Expectancy, Literacy Rates, Human Freedom Index, etc.).

Explain the characteristics and development of culture.

Describe the major aspects of culture (e.g., religion, beliefs, languages, practices, art, architecture, behaviors, etc.).

Explain the significance of religious holidays and observances.

Explain how culture changes as it is passed from one generation to the next.

Investigate patterns of cultural diffusion.

Investigate how food relates to geography and cultural diffusion.

Identify then contrast the major culture regions around the world to cultures within United States.