1st grade Social Studies
15 units matched to the Alabama Course of Study. Kids see this subject as “My World”.
Focus areas
- Course: Living and Working Together in Community and State
- Leaders, laws and good citizens
- Jobs, saving and spending
- Alabama on a map, and life long ago
Units
Unit 1
My Community
Community helpers and places, plus rights, rules, roles and responsibilities at home, at school and in the community.
Content standard: 1.1; 1.2 · how people take part in community life, and the people who lead and serve a community
Unit 2
Respect & Inclusion
Sharing, taking turns, listening, including others, and showing respect for people, belongings and the places we share.
Content standard: 1.1 · rights and responsibilities, and caring for the common good
Unit 3
Community Services
Jobs that serve the community (fire, health, sanitation, libraries, transit) and services the government or community provides for everyone.
Content standard: 1.3 · businesses and services in the community, such as stores and banks
Unit 4
Earning, Saving & Sharing
Practices how people earn income, why families save, sharing and bartering, choosing between needs and wants, and natural, human and capital resources.
Content standard: 1.3 · earning, saving and spending money to meet needs and wants
Unit 5
Goods and Services
Introduces goods (things) and services (work people do), and how communities depend on each other to exchange them.
Content standard: 1.3; 1.6 · goods and services, and how products get from producers to buyers
Unit 6
Maps
Reading a simple map with north at the top, using north, south, east and west, map symbols and legends, and near and far.
Content standard: 1.8 · map features such as a title, a key and directions, and making maps of familiar places
Unit 7
Our Land
Natural and human-made features, how the land shapes how we live, and caring for it by reducing, reusing and recycling.
Content standard: 1.9; 1.4 · landforms and bodies of water, and how the land shapes work and play
Unit 8
Changes in My Life
Big life events (a new sibling, a move, starting school), how people's experiences are alike and different, and ordering events as a simple timeline.
Content standard: 1.10 · timelines and schedules of a child's life
Unit 9
Social Studies Detectives
The inquiry process: asking good questions, finding clues in people, photos, maps and charts, thinking about what they show and sharing what we learned.
Content standard: 1.11 · finding facts in sources, and telling primary sources from secondary sources
Unit 10
School & Travel Long Ago
How schools and communities worked in the past, and how people traveled by wagon, stagecoach, sailing ship and steam train before cars and airplanes.
Content standard: 1.13 · comparing school, travel and technology long ago and today
Unit 11
Alabama on the Map
Locating Alabama, its capital Montgomery, counties and county seats, neighboring states and the Gulf of Mexico on political and physical maps.
Content standard: 1.7; 1.8 · locating our community, county, state and capital, and political and physical maps
Unit 12
Leaders & Citizens
Public offices in the community and state (mayor, city council, governor, state legislature, tribal council), how voting helps people decide, and how citizens help the common good.
Content standard: 1.1; 1.2 · citizens' rights and responsibilities, voting, and public offices in the community and state
Unit 13
Alabama at Work
Natural resources in Alabama (coal, cotton, fish, forests, marble), how farms grow food and factories make products like cars and paper, how goods reach stores, and how the land shapes jobs and fun.
Content standard: 1.4; 1.5; 1.6 · natural resources, jobs shaped by the land, and how food and products are made and distributed
Unit 14
Famous Alabamians
Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, Jesse Owens, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Hank Williams and astronaut Jan Davis, and events such as the building of Moundville, the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Space Race.
Content standard: 1.12 · significant people and historical events of our community and state
Unit 15
Alabama Celebrates
Festivals and observances in Alabama (Mardi Gras in Mobile, the National Peanut Festival, the W.C. Handy Music Festival, the Bridge Crossing Jubilee and others) and historic places like the State Capitol, museums, libraries and monuments.
Content standard: 1.12 · festivals and observances in our state and their origins, and historic sites
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