The standards for kindergarten students include learning the concepts of people, places, and self as related to self and family. Yearlong goals involve learning about historical time sequence, geographic direction, and economic choices. Kindergarten students will use maps and globes to identify and locate places related to their lives and stories in history.
Citizenship education includes trust, respect, responsibility, fairness, and caring.
Students will have opportunities to learn about national symbols. They will learn how individuals acquire the economic goods and services they need and want. The standards for first grade students include comparisons of people and traditions in different places and times. The importance of leaders and achievers will be examined in comparison to the past and the future. First grade students construct simple maps to identify places in South Dakota and the United States.