Identify ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Observe, communicate, compare, order, and categorize the natural environment. The primary curriculum builds on what young children already know when they begin kindergarten. They have developed important understandings of space, time, cause, and effect. These connect the child to his or her world.
Children begin to see the world as orderly, rule-governed, and predictive.
In primary grades, children begin to study geography and history through literature and primary source documents, but these are always connected to the child's space and time. Each year, through the grades studies begin with the immediate present and move on to develop links with the larger geographic and economic world. Each year children study people and events from the past to build sensitivity and appreciation for contributions which affect their lives today. Multicultural education plays a major role in the curriculum. A child's place in time and space.