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🌍 Social Studies • 6-7 years

Grade 1 Social Studies

Develop core skills in addition, subtraction, phonics, and beginning reading comprehension. This grade currently includes 4 live topics, 12 printable worksheets, and 6 mapped standards.

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Topics

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Lessons

12

Worksheets

4

Quizzes

What's Live in This Grade

Grade 1 social studies currently includes 4 live topics, 12 printable worksheets, and 6 mapped standards. Strong entry points in this grade include Maps, Routes, and Landmarks, Needs, Wants, and Choices, and Past, Present, and Community Change.

🗺️ Maps, Routes, and Landmarks 🛒 Needs, Wants, and Choices 🕰️ Past, Present, and Community Change 🤝 Leadership and Civic Responsibility

Standards Snapshot

This grade currently maps to 6 unique standards across NCSS. 15 glossary terms support the live topics in this grade.

4 topics 6 standards 12 worksheets

NCSS.III NCSS.V NCSS.VII NCSS.II NCSS.VI NCSS.X

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Topics in Grade 1 Social Studies

Each topic includes a full lesson, printable worksheets, an interactive quiz, and a teaching guide.

Maps, Routes, and Landmarks

Read simple maps, describe routes, and use landmarks to understand where places are located. — 3 worksheets

Needs, Wants, and Choices

Distinguish needs from wants and explain how people make choices about goods and services. — 3 worksheets

Past, Present, and Community Change

Compare life long ago and now and notice how families, schools, and communities change over time. — 3 worksheets

Leadership and Civic Responsibility

Learn how leaders help groups, how citizens act responsibly, and how people work together to care for shared places. — 3 worksheets