Kindergarten Social Studies Standards

K.4:
Identify famous individuals representative of our state and nations.

Agriculture Counts: Students read a story about our nation’s first survey of agriculture, discuss reasons for counting things, and gain practice by sorting and counting a variety of objects related to agriculture.

K.11:
Explain how people can work together to make decisions.

Agriculture and Me: Students will categorize sources of basic agricultural products alphabetically.

Homegrown in Your State: Fruits and Vegetables: Students explore their state's specialty crops, discover how food gets from the farm to the table, and discuss the importance of eating fruits and vegetables every day.

Let's Go Shopping!: Students identify the differences between needs and wants, goods and services, and producers and consumers by participating in a grocery store simulation, exploring the source of grocery store items, and designing their own products to sell.

Plant Tops and Bottoms: Students will identify where fruits and vegetables belong on a MyPlate diagram and describe the major parts of plants—roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits—according to if they are produced on the top or bottom of a plant.

Who Grew My Soup?: Students identify the source of the food they eat and investigate the processes and people involved in getting food from the farm to their spoon.

K.15:
Differentiate between wants and needs.

A Day Without Agriculture: Students explore the wide scope of agriculture, identify the variety of agricultural products they use in their daily lives, and discuss the difference between needs and wants.

John Deere, That’s Who!: Students explore how producers and consumers work together to meet human needs by using the book John Deere, That’s Who!

A Search for the Source: Students determine that agriculture provides nearly all of the products we rely on in any given day by participating in a relay where they match an everyday item with its “source.”

K.18:
Use maps and models to describe relative location.

For example: locating objects and places to the right or left, up or down, in or out, above or below.

From Sap to Syrup: Students recognize how geography and climate allow for the growth of maple trees and the process of making syrup, identify the characteristics of maple trees that produce the best sap for making maple syrup, and name the steps in the process of creating syrup from sap.

K.19:
Identify basic landforms and bodies of water in a variety of visual representations, including mountains, hills, coasts, islands, lakes, and rivers.

K.20.a:
Identify ways people interact with their environment, including using natural resources.

K.20.b:
Identify ways people interact with their environment, including modifying their environment.