1C Students study about different world cultures and civilizations
focusing on their accomplishments, contributions, values, beliefs, and
traditions.
Students study about how people live, work, and utilize natural
resources.
1B Students draw maps and diagrams that serve as representations
of places, physical features, and objects.
1C Students locate places within the local community, State, and
nation; locate the Earth's continents in relation to each other and to
principal parallels and meridians.
1D Students identify and compare the physical, human, and cultural
characteristics of different regions and people.
1E Students investigate how people depend on and modify the
physical environment.
� 1996 - 2002
Students gather and interpret information from children's reference
books, magazines, textbooks, electronic bulletin boards, audio and
media presentations, oral interviews, and from such forms as charts,
graphs, maps and diagrams.
1B Students select information appropriate to the purpose of their
investigation and relate ideas from one text to another.
1C Students select and use strategies they have been taught for note
taking, organizing, and categorizing information.
1D Students ask specific questions to clarify and extend meaning.
1E Students make appropriate and effective use of strategies to
construct meaning from print, such as prior knowledge about a subject,
structural and context clues, and an understanding of letter-sound
relationships to decode difficult words.
1F Students support inferences about information and ideas with
reference to text features, such as vocabulary and organizational
patterns.