Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade

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  Human rights and responsibilities
  
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  Problem Solving Skills
  
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  Past, Present, and Future using timelines
  
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  Observations of the world, community, and personal space
  
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  Black History Month
  
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  Recognizing and Understanding National Symbols
  
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  Goods and Services
  
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  Needs and Wants
  
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  Trades
  

Field Trip: Combine with Science

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  Needs and wants
  
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  Goods and Services
  
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  Working together as a community and family
  
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  Responsibilities and rules within a community and family
  
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  Caring for others
  
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  Celebrations and Traditions
  
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  Past, Present, Future within each students own lives
  
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  Reading and following Aerial and Eye View Maps
  
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  Absolute Location
  
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  Black History Month
  

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  Communities
  
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  Resources within a community
  
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  Responsibilities within a community
  
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  Map and its uses
  
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  Geography (landforms)
  
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  Roles of individuals in the government.
  
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  Roles of citizens within a community
  
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  Changes in the community over time
  
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  Positive and negative affects on a community
  
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  Black History Month
  

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  Geography of Michigan
  
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  Landforms
  
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  Map Skills
  
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  Early history of Michigan
  
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  Early Michigan Explorers
  
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  Michigan Native American Tribes
  
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  Early American settlers
  
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  The growth of Michigan
  
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  Logging / Copper / Assembly Lines
  
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  Black history month
  
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  The government of Michigan
  
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  Economy of Michigan
  
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  Introduction to Research
  

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  Our Federal Government
  
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  Rights and responsibilities of citizenship
  
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  Human geography of the United States
  
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  Black history month
  
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  Regions of the United States
  
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  Economic and public discourse
  
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  Exploring economics in the United States
  
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  Presidents
  

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  Our government (federal, state, three branches, constitutional principles)
  
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  Initial contact of Africa, North America, and Europe
  
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  Trading (slaves, resources, import/export)
  
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  Colonization and settlement (Migration, geography, culture)
  
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  Native Americans and Initial contacts with settlers
  
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  New colonies and their government, economy, and geography
  
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  Slavery in the colonies
  
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  British impacts on colonial government and economy
  
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  Road to revolution (events leading up to the revolutionary war).
  
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  The Revolutionary War
  
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  The new nation- construction and implementation of the constitution.
  
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  Public discourse
  

· 5 themes and 5 aspects of Geography

· Introduction to Map Skills

· Demographics Charts, Graphs, and Map analysis

· World economic systems concepts

· The relationship between government forms and economic systems

· Continents and countries of the world politically

· World regional cultural traits

· Major world physical features

· Issues of Developed and Developing World Countries

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  Latitude/Longitude usage
  

· Origins of the Species

· Agricultural Revolution

· Definition of History

· Traits of early human society

· Emergence of the 1^st human civilizations

· Classical world empires

· Ancient African Kingdoms

· Development of world religions

· Early era of globalization

· Industrial Revolution

· Regional cross-examinations

· Document analysis

· Pre-Columbian Americas

· Colonization and self-government of early colonies

· Geographical difference in colonies

· French/Indian War

· Causation, events and effects of the American War for Independence

· Philosophical influences on the Founding Fathers

· Documents of the American Revolution

· Constitutional Conventions and antecedents

· Articles of Confederation

· Articles of the Constitution, Branches of the US Gov.

· The Bill of Rights & Amendments

· Great Compromise & 3/5ths

· Manifest Destiny, 1^st expansion

· Early Years of the New Republic

· Jeffersonian Era

· War of 1812

· Jacksonian Era

· Mexican American War

· 2^nd Great Awakening

· Build up to Southern Secession

· Civil War

· Legal changes from the Civil War and important elections

· Challenges of the Reconstruction Era

· The 2^nd Industrial Revolution

· Renewed Westward Expansion