AISL Pre-K Benchmarks in Social Studies

(Revised June, 2010)

• AISL.SST.01 HISTORY: Students will understand patterns of change and continuity, relationships between people and events through time, and the causes and effects of interaction among societies
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• AISL.SST.01.PK.01 Identify common events and routines in the day, week, month and year
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• AISL.SST.01.PK.02 Begin to categorize time intervals using concepts of growth and seasonal change
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• AISL.SST.01.PK.03 Connect past events to current events (e.g., linking yesterday’s activity with what will happen today)
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• AISL.SST.01.PK.04 Begin to understand cause-and-effect relationships (e.g., if one goes outside in the rain, one will get wet)
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• AISL.SST.02 GEOGRAPHY: Students will understand the concepts of geography and how they contribute to the interaction between humans and natural and man-made environments
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• AISL.SST.02.PK.01 Identify common features in the home, school, local landscape (e.g., the bedroom, the classroom, the playground, the buildings and street.)
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• AISL.SST.02.PK.02 Create simple representations of home, school, or community through drawings or block constructions.
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• AISL.SST.02.PK.03 Begin to use words to indicate relative location (e.g., front, back, near, far)
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• AISL.SST.03 CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT: Students will understand why societies create and adopt systems of government and how these systems address human needs, rights, and citizen responsibilities
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• AISL.SST.03.PK.01 Share ideas and take turns listening and speaking
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• AISL.SST.03.PK.02 Cooperate with others in joint activities
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• AISL.SST.03.PK.03 Identify and follow classroom rules
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• AISL.SST.03.PK.04 Participate in classroom jobs and contribute to the classroom community
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• AISL.SST.03.PK.05 Begin to examine a situation from another person’s perspective
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• AISL.SST.04 CULTURE: Students will understand cultural and intellectual developments and interactions among and within societies
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• AISL.SST.04.PK.01 Begin to observe and describe important foods, clothing, homes, rituals, holidays or festivals in own culture and classmates’ cultures
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• AISL.SST.04.PK.02 Begin to observe and discuss similarities between own culture and classmates’ cultures
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• AISL.SST.05 ECONOMICS: Students will understand fundamental economic principles and ways in which economies are shaped by geographic and human factors
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• AISL.SST.05.PK.01 Observe and discuss the roles, responsibilities and services provided by community workers