First Grade Social Studies

1.E.MI.1 - Differentiate between buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers).

1.E.MA.1 - Describe how different jobs, as well as public and private institutions, help people in the community.

1.E.ST.1 - Explain why the goods and services people in a community produce are traded with those produced in other communities.

  • Compare food production in different regions of Kentucky, the country, and the world. Climate, quality and quantity of natural resources, and access to technology and labor affect where foods are produced.

  • Agriculture Where I Live

  • Who Grew My Soup? (NAITC)

1.E.IC.1 - Predict a person’s change in behavior in response to incentives and opportunity costs.

  • Discuss why we may want to purchase food directly from farmers in our community – it supports local businesses and ensures those goods will be there in the future. Buying locally

    also allows consumers to have a relationship with their farmers to know how they produce food and care for the environment. Fresh foods produced locally may also be fresher since they did

    not have far to travel from the farm to a grocery store. Convenience and cost are also factors. Is buying local food convenient? Cost more or less? These are community/regional issues.

1.E.KE.1 - Identify and describe what goods and services are produced in different places and regions in Kentucky.

1.G.MM.1 - Explain why and how people and goods move to and within communities.

1.G.HE.1 - Describe ways people modify their environment.

1.G.KGE.1 - Compare the physical and human characteristics of communities in Kentucky.

1.H.CH.1 - Describe how events, people, and innovation of the past affect their present lives, community, and state.

  • What machines on farms make the work easier?

  • BOOK: Hey, Hey, Hay - This link has a lesson plan from the author.

Social StudiesColin Wray