What does a student learn in StateMississippi,GradeGrade 1,SubjectSocial Studies?

Students sort out the difference between what they're allowed to do and what they're expected to do, whether they're acting as a classmate, a family member, or a neighbor.

Rights are what students are allowed to do or have. Responsibilities are the duties they owe in return. Students learn to tell the difference between the two and spot examples of each in school and community life.

Students look at how their rights and responsibilities change depending on where they are. Following classroom rules, helping at home, and picking up litter outside are all responsibilities, but the expectations shift from one place to the next.

Students learn that people help shape their communities by doing things like voting in elections or volunteering at local events. The focus is on recognizing concrete ways ordinary people take part in community life.

Rules are agreements a group makes together, like classroom or family rules. Laws are official rules that everyone in a community must follow, with consequences set by the government.

Rules are agreements a small group follows, like classroom or family rules. Laws are rules everyone in a community or country must follow. Students compare where each kind of rule comes from and what happens when someone breaks it.

Rules are set by people like parents or teachers, and laws are set by the government. Students learn what happens when someone breaks each one, like losing recess versus paying a fine.

Laws are rules that the government makes for everyone in a community. They help keep people safe and make sure things run fairly for everyone, not just in one classroom or home.

Patriotism means caring about your country and showing it through actions. Students explore what that looks like in real life, from saying the Pledge of Allegiance to helping neighbors to voting when they grow up.

Patriotism means caring about your country and showing pride in it. Students learn what it looks like when people honor their country through actions like flying a flag, singing the national anthem, or voting.

Students talk about the ways people show pride in their country and care for their community, like flying a flag, saying the Pledge, or helping a neighbor.

Students learn to recognize flags, seals, and other symbols that represent their town, state, and country, and talk about what those symbols mean to the people who use them.

Students learn why Americans recite the Pledge of Allegiance and sing the National Anthem. Both are ways citizens show respect for the country and the values it stands for.

Students explain why people do jobs for pay: to buy things they need, like food and shelter, and things they want.

Students learn the difference between a job and the money that job pays. Employment means having a job, income is the money you earn, and salary or wages are how that pay is measured, whether yearly or by the hour.

Students learn what it means to have a job: showing up, doing work someone pays you for, and following workplace rules.

Working a job is how people earn money. Students learn why adults go to work each day and what they do with the money they bring home.

Students draw or show how people hand over money to get something in return, like paying for groceries or a haircut. The focus is on why the exchange happens: to get something they need or want.

Students sort wants from needs and explain how families use work, trade, or help from others to get food, clothing, and shelter.

Basic needs are things every person must have to survive, like food, water, clothing, and shelter. Students learn to name and recognize these needs and explain why they matter.

Basic needs are things like food, shelter, and clothing. Students explain how people get those things, such as earning money to buy food or growing it themselves.

Students sort everyday items into two groups: things people must have to survive (like food, shelter, and clothing) and things people would simply like to have. This builds the foundation for understanding why people make choices about money.

Students look at why a family might buy groceries before buying a toy, and why setting some money aside helps cover what they need later.

Students look at how people in a group solve disagreements by finding a middle ground. They practice working out what to do when not everyone agrees.

Students learn what it means to work together toward a shared goal (cooperation) and to give up something you want so both sides can agree (compromise). These two ideas show up whenever groups of people try to solve a problem together.

Students name real moments when people at home or school worked something out together, like taking turns or agreeing on a plan, instead of one person getting everything their way.

When people from different backgrounds disagree, working together and giving a little ground helps solve the problem. Students look at real examples of groups finding common solutions across different ways of life.

Students look at the different backgrounds, traditions, and customs of people in their school and neighborhood, and talk about what makes each one distinct.

Culture is the mix of language, food, traditions, and beliefs a group of people share. Students learn to name and describe the things that make each group's way of life its own.

Students look at the different cultural backgrounds of classmates and neighbors, noticing holidays, languages, foods, or traditions that vary from family to family.

Students learn how different families celebrate holidays, share food, and pass down traditions. Recognizing those differences helps students understand and respect the people around them.

Students look at how different families mark holidays, share food, and pass down traditions, then explain what those celebrations have in common and how they differ.

Students learn to find where they live on a map or globe and understand that their town is part of a bigger world with many countries and people.

Students learn the names of the seven continents and five major oceans on a world map. This is the basic geography framework they will build on for the rest of their school years.

Students learn to sort the shapes they see on a map into groups: land (mountains, hills, plains) and water (oceans, lakes, rivers). They practice naming each feature and pointing to it on a map.

Students learn to say where one place is compared to another, using directions like north, south, east, west, and the points in between, such as northeast or southwest.

Students learn that every hometown sits inside bigger and bigger places: a county, a state, a country, and finally a continent. Think of it like nested boxes, each one containing the last.

Students look at how a place's weather and landforms shape the way people dress, build homes, and get food. A snowy mountain town and a hot desert village look different because the land and climate push people toward different choices.

Students look at the area where they live and identify what makes it recognizable, like nearby hills, bodies of water, or landmarks. This builds a sense of place before students compare their region to others.

Students learn that different parts of the United States have different weather year-round. A state in the South stays warm most of the year, while a northern state gets cold winters and heavy snow.

Where you live shapes how you live. Students look at how people in different places dress, eat, build homes, and spend their time based on the weather and landscape around them.

Students read a map and use direction words like north, south, east, and west to describe where places are and how to get from one spot to another.

Students learn words like north, south, east, and west to read a map. They use those direction words to describe where places are.

Students learn to read a map's built-in guides: the compass rose that shows north, south, east, and west, plus the key that explains what each symbol on the map means.

Students draw simple maps that include a compass rose, a key, and symbols to show what each place or feature on the map means.

Students learn about real people and moments that changed the United States, like presidents, inventors, or landmark events, and talk about why those people and moments still matter today.

Students learn about real people from American history, like George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, whose faces, names, or stories have become symbols that show up on money, holidays, and monuments.

Students look at real people from the past and explain what those people did that still matters today, in their town, their state, or the country.

Students learn why the U.S. marks certain days on the calendar, like the Fourth of July or Thanksgiving, and what the events behind those holidays mean for the country's history.

Students compare how people lived in the past with how we live today, looking at things like clothing, transportation, and daily routines.

Students look at how people shared news and messages long ago (think letters and town criers) compared to how we do it today with phones and the internet. They find what changed and what stayed the same.

Students look at one invention, like the telephone, and trace how it changed over time, from its earliest version to what it looks like today.

Students look at how clothing has changed over time and think about why people choose to wear and buy what they do. They compare what people wore long ago with what people wear today.

Students look at how Americans spent free time long ago, like playing outside or listening to the radio, and how people spend it today, like watching videos or playing games. They find what changed and what stayed the same.