SS.K.2

Course Purpose:

Students will analyze their social world by examining the how and why of various aspects of their daily lives.

Outcomes and Components:

SS.K.2	Students will distinguish the goods around them as wants or needs and use maps to determine the effects of environmental characteristics on people’s lives.
Pacing Instruct/ Assess	Component Code	Component	Standard(s)
	SS.K.2.1	Categorize wants and needs and explain that choices are made because of scarcity.	SS.K.G.2
	SS.K.2.2	Identify goods in relation to wants and needs and explain how people and goods move from place to place, with guidance and support.	SS.K.G.2
	SS.K.2.3	Evaluate how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people’s lives and cultural identities, with guidance and support.	SS.K.G.1 SC.K.3
	SS.K.2.4	Identify characteristics of print and digital maps, graphs, and other cultural representations of familiar places, with guidance and support.	SS.K.G.3

Academic Vocabulary: Identify, categorize, evaluate

Content Vocabulary: Needs, wants, goods, services, consumer, producer

Social Studies Curriculum