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Grade K

  • – Famous People
  • – Holidays and Events
  • – Present vs. Past
  • – Relative Location
  • – What are Maps and Globes?
  • – Importance of Maps and Globes
  • – People Work
  • – Wants and Needs Economic Choices
  • – Citizenship
  • – America

Grade 1

  • – Past, Present, & Future
  • – Famous Americans
  • – Holidays
  • – Map Skills
  • – Locating Places on a Map
  • – Construction of Maps
  • – Community
  • – Goods & Services
  • – Economic Choices
  • – Saving Money
  • – Citizenship
  • – Patriotic Symbols
  • – Government

Grade 2

  • – China & Egypt
  • – Community Changes
  • – Tribal Regions & Indians
  • – World Geography & Map Skills
  • – U.S. Landforms & Geography
  • – Natural, Human, and Capital Resources
  • – Consumers, Producers, Barter, & Scarcity
  • – Citizenship
  • – Famous Americans
  • – Government

Grade 3

  • – Ancient Greek, Rome, & Mali
  • – Explorers
  • – World Geography
  • – England, Spain, & France
  • – Map Skills
  • – Economic Interdependence
  • – Economic Choices
  • – Rules, Laws, & Basic Principles
  • – Famous People
  • – Holidays & Services
  • – Diversity

Grade 4

  • – Virginia & Bordering States
  • – Virginia Geographic Regions
  • – Indian Language Groups of Virginia
  • – Jamestown
  • – English Colonization
  • – Importance of Charters
  • – General Assembly
  • – Settlers and Native Americans
  • – Agriculture
  • – Virginia Economy
  • – Revolutionary War
  • – Virginia Leaders
  • – Virginia Role in Civil War
  • – Civil War: Battles in Virginia
  • – Reconstruction Effects on Virginia
  • – Segregation and Jim Crow
  • – Railroads, Industries and Growth
  • – Three Branches of Government

Grade 5

  • – Continents and Oceans
  • – U.S. Geographic Regions
  • – U.S. Land Forms & Water Features
  • – How Indians used their Resources
  • – Explorers and American Indians
  • – Colonial America
  • – American Revolution
  • – Declaration of Independence
  • – Constitution
  • – Presidents 1-5
  • – Westward Movement
  • – People of the Civil War
  • – Battles and Major Events

US History: 1865 to the Present

  • – The Great Plains; Regions, States, & Cities
  • – Reconstruction
  • – Post-Civil War: Urbanization; Industrialization; Progressive Movement
  • – Spanish American War & World War I
  • – Early 20th Century: Prosperity to Depression
  • – World War II
  • – Post War Foreign and Veteran Affairs
  • – Recent Domestic and Foreign Affairs

Grade 7/8 (Civics & Economics)

  • – Foundations of Constitutional Government
  • – Citizenship
  • – Political Parties & Elections
  • – National, State, & Local Government
  • – Public Policy & Opinion
  • – The Judicial System
  • – Economics & Business