Framingham Public Schools

First Grade Curriculum Outcomes

Language Arts | Math | Science | Social Studies | Art | Music | Physical Education

Social Studies

First grade students will . . .

• begin to acquire the necessary skills to use maps and globes to locate and name continents and oceans, as well as to explore symbols, directions and scale.
• engage in activities that build geographic understandings based on the Five Themes of Geography – location, place, human/environment interaction, movement, and regions.
• investigate the concept of family.
• compare own family to a Pilgrim family.
• compare own family to a family of another culture (Japan, Kenya, Puerto Rico, or Brazil).
• develop an appreciation of diversity and history through the study of holidays and famous people, with emphasis on Martin Luther King, Jr.
• read and write across the social studies curriculum.