Oklahoma Social Studies K.C.2.5

Social StudiesKindergartenContent Standards

The Standard

Explain how people and the environment change over time, using examples relevant to the student.

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · K.C.2

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Children compare how people and familiar places looked before and how they look now. They name what changed and use words like earlier and later.
What Mastery Looks Like: A child puts pictures of a baby and an older child in order and says what changed, such as height or walking. They can also explain how a small tree might grow taller over time.
Common Misconceptions: Children may think the baby and older child are different people. They may mistake a rainy day for a lasting change in a place.
How to Assess It: Show pictures of a baby and an older child, then a small tree and a grown tree. Ask, 'Which came first, and what changed in each pair?'

Lesson moves

Give pairs picture cards of a baby, an older child, a small tree, and a grown tree to sort into before-and-after pairs.
Ask, 'What can you do now that you could not do as a baby?' Have children draw and label one change.
Play Before or After: show two pictures of the same plant at different sizes and have children point to the earlier picture.
At recess, find a small plant and ask children to draw how it might look next spring.

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