Texas TEKS 1.17.E

Social Studies1st GradeSocial studies skills

The Standard

use social studies terminology correctly

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students choose accurate words for people, places, events, maps, rules, goods, and services. They use those words when speaking, drawing, or writing about social studies topics.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can look at a picture, map, or short story and name the matching term. They can use the term in a sentence that shows its meaning.
Common Misconceptions: Students may mix up related terms such as past and present, map and globe, or goods and services. They may repeat a definition but use the word incorrectly in a sentence.
How to Assess It: Show pictures of a loaf of bread, a haircut, a map, and an old photograph. Ask students to label each with a word from the bank and explain one choice.

Lesson moves

Have students sort picture cards under labels such as past, present, goods, services, map, and globe.
Ask, “Which social studies word best describes our classroom rules, and why?” then record student answers.
Play vocabulary bingo using teacher-read clues and student boards filled with familiar social studies terms.
Take a school walk and have students use words such as community, rule, leader, location, and symbol to describe what they notice.

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