First Grade Social Studies

About Grade 1 Social Studies

Grade 1 social studies (1st grade, ages 6–7) is 40 lessons in 5 units: About Me and My Family (lessons 1–8), My School and Community (lessons 9–16), My Country and the World (lessons 17–24), Responsibility and Citizenship (lessons 25–32), and finally Projects (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to explain what a map is, explain why foods and clothes differ between countries and explain what respect and kindness mean.

Start here: Lesson 1: Who Am I? is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.

Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.