Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Social Studies Grade 1

Big Ideas

We shape the local environment, and the local environment shapes who we are and how we live.
Healthy communities recognize and respect the diversity of individuals and care for the local environment.

Overall Expectations:

Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
Ask questions, make inferences, and draw conclusions about the content and features of different types of sources (evidence)
Recognize causes and consequences of events, decisions, or developments in their lives (cause and consequence)
Explore different perspectives on people, places, issues, or events in their lives (perspective)
Identify fair and unfair aspects of events, decisions, or actions in their lives and consider appropriate courses of action (ethical judgment)

Specific Expectations

Students are expected to know the following:

characteristics of the local community that provide organization and meet the needs of the community
diverse cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives within the local and other communities
relationships between a community and its environment
roles, rights, and responsibilities in the local community
key events and developments in the local community, and in local First Peoples communities
natural and human-made features of the local environment