Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Social Studies Kindergarten

Big Ideas

Our communities are diverse and made up of individuals who have a lot in common.
Rights, roles, and responsibilities shape our identity and help us build healthy relationships with others.

Overall Expectations:

Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
Explain the significance of personal or local events, objects, people, or places (significance)
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)
Acknowledge 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:

ways in which individuals and families differ and are the same
needs and wants of individuals and families
rights, roles, and responsibilities of individuals and groups
people, places, and events in the local community, and in local First Peoples communities