HIS0101: 1st Grade History
05/01/2024 to 05/30/2025 • Modified 08/13/2024
Course Description
This history and geography course introduces students to the lives of leaders in the history of Virginia and their contributions to the Commonwealth. Students will develop basic map skills. Students will study economic concepts of goods and services, consumers and producers, and making economic choices. Students will learn to apply the traits of a good citizen. They will learn that communities are comprised of people with diverse ethnic origins, customs, and traditions, and make contributions to their own communities, united as Americans by common principles. This course cannot be taken concurrently with SCI0101.
Next Start Date*
Next Monday
Prerequisite
None
Schedule
Module 1: Citizenship & Geography
- Week 1: Being a Good Citizen
- Week 2: Responsibility, Honesty, and Voting
- Week 3: Map Symbols and Directions
- Week 4: Reading and Creating Maps
- Week 5: Climate and Landforms
Module 2: Then and Now
- Week 6: Life in Early Virginia
- Week 7: Famous Virginians
- Week 8: Life in Virginia Today
- Week 9: Quarter One Review Week
Module 3: Important People, Holidays, and Practices
- Week 10: The People of Virginia
- Week 11: Virginia Symbols and Traditions
- Week 12: American Symbols and Making Decisions
- Week 13: Famous Richmonders
- Week 14: Holidays
Module 5: Economics
- Week 15: Needs, Wants, Goods, and Services
- Week 16: Consumers and Producers
- Week 17: Earn and Save
- Week 18: Quarter Two Review Week
*Course specifics are tentative and subject to change each year. For the most current information, please refer to the Course Registration Tool.