Map Skills, Landforms, and Geographic Tools

Understand how rules, respect, cooperation, and leaders help communities work together fairly.

Identify patriotic symbols, national monuments, and American holidays that unite people across the country.

Distinguish between needs and wants, make thoughtful economic choices, and explain how families earn, spend, and save money.

Identify goods and services, demonstrate how they are exchanged, and compare diverse occupations in communities and West Virginia.

Read simple maps using directions and keys, identify physical landforms and bodies of water, and use geographic tools.

Sequence seasons and calendar units, understand how weather shapes human life, and identify natural resources and their uses.

Sequence historical events, create personal timelines, analyze primary sources, and investigate community changes over time.

Recite the state motto, locate hometowns and counties on a West Virginia map, and celebrate traditional Appalachian arts, games, and music.