Georgia's QCC objectives for Social Studies offering a global perspective:
Kindergarten
State ways in which people are alike and different (Civics K2).
Describe how children and families use resources to meet basic needs and wants in different climates (Economics K4).
Recognize that some of our goods come from different countries (Economics K10).
Identify the globe as a model of the Earth; and compare the shape of the globe to the shape of the Earth (Geography K14;15).
Recognize that different cultural groups have different characteristics (History K19).
First Grade:
Recognize that . . . rules [of family and community] may vary from culture to culture (Civics 1.3).
Compare how families of the United States, Canada, and Mexico meet their basic needs and wants (Economics 1.4).
Compare and contrast a world map and a globe; and identify an outline map of North America and the location of the United States, Canada, and Mexico; and describe the pictorial symbols for a house, school,a church and a road and non-pictorial symbols (e.g., dots used on maps to represent entire cities); recognize physical characteristics, including hills, mountains, continents, and islands as land forms; lakes, oceans, and rivers as bodies of water (Geography 1.10;12;14;15;17;19;20)."
Compare the daily lives and customs such as birthdays and religious holidays of children in the United States with children in Canada and Mexico; compare and contrast the flag of the United States with the flags from Canada and Mexico; and, identify forms of communication including telephone, television, newspaper, computer and satellite; recognize that these forms of communication aid the transfer of ideas and information (History 1.16;10;21;11;22).
Second Grade:
Students list ways to live cooperatively in neighborhoods and communities and make a democratic form of government in the classroom (Civics).
Students continue to learn the landforms and characteristics of Earth as represented by the globe (Geography 2.9;10).
Compare the present day customs and lifestyles of the United States to selected places in the Eastern Hemisphere including Japan and Australia (e.g., food, shelter, clothing, transportation, fine arts (music, art, and literature), natural and man-made resources,and production of goods and services); and compare the lifestyles of the Eastern Woodlands and Plains Indians (History 2.11;12).