Social Studies SPIs
(Assessed 2005-Current School Year)

1.0 CULTURE
• 3.1.spi.1. Recognize some of the major components of a culture (i.e., language, clothing, food, art, and music).
• 3.1.spi.2. determine similarities and differences in the ways different cultural groups address basic human needs (i.e., food, water, clothing, and shelter by interpreting pictures).
• 3.1.spi.3. differentiate the cultural population distribution in the United States using a bar graph.
• 3.1.spi.4. interpret a chart or map identifying major cultural groups of the world.

2.0 ECONOMICS
• 3.2.spi.1. distinguish the difference between a natural resource and finished product.
• 3.2.spi.2. interpret a map showing agricultural and industrial areas.
• 3.2.spi.3 distinguish between import and export.
• 3.2.spi.4 differentiate the difference between producer and a consumer using a picture.
• 3.2.spi.5. differentiate between money and barter economies.

3.0 GEOGRAPHY
• 3.3.spi.1. identify the major physical components of the world (i.e., oceans, equator, continents, and hemispheres).
• 3.3.spi.2. recognize and use a map key.
• 3.3.spi.3. find a specific location on a school or community map.
• 3.3.spi.4. use absolute and relative locations to identify places on a map (i.e., north, south, east, west, borders, lines of longitude and latitude, the equator, the north and south poles).
• 3.3.spi.5. identify basic components of earth's systems (i.e., landforms, water, climate and weather).
• 3.3.spi.6. utilize skills to locate a place using cardinal directions and symbols given an appropriate map with a key.
• 3.3.spi.7. determine the climate of a specific region of the world using a map.
• 3.3.spi.8. differentiate the distinguishing characteristics of ecosystems (i.e., deserts, grasslands, rainforests).
• 3.3.spi.9. recognize the identifying characteristics of certain geographic features (i.e., peninsula, islands, continents, mountains, rivers, deserts, oceans, and forests).

4.0 GOVERNANCE & CIVICS
• 3.4.spi.1. select from a set of visual representations a service provided by the government (i.e., parks, schools, and libraries).
• 3.4.spi.2. determine the representative acts of a good citizen (i.e., obeying speed limit, not littering, walking within the crosswalk).

5.0 HISTORY
• 3.5.spi.1. label historical events as past, present and future.
• 3.5.spi.2. use a timeline to determine the order of a historical sequence of events.
• 3.5.spi.3. read and interpret facts from a historical passage.