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Students identify oceans, lakes, rivers, ponds, and streams, comparing their sizes and whether water flows or stays still.

Students use left, right, near, and far to describe location and movement, following simple paths on classroom and treasure maps.

Students identify land and water on maps and pictures, learn that Earth has both, and use colors to distinguish oceans, lakes, and landforms.

Students meet mountains, hills, valleys, plains, and islands through pictures and vocabulary, matching landform names to shapes of land on Earth.

Students learn that maps are flat pictures and globes are round models, both showing places on Earth, and compare how each helps us find places.

Students explore nested places from home and school outward to town, state, and country, learning that maps show where they belong on Earth.

Students learn to tell natural features like trees and rivers from human-made structures like buildings and roads, sorting examples and exploring mixed places like parks.

Students explore neighborhood places such as homes, parks, stores, and schools, learning how streets connect places and how neighbors share community spaces.

Students compare cities, towns, and country (rural) places, using picture clues to describe where people live and how communities can look different while all belonging on Earth.

Students practice comparing places by finding what is alike and different, using photos, maps, and questions to describe communities without ranking one place above another.

Students explore how people get from place to place by walking, riding, sailing, and flying, sorting travel modes and practicing safe, inclusive community movement.

Students explore hot and cold places on Earth, matching clothing and safety tips to temperature clues while learning that people live in many climates.

Students connect weather types to places on Earth, matching gear and symbols to sunny, rainy, windy, and snowy conditions while seeing that weather can differ by place and day.

Students practice caring for shared places like classrooms, parks, and neighborhoods.

Students learn that symbols and map keys help them find places on simple picture maps.