- Early Elementary Social Studies Units
- Compiled by
- Imad Fadlallah
- September 2003
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- Kindergarten
Social Studies Units of Study Now
and Then
- Unit
Plan for Now and Then
- Lesson
1 - What is a Day?
- Lesson
2 - What is a Week? A Month?
- Lesson
3 - Creating a Personal Timeline
- Lesson
4 - What is the Future?
- Lesson
5 - Creating A Biography
- Lesson
6 - Family History
- Lesson
7 - What is a Biography?
- Lesson
8 - Listening to a Biography
- Lesson
9 - What is Good Character?
- Lesson
10 - Why Are They Good?
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- Where Am I?
- Unit
Plan for Where Am I?
- Lesson
1 - A Bird's Eye View
- Lesson
2 - Mapping Ourselves Sitting in a Circle
- Lesson
3 - Mapping the Room
- Lesson
4 - An Imaginary Neighborhood
- Lesson
5 - Picturing the Imaginary Neighborhood
- Lesson
6 - Mapping an Imaginary Neighborhood
- Lesson
7 - Learning Real Addresses
- Lesson
8 - How Far is a Mile?
- Lesson
9 - Changes in A Place Over Time
- Lesson
10 - What Kind of Place is a City?
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- Other Children
Near and Far
- Unit
Plan for Other Children Near and Far
- Lesson
1 - How Are We the Same?
- Lesson
2 - How Are We Different?
- Lesson
3 - What are Natural Characteristics?
- Lesson
4 - Which Ones Are Natural Characteristics?
- Lesson
5 - Describing the Environment
- Lesson
6 - What Human Characteristics Are Cultural?
- Lesson
7 - What Is Culture?
- Lesson
8 - How Are They Like Us?
- Lesson
9 - How Are They Different?
- Lesson
10 - The Birthday Party
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- What Rules
Should We Live By?
- Unit
Plan for What Rules Should We Live By?
- Lesson
1 - What are Rules?
- Lesson
2 - What Are Good Rules and How Should We Make Them?
- Lesson
3 - What Are Consequences?
- Lesson
4 - What Are Some Good Family Rules?
- Lesson
5 - Where Should Our Park Be Located?
- Lesson
6 - Making Fair Rules
- Lesson
7 - Making Rules for the Neighborhood
- Lesson
8 - Sloppy Sally
- Lesson
9 - Interview Your Neighbors
- Lesson
10 - Disobeying Rules
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- What
Can I Buy?
- Unit
Plan for What Can I Buy?
- Lesson
1 - What Is Trade?
- Lesson
2 - What Should I Trade?
- Lesson
3 - What Works Better: Barter or Money?
- Lesson
4 - I Want This!
- Lesson
5 - I Need This!
- Lesson
6 - Should I Buy It?
- Lesson
7 - What are Goods and Services?
- Lesson
8 - Public vs. Private
- Lesson
9 - Kindergarten Gets New Playground Equipment
- Lesson
10 - Should the People Pay for It?
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- Our Families
- Unit
Plan for Our Families
- Lesson
1 - What's a Family
- Lesson
2 - Family Composition
- Lesson
3 - Family Characteristics
- Lesson
4 - How are Families Similar and Different?
- Lesson
5 - Conducting an Interview
- Lesson
6 - Sharing a Family Holiday
- Lesson
7 - Sharing a Family Tradition
- Lesson
8 - Creating a Family Tree
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- Schools &
Families of the Past
- Unit
Plan for Schools and Families of the Past
- Lesson
1 - Who, What, and Where
- Lesson
2 - Creating a Personal Timeline
- Lesson
3 - Interviewing a Grandparent/Older Adult
- Lesson
4 - Creating a Timeline of an Important Person From History
- Lesson
5 - Signs of Good Character
- Lesson
6 - Pioneer Life
- Lesson
7 - School Life in the Past
- Lesson
8 - Potawatomi Families from the Past
- Lesson
9 - The Impact of Technology
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- Families Near
and Far
- Unit
Plan for Our Families
- Lesson
1 - Identifying Cultural Characteristics in Families
- Lesson
2 - Why Do Families Have Different Cultural Characteristics?
- Lesson
3 - How Does the Natural Environment Shape Cultural Characteristics?
- Lesson
4 - A Family From Another Country
- Lesson
5 - An Immigrant Family
- Lesson
6 - Why Do People Immigrate?
- Lesson
7 - What is Similar and Different About Families?
- Lesson
8 - How Differences Can Lead to Conflicts
- Lesson
9 - Solutions for Conflicts
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- Getting Around
at School
- Unit
Plan for Getting Around at School
- Lesson
1 - Human/Environmental Interaction
- Lesson
2 - The Parking Lot Proposal: How it Affects the Natural Environment
- Lesson
3 - The Parking Lot Proposal: How it Affects People
- Lesson
4 - Making a School Map
- Lesson
5 - Reading a School Map
- Lesson
6 - Mapping the Surrounding Area
- Lesson
7 - Color Coding Regions
- Lesson
8 - Reading and Interpreting the Map of the Surrounding Area
- Lesson
9 - Looking for Similarities Between Maps
- Lesson
10 - Looking for Differences Between Maps
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- Rules at Home
and in School
- Unit
Plan for Rules at Home and in School
- Lesson
1 - What is Fair?
- Lesson
2 - Classroom Rules
- Lesson
3 - Breaking Classroom Rules
- Lesson
4 - Enforcing Rules
- Lesson
5 - Life Without Rules
- Lesson
6 - Interpreting Rules
- Lesson
7 - Rules Are Like Laws
- Lesson
8 - Are All Rules/Laws Fair?
- Lesson
9 - How to Change Rules and Laws
- Lesson
10 - Living in a Democracy
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- Earning and
Spending
- Unit
Plan for Earning and Spending
- Lesson
1 - Goods and Services
- Lesson
2 - Opportunity Cost
- Lesson
3 - What is Money?
- Lesson
4 - Producers Earn Money and Consumers Spent Money
- Lesson
5 - We Can Be Producers
- Lesson
6 - What is Credit?
- Lesson
7 - Banking and Buying
- Lesson
8 - What is the Price?
- Lesson
9 - The Bake Sale
- Lesson
10 - Evaluating Profits and Spending Our Earnings
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- Second
Grade Social Studies Units of Study
Defining a Local Community
- Unit
Plan for Defining a Local Community
- Lesson
1 - I Live in a Community
- Lesson
2 - Groups I Belong To
- Lesson
3 - My Neighborhood
- Lesson
4 - The Regions in Which I Live
- Lesson
5 - What Do People Need?
- Lesson
6 - Needs and Wants in My Town
- Lesson
7 - What Is A Community?
- Lesson
8 - Alike and Different
- Lesson
9 - Our Local Community
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- The Geography of
Our Community
- Unit
Plan for The Geography of Our Community
- Lesson
1 - Where Am I?
- Lesson
2 - All About Maps
- Lesson
3 - Where Is Our Community?
- Lesson
4 - Community Detectives
- Lesson
5 - Natural Features of Our Community
- Lesson
6 - Human Features of Our Community
- Lesson
7 - Making Maps
- Lesson
8 - The Changing Environment: Good or Bad?
- Lesson
9 - Environmental Problems and Possible Solutions
- Lesson
10 - "The Traveling Frogs"
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- The
History of Our Community
- Unit
Plan for The History of Our Community
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- Our
Local Economy
- Unit
Plan for Our Local Economy
- Lesson
1 - Goods and Services
- Lesson
2 - Consumers and Producers
- Lesson
3 - Market Day!
- Lesson
4 - What Is Your Job?
- Lesson
5 - Economic Tables
- Lesson
6 - Economy Detectives
- Lesson
7 - Eyes on Community Economics
- Lesson
8 - A Business Guide to Our Community
- Lesson
9 - From Tree to Paper
- Lesson
10 - "What happens if ... ?"
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- Governing Our
Local Community
- Unit
Plan for Governing Our Local Community
- Lesson
1 - Rules
- Lesson
2 - A Community Without Lawss
- Lesson
3 - Truth or Consequences
- Lesson
4 - Branches of Government
- Lesson
5 - Doing Our Job
- Lesson
6 - Public Goods and Services
- Lesson
7 - Who Pays?
- Lesson
8 - Town Meeting
- Lesson
9 - Fact or Opinion
- Lesson
10 - Viewpoints!
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- Making Decisions
About Our Community
- Unit
Plan for Making Decisions about Our Community
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- Other Local
Communities, Near & Far
- Unit
Plan for Other Local Communities, Near and Far