K-5 Common Core Curriculum Maps Integration + K-12 social studies scope & sequence for RSD10
Kindergarten
Kindergarten – deals with what is in a young student’s close proximity – the social connections between
themselves, their family, & in school.
Kindergarten Unit 1:
Unit 2:
Unit 3:
Unit 4:
Unit 5:
Unit 6:
A Colorful
Tell a Story, Exploring with America:
The Great
Wonders of
Time with
1-2-3
Friends in the Symbols
Big World
Nature:
Rhythm and
Neighborhood and
Plants,
Rhyme
Celebrations
Bugs, and
Frogs
Science
5 senses/
animals and ? shelters
N/A
animal
plants
observations their needs
(K.4)
habitat
using the
(K.2)
preservation habitats and
senses (K.1)
life cycles of
weather
frogs/seeds
(ongoing)
(K.2)
(K.3)
Social
N/A
community
citizenship/
geography/
N/A
Studies
(i.e., jobs,
symbols/
cardinal
location, etc.) celebrations directions
Art
colors
Music
patriotic
songs
Wellness
human
body/health
First Grade
1st grade- begins the process of learning to read maps with locations & directions, then looks at the
social connections students have with their neighborhood and some common occupations in their
community/towns, along with some simple economic lessons.
First Grade
Science
Social
Studies
Wellness
Unit 1:
Alphabet
Books and
Children
Who Read
Them
life cycles
(butterflies)
(1.3)
Unit 2:
The
Amazing
Animal
World
Unit 3:
Life Lessons
Unit 4:
Winds of
Change
Unit 5:
Unit 6:
American
Around the
Contributions World with
a Glass
Slipper
life cycles (?
chickens)
(1.3)
scientists/
tools for
scientific
measurement
N/A
earth’s
surface/
land
features
N/A
N/A
economics
weather/
wind
introduction
to matter
(solid, liquid,
gas)
N/A
citizenship
geography/
maps (key)
healthy
living
Second Grade
2nd grade- takes maps to the next level teaching students the skill of reading a map with directions & a
grid system, then asks students to study the geography, economics, basic town government and history
of their town for either Burlington or Harwinton. And finally they are asked to compare & contrast their
town with an urban setting (such as Hartford).
Second
Grade
Unit 1:
A Season for
Chapters
Unit 2:
The Wild
West
Unit 3:
Building
Bridges with
Unlikely
Friends
Unit 4:
A Long
Journey to
Freedom
Science
seasonal
cycles
Simple
tools/
machines
animal
classification
N/A
Social
Studies
local
climate/
economy/
maps/
location
town history
properties
of matter
compare
and contrast
rural/urban
communities
Unit 5:
Hand-MeDown Tales
from
Around the
World
N/A
civics and
historical
roles of
town stories
town
government/
services/
functions
Art
Music
Wellness
Unit 6:
Taking Care
of Ourselves
N/A
body
systems
Third Grade
3rd grade- the map skills move on to the 7 continents & 4 oceans. This school year students will be
studying the 5 regions of the United States and then comparing the Northeast region with another
region of the United States.
Third Grade
Unit 1:
Stories
Worth
Telling
Again and
Again
Unit 2:
Inspired by
the Sea
Unit 3:
Creative,
Inventive,
and Notable
People
Science
N/A
recycling/
forces and
conservation/ motion (4.1)
ecosystems
(3.4)
inventions
N/A
Social
Studies
map skills
map skills
government
N/A
Unit 4:
The People,
the
Preamble,
and the
Presidents
Unit 5:
A Feast of
Words on a
Planet
Called Earth
– and
Beyond
rocks and
minerals
(3.3)
Unit 6:
Fantastic
Adventures
with
Dragons,
Gods, and
Giants
properties
of matter
(3.1)
solar system
regions
regions
Fourth Grade
4th grade- students study the people & places in Connecticut. They look at early native-Americans in our
state and study the geography and history of the ‘nutmeg’ state. They complete a research project on a
famous person from ‘Our Fair State’.
Fourth
Grade
Unit 1:
Tales of the
Heart
Unit 2:
Literature
Settings,
Weather or
Not
Science
body
systems
weather
Social
Studies
N/A
sound (5.1)
CT
geography
Unit 3:
Animals Are
Characters,
Too:
Characters
Who Gallop,
Bark, and
Squeak
animal
habitats and
ecosystems
N/A
Unit 4:
Unit 5:
Revolutionaries Stories of
from the Past
the Earth
and Sky
Unit 6:
Literary
Heroes
N/A
solar system
N/A
American
Revolution
[option CT
Industrial Rev.]
N/A
famous CT
people and
places
CT gov’t
Fifth Grade
5th grade- again visits the influence of Native-Americans along with European-Americans and African-Americans in
our nation’s past. From there the students look at Colonial America & causes and results of the AmericanRevolution. A research project is completed on one of the 13 original American Colonies.
Fifth Grade
Unit 1:
Playing with
Words
Unit 2:
Renaissance
Thinking
Unit 3:
Clues to a
Culture
Science
electricity/
optics/
magnetism
(4.4 & 5.1)
erosion (4.3)/ N/A
environment/
survival of
organisms
Social
Studies
Art
Music
Wellness
exploration
inventions/
electricity/
optics/
magnetism
(5.4)
exploration
Colonial
America
Unit 4:
America in
Conflict
Civil War
Unit 5:
Exploration,
Real and
Imagined
habitats
Unit 6:
Coming of
Age
N/A
(The Great
Depression)
plant
structures
and
processes