What is a Citizen?
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Essential Questions:
I can create rules for my classroom.
I can explain how rules help everyone learn.
I can describe how rules and laws help our community.
I can describe rights and responsibilities of citizens.
I can solve problems with my first grade friends.
I can help make my community a better place to live.
I can identify and explain information in text, pictures,
titles and charts. (CA)
Transfer Goals:
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Why are rules important?
How can I be a good citizen?
Why is it important to be a good citizen?
Enduring Understandings:
 Rules and responsibilities are important.
 Rules influence choices made in the classroom, school,
neighborhood and community.
 Peaceful resolutions can be proposed to solve conflicts.
Essential Vocabulary:
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Citizen
Rules
Constitution
Rights
Responsibility
Families Now and Long Ago
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I can talk about the different types of families.
I can explain why my family is special.
I can explain how people today and long ago have many
of the same needs (physical, social, emotional).
I can use artifacts* (primary and secondary sources) to
learn about other people now and long ago.
I can make a picture graph and a bar graph to represent
Essential Questions:
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How are families special?
How was life in the early days of our country similar and
different than it is now?
Why did people come to America long ago?
How are the needs of people long ago the same as the
needs of people today?
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data. (MA)
I can identify and explain information in text, pictures,
titles and charts. (CA)
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Transfer Goals:
Each person and family is special.
Native Americans were the first Americans.
Native Americans have a unique culture.
Immigrants to the United States have unique cultures and
traditions.
People who settle in a new land face many challenges.
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Artifact –
Country
Native American
Community
Mayflower
Thanksgiving
Plymouth
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body of water
country
direction
housing
ocean
Native American
United States
responsibility
community
settlers
past
present
future
Mayflower
Thanksgiving
religion
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Plymouth
immigrants
Squanto
Wampanoags
history
Pilgrims
settlement
This is Our Country
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I can identify symbols of the United States and explain
why they are important.
o The Statue of Liberty
o The White House
o Bald Eagle
o The United States Flag
I can explain why Washington D.C. is an important city in
the United States.
I can explain why George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are important.
I can use artifacts* (primary and secondary sources) to
learn about other people now and long ago.
I can identify and explain information in text, pictures,
titles and charts. (CA)
Transfer Goals:
Essential Questions:
 What national symbols and famous Americans are special to the
United States?
 Why do we have symbols for our country?
Enduring Understandings:
National symbols and famous Americans are important to the United States.
Essential Vocabulary:
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body of water
ommunity
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country
direction
symbol
ocean
state
election
leader
White House
America
Washington, D.C.
Bald Eagle
Liberty Bell
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The American Flag
National Anthem
United States
Statue of Liberty
President
American
Location! Location!
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I can read a map.
I can use a compass rose to point out cardinal directions
(north, south, east and west).
I can find a place on the map and describe its location.
I can identify and explain information in text, pictures,
titles and charts. (CA)
Essential Questions:
 What is a map?
 How does a compass rose assist students in locating and describing
the location of a place on a map?
 How do you read a map?
 What are the uses of a map?
 Where do we live?
Enduring Understandings:
 Students will gain an understanding of their place in the world relative
to the map and globe skills.
Transfer Goals:
Essential Vocabulary:
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United States
hill
housing
direction
mountain
continent
ocean
river
state
symbol
South
East
West
North
Cardinal Directions
Geography
Compass Rose
Compass
Producers and Consumers
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Essential Questions:
I can describe goods and services.
I can describe producers and consumers.
I can identify and explain information in text, pictures,
titles and charts. (CA)
 What is a producer?
 What is a consumer?
 What is a good?
 What is a service?
Enduring Understandings:
 Goods and service are an important part of our everyday life.
 Producers and consumers have an important relationship
Transfer Goals:
Essential Vocabulary:
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goods
service
producers
consumers
economics
responsibility
community
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Human resources
Natural resources
scarcity (reinforce from Kindergarten)
opportunity cost (reinforce from Kindergarten)
needs (reinforce from Kindergarten)
wants (reinforce from Kindergarten)
Community Actions
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Essential Questions:
I can help make my community a better place to live.
 How can we make a difference in our school, community, country and
world?
Enduring Understandings:
 It is important to contribute to your school, community, country and
world.
Transfer Goals:
Essential Vocabulary:
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service
giving
service-learning
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community