Second Grade Unit Six:
Being a Georgian Today
Sarah Blascovich Brown
Teacher on Assignment
What really matters in Unit Six?
• Chance to review all information
learned in second grade social
studies:
– Famous Georgians
– Geography of our state & its effect on
our lives
– Government leaders & places
– Economic concepts (scarcity,
opportunity cost, allocating goods &
services, barter, currency, making
spending & saving choices)
• How are our lives different today than
people lived in the past?
• Who is Jimmy Carter? Why is he
important to our state & country?
In addition:
*Think about reviewing
the Enduring
Understandings you
used to teach this year.
•Provide students with
opportunities to make
their own connections
to what they have
learned in social
studies.
Facts About President Carter
• Born in Plains
• Lived in Archery,
on his family’s
farm
• Served in the Navy
• Returned to Plains
• Active in local & state
government before
becoming President
• Began Carter Center & won
Nobel Peace Prize for its work
From the Unit Six Framework:
In addition, the Jimmy
Carter National Historic
Site in Plains has
produced a short video
discussing different
aspects of President
Carter’s life.
From the Unit Six Framework:
From the Unit Six Framework:
Chasing Jimmy Carter…
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Map_of_USA_with_state_names.svg/700pxMap_of_USA_with_state_names.svg.png
http://www.mapsofworld.com/images/world-map.jpg
Chasing Jimmy Carter…
Resources (Teacher Reference):
• The New Georgia Encyclopedia (Jimmy Carter):
http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h676&sug=y
• The New Georgia Encyclopedia (Carter Center):
http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h1959&sug=y
•
The New Georgia Encyclopedia (Carter Family):
http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h2735&hl=y
• The New Georgia Encyclopedia (Plains):
•
http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h3280&sug=y
The New Georgia Encyclopedia (Carter Library):
http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h2538&hl=y
Resources:
• Great Year-End Review Webquest:
http://www.kennesaw.edu/prism/A_Technology/Ayoola/Geor
gia_on_my_Mind_WebQuest.ppt
• JCNHS Education Program Home Page:
http://www.jimmycarter.info
• National Park Service JCNHS Website:
http://www.nps.gov/jica/
• Plains, GA’s Website:
http://www.plainsgeorgia.com
• Jimmy Carter Library & Museum:
http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov
{Virtual tour of Museum: http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/tour/}
Literature Resources:
Jimmy Carter
by: Laura Hamilton
Waxman
Jimmy Carter: 39th
President
by: Mike Venezia
The Little Baby
Snoogle-Fleejer
by: Jimmy Carter
Always a Reckoning
and Other Poems
by: Jimmy Carter
Literature Resources:
Mailing May
by: Michael Tunnell
http://www.kidseconpo
sters.com/keb/Title%2
0List%20Poster%20S
et%20A/Opportunity%
20Cost/Mailing%20Ma
y.htm
Tops and Bottoms
by: Janet Stevens
http://www.kidseconpo
sters.com/keb/Title%2
0List%20Poster%20S
et%20A/Opportunity%
20Cost/Tops%20and
%20Bottoms.htm
http://www.kidseconposters.com/k
eb/Literature%20Connection.htm
A Chair for My
Mother
by: Vera B.
Williams
http://www.kidsec
onposters.com/ke
b/Title%20List%20
Poster%20Set%2
0B/Saving/Chair%
20For%20My%20
Mother.htm
Uncle Jed’s
Barbershop
by: Margaree King
Mitchell
http://www.kidsecon
posters.com/keb/Titl
e%20List%20Poste
r%20Set%20B/Savi
ng/Uncle%20Jeds%
20Barbershop.htm
Teaching Unit Five:
Distribution of Power
Individuals, Groups, & Institutions:
Location
Scarcity
Time, Change, Continuity
Primary Sources
Fun Extras:
• Econ Songs:
– http://www.kidseconposters.com/econsongs.html
– http://www.econed.org/assets/EconSongs.pdf
• Looking to incorporate more authors into your
classroom?
– http://www.teachingbooks.net/
• Resources Recommended by Columbia County
Teachers:
– http://www.ccboe.net/learning/elementary/files/19
6D222C768A4FC891F932448E57F02C.pdf
• Virtual Tour of Plains, Georgia:
– http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/02/03/us/
20090203-plains-slideshow_index.html
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