Month

Content

Skills

Assessments

Resources

August

St. 1:1,2

1. Use information located in resources such as encyclopedias, timelines, visual images, atlases, maps, globes, and computer-based technologies. 2. Use   children’s   literature   to   compare   and   contrast   one’s   own   neighborhood/ community to others

Student participation in classroom discussion

Student behavior

Teacher observation of students in classroom and outside

Trade books

Living in Families

Computer – internet

United Streaming – computer

Weekly Reader

September

St. 2: 1-5

Standard 2: The   student   will   examine   neighborhoods/communities   from   a   spatial perspective. 1. Name,  identify  pictorial  examples,  and  describe  distinguishing  features  of  the  two basic areas in which people live: cities (urban) and the country (rural). 2. Place  objects  (e.g.,  on  a  map,  on  the  wall,  or  in  the  classroom)  and  describe  their locations using near/far, up/down, left/right, above/below and in front of/behind. 3. Construct  individually  and  with  other  students  maps  with  the  cardinal  directions (north = N, south = S, east = E, west = W) indicated, and identify locations on the map (e.g., school, playground, and classroom). 4. Locate the local neighborhood, community, the United States, bodies of water, and land masses (e.g., the four oceans and seven continents) using maps and globes. 5. Describe events and tell whether they belong in the past, present or future (e.g., place representations of events such as pictures, words, or phrases on a simple past, present, future timeline

Student participation in classroom discussion

Student behavior

Teacher observation of students in classroom and outside

Trade books

Living in Families

Computer – internet

United Streaming – computer

Weekly Reader

October

St. 3: 1-5

Standard 3: The student will analyze the human characteristics of communities. 1. Identify how choices in behavior and action are related to consequences and have an impact upon the student himself/herself and others.    2. Recognize and learn about patriotic traditions and activities (e.g., the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of the “Star-Spangled Banner”). 3. Identify  traditionally  patriotic  symbols  associated  with  the  United  States  (e.g.,  the flag, the bald eagle, and monuments). . Identify and write the names of the school, town/city, state, and nation. 5. Identify the events and people associated with commemorative holidays, such as Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, and Thanksgiving

Student participation in classroom discussion

Student behavior

Teacher observation of students in classroom and outside

Student participation in classroom discussion

Student behavior

Teacher observation of students in classroom and outside

November

St. 4: 1-3

Standard 4: The student will examine the interaction of the environment and the people of a community. 1. Identify the three basic needs of all people: food, clothing, shelter.   2. Recognize  that  people  in  different  parts  of  the  world  eat  different  foods,  dress differently,  speak  different  languages,  and  live  in  different  kinds  of  “houses”  (e.g., read  and  discuss  children’s  literature  that  has  characters  and  settings  in  other countries). 3. Describe   the   impact   of   physical   changes,   such   as   seasons,   on   people   in   the neighborhood  /community (e.g., how seasons affect what people eat and wear).

Student participation in classroom discussion

Student behavior

Teacher observation of students in classroom and outside

Student participation in classroom discussion

Student behavior

Teacher observation of students in classroom and outside

December

St. 5: 1,2

Standard 5:    The student will understand basic economic elements found in communities. 1. Describe  how  people  get  their  basic  needs  of  food,  clothing,  and  shelter  (e.g., make/grow their own, trade with others for what they need, and earn money to buy the things they need).   2. Identify  ways  people  in  the  neighborhood  /  community  earn  money  (e.g.,  match pictures or simple descriptions of work people do with the names of the jobs).

Student participation in classroom discussion

Student behavior

Teacher observation of students in classroom and outside

Student participation in classroom discussion

Student behavior

Teacher observation of students in classroom and outside