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Overarching Question:
How can people work together to create a
safe, positive and productive community?
Enduring Understandings:
We all share the responsibility
for creating a safe, positive, and productive community through:
Being
respectful and kind to others.
Expressing our
feelings and opinions in a considerate manner.
Honoring our
similarities and differences.
Establishing rules to keep people,
materials, and our environment safe.
Following The Golden Rule; treat others
as you want others to treat you.
Recognizing there are leaders in our community, school and
classroom,and that children can be leaders.
The leader of the United States
is called the president.
There are important American
symbols (the American flag, the National Anthem, The Pledge of Allegiance)
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Overarching Question:
Where am I?
Enduring Understandings:
We
use special words to identify the location of things.
We
can describe the features of a particular place.
Skills:
We
can name the location of where we live:
Street
address
Town
State
Country
We
can name our school.
Maps
and globes represent physical location and place.
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Overarching Question:
How does time affect people and places?
How does time affect me?
How
have people’s lives and places changed over time?
Enduring Understandings:
Time
can be described and measured.
People
and places change over time – physically and in other ways.
The
way most people live has changed over time. Some groups of people who have
lived much the same way for many years.
There
are many reasons why things change over time (ie migrations, inventions,
etc)
History
can be recent (last year) or long ago (thousands of years ago).
We
honor important events or people in our history with national holidays.
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Overarching Question:
How do people get what they want and need?
Enduring Understandings:
Within any community people have various
jobs, roles, and responsibilities. People work for a variety of reasons.
Goods and services can be bought,
sold, shared, traded or donated.
People rely on others for goods and
services.
Goods can be made, reused, or
recycled.
Money is used to buy things but
it cannot buy everything people want or need.
Some people do not have enough
money to buy the things they want or need.
When we take care of our
materials/resources, they last longer.
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