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Overarching Question:
How can I be a responsible citizen?
Enduring Understandings:
Citizens in a community have both rights and responsibilities.
Responsible citizens show a variety of positive traits.
Rules are made so that everyone is treated fairly.
Major holidays are celebrated to remember certain important leaders
and events of the past.
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Overarching
Question:
Why do we need maps and globes?
Enduring Understandings:
A map is a representation of physical space.
Symbols and cardinal directions are used to determine where objects
and places are located on maps and globes.
The United States
and Massachusetts
can be identified by their physical shapes on maps and globes.
The locations of the capital cities of Washington
D.C. and Boston are identified on maps by specific
symbols
The seasons change in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Overarching
Question:
Why do we need to know about the past?
Enduring
Understandings:
Knowing about the past helps us to better understand our country
today.
Past and present times are different.
There is a sequence to events in history.
Major holidays are celebrated to remember certain important leaders
and events of the past.
The patriotic symbols have specific meanings.
The United
States of America has people with
different ethnic origins, customs, and traditions.
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Overarching
Question:
What are wants and needs?
Enduring Understandings:
Resources are limited.
People make choices because they can not have everything that they
want.
Goods and services satisfy people’s needs and wants.
We depend on others to meet our wants and needs.
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