Social Studies Curriculum

Grade 1 - Unit 1

• Themes, Understandings And Overarching Essential Questions For This Unit
  
• Specific Essential Questions For This Unit
  
• By The End Of This Unit Students Should Know
  
• By The End Of This Unit Students Should Be Able To
  
• Enrichment Resources

Themes, Understandings And Overarching Essential Questions For This Unit

• Understanding:    American Government exists to help its citizens.
• Essential Question: What is the role of Government?

• Understanding: American citizens must be informed and involved in their government and communities.

• Essential Questions: How can I be a good citizen?  (What does it mean to be an American?)

Specific Essential Questions For This Unit

Theme 6: Power, Authority and Governance

• Why are rules and laws necessary?
• What symbols represent our school, Long Beach, and the United States?

Theme 7: Civil Ideals and Practices

• What are the rights and responsibilities as members of our classroom and school community?
• How can we be good citizens in school?

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Know

• Key Idea: Citizens develop rules and laws to govern and protect themselves.
• Vocabulary: citizen, citizenship, consequence, constitution, justice, liberty, nation, represent, republic, symbol

• Key Ideas: Good citizens know and respect the symbols of their community and country. It is important to respect ones self, others and the property of others.
• Vocabulary: allegiance, bully, indivisible, please, respect, responsibility, rights, rules

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Be Able To

• Participate in the drafting of a class constitution.
• Identify rules and laws of the school and classroom.
• Identify symbols of the USA, Long Beach and school and explain what they symbolize.

• Identify the rules of the classroom and school.
• Identify the consequences of breaking rules.
• Participate in the Pledge of Allegiance.
• Identify and correct bullying behaviors.
• Work well with others.

Enrichment Resources