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Everybody Has a Name
Everybody Has a Name
Everybody
Has a name.
Some are different,
Some, the same.
Some are short,
Some are long.
All are right,
None are wrong.
My name is _____,
It's special to me.
It's exactly who
I want to be!
~ Jean Warren |
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Enduring Understandings:
These are important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
- Chronology organizes people and
events and helps explain historical relationships.
- Societies are diverse and change over
time.
- Citizens have rights, roles, and responsibilities.
Essential Questions:
Following are the most important, “big picture” questions
students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
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How have I grown and
changed over time?
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How are we alike?
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How are we different?
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How am I unique?
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How am I
special?
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How do you show that
you care for other people?
District 11 curriculum is designed to prepare and equip students to be
successful in the 21st Century. Curriculum resources and lessons included
here have been aligned to the Colorado Standards for each content area. In
addition, the entire program has been aligned with the knowledge, skills,
and learner attributes the
Partnership for
21st Century Skills promotes as necessary for success in the 21st
Century. This unit addresses the colored core values below.
Standards
History 1:
Students understand the chronological organization of history and know how
to organize events and people into major eras to identify and explain
historical relationships.
Benchmark A: Students now the general chronological order of events
and people in history
History 3: Students understand that societies are diverse and change
over time.
Benchmark B: Students understand the history of social organization
in various societies.
Indicators
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Organize events and people in history
chronologically (time
lines, lists, sequencing).
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Describe cultural similarities, differences and
interactions among various groups in both past and present. |
Sample Lessons
Lessons 1-5: All About
Me-Time, Growing and Changing
Duration:
5 classes of 25-30 minutes.
Enduring Understanding:
Chronology
organizes people and events and helps explain historical relationships.
Essential
Question:
How have I
grown and changed over time?
Indicator: Students understand the chronological organization of
history and know how to organize events and people into major eras to
identify and explain historical relationships.
Assessment:
Have
students draw
pictures on a timeline (in the correct order) about their lives. Some ideas
to help get students started are their birth,
learning to walk, the first time they rode a bicycle, their first day of
school, when they lost a tooth, etc.
Activities
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Talk about ways of
organizing time-minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years-from
smallest units to largest.
After they understand
the smallest units to the largest, talk with them about about which of
the following they would put on a timeline; beginning/middle/end, and yesterday/today/tomorrow.
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Make a timeline of 5-6
events in student’s lives birth-Kindergarten.
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Make connections with
other content: Scholastic units or any other alphabet book; Cookie’s Week, by Cindy Ward; books by Laura J. Numeroff-put
events in order. For math connections you can use manipulative for numbers
focusing on 1-30.
Differentiation
Support: Recite the days of the week, and the months of the year.
Enrichment: Draw examples of events for beginning/middle/end;
yesterday/today/tomorrow to share with the rest of the class.
Resources:
Timelines, Cookie’s Week, by Cindy Ward; books by
Laura J. Numeroff-put events in order.
Math: manipulative for numbers.
Lessons 6-10: All About
Me-Alike and Different
Duration:
5 classes
of 25-30 minutes
Enduring
Understanding: Societies
are diverse and change over time.
Essential Questions:
How are we alike?
How are we
different?
How am I unique?
How am I special?
Standard History 3:
Students
understand that societies are diverse and change over time.
Assessment: Self
portrait-body tracing. Students talk about how drawings and features are
alike and different, and why.
Activities
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Watch
the video
Each of Us Is Different.
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Body
tracing-lay on a piece of
paper and have someone draw around you.
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Color the eyes,
hair; and clothes.
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Cut out the drawing.
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Discuss the 4
essential questions.
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Watch the video
All the Colors
of the Earth.
Record
students personal answers to the four essential questions and send home to
parents. This step is for parent awareness, and for students to have extra
time to review and learn the information.
Differentiation
Support: Pair
students to practice telling what color of eyes and hair they have. Have
students practice
reciting their personal information.
Extension: Social
Studies Alive! Lesson 1 Activity 1.6
Resources: Social Studies Alive!
Lesson 1; materials for body tracing.
Literacy Connection:
Scholastic Literacy Place, Unit 1 "Apples, peaches, pears and plums, tell me when your
birthday comes.”
Book: Chrysanthemum, by Kevin Henkes
Strategies for Teaching the Value of Diversity
Lessons 11-16: All About
Me-How I Look/How I Feel
Duration:
5-6
classes of 25-30 minutes
Enduring
Understanding: Societies
are diverse and change over time.
Essential Questions:
How are we alike?
How are we
different?
How am I unique?
How am I special?
Standard History 3: Students
understand that societies are diverse and change over time.
Assessment: Social Studies Alive!
Processing
Activity 1.7
Activities:
Social Studies Alive!
Lesson 1 Activity 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
Differentiation
Support: Pair students to complete activities.
Extension: Social Studies Alive! Lesson 1-any activity not
already used.
Resources: Social Studies Alive!
Lesson 1
Literacy Connection:
Scholastic Literacy Place,
Unit 1: Apples, peaches, pears and plums, tell me when your
birthday comes. Book: Chrysanthemum, by Kevin Henkes
and
suggested activities after reading Chrysanthemum |
Parents
This unit presents a perfect opportunity for
parents to sit down with their child to talk about rules at home and rules
at school, who has responsibility for making sure rules are followed and
what happens when they are not followed. You can also look through family albums,
share
family history with your child, and focus on family members accomplishments, traditions, and
memorable events. This will give your child a better understanding of how
your family is similar and different from other families. Focus your conversation on the Essential Questions listed
earlier on this page.
ABCs of Elementary Years: These
ABC Tips
are designed to help you support your child’s learning in social studies
during their years in elementary school.
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