Week/

Month

Content

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

Performance Standards Addressed

Sept. - May

·         Current events

·         Government and citizenship

·         Become aware of place names and locations beyond our community

·         Recognize events, people, and places beyond our community

·         List several people and events that are part of our country’s history

·         Will recognize MN state symbols

·         Will describe national holidays

·         Class Activities

·         Weekly Reader or Scholastic News

·         Teacher observation

·         VIIB2

·         VIIB3

Sept. – Dec.

·         Agricultural goods and services

·         Recognize that many people are involved in food production

·         Recognize production process from farm to market or factory to store to consumer

·         Recognize that natural resources, human resources, and human made resources are used in production of goods and services

·         Class activities

·         Teacher Observation

·         Field Trips

·         VIB1

·         VIB2

Dec.

·         Christmas customs around the world

·         List several Christmas customs and countries they originated from

·         Recognize origins of some of their own family holiday celebrations

·         Develop appreciation of others and their culture

·         Use maps to locate other countries

·         Recognize similarities and differences in customs in various countries

·         Recognize similarities and differences in American celebrations past and present

·         Class activities

·         Writing activity

·         Family interview

 

·         VB6

Sept.-May

·         Use of Maps & Globe

·         Recognize large land areas as continents and water as oceans

·         Locate continents and oceans

·         Recognize globe as a model of earth

·         Recognize maps as pictures of earth from high above

·         Recognize and use map symbols and keys

·         Locate 4 cardinal directions on a map or globe

·         Use cardinal directions to help locate places on a map or globe

·         Locate our country on a world map and globe

·         Locate MN and Canby on a map

·         Use addresses to locate specific places

·         Class activities

·         Observation

·         Worksheets

·         Map Skills booklet

 

·         VA2

·         VA3

·         VB2

·         VB4

·         VB5

Feb.

·         Neighborhoods and Communities

·         Needs and Wants

·         Recognize similarities and differences in neighborhoods

·         Name the kind of neighborhood they live in and its traits

·         Recognize some of the many activities that can go on in a neighborhood

·         Describe several ways neighborhoods can change over time

·         Identify basic needs and wants

·         Recognize that people work to earn money for needs and wants

·         Class activities

·         Writing activity

 

 

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May

·         Community changes over time

·         Interview grandparents about their school experiences

·         Recognize differences in schools of grandparents time and today

·         List several differences in schools past to present

·         Develop a time line of school year

 

 

 

·         Venn diagram

·         Observation

·         Writing activities

·         Time line

·         IVA1

·         IVA2