Kindergarten Social Studies Units
UNIT 1:
School and School Community: Citizens Understanding Civic Ideals and Practices
Essential Question:
What does it mean to be a member of a school community?
-Rules affect children and adults, and people make and change rules for many reasons.
School and School Community: Citizens Understanding Civic Ideals and Practices
Essential Question:
What does it mean to be a member of a school community?
-Rules affect children and adults, and people make and change rules for many reasons.
UNIT 2:
Self and Others: Individual Development and Cultural Identity
Essential Question:
How are people the same and different?
-Children, families, and communities exhibit cultural similarities and differences.
-Symbols and traditions help develop a shared culture and identity within the United States.
UNIT 3:
Geography, People and the Environment
Essential Question:
What makes a community?
-People and communities are affected by and adapt to their physical environment.
UNIT 4:
Families, Change and Time
Essential Question:
How are families the same and different?
-People have economic needs and wants. Goods and services can satisfy people’s wants. Scarcity is the condition of not being able to have all of the goods and services that a person wants or needs.
-The past, present and future describe points in time and help us examine and understand events.