Rev 6/15/09

SOCIAL STUDIES
Standard 1 / Standard 1: Culture / KINDERGARTEN
GLE 1.01 Understand the diversity of human cultures.
GLE 1.02 Discuss cultures and human patterns of places and regions of the world.
GLE 1.03 Recognize the contributions of individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic groups to the development of civilizations.
Checks For Understanding (Measurable Objectives) / 9wks I D M / Materials, Resources, Activities / TN ACADEMIC
VOCABULARY
K.1.01 Understand the diversity of human cultures.
  1. Identify personal attributes, such as physical characteristics, that are common to all people such as physical characteristics.
  2. Identify differences among people.
  3. Recognize how individuals learn to do skills and customs from their culture.
  4. Recognize all cultures have family units where decisions are made.
K.1.02 Discuss cultures and human patterns of places and regions of the world.
  1. Understand that some differences among people are a result of their culture.
  2. Identify similarities and differences in food, clothes, homes, games, and families in different cultures.
  3. Explain how means of transportation may be diversified in different cultures in response to the environment.
  4. Compare family customs and traditions among cultures.
  5. Describe customs of the local community.
K.1.03 Recognize the contributions that individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic groups have made to the development of civilizations.
  1. Recognize contributions of different cultures around the world.
  2. Explain the value of family traditions and customs.
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3 / All About Me – self-portrait
Graphing physical attributes (Saxon Math)
Multicultural literature
Guest speakers
Multi-lingual songs/books
Pilgrim/Native Americans/Holiday traditions
Symbols (ex., Native America symbols)
Miss Bendergarten Takes a Field Trip: Community Field Trips
folk tales, MLK Day, President’s Day, themed units
DIFFERENTIATION STRATEGIES
Reinforcement/Remediation / Acceleration/Extensions
ASSESSMENT
Classroom Assessments
TEACHER NOTES
SOCIAL STUDIES
Standard 2 / Standard 2:Economics / KINDERGARTEN
GLE 2.01 Describe potential costs and benefits of personal economic choices in a market economy.
GLE 2.02 Give examples of the interaction of businesses and governments in a market economy.
GLE 2.03 Understand fundamental economic concepts.
Checks For Understanding (Measurable Objectives) / 9wks I D M / Materials, Resources, Activities / TN ACADEMIC
VOCABULARY
K.2.01 Describe potential costs and benefits of personal economic choices in a market economy.
  1. Identify basic human needs.
  2. Explain how basic human needs of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation are met.
  3. Understand that people create shelter according to both culture and environment.
K.2.02 Give examples of the interaction of businesses and governments in a market economy.
  1. Recognize how jobs are similar and different from one community to another.
  2. Identify jobs in the home, and school.
K.2.03 Understand fundamental economic concepts.
  1. Explain why people have jobs.
  2. Distinguish between needs and wants.
  3. Recognize that all jobs are significant and realize that some jobs are interdependent.
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1 / All About Me Unit: “Where do you live?” “The Three Little Pigs”
Community speakers (helpers), “What I want to be when I grow up.”
DIFFERENTIATION STRATEGIES
Reinforcement/Remediation / Acceleration/Extensions
ASSESSMENT
Classroom Assessments
TEACHER NOTES
SOCIAL STUDIES
Standard 3 / Standard 3: Geography / KINDERGARTEN
GLE 3.01 Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective.
GLE 3.02 Recognize the interaction between human and physical systems around the world.
GLE 3.03 Demonstrate how to identify and locate major physical and political features on globes and maps.
Checks For Understanding (Measurable Objectives) / 9wks I D M / Materials, Resources, Activities / TN ACADEMIC
VOCABULARY
K.3.01 Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective.
  1. Explain what a globe and map represent.
  2. Use personal directions such as up, down, left, right, near and far to describe relative direction.
  3. Locate places in community such as the student's home and the classroom on the campus.
K.3.02 Recognize the interaction between human and physical systems around the world.
  1. Identify the human characteristics of places such as types of houses and ways of earning a living.
  2. Describe how weather impacts every daily life.
  3. Describe seasons.
K.3.03 Demonstrate how to identify and locate major physical and political features on globes and maps.
  1. Identify the concept of physical features as in mountains, plains, hills, oceans, and islands.
  2. Describe how landforms and bodies of water influence where and how people live.
  3. Describe personal connections to place, especially place as associated with immediate surroundings.
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ongoing / Share a globe/map
X marks the spot game
Columbus map
Pilgrims map
Mother Gooney Bird song
Use these words when giving directions
Weather bear, graph weather
Seasons of Apple Tree, Weather Bear
Picture cards, “Virtual” field trip
DIFFERENTIATION STRATEGIES
Reinforcement/Remediation / Acceleration/Extensions
ASSESSMENT
Classroom Assessments
TEACHER NOTES
SOCIAL STUDIES
Standard 4 / Standard 4: Governance and Civics / KINDERGARTEN
GLE 4.01 Discuss the structure and purposes of governance.
GLE 4.02 Describe the Constitution of the United States and the Tennessee State Constitution in principle and practice.
GLE 4.03 Understand the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of citizens living in a democratic republic.
GLE 4.04 Recognize the qualities of a contributing citizen in our participatory democracy.
Checks For Understanding (Measurable Objectives) / 9wks I D M / Materials, Resources, Activities / TN ACADEMIC
VOCABULARY
K.4.01 Discuss the structure and purposes of governance.
  1. Recognize that a person is a citizen of the country in which he/she is born.
  2. Understand that rules are created to protect an environment.
  3. Know that family structures can change.
  4. Identify authority figures in the home, school, and community.
  5. Explain how authority figures make and enforce rules.
  6. Explain the use of voting as a method for group decision-making.
K.4.02 Describe the Constitution of the United States and the Tennessee State Constitution in principle and practice.
  1. Recognize the need for rules for daily living and fair treatment of others.
  2. Identify purposes for having rules.
  3. Be aware that laws and rules are followed and created by the people, school, community, and country.
K.4.03 Understand the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of citizens living in a democratic republic.
  1. Know rules of safety including signs and signals.
  2. Define cooperation.
K.4.04 Recognize the qualities of a contributing citizen in our participatory democracy.
  1. Identify the flags of the United States and Tennessee.
  2. Recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
  3. Explain the reasons for national patriotic holidays such as President's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and Independence Day.
/ ongoing / Units: All About Me, President’s Day
Community Helpers
All About Me, Christmas
All About Me, Christmas
DIFFERENTIATION STRATEGIES
Reinforcement/Remediation / Acceleration/Extensions
ASSESSMENT
Classroom Assessments
TEACHER NOTES
SOCIAL STUDIES
Standard 5 / Standard 5: History / KINDERGARTEN
GLE 5.01 Identify major events, people, and patterns in Tennessee, United States, and world history.
GLE 5.02 Understand the place of historical events in the context of past, present, and future.
GLE 5.03 Explain how to use historical information acquired from a variety of sources.
Checks For Understanding (Measurable Objectives) / 9wks I D M / Materials, Resources, Activities / TN ACADEMIC
VOCABULARY
K.5.01 Identify major events, people, and patterns Tennessee, United States, and world history.
  1. Define history as the story of our past.
  2. Recall events in the past and present in order to recognize that individuals have a personal history.
K.5.02 Understand the place of historical events in the context of past, present, and future.
  1. Recognize that change occurs over time.
  2. Observe how sites in neighborhoods and communities change over time.
K.5.03 Explain how to use historical information acquired from a variety of sources.
  1. Recognize that each family has a family tree.
  2. Recall family stories and celebrations to develop a personal history.
  3. Illustrate a family history to demonstrate that every family has a heritage.
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Thanksgiving Unit
Units: Tennessee, All About Me, Thanksgiving, President’s Day
Community Helpers
All About Me, Christmas
DIFFERENTIATION STRATEGIES
Reinforcement/Remediation / Acceleration/Extensions
ASSESSMENT
Classroom Assessments
TEACHER NOTES
SOCIAL STUDIES
Standard 6 / Standard 6: Individuals, Groups, and Interactions / KINDERGARTEN
GLE 6.01 Recognize the impact of individual and group decisions on citizens and communities.
GLE 6.02 Understand how groups can impact change at the local, state, national, and world levels.
Checks For Understanding (Measurable Objectives) / 9wks I D M / Materials, Resources, Activities / TN ACADEMIC
VOCABULARY
K.6.01 Recognize the impact of individual and group decisions on citizens and communities.
  1. Describe how individuals meet their needs and wants through different means.
  2. Know that individuals choose jobs that impact their lives, families and communities.
  3. Explain that people learn in the context of families, peers, schools, and communities.
  4. Give examples of how learning and physical development affect behavior.
  5. Explain the consequences of an individual's decisions and actions.
K.6.02 Understand how groups can impact change at the local, state, national, and world levels.
  1. Recognize individuals have a space or develop an understanding of space and spatial relationships.
  2. Understand that cooperation is necessary when working within large and smallgroups to complete tasks.
  3. Work independently and cooperatively to accomplish goals.
  4. Describe how groups are made up of people who work, play, or learn together and share common interests
/ Community helpers, field trips, fire stations, police department, post office, etc.
Community helpers dictionary
Classroom rules, All About Me, Feelings, Emotions
All About Me
DIFFERENTIATION STRATEGIES
Reinforcement/Remediation / Acceleration/Extensions
ASSESSMENT
Classroom Assessments
TEACHER NOTES