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Checklist for
Checks for Understanding
Textbook Resources:
Culture
Content Standard: 1.0
Culture encompasses similarities and
differences among people, including their beliefs, knowledge,
changes, values, and traditions. Students will explore these
elements of society to develop an appreciation and respect for
the variety of human cultures.
Learning Expectations:
Human culture
PowerPoint
- 1.02 Discuss cultures and human
patterns of places and regions of the world.
Human culture
PowerPoint
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1.03 Recognize the contributions of
individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, religious,
and socioeconomic groups to the development of
civilizations.
Myths From Around the World
Dorothy Telephones From the World
Greetings from Grover
Postcard Exchange
Happy Birthday Dr. King!
Kids Connect to the World
Video Nation: Pakistan Culture
Holidays Around the World
Cultural Diversity
Lessons:
Accomplishments
1.1.01 Understand the diversity of human
cultures.
Human culture
PowerPoint
- Recognize that culture is learned
behavior that includes customs, beliefs, rules, life ways,
language, food, and clothing,
- Recognize people learn customs from
their culture,
- explain the culture of the family and
community,
- Recognize people use diverse
languages to communicate with one another.
1.1.02 Discuss cultures and human patterns
of places and regions of the world.
Human culture
PowerPoint
- Define multiculturalism,
- Explain the culture of a place,
- Describe the importance of diverse
beliefs, customs, and traditions of families.
1.1.03 Recognize the contributions of
individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, religious, and
socioeconomic groups to the development of civilizations.
Human culture
PowerPoint
- Understand individual differences in
languages, beliefs, and customs that may be unique to one's
culture.
- Retell stories from diversely
selected folktales, myths, and legends.
Economics
Content Standard: 2.0
Globalization of the economy, the
explosion of population growth, technological changes and
international competition compel students to understand, both
personally and globally, the production, distribution, and
consumption of goods and services. Students will examine and
analyze economic concepts such as basic needs versus wants,
using versus/saving money, and policy making versus decision
making.
Learning Expectations:
- 2.01 Describe potential costs and
benefits of personal economic choices in a market economy.
Market
Economy with worksheets & assessments
Show Me the Money
Money Concepts Lesson: Snow Creations
How Do I Get What I Want and Need?
Market
Economy with worksheets & assessments
Workers, Needs,
and Wants PPT
Accomplishments
Market
Economy with worksheets & assessments
a. Recognize that workers who provide
services earn money to meet needs and wants.
Market
Economy with worksheets & assessments
b. Recognize that people advertise goods
and services through different forms of communication.
Market
Economy with worksheets & assessments
c. Identify how people exchange goods
and services.
Market
Economy with worksheets & assessments
d. Describe the requirements of various
jobs and the characteristics of a job well performed.
Market
Economy with worksheets & assessments
e. Describe how specialized jobs
contribute to the production of goods and services.
Market
Economy with worksheets & assessments
Workers, Needs, and
Wants PPT
a. Recognize that goods and services are
exchanged worldwide.
Market
Economy with worksheets & assessments
Workers, Needs, and
Wants PPT
b. Give examples of industries and the
resources needed to operate industries.
c. Identify examples of goods and
services in the home, school, and community.
Market
Economy with worksheets & assessments
Workers, Needs, and
Wants PPT
Market
Economy with worksheets & assessments
Workers, Needs, and
Wants PPT
a. Distinguish the difference between
goods and services.
Workers, Needs, and
Wants PPT
b. Differentiate between consumers and
producers.
Geography
Content Standard: 3.0
Geography enables the students to see,
understand and appreciate the web of relationships between
people, places, and environments. Students will use the
knowledge, skills, and understanding of concepts within the six
essential elements of geography: world in spatial terms, places
and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and
society, and the uses of geography.
Learning Expectations:
Universe Cycle
Using Maps and Globes
Maps
and Map Skills
Geography for Children
Interactive Globe
Interactive USA Map
Accomplishments
1.3.01 Understand how to use maps, globes,
and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to
acquire, process and report information from a spatial
perspective.
Globe
PowerPoint
Lesson:
Where in the world?
Lesson:
On the globe
Lesson:
Mapping around
(two part
lesson)
Map
PowerPoint
Lesson:
Yummy geography
- Recognize that maps and globes are
representations or models of specific places.
- Locate their home, neighborhood, and
school on a visual representation.
- Use map symbols and legends to
identify locations and directions.
- Interpret symbols that represent
various forms of geographic data and use these symbols to
identify locations and directions.
1.3.02 Recognize how to identify and
locate major physical and political features on maps and globes.
Lesson:
Mapping around
Lesson:
Yummy geography
a. Define what cardinal directions are.
b. Locate places using cardinal
directions on maps and globes.
c. Locate cities, states, countries, and continents on
maps and globes and major bodies water
on
maps and globes.
d. Describe the concept of human
features as in cities, buildings, farms, roads, and
railroads.
Earth
Materials unit plan (see also science and math
standards)
Nature vs. man
made
PPT
e. Locate and name the places in school
and the neighborhood.
f. Identify the geographic location of
the United States and Tennessee on a globe and a map.
g. Estimate distances such as from home
to school.
1.3.03 Demonstrate awareness of the
interaction between human and physical systems around the world.
a. Explain how land is used for
different tasks in the local area.
b. Define natural resources and explain
how people are dependent on them.
Earth
Materials unit plan (see also science and math
standards)
c. Compare and contrast natural and
artificial features of the earth.
d. Describe what weather is.
Earth
Materials unit plan (see also science and math
standards)
Nature vs. man
made
PPT
Weather Unit Plan with worksheets
Governance and Civics
Content Standard: 4.0
Governance establishes structures of power
and authority in order to provide order and stability. Civic
efficacy requires understanding rights and responsibilities,
ethical behavior, and the role of citizens within their
community, nation, and world.
Teaching Citizenship
Elections
State Unit Study: Tennesee
TN History
for Kids
Freedom
Day
Election
Learning Expectations:
Local Government Brainpop Jr video
Rights and Responsibilities Brainpopjr video
- 4.04 Recognize the qualities of a
contributing citizen in our participatory democracy.
Accomplishments
1.4.01 Discuss the purposes of governance.
President’s Brainpop video
Local Government Brainpopjr
video
- Recognize the United States
Constitution as the basis for the laws in our country.
President’s Brainpop video
- Categorize rules and laws we follow
as members of a family, school and community.
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Explain the purpose of government and
give examples of laws that establish order, provide
security, and control conflict.
Local Government Brainpop Jr
video
Rights and Responsibilities Brainpop jr video
1.4.02 Describe the United States and
Tennessee State Constitutions in principle and practice.
- Understand that community governments
employ various service workers.
Local Government Brainpop Jr
video
- Identify leaders in the community,
state, and nation.
- describe the relationship between
local, state, and national government.
1.4.03 Describe the rights,
responsibilities, and privileges of citizens living in a
democratic society.
- Define citizenship and
responsibility.
- Examine the rights and
responsibilities of the individual in relation to his or her
social group, such as family, peer group, and school class.
- Categorize responsibilities that
citizens have to their community, state, and country.
- Design a set of rules or laws for a
home, classroom, or community.
- Recognize family and school rules as
compared with those from another culture.
1.4.04 Recognize the knowledge, skills,
and attitudes necessary to become contributing citizens.
Rights and Responsibilities Brainpopjr video
- Recite and explain the meaning of the
Pledge of Allegiance.
- Understand that voting is a way of
making choices and decisions.
- Explain how selected customs,
symbols, and celebrations reflect an American love of
individualism and inventiveness.
U.S. symbols brainpopjr video
d. Explain selected national and state
patriotic symbols such as the United States and Tennessee
flags.
U.S. symbols brainpopjr video
History
Content Standard: 5.0
History involves people, events, and
issues. Students will evaluate evidence to develop comparative
and casual analyses, and to interpret primary sources. They will
construct sound historical arguments and perspectives on which
informed decisions in contemporary life can be based.
Learning Expectations:
History and Me
Black History
Women's History and Inventors
MLK Day
Presidents
Famous Americans
Famous Americans in History, Interactive Coloring Pages
Accomplishments
1.5.01 Identify major people, events, and
issues from Tennessee, United States, and world history.
- Recognize some early forms of
communication and how communication has changed over time.
- Recognize that other countries have a
longer history than the United States.
President’s Brainpop video
- Identify contributions of diverse
historical figures that have influenced the community,
state, and nation.
President’s Brainpop video
1.5.02 Understand the place of historical
events in the context of past, present, and future.
- Distinguish between the past,
present, and future.
- Recognize major events in American
history.
Individuals, Groups, and
Interactions
President’s Brainpop video
Content Standard: 6.0
Personal development and identity are
shaped by factors including culture, groups, and institutions.
Central to this development are exploration, identification, and
analysis of how individuals, and groups work independently and
cooperatively.
Learning Expectations:
Community Helpers
The Little Red Hen
Local Government Brainpopjr video
Accomplishments
1.6.01 Understand the impact of individual
and group decisions on citizens and communities.
- Work independently and cooperatively
to accomplish goals.
- Recognize individuals have
responsibilities to the group whether as a leader or as a
member.
- Recognize the importance of
individuals and families as part of neighborhoods.
1.6.02 Recognize how groups can impact
change at the local, state, national and world levels.
President’s Brainpop video
Local Government Brainpopjr video
- Describe the unique features of one's
nuclear and extended families.
- Give examples of the tension between
the wants and needs of individuals, and groups, and concepts
such as fairness, equity and justice.
- Recognize that cooperation is
necessary in working with a group to complete a task.
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