Social Studies - 1st Grade (2024)
Lesson Plans

Strand 3: Civics

Students will analyze their role as citizens in a school and a community.

Compelling Questions:

• How do rules and laws affect your family, your school, and your community?
• What are the roles and responsibilities of citizens and government in your community?
• What makes someone a good leader?
• What purposes do symbols serve, and how can symbols unite a community?

Standard 1.3.2

Identify the ways that people can function as members of a school and/or community by sharing principles, goals, and traditions.

• Choices and Consequences
  This activity explores the concepts of "choices" and "consequences".
• Community Helpers
  This lesson will be focusing on community helpers. It is geared toward k-2. This lesson will help students understand the different community helpers around us and what their job is.  Citation for thumbnail image: Workers emoji. Workers emoji | Public domain vectors. (n.d.). Retrieved January 22, 2022, from https://publicdomainvectors.org/en/free-clipart/Workers-emoji/70005.html 
• Community Helpers
  This is a lesson for 1st grade as part of a unit about community helpers. Students will learn about community helpers through video, presentations, game, taking pictures and notes, and creating a video of what they've learned at the end of the unit. Image Citation:License: CC0 Public DomainPetr Kratochvil has released this ?Young Nurse? image under Public Domain license. It means that you can use and modify it for your personal and commercial projects. We obtained Model Release form for this image but please note that file must not be used in a way that places any person in the photo in a bad light or depicts them in a way that they may find offensive.
• Family Responsibilities
  This activity involves jobs families have to do around the house.
• Let's Party!
  Students will be motivated to reflect on family traditions and customs of celebrations. As they share these 'unique' practices discussion will bring to light the differences and similarities of families. Students are introduced to other celebrations from around the world as well as right here at home.
• School Workers Lesson Plan
  This resource is a lesson plan about identifying the role of people in the school (principal, librarian, secretary, custodian, bus driver, crossing guard, etc.) It includes a "Guess Who" gameshow Google Slides presentation, a document where students will take notes when conducting school worker interviews, and a school workers Google Slides presentation. The final project for the lesson is creating school worker videos using Adobe Spark. Lesson plan author: Sarah Rollins
• Traditions in Our Family
  This lesson gives the students an opportunity to see that every family has traditions they participate in throughout the year.
• Why Buzzard Is a Loner
  This lesson utilizes the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation (UIT) tale, ?Why Buzzard Is a Loner? to enhance comprehension skills, provide an introduction to the importance of personal hygiene and drama. Although some Native American Indian stories can only be told during the winter time, this story can be told any time of the year. The tale will be read aloud to the students who will then dramatize the story as it is read again. Then students will have a presentation from a health practitioner, school counselor or the school nurse on healthy teeth maintenance (i.e., brushing, flossing, rinsing, etc.)Extensions include learning more about birds in Utah and lessons that give more information about the Ute people. The cultural note states, ?Just as the birds in this story held a council meeting to decide how to deal with Buzzard. Ute people, to this day, have council meetings to discuss problems and solutions for their people. At these meetings, everyone has the right to express his or her opinion and be heard and listened to.? 

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