SOCIAL STUDIES20–30 minEarly Learners (Ages 5-6)
What is a neighborhood?
Children create a neighborhood map and explore community through drawing and storytelling.
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SOCIAL STUDIES20 minPrimary Learners (Ages 7-9)
Needs, Wants, and Saving
Children progress at different rates based on interest and ability. Choose what works best for your child. Use these plans as a flexible guide. Many lessons are interdisciplinary, covering multiple content areas. Teach them as stand-alone activities or combine 4–5 into a weekly unit. Each plan is play-based and screen-minimal and builds social-emotional and higher-order thinking skills alongside academics.
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SOCIAL STUDIES25 minPrimary Learners (Ages 7-9)
Local Heroes & Historical Figures
Children progress at different rates based on interest and ability. Choose what works best for your child. Use these plans as a flexible guide. Many lessons are interdisciplinary, covering multiple content areas. Teach them as stand-alone activities or combine 4–5 into a weekly unit. Each plan is play-based and screen-minimal and builds social-emotional and higher-order thinking skills alongside academics.
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SOCIAL STUDIES15–20 minPrimary Learners (Ages 7-9)
Map My Community to the World
Children progress at different rates based on interest and ability. Choose what works best for your child. Use these plans as a flexible guide. Many lessons are interdisciplinary, covering multiple content areas. Teach them as stand-alone activities or combine 4–5 into a weekly unit. Each plan is play-based and screen-minimal and builds social-emotional and higher-order thinking skills alongside academics
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SOCIAL STUDIES15–20 minEarly Learners (Ages 5-6)
How-To Helper
Children progress at different rates based on interest and ability. Choose what works best for your child. Use these plans as a flexible guide. Many lessons are interdisciplinary, covering multiple content areas. Teach them as stand-alone activities or combine 4–5 into a weekly unit. Each plan is play-based and screen-minimal and builds social-emotional and higher-order thinking skills alongside academics.
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SOCIAL STUDIES15–20 minEarly Learners (Ages 5-6)
Neighborhood Map Maker
Help your child see their neighborhood through a mapmaker’s eyes. Children create a simple route map using symbols, a key, and direction words, then connect their drawing to the real places around them.
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SOCIAL STUDIES15–20 minEarly Learners (Ages 5-6)
Then and Now Our Family History
Travel through time by comparing childhood in the past with life today. Children talk with family members, explore changes and similarities across generations, and build an early understanding of past, present, and future.
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SOCIAL STUDIES15–20 minEarly Learners (Ages 5-6)
Community Jobs Match-Up
Explore the people and services that help a community work. Children sort community jobs into goods and services, match workers to their tools, and build appreciation for the many roles people play in everyday life.
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SOCIAL STUDIES15–20 minDiscoverers (Ages 3-4)
Map of My Bedroom
Children progress at different rates based on interest and ability. Choose what works best for your child. Use these plans as a flexible guide. Many lessons are interdisciplinary, covering multiple content areas. Teach them as stand-alone activities or combine 4–5 into a weekly unit. Each plan is play-based and screen-minimal and builds social-emotional and higher-order thinking skills alongside academics.
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SOCIAL STUDIES15–20 minDiscoverers (Ages 3-4)
My Family Helpers
Children progress at different rates based on interest and ability. Choose what works best for your child. Use these plans as a flexible guide. Many lessons are interdisciplinary, covering multiple content areas. Teach them as stand-alone activities or combine 4–5 into a weekly unit. Each plan is play-based and screen-minimal and builds social-emotional and higher-order thinking skills alongside academics.
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SOCIAL STUDIES30 minPrimary Learners (Ages 7-9)
Producers, consumers and our economy Lesson 2
Students will distinguish between producing and consuming. Students will identify ways people are both producers and consumers.
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SOCIAL STUDIES30 minPrimary Learners (Ages 7-9)
Producers, consumers and our economy Lesson 4
Identify ways of earning, spending, saving, and donating money. Create a budget.
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