(to establish order, provide security and accomplish common goals); give examples of services governments provide (e.g., police and fire protection and snow removal, garbage pick-up,) and identify how they pay for these services taxes). Third grade covers taxes I can identify services and explain the importance of the services the local government provides. SS-EP-2.3.2 Students will identify appropriate conflict resolution strategies (e.g., compromise, cooperation, communication). I can solve problems using positive problem solving strategies. Essential interactions Compromise Conflict Cooperation competition communication 9/1/2012 SS-EP-1.3.1 Students will define basic democratic ideas (e.g., liberty, justice, equality, rights, responsibility) and explain why they are important today. I can define and explain equality and its importance in our world today. Essential equality 9/1/2012 SS-EP-1.3.2 Students will identify and school and in the community (e.g., helping with chores, obeying rules, participating in community service projects such as recycling, conserving natural resources, donating food/supplies) and explain why civic engagement in the community is important. DOK 2 I can identify and give examples of good citizenship in the community I can give examples of the importance in participating in community service projects. Essential citizenship community community service donating recycling
Kindergarten/1st- Home and school 9/1/2012- 10/31/2012 SS-EP-4.1.1 Students will use geographic tools (e.g., maps, globes, mental maps, charts, graphs) to locate and describe familiar places at home, school and the community. I can use geographic tools such as maps, globes, charts and graphs, to locate and describe familiar places at home, school, and community. Essential Maps Globes Graphs Community 10/1/2012 SS-EP-4.1.2 Students will use geographic tools to identify major landforms (e.g., continents, mountain ranges), bodies of water (e.g., oceans, major rivers) and natural resources on Earth’s surface and use relative location. I can use geographic tools to identify major landforms, bodies of water and natural resources on surface. I can use geographic tools to identify relative location. Essential Landforms Mountains Rivers Oceans 10/1/2012 SS-EP-4.2.1 Students will describe places on surface by their physical characteristics (e.g., climate, landforms, bodies of I can describe places on Earth’s surface by their physical characteristics. Essential activities Physical characteristics 10/1/2012 SS-EP-5.2.1 Students will identify significant patriotic and historical songs, symbols, monuments/landmarks (e.g., The Star-Spangled Banner, the Underground Railroad, the Statue I can identify and explain the significance of patriotic and historic holidays. (President’s Day Martin Luther King Jr., Independence Day, Thanksgiving) Essential Holiday
of Liberty) and patriotic holidays (e.g., Veteran’s Day, Martin Luther King’s birthday, Fourth of July) and explain their historical significance. DOK 2 10/1/2012- 11/31/2012 SS-EP-4.1.3 Students will describe how different factors (e.g. rivers, mountains) influence where human activities are located in the community I can describe how rivers, mountains, and oceans in the community influence human activities. Condensed influence 11/1/2012 SS-EP-4.3.1 Students will describe patterns of human settlement in places and regions on the Earth’s surface. SS-EP-4.3.2 Students will describe how technology helps us move, settle and interact in the modern world. I can locate and describe patterns of how people settled in regions. I can describe how technology helps us move, settle, and interact in the modern world. Condensed Condensed Settle interact 11/1/2012 SS-EP-5.2.2 Students will identify and compare the early cultures of diverse groups of Native Americans (e.g., Northwest, Southwest, Plains, Eastern Woodlands) and explain why they settled in what is now the United States. DOK 2 I can identify and compare the early cultures of diverse groups of Native Americans. I can explain why Native Americans settled in what is now the United States. Essential Native Americans Artifacts Landforms
scarcity requires people to make economic choices and incur opportunity costs. DOK 2 3/1/2013 SS-EP-3.4.2 Students will describe how new knowledge, technology/tools, and specialization increases productivity in our community, state, nation and world. I can describe how technology has created jobs in the community. Important 4/1/2013- 5/20/2013 SS-EP-3.3.1 Students will define basic economic terms related to markets (e.g., market economy, markets, wants and needs, goods and services, profit, consumer, producer, supply and demand, barter, money, trade, advertising). DOK 2 SS-EP-3.3.2 Students will explain different ways I t people acquire goods and services (by trading/bartering goods and services for other goods and services or by using money). I can demonstrate bartering and explain the importance of bartering. I can explain how money and trade are used to acquire goods and services. Essential Condensed Goods Services Barter Money Trade 4/1/2013 SS-EP-3.4.3 Students will define interdependence and give examples of how people in our I can define interdependence and give examples of how people in our community, state, Condensed Interdependence
communities, states, nation and world depend on each other for goods and services nation and world depend on each other for goods and services. 5/1/2013 SS-EP-5.2.3 Students will describe change over time in communication, technology, transportation and education in the community I can describe change over time in communication, technology, transportation and education in the community. Important Communication Technology transportation 5/1/2013 SS-EP-3.2.1 Students will identify and give examples of economic institutions (banks) and explain how they help people deal with the problem of scarcity (e.g., loan money, save money) in today’s market economy. I can identify a bank and give examples of how a bank helps people. Condensed Banks Loan money Save money 5/1/2013 SS-EP-3.4.1 Students will define economic terms related to production, distribution and consumption (e.g., goods and services, wants and needs, supply and demand, specialization, entrepreneur) and describe various ways goods and services are distributed (e.g., by price, sharing equally). DOK 2 I can define basic economic terms related to production, distribution and consumption. (goods and services, wants and needs, supply and demand) I can describe various ways goods and services are distributed. (price, firstcome- first-served, sharing equally. Important Production Distribution Wants Needs Supply Demand Goods Services Specialization Community Nation State