Social Studies Curriculum

Grade 1 - Unit 2

• Themes, Understandings And Overarching Essential Questions For This Unit
  
• Specific Essential Questions For This Unit
  
• By The End Of This Unit Students Should Know
  
• By The End Of This Unit Students Should Be Able To
  
• Enrichment Resources

Themes, Understandings And Overarching Essential Questions For This Unit

• Understanding: All people are similar.  All people are different.
• Essential Question: How do our families explain who we are?  (How does culture explain who we are?)

• Understanding: All cultures and people have some things in common and
• some things that are different.
• Essential Questions: How are our families similar and different?  (How are we similar? How are we different?)

Specific Essential Questions For This Unit

• What makes a group a family?
• Why do humans need families?
• What are the roles and responsibilities of family members?

• How is my family similar different than others?
• How and why do families grow and change over time?

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Know

• Key Ideas: Families come in many types and sizes. Family members help one another. Family members have roles and responsibilities.
• Vocabulary: family, chores, contribute, culture, extended family, generation, household, teamwork

• Key Ideas: Families grow and change over time. Families are similar and different.
• Vocabulary: adoption, celebration, chance, custom, divorce, different, father, holiday, tradition, (step) brother, sister, mother, father

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Be Able To

• Identify and describe different types of families.
• Explain how different family members have different roles and responsibilities.
• Explain how members of a family help one another.

• Explain how families can and do change over time.
• Compare and contrast their family to others.

Enrichment Resources