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Social Studies — Grade 1
Goal 3, Objective 3.03
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- Children and families in North Carolina
- In this lesson plan, elementary students will analyze photographs of children from North Carolina provided by the Green āNā Growing collection from the Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University. They will investigate how individuals and families are similar and different, and to begin to acquire an understanding of change over time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
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- Your changing town
- In this Xpeditions lesson, students discuss the reasons why cities change over time and investigate how their own town has changed. Students conclude by drawing pictures of the town's past and present. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- Xpeditions express: City scavenger hunt
- Students take a virtual trip on National Geographic's Xpeditions Express through Europe to the cities of London, Paris, Innsbruck, Venice, Budapest, and Istanbul. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- Where in the U.S. would you want to live?
- This Xpeditions lesson challenges students to think about why objects, in the classroom and in their community, are placed where they are, and how their placement affects our daily lives. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- Traditions and Languages of Three Native Cultures: Tlingit, Lakota, and Cherokee
- Students learn about the environment, history, language, and culture of the Tlingit, Lakota, and Cherokee. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Then and Now: Life in Early America, 1740-1840
- Students use archival materials, re-creations, and classroom activities in order to consider which aspects of everyday life have changed and which have stayed the same in the last 200 years. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–3 Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Reading, writing and 'rithmetic in the one-room schoolhouse
- This lesson focuses on the universal experience of attending school, using original photographs to give students a vivid impression of how American children received an education a hundred years ago. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
- My piece of history
- Students examine pictures of household objects from the late 20th century, gather historical information about them from older family members, and then create an in-class exhibit of historical objects from their own homes. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Marco Polo takes a trip
- Students learn about the travels of Venetian adventurer Marco Polo. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Immigrating to America
- Students learn about what it was like for new immigrants to come through Ellis Island at the turn of the century. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–4 Social Studies)
- Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- How do you like a crowd?
- Students consider what it's like to be in heavily and sparsely populated places. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- Geo-generations
- In this Xpeditions activity, students create a Geo-Generations Scrapbook that charts where members of their family have lived and tells what those places were like. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies)
- Provided by: Xpeditions
- The Chesapeake Bay Watershed: A timeline of change, a model for change
- In this Xpeditions lesson, students conduct research on the Chesapeake Bay, from Captain John Smith's explorations of Native American settlements in the early seventeenth century to the present, and examine how these changes over time can help people better... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic