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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Social Studies — Kindergarten

Goal 3: The learner will recognize and understand the concept of change in various settings.

Objective 3.03. Observe and summarize changes within communities.

Additional related resources

We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.

General resources

Aligned lesson plans

First Americans of North Carolina and the United States
This lesson will use shared reading, center time, hands-on projects, and journal writing to help learners discover facts about first Americans, particularly those in the region that is today North Carolina, while at the same time developing their English language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Development and Social Studies)
By Adriane Moser.

Resources on the web

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
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
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
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