This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 1st Grade Social Studies content. Within the folder you will access Parent Guide PDFs in FIVE Languages: Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Vietnamese to help on-going communication with caregivers. 

This resource accompanies our Rethink 1st Grade Social Studies Civics & Government unit. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.

In this unit, students learn about the authority figures in school and why they enforce rules.

In this lesson, students will create a video showing students following classroom and school rules and exhibiting proper student behavior.

Students are introduced to the Constitution. They learn how it came into being and how it ensures our freedom. Students look back at the rules they wrote in Unit 1 and relate those to the Constitution. They look at U.S. symbols and begin to learn about customs and celebrations.

In this lesson, students will evaluate a situation and identify right and wrong choices and any possible consequences associated with the situation.

See Objective 2, Standard 2 on this site After talking about rules and laws that people are expected to follow at home, at school and in the community give students the Rules and Laws Foldable (template provided). They will fold it in half the long way and then unfold the paper and cut along the dotted lines to the fold. They should now have a three flap book. Have students draw or write 3 rules or laws that they have to follow for each area (home, school, community). This assessment activity comes from the lesson plan Rules and Laws, but can also be used independent from that lesson plan.

In this lesson, students will develop an awareness of the Constitution and why we celebrate Constitution Day be exploring what it is and why it is important.

For this lesson, students participate in group discussions about learning, identify and agree on classroom goals and needs, and refer to established goals on a long-term basis in variety of ongoing classroom events and activities.

In this lesson, students listen to a story about David manages to fill each school day with trouble. Students learn how behavior does not always reflect understanding of civic skills and values.

In this lesson, students explore how they would react if their personal territory were threatened and discuss ways to resolve conflict.

This inquiry investigates the relationship between rules and values as well as the role that rules play in maintaining a civil society.

In this unit, students will build upon the concept that people are not free to do whatever they want, and that there are reasons for rules at home, in school, and in their community. Students need a strong foundation in Civics and Government to help them better understand their own community and their own lives. Building upon the concept that people are not free to do whatever they want. Concepts of power and authority are introduced as students identify examples of people using power with and without authority in the school setting.

In this lesson students learn about the need for rules. They identify rules, classify rules, and vote on rules for their classroom. They also learn about the positive and negative consequences associated with following or not following rules and about and how these consequences affect individuals, as well as the classroom community.

In this lesson students are introduced to the Constitution. They learn how it came into being and how it ensures our freedom. Students look back at the rules they wrote in Unit 1 and relate those to the Constitution. They look at U.S. symbols and begin to learn about customs and celebrations.

In this lesson, students are introduced to authority figures in the community who make and enforce rules. They come to understand that, just like home, the community has rules that provide order, security, and safety.

In this lesson, the students will use the problem-solving process to address common problems that arise in a kindergarten classroom and/or on the playground. The teacher will pose the problems and lead the students through the problem-solving process.

Students will use the problem-solving process to address common problems that arise in a kindergarten classroom and/or on the playground. The teacher will pose the problems and lead the students through the problem-solving process.

In order to become informed participants in a democracy, students must learn about the women and men who make decisions concerning their lives, their country, and the world. The President of the United States is one such leader. As a nation, we place no greater responsibility on any one individual than we do on the president. Through these lessons, students learn about the roles and responsibilities of the president and their own roles as citizens of a democracy.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 1st Grade Social Studies.