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 learn that many problems occur as a natural part of our daily living and may be separated into physical and social problems.

In this lesson, students learn how laws help people and to help children understand that sometimes rules control us in ways we don't like.

In this lesson, students learn appropriate ways of handling anger in social situations through a five step plan.

When people live and work together, problems can occur. Classrooms and schools can have problems. A problem
is something difficult that needs to be solved. It can be hard to solve a problem because not everyone will agree on how to solve it.

Students create a poster to enter into a poster contest that educates others about issues surrounding bullying.

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.

Students will learn about the different items which are used by firefighters and the role they play in the community.

In this lesson, students will be able to clearly identify and understand the importance of authority figures and articulate their role in our lives.

Students will use the problem solving process to solve problems that typically occur at school on the playground and in the classroom. Students will explore a variety of common school problems and use various techniques to solve them. Supplemental resources for this lesson can be found as separate entries in the collection. They are identified as Our Classroom Community Problems: How Do We Solve Them? - Name of Resource."

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Our Classroom Community Problems: How Do We Solve Them?" It is an image of two students fighting that is to be used for student engagement in the lesson.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Our Classroom Community Problems: How Do We Solve Them?" It is a handout that outlines the steps in the problem-solving process.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Our Classroom Community Problems: How Do We Solve Them?" It is a handout outlining the steps in the problem-solving process.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Our Classroom Community Problems: How Do We Solve Them?" It is a song to be used as part of the lesson.

In this lesson, students listen to a read aloud of the story "Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy" by Jacky Davis and David Soman and identify the main themes of the story. Students will then create an illustration that shows how they have compromised with a friend on the playground.

In this lesson, students will be able to develop a poem that describes justice in their own words and expressively read aloud poems using modulated intonation and pacing.

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

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.