Students will understand that just like we follow rules in our classroom and communities we follow rules about our technology. They will also learn the positive outcome of following a specific set of rules.

This lesson can be used and adapted to teach procedures for any device students are using. For example, in Kindergarten I would adapt and reuse this lesson to teach students how we use and care for our beebots, before completing beebot lessons.

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

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 gain an understanding that classroom rules exist to help people get along in a group and to keep people safe.

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 identify and demonstrate what being a good citizen involves.

This lesson is about creating a safe classroom community. It provides opportunities for students to gain skills in solving problems and communication. Coding is introduced as an option/follow-up.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the Kindergarten 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 Kindergarten 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 lesson, students are introduced to the Constitution. They have learned about rules at home and at school. Students will learn that our country also has rules set out by the Constitution.

In this lesson, students learn voting is a fair way for groups to make decisions. In the United States of America voting is a privilege and a responsibility of its citizens.

In this lesson, students explore the rules in their family, as well as who is responsible for ensuring the people in the family follow those rules.

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 explore the idea that they are interconnected to many larger communities (classroom, school, family, neighborhood, city, world, etc.) They will also explore the need for these communities to have systems in place where each person plays a role in making the systems function. We will specifically explore the need for, and create, systems that allow us to work, learn and play together in our kindergarten classroom. The creation of rules, jobs, and routines will be the core of this unit. Documenting and sharing these systems will be the product.

In this lesson, students learn the meaning of a law, why laws exist, and who makes laws.

Kindergarten students are encouraged to gain an increased awareness of themselves and the world around them in our entry level text in the series.

The Kindergarten text is meant to be explored visually by students like a traditional “big book”. Some teachers may also want their students to have a copy of the book as a digital text on an iPad, Chromebook, or other digital device. Either way, the way students interact with this book is different from other MI Open Book materials.

This chapter is all about history. In future grades students begin to learn about the history of our state, our country, and our world. In the early grades however, students learn about history through a much smaller lens. In first grade it’s about families.

You may be tempted to skip this short section. It is brief in comparison to previous chapters but it is ultimately one of the most important. Students have spent their entire class period up to this point exploring and learning more about foundational social studies concepts. This is the chapter that puts it all together.