In this unit, students will learn about plants/trees and will inquire about the ways all living things need plants. Students speak from the point of view of animal and will persuade someone not to cut down their tree.
Students will analyze primary source images of Native Americans interacting with the environment. The images show different aspects of how Native Americans dressed, hunted, and lived.
Students identify items presented to them as needs and wants and create a collage of images. The lesson is located on pages 3-6 of the pdf.
In this lesson, students learn about historical uses of forest resources. Students begin by recalling products of forest origin while playing Hot Pine Cone. Next, the class explores forest resources used to create products of the past, while relating them to present-day goods. To conclude, students examine real forest products and draw a picture of one they use every day.
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 Geography 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 learn what it means to value something. The class is also introduced to specific reasons we value forests by searching Tree Spy collages and looking at the number of products that originate in forests. The lesson concludes with the class singing a song about forest values.
This lesson will focus on how to sculpt a functional object in clay. By sculpting a cup, students will learn routines for working with clay and strategies to create a successful sculpted object. They will also learn that people long ago in Guatemala used similar cups to drink hot chocolate. Essential question asked:
How can we use clay to create a usable object?
Students specify a need and a want.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for Kindergarten Social Studies.
Students specify the difference between a need and a want using the Pilgrims' trip on the Mayflower as a starting point.
In this lesson, students learn that we have needs and wants and how they those needs are met.
In this lesson, students will learn about weather by taking walks in various types conditions: sunny, rainy, windy and snowy.
Students learn what they would need to pack for a trip to outer space, how to survive in outer space, and why recycling is important.