Students create a news story about a local citizen who exhibits good citizenship.

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.

Students develop an understanding of how good citizens acting alone or working together can improve the community and help other people.

Students will learn about the concepts of work, choice, spend, earn, and save.

Students examine events, people, causes and effects relevant to the Civil Rights Movement through primary sources, graphic organizers, research and presentations.

Students examine economic patterns of colonial America. Students make connections between industries, available resources in the area, and their impact on how people make a living. The development of a free enterprise market economy is also explored.

This lesson investigates where and why the English colonists settled in America. The lesson also looks at leaders who had an impact on the development of the colonies and their reasons for founding the colonies.

Students learn about community celebrations and their importance to a community's culture heritage. Students compare different celebrations, including place, time, purpose, history, food and drinks, activities, and other important ideas associated with culture.

In this lesson, students learn about people, important events, and natural disasters that have contributed most to influencing change in our communities.
Focus is on Benjamin Banneker, Pierre Charles La'Enfant, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Christopher Columbus and Daniel Boone. They also study local people who have changed the local community. Students consider which changes are still having the most influence in the community today.

This lesson deals with events that led to the creation of a new type of government in the United States changing from the Articles of Confederation to the designing, writing, and ratification of the United States Constitution. These events created a government that had never been tried before.

Students focus on cultural characteristics, cultural events, and celebrations of the community. Students gather information on the local community.

Students identify a globe as a model of the Earth. They interact with maps and globes to locate land masses (continents) and oceans.

Students gain an understanding that families have similarities and differences and that members of families share the customs and traditions unique to their family.

Students learn about the Declaration of Independence and about the term “consent of the governed” as well a
its relationship to the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Students also learn about several Founding Fathers, including Benjamin Franklin, and their contributions to communities that have influenced history.

Students learn about the Declaration of Independence and the term "consent of the governed" as well as its relationship to the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Students also learn about several Founding Fathers, including Benjamin Franklin, and their contributions to communities that have influenced history.

Students will look at many of the responsibilities of good citizens, one of which is voting.

Students learn about the governing systems that developed in the colonies. Systems of government are compared, particularly those that are representative of the people and those that ruled without the consent of the people, including the monarchy.

Students learn about how public officials are selected, including election and appointment. Students also learn about and compare the roles of mayor, governor, and president along with learning who our current government leaders are.

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 gain an understanding that families have similarities and differences and that members of families share the customs and traditions unique to their family.