Students focus on specific tasks that have changed because of technology. They compare the task of writing and mailing a letter to the task of sending an e-mail.

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

Students learn how their family meets the needs of the members of that family.

In this unit, students will read several books by Kevin Henkes. Students will study the characters, retell the stories, and will compare and contrast the plots of the different stories written by Kevin Henkes.

Students learn about what makes a celebration. They brainstorm celebrations they have experienced and classify them into categories. Students focus on national holidays and learn about two holidays celebrated in our national community: Veterans Day and Independence Day.

Students learn about the ways that people modify their environment, along with positive and negative consequences of those changes.

Students learn about jobs in the classroom and how they contribute to the classroom and school community as they help meet the need of the entire class in moving to achieve the goals of the clas to ensure a safe and appropriate environment that will allow all students to learn.

Students will understand how their families are similar and different in respect to kinship, laws, and religion, as well as the music they enjoy, the clothing they wear, and the food they eat.

Students explore the customs and traditions celebrated in their own homes, as well as interview invited guests to learn about other customs and traditions.

Students learn about government services, such as libraries, police, firefighters, schools, and parks.

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 learn about government services, such as libraries, police, firefighters, schools, and parks.

In this lesson, students learn about the ways that people modify their environment, along with positive and negative consequences of those changes.

In this multiday lesson, kindergarten students learn about the physical characteristics of their community as an introduction to map skills. Students will partcipate in a variety of activities including a whole group discussion using a Powerpoint presentation, centers, a rebus story, and a neighborhood walk. This lesson includes clip art, a Powerpoint presentation, and student handouts.

In this lesson, students learn about the people in the school community, their jobs and job descriptions, and identify locations of those jobs within the school. Students also learn how these jobs contribute to meeting the needs of the school community.

In this lesson, students learn about jobs in the classroom and how they contribute to the classroom and school community as they help meet the needs of the entire class in moving to achieve the goals of the class – to ensure a safe and appropriate environment that will allow all students to learn.

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.

Lesson one sets the foundation for the students to understand how their families are similar and different in respect to kinship, laws, and religion, as well as the music they enjoy, the clothing they wear, and the food they eat.

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 explore the customs and traditions celebrated in their own homes, as well as interview invited guests to learn about other customs and traditions.