1st Grade Social Studies Activities

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1	How can you help your community? Watch the read aloud. Helping Out is Cool (On Tumble Books) Draw a picture of how you can help out in your community. Label your drawing. Play the helping out is cool matching game. (On Tumble Books)	What can we learn by observing animals? Choose on of the explore livecams and observe animals from around the world. Draw what you observe and label your drawing. What do you notice about the animal? What do you notice? Return to the same webcam at a different time and/or a different day. What do you observe that is the same? What is different?
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3	Retell the Story* Use the following story elements to retell the story Zombies Don't Eat Veggies Who are the main characters? How do you know? What is the setting of the story or where does it take place? What happens in the story? What problem/s do the main characters have? How do they solve those problems? How does the story end? *Use the text provided or choose your favorite read aloud. Retelling is an important comprehension still for students still learning to decode. Read Alouds also model fluent reading for students.	What I am? Watch the video What I Am List out things that you are good at or love to do. Draw a self portrait of yourself and use one of the following sentence stems to write at least one sentence to go with your drawing. I can_____________. I am good at________. I like ______________.
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5	Is it a good idea to save money? Read or Listen to I Save Money. Share with a family members examples of why saving money is a good idea.	Do all Families Have Story? Watch the video The icing on the cake. Ask a family member to share a story about your family. Tell a family member a story you have about your family.
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7	Retell the Story* Use the following story elements to retell the story: As Fast As Words Can Fly. Who are the main characters? How do you know? What is the setting of the story or where does it take place? What happens in the story? What problem/s do the main characters have? How do they solve those problems? How does the story end? *Use the text provided or choose your favorite read aloud. Retelling is an important comprehension still for students still learning to decode. Read Alouds also model fluent reading for students.	Which foods are ripe in the Fall? Read or Listen to Fall Foods. Create a list of the foods that are ripe in the fall. Draw a picture of each food. Label your drawing. Share with a family member your favorite fall food.
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9	Character Traits What this video on Character Traits, then watch the Read Aloud Video: Grumpy Monkey Choose one character: What are their positive traits? Do they have any negative traits? Copy the graphic organizer on a piece of paper and use words and/or pictures to describe the character traits of the character you chose.	Past, Present & Futures Watch the video The Passage of Time Create a three column chart and label the colomns; Past, Present, Future Give students the following categorys one at a time; clothes, transportation, entertainment, food, hairstyles etc. Discuss with students how these categories have change from the past to the present and then have students predict how they might change in the future.
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