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1 | Resources Aligned to Standards and Guiding Questions from California's H/SS Framework | ||
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3 | Kindergarten: Living and Working Together Now and Long Ago | ||
4 | Standard / Topic | Framework Questions | Resources / Sources / Activities |
5 | Learning and Working Together K.1 Students understand that being a good citizen involves acting in certain ways. 1. Follow rules, such as sharing and taking turns, and know the consequences of breaking them. 2. Learn examples of honesty, courage, determination, individual responsibility, and patriotism in American and world history from stories and folklore. 3. Know beliefs and related behaviors of characters in stories from times past and understand the consequences of the characters' actions. | How can we learn and work together? | School Citizenship and Good Safety, Teaching California |
6 | What happens when we choose not to follow the rules? | Why do I have to Be Responsible, C3 Teachers | |
7 | Rules, C3 Teachers | ||
8 | Dreamers, YouTube | ||
9 | Sparkle Boy, YouTube | ||
10 | National and State Symbols K.2 Students recognize national and state symbols and icons such as the national and state flags, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty. | What does it mean to be an American? | What does it mean to be American, UCDHSSP |
11 | Ben's Guide Symbols | ||
12 | Work Now and Long Ago K.3 Students match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts. | How are our lives different from those who lived in the past? How are they the same? | Work Now and Long Ago, Teaching California |
13 | Geography of the Neighborhood K.4 Students compare and contrast the locations of people, places, and environments and describe their characteristics. 1. Determine the relative locations of objects using the terms near/far, left/right, and behind/in front. 2. Distinguish between land and water on maps and globes and locate general areas referenced in historical legends and stories. 3. Identify traffic symbols and map symbols (e.g., those for land, water, roads, cities). 4. Construct maps and models of neighborhoods, incorporating such structures as police and fire stations, airports, banks, hospitals, supermarkets, harbors, schools, homes, places of worship, and transportation lines. 5. Demonstrate familiarity with the school's layout, environs, and the jobs people do there. | What is our neighborhood like? | Photos by City |
14 | Google Earth | ||
15 | Neighborhood Map, National Geographic | ||
16 | Map or Globe, C3 Teachers | ||
17 | Time and Chronology K.5 Students put events in temporal order using a calendar, placing days, weeks, and months in proper order. | Constructing Timelines, Bringing History Home | |
18 | Reaching out to the Past K.6 Students understand that history relates to events, people, and places of other times. 1. Identify the purposes of, and the people and events honored in, commemorative holidays, including the human struggles that were the basis for the events (e.g., Thanksgiving, Independence Day, Washington's and Lincoln's Birthdays, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day). 2. Know the triumphs in American legends and historical accounts through the stories of such people as Pocahontas, George Washington, Booker T. Washington, Daniel Boone, and Benjamin Franklin. 3. Understand how people lived in earlier times and how their lives would be different today (e.g., getting water from a well, growing food, making clothing, having fun, forming organizations, living by rules and laws). | How are our lives different from those who lived in the past? How are they the same? | Some Things Change, EEI Curriculum |
19 | Holidays, C3 Teachers | ||