How Do Families Remember Their Past? (2.1)
Teachers should avoid assuming this about their students' home lives.
What is a particular family structure?
Stories that are made up but based on historical events are called this.
What is historical fiction?
This type of chart can help students visualize how different workers in the food industry are connected.
What is a graphic organizer or flowchart?
At the end of the year, students give a basic description of this system that helps organize society.
What is government?
She is known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" for her role in fighting segregation.
Who is Rosa Parks?
When asking questions about families, teachers should make sure to include children from these kinds of backgrounds.
What are diverse family backgrounds?
This geographic theme is explored when we study why people move from one place to another.
What is movement?
Standard 2.4 helps students develop this type of literacy, which relates to money and resources.
What is economic literacy?
Teachers can use this kind of activity to help students understand how the three branches of government work.
What is a classroom simulation?
Known as "The Lady with the Lamp," she revolutionized nursing during the Crimean War and improved hospital sanitation.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Students can engage in this type of thinking by constructing timelines of things relevant to them, such as their daily schedule or their family history.
What is chronological thinking?
A student would be engaging in HSS Standard 2.2.2 if they did this activity, given a simple map of the North American continent.
What is labeling basic geographic features?
This is the result of the different ways Californians use land depending on where they live and how they use it.
What is environmental impact?
School and playground rules can be used as an analogy for explaining this concept and its importance in government.
What are laws?
Discussion of this historical figure in the context of the Emancipation Proclamation and U.S. coins would be a great way approach social studies and math from an interdisciplinary angle.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?