Community
(Kindergarten)
Relationships/Characters (1st Grade)
Change/Individuality (2nd Grade & 3rd Grade)
Choice /Perspective (3rd Grade)
Perspective (4th & 5th Grade)
100
A community is a group of people with common goals.
What makes a group a community?
100
People and things are connected through relationships.
How are people and things connected?
100
Change is everywhere.
Where is change?
100
People choose/make choices.
Why do things happen (or not)?
100
People have different perspectives.
Why doesn't everyone agree?
200
We share goals, ideas, feeling and experiences.
What makes "us" a community?
200
There are many kinds of relationships (eg., friendships, teacher-learner, parent/caregiver-child.)
What do relationships "look like?
200
Change can be positive or negative.
What are responses to change?
200
People make choices by indentifying and thinking about options. Choices can be easy or hard.
How do people choose? (How do they decide?)
200
Perspective is shaped by experience.
What shapes/influences perspective?(Why are there different perspectives?)
300
I am part of many communities (ie.,classroom, school, family, religious, town).
What communities am I a part of?
300
Time, choice and situation create and change relationsips
Where do relationships "come from" and how/when do they change?
300
I am an individual apart from "us" I am and indivudual, even within 'us."
Who am I when it come to "us"?
300
Choice can have positive or negative outcomes and choices can create or prevent change.
Do choices matter?
300
Perspective changes with experience, knowledge, time and/ or age.
When/why does perspective change?
400
Everyone in the community has responsibilities/jobs.
How do communities "work" and grow?
400
Character is "who" an individual is "inside".
What is a "character"?
400
Individuality changes with setting, experiece and time.
How and when does who I am change?
400
Perspective is a lens for "seeing" people, ideas, and events.
What is perspective?
400
Considering other perspectives challenges existing ideas and assumptions.
Why consider/think about different perspectives?
500
Communities solve problems in many ways (e.g.,compromise, voting, creating or changing rules/goals.)
How do communities solve problems?
500
By what they say, or does reveals/shows his/her character.
How can someone tell whether someone is brave?
500
Similarities and differences can connect people/us or separate them.
Do people's similarities and differences matter?
500
Who people are and what they have experienced shapes their perspective.
What shapes perspective?
500
Deciding which perspective is "right" requires evaluating and understanding each perspective.
Which/whose perspective is "right"--and how do I decide?/Is there a "right" perspective--and how do I decide?