Social Studies Alive! Me and My World Lesson Activities by Teachers' Curriculum Institute (TCI)

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Lesson 1

Who Am I?

Lesson 1 Who Am I?

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Use facial expressions to guess how someone might be feeling in different situations.

Directions: Exploring Feelings 1. Read Sections 1 and 2. Learn about being special and caring. 2. Find out how you are feeling right now. Close your eyes. Take three deep breaths. How do you feel? 3. Think of more feelings you can name. Try to show them with your face. 4. Practice showing feelings together. Your teacher will say a feeling and then count to three. On the count of three, show what the feeling looks like. 5. Meet Lorena and then play a game. For each image, guess how Lorena is feeling. Then find out! 6. Read Sections 3 and 4. Learn about feelings and doing things. Then complete your activity notes.

Lesson 1 Who Am I?

Lesson 2

What Is a Family?

Lesson 2 What Is a Family?

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Match cultural objects to family traditions during six holidays: Independence Day, Chinese New Year, Thanksgiving, Divali, Christmas, and Day of the Dead.

Directions: Discovering Traditions 1. Read Sections 1–4. Learn about families. 2. You and your partner will be given an object. It is used by one of the families during their holiday celebration. 3. Then, as a class, we will visit six families. Does your object match with the family’s tradition? 4. If you think you have a match, jump up to the screen and explain why. Give evidence. 5. Read Sections 5–7. Learn about other traditions!

Lesson 2 What Is a Family?

Lesson 3

How Is Our Life Different from Long Ago?

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Lesson 3 How Is Our Life Different from Long Ago?

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Predict what will happen in videos about getting water long ago and today. Visit six stations to categorize transportation as being from the past or today.

Directions: Getting Water 1. For each video, follow the steps on the slide. Predict what will happen. Then watch the ending to see how people got water long ago and today. 2. Read Sections 1 and 2. Learn that the way people get water and clothes has changed. Complete your activity notes.

Directions: Comparing How We Travel 1. Look at the card your teacher has given you. It might be an airplane, boat, train, bus, car, or truck! 2. When your type of transportation is on the slide, show your card to the class. Then put all of the cards for that type of transportation together. 3. At the six stations around the room, sort the pictures. Make two groups about how we go places: Long Ago and Today. 4. Read Sections 3–4 and complete your Activity Notes. Learn how transportation has changed over time.

Lesson 3 How Is Our Life Different from Long Ago?

Lesson 4

How Do I Get Along with Others?

Lesson 4 How Do I Get Along with Others?

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Play the Sunshine Telephone game to compete against your classmates and practice talking, listening, and taking turns.

Directions: Playing the Sunshine Telephone Game 1. Follow the teacher’s instructions to get into place. Your teacher will be the sun, and your group will be lined up like rays of sunlight. 2. Listen carefully! If you are the first team member of your group, your teacher will whisper a secret message into your ear. 3. Pass the message along. When your teacher says “Go,” whisper the message into the ear of the person behind you and then sit down. Each team member should repeat this until all team members have heard the message. 4. Reveal the secret message! If you are the final team member in your sunshine ray, share the message you heard with the class. 5. Play again! Take turns listening to the secret message first. 6. Then read Sections 1–4 and complete your Activity Notes.

Lesson 4 How Do I Get Along with Others?

Lesson 5

How Do I Make Friends?

Lesson 5 How Do I Make Friends?

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Join a group of three and play with three puppets—Batty, Puffin, and Red Panda—to learn how to make friends.

Directions: Puppets Introduce Themselves and Play 1. Sit with your team of three and make your puppet. Attach your character to the end of a pencil or craft stick with tape. 2. Practice holding your puppet. Hold the puppet out in front of you so your group can see it. 3. Practice making your puppet’s voice special. What do you think your character would sound like if they could talk? 4. Prepare to act out a scene. Listen carefully to the instructions. Then use your puppets to act it out! 5. Then read Sections 1–2 and complete your Activity Notes.

Directions: Puppets Share and Are Kind 1. Get your puppet out again, and sit with your team. 2. Practice being your puppet’s character. 3. Prepare to act. Listen carefully to the instructions. Use your puppets to act out each scene. 4. Then read Sections 3–4 and complete your Activity Notes.

Lesson 5 How Do I Make Friends?

Lesson 6

How Do I Solve Problems with Others?

Lesson 6 How Do I Solve Problems with Others?

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Listen to a story about the lion family and discuss four steps the family might take to solve a problem. Use the four-step “Let’s Talk It Out!” method to help solve problems with others.

Directions: Creating a Way to Solve Problems with Others 1. Listen to the story about the lion family. 2. Act out how the family members feel. Show what Baby, Mama, and Papa are feeling. 3. Use the “Let’s Talk It Out!” card to come up with solutions. 4. Then read Sections 1–4 and complete your Activity Notes.

Directions: Practicing Solving Problems with Others 1. With your partner, watch each of the videos. Discuss what you see happening in each video. 2. Discuss how the children could solve their problems. Use the “Let’s Talk It Out!” steps to help. 3. Prepare a quick skit. Your skit should show what the problem is and what the students could do to solve their problems. 4. Act out your skit if called upon. Be sure to include the steps you took to solve the problem. 5. Then read Sections 5–6 and complete your Activity Notes.

Lesson 6 How Do I Solve Problems with Others?

Lesson 7

How Can I Be a Good Helper at School?

Lesson 7 How Can I Be a Good Helper at School?

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Visit eight stations that challenge you to take care of things, clean up, follow directions, or do your work.

Directions: You Can Make School a Better Place 1. Read Sections 1–4. Learn how you can be a good helper at school. 2. With your partner, start by visiting one of the stations around the room. At the station: • Look at the Activity Card and discuss what it shows. • Put the missing pieces of the Activity Card where they belong. • Check your work by finding the picture of the Activity Card in your Student Journal. Then complete your Activity Notes by filling in the blanks. • Show your work to your teacher and go to the next station. 3. Visit as many stations as you can. Complete the steps for each station you visit. 4. Then check your work as a class and complete your Activity Notes.

Lesson 7 How Can I Be a Good Helper at School?

Lesson 8

How Do Americans Celebrate?

Lesson 8 How Do Americans Celebrate?

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View videos about four American holidays and pick a badge to represent each on your sash. Then see photographs of statues representing past Americans whom we celebrate with holidays and pick a badge for each. Add those to your sash.

Directions: Four Special American Holidays 1. Cut out your badges with your partner. Do you recognize any pictures on the badges? 2. Watch a video about a special American holiday. After the video, discuss what you saw. 3. Pick a badge to represent the holiday shown in the video. You will have four badges to pick from. Can you match the correct video with the correct badge? 4. Glue the badge to your sash. Repeat Steps 2–4 until you have four new badges on your sash. 5. Then read Section 1.

Directions: Six Holidays to Help Us Remember 1. Cut out your badges with your partner. Do you recognize any pictures on the badges? 2. Look at the photograph while you listen to the story behind it. Then discuss what you learned. 3. Pick a badge to represent the holiday you heard about. You will have six badges to pick from. Can you pick the correct badge? 4. Glue the badge to your sash. Repeat Steps 2–4 until you have six new badges on your sash. 5. Then read Sections 2–4.

Lesson 8 How Do Americans Celebrate?

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Lesson 9

What Is in My Neighborhood?

Lesson 9 What Is in My Neighborhood?

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Use a map key to find eight places in a neighborhood. Then fill in a map key to show eight different places on a neighborhood map.

Directions: Finding Places 1. With your partner, place the chip your teacher gave you on the map in your Activity Notes. 2. Listen to each task. Move your chip to the correct location on the map. Your teacher will click a button online and read the task. Move your chip around the neighborhood map to answer the task. 3. You will complete eight tasks in total. Can you answer them all correctly? 4. Then read Sections 1–2.

Directions: Making a Map Key 1. With your partner, collect eight different colored crayons, markers, or pencils. 2. When your teacher asks, hold a color up in the air. 3. In your Activity Notes, use that same color to color the pool on the map and the box next to the word Pool. You are making a map key! 4. Continue filling in your map and map key using your seven other colors. 5. Then read Sections 3–4.

Lesson 9 What Is in My Neighborhood?

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Lesson 10

Where Am I in the World?

Lesson 10 Where Am I in the World?

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Make a telescope that shows your city, state, country, and the world. Use it to look at images and explain what they show. Then play a game that challenges you to categorize images as either a city, state, country, or the world.

Directions: Finding My Place in the World 1. With your partner, cut out your telescope. 2. Review the information on each slide. Be sure to click on the pictures and audio to learn as much as you can. 3. Read the matching section of text as you move through each slide. 4. Then draw on your telescope to show what you learned about where you are in the world. 5. Roll up your telescope. You will use it to look at photos in the Where in the World Circle Game.

Directions: Where in the World Circle Game 1. Look at the four circles your teacher has drawn to represent a city, a state, a county, and the world. The smallest circle in the middle represents a city. The next circles are for a state and then a country. The largest circle is the world. 2. Study the image on the card your teacher holds up. Is it a city, state, country, or the world? 3. When your teacher says “go,” move to the circle that matches the card. Your teacher will place the card in the correct circle. Did you get it right? 4. Play again! Keep playing until all the cards have been played.

Lesson 10 Where Am I in the World?

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Lesson 11

How Do People Live Around the World?

Lesson 11 How Do People Live Around the World?

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Prepare for a cultural fair by learning how four students eat, learn, play, and listen to music around the world.

Directions: Discovering How People Live Around the World 1. _Learn more about our four new friends, their countries, and how they live. • How do people around the world learn? • How do people around the world eat? • How do people around the world play? • How do people around the world listen to music? 2. Go through each slide and read the matching section of text. 3. Complete your Activity Notes for the slide “Learn.” 4. Create a piece of art to display at your cultural fair. When you are finished, show it to your classmates.

Lesson 11 How Do People Live Around the World?

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Lesson 12

What Do People Need and Want?

Lesson 12 What Do People Need and Want?

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Go on a shopping trip and pick out new things you need and want. Then take your new things to the park to see what you can use.

Directions: Going on a Shopping Trip 1. Sit with your partner to prepare for a shopping trip. You will help each other shop. 2. Review all the things you can buy. Your teacher will answer questions about the things you see in the store. 3. Circle all the things you would buy. You have 10 tokens to spend. 4. Review what you bought. Prepare to explain to the class what you purchased and why.

Directions: Learning the Difference Between Needs and Wants 1. With your partner, look at all the things you bought. Are your items the same or different from your partner? 2. Go to the playground and use your new things! 3. Read Sections 1–6. Learn about needs and wants. What did you buy that you needed? What did you buy that you wanted? 4. Talk to your partner about the things you bought that you could use at the park. Did you have anything to play with, to eat, to keep you warm, and to protect you at night? 5. Share what you discussed.

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Lesson 13

How Can I Help Take Care of the World?

Lesson 13 How Can I Help Take Care of the World?

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Use your environmental superhero powers to find ways to protect Earth by reducing, reusing, and recycling the things you use every day.

Directions: Rescuing Our World from Harm 1. Read Sections 1–4. Learn about ways we can help Earth. 2. With your partner, you will receive a Green Family Superhero card. You will get Gabi Garbage, Bruce Reduce, Lulu Reuse, or Michael Recycle. What does your superhero do? 3. Look carefully at the slide and discuss how the superhero can help rescue our world from environmental harm. 4. When your superhero is on a slide, your teacher will tell you to go to the front of the classroom. Join others who have your superhero! 5. Share your ideas with the rest of the class.

Lesson 13 How Can I Help Take Care of the World?

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Me and My World Explore the content in these units: Unit 1: History

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Unit 2: Civics

Unit 3: Geography

Unit 4: Economics

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