Grade: One Unit: Family Traditions and Celebrations Unit Narrative In this unit, students will explore family

traditions and celebrations. Students will understand there are many differences and similarities amongst families. By collecting information from the past, they will learn how their family traditions came to be and why they are celebrated within their family. How does my family belong?

Overarching Essential Question(s) Topical Essential Questions Power Standards

What makes a family? Why is it important to understand family traditions? How are family traditions alike and different? PS #2 HISTORY
Students analyze the influences of the past on the present, and their implication for the future by understanding and interpreting periods of conflict, change, and continuity in history.

PS #3 PHYSICAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

Students learn and apply physical geography skills and the tools to identify locations: then investigate, understand, and analyze how cultures form and change over time and across various locations.

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Compare and contrast family histories and traditions within the classroom. Collect information about the past through the sharing of historical photographs or artifacts. Use a calendar to discuss events in student life. (ie, How many weeks until birthday? How old am I? How many days left of school? How many years until Im Favorite time of year, month, week?) Identify community events that express cultures of community. (ie, parades, fundraisers, traditions, celebrations, church activities, legends, field days, Abenaki celebrations, Dairy Days)

Inquiry Focus Assessment Concepts/ Vocab traditions, celebrations, customs, history, artifacts, compare/contrast

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Grade: One Unit: Farming Unit Narrative Through this thematic unit of dairy farming, students will explore the basic concepts of economics. They will learn how dairy farmers make a living and contribute to our economy. Students will understand why dairy farmers make certain choices and that they are limited by resources.

Overarching Essential Question(s) Topical Essential Questions Power Standards Why do people choose? What are wants? How do we decide what to choose? PS #3 PHYSICAL & CULTURAL GEORGRAPHY

Students learn, and apply physical geography skills and the tools to identify locations; then investigate, understand, and analyze how cultures form and change over time and across various locations.

PS#5 ECONOMICS

Students recognize and analyze the relationships among the needs and wants of individuals, societies, and governments, and identify and evaluate the economic and environmental factors that influence choices and decisions while accounting for the availability of resources.

Power Indicators

Demonstrate that choices are limited by resources. Explain why people make choices. Explain why people earn, spend and save money. Discuss ways people in the community take care of or hurt the environment, and participate in taking care of the environment within the community. (ie, gardening, recycling, collecting litter, etc)

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Inquiry Focus Assessment Concepts/ Vocab environment, resources, recycling, littering Dairy: milking parlor, bulk tank, haying, bale, crop, chore, machinery, manure, harvest, organic, breeds of cows (Jersey, Holstein, etc)

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Grade: One Unit: School and Home Unit Narrative In this unit, students will understand what it means to be a respectful member of their family and classroom family. They will learn how to use basic mapping skills to locate where they live and to locate their classroom within their school.

Overarching Essential Question(s) Topical Essential Questions Power Standards

How does my location affect my life? What does it mean to be a citizen? Why are rules important? Why is it important to be respectful of other people? How do maps help us locate places? PS #3 PHYSICAL & CULTURAL GEORGRAPHY
Students learn, and apply physical geography skills and the tools to identify locations; then investigate, understand, and analyze how cultures form and change over time and across various locations.

PS#4 CIVICS, GOVERNMENT & SOCIETY

Students examine the democratic principle to compare and contrast different types of governments, debate the rights and obligations of citizenship within them, and evaluate the concept of human rights and responsibilities within those institutions from local, national, and global perspectives in various times

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Identify physical address verbally. Create a simple map showing a specific location. (i.e. student home within neighborhood, classroom within the school) Locate boundaries of a specific location. (i.e. playground, sidewalk, road) Differentiate between neighborhood/street/road, town, and state. Discuss ways people in the community take care of or hurt the environment, and participate in taking care of the environment within the community. (ie, gardening, recycling, collecting litter, etc) Recognize the various reasons why friends and family move. (ie, climate, job opportunities, family ties) Identify what it means to be a citizen/a member of a group. Show respect to peers and adults. Explain why rules are important. Recognize leaders in family and school.

Inquiry Focus Assessment Concepts/ Vocab citizen, respect, vote, leader, recycling, littering Mapping: geography, direction, address, boundary, neighborhood, street, road, town, state, map, globe

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