Kindergarten/1st- Home and school 9/1/2012- SS-EP-4.1.1 I can use geographic tools Essential Maps 10/31/2012 Students will use geographic such as maps, globes, charts Globes tools (e.g., maps, globes, and graphs, to locate and mental maps, charts, graphs) describe familiar places at Graphs to locate and describe familiar home, school, and Community places at home, school and community. the community. 10/1/2012 I can use geographic tools to Essential Landforms SS-EP-4.1.2 identify major landforms, Mountains Students will use geographic tools to identify major bodies of water and natural Rivers landforms (e.g., continents, resources on surface. Oceans mountain ranges), bodies of water (e.g., oceans, major I can use geographic tools to rivers) and natural resources identify relative location. on Earth’s surface and use relative location. 10/1/2012 SS-EP-4.2.1 I can describe places on Essential activities Students will describe places Earth’s surface by their Physical on surface by their physical characteristics. characteristics physical characteristics (e.g., climate, landforms, bodies of 10/1/2012 SS-EP-5.2.1 I can identify and explain Essential Holiday Students will identify the significance of patriotic significant patriotic and and historic holidays. historical songs, symbols, (President’s Day monuments/landmarks (e.g., Martin Luther King Jr., The Star-Spangled Banner, the Independence Day, Underground Railroad, the Statue Thanksgiving)
Kindergarten/1st- Home and school 9/1/2012- 10/31/2012 SS-EP-4.1.1 Students will use geographic tools (e.g., maps, globes, mental maps, charts, graphs) to locate and describe familiar places at home, school and the community. I can use geographic tools such as maps, globes, charts and graphs, to locate and describe familiar places at home, school, and community. Essential Maps Globes Graphs Community 10/1/2012 SS-EP-4.1.2 Students will use geographic tools to identify major landforms (e.g., continents, mountain ranges), bodies of water (e.g., oceans, major rivers) and natural resources on Earth’s surface and use relative location. I can use geographic tools to identify major landforms, bodies of water and natural resources on surface. I can use geographic tools to identify relative location. Essential Landforms Mountains Rivers Oceans 10/1/2012 SS-EP-4.2.1 Students will describe places on surface by their physical characteristics (e.g., climate, landforms, bodies of I can describe places on Earth’s surface by their physical characteristics. Essential activities Physical characteristics 10/1/2012 SS-EP-5.2.1 Students will identify significant patriotic and historical songs, symbols, monuments/landmarks (e.g., The Star-Spangled Banner, the Underground Railroad, the Statue I can identify and explain the significance of patriotic and historic holidays. (President’s Day Martin Luther King Jr., Independence Day, Thanksgiving) Essential Holiday
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