CONCEPTS

Similarities, Differences, and Resources

Power Standards

• Explain why communities exist.
• Compare/contrast the ways individuals and groups meet their needs.
• Compare a personal custom/tradition to that of another family or community.

Essential Understandings & Guiding Questions

Essential Understanding: Traditions build shared experiences among family members.

Guiding Questions

• What are traditions?
• What traditions does your family celebrate?
• How do the traditions bring you together?
• How do you and your family celebrate your traditions (immediate and extended)?
• What are the differences in people’s traditions?

Essential Understanding: In communities individuals have certain roles, responsibilities and jobs.

Guiding Questions

• What is a role?
• What is a responsibility?
• How do roles and responsibilities help people?
• What are different roles and jobs within a family?
• What does it mean to be responsible?
• How do you use your behavior to help your family?
• Why do you need to cooperate?
• What happens when there is no cooperation?

Essential Understanding: Groups of people need rules.

Guiding Questions

• What are rules?
• Why do groups of people need rules?

Essential Understanding: Families and communities provide for basic needs.

Guiding Questions

• What are basic needs?
• How do families provide for our basic needs?
• How do communities provide for our basic needs?

CRITICAL CONTENT

Rules

• Home
• School
• Purpose of rules

Roles

• Family
• School
• Community leaders
• Community helpers

Rights and Responsibilities

• Basic government
• Rights and responsibilities of individuals
• Rights and responsibilities of groups
• Decision making

Traditions and Culture

• Home
• Neighborhood
• Cultural significance and respecting differences

CONCEPTS

Similarities, Differences, and Resources

POWER STANDARDS

• Explain why communities exist.
• Compare/contrast the ways individuals and groups meet their needs.
• Compare a personal custom/tradition to that of another family or community.
• Describe natural and man-made features in the area (e.g., parks, homes, schools, lakes, rivers, forests).
• Distinguish between areas of land and bodies of water on local and state maps and globes.

ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS & GUIDING QUESTIONS

Essential Understanding: Products and services meet our needs.

Guiding Questions

• What are people’s basic needs?
• What services do we need?
• Where do products come from?
• What products do farms produce?
• What products do factories produce?
• Why are products produced?
• How do products and services impact your everyday life?
• What is the difference between needs and wants?
• How is the farm (rural) different from where you live (urban/suburban)?

Essential Understanding: Places can be described relative to their surroundings and by their geographic features.

Guiding Questions

• What geographic features are around your neighborhood?
• How can you describe the location of your neighborhood/state/nation?

Essential Understanding: Different communities depend on one another.

Guiding Questions

• What are some different types of communities?
• What do other communities offer each other?
• How do communities help each other?

CRITICAL CONTENT

Meeting our needs

• Needs vs. wants
• Goods and services
• Job skills
• Value of work

Comparison of urban and rural communities (e.g., farm and city)

• Natural resources
• Geographic features
• Cultural traditions

CONCEPTS

Similarities, Differences, and Resources

POWER STANDARDS

• Compare a personal custom/tradition to that of another family or community.
• Describe natural and man-made features in the area (e.g., parks, homes, schools, lakes, rivers, forests).
• Distinguish between areas of land and bodies of water on local and state maps and globes.

ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS & GUIDING QUESTIONS

Essential Understanding: Places can be described relative to their surroundings and by their geographic features.

Guiding Questions

• What geographic features are around your neighborhood/state/country?
• How can you describe the location of your neighborhood/state/nation?
• How is your region different from other places in the world?

Essential Understanding: Similarities exist among diverse cultures.

Guiding Questions

• What are some common characteristics between all cultures?
• How are other cultures similar to our own?
• What traditions do other cultures celebrate?
• What are the traditions of other cultures similar to our own?

CRITICAL CONTENT

Where we are?

• Location of state relative to the nation and the world
• Important geographical features (e.g., oceans, lakes, mountains, rivers)
• Different traditions and cultures within our local communities

Compare and contrast our region/country with one other region or country

• Language
• Traditions
• Values
• Geography