CONCEPTS

People, Places, and Cooperation

Power Standards

• Explain why groups of people need rules.
• Explain how basic needs are met.
• Explain how cooperation helps a community.

Essential Understandings & Guiding Questions

Essential Understanding: People create communities.

Guiding Questions

• What is a family?
• What is a community?
• Why is a family a community?
• How do family members help each other?
• How do people in the community help each other?
• Why is it important to cooperate?

Essential Understanding: All people are smart in different ways.

Guiding Questions

• What are the different ways people can be smart?
• Why is it important for people to share their strengths?

Essential Understanding: Individuals grow and change.

Guiding Questions

• How do we grow?
• How do we change?
• How do we learn about ourselves?
• How do we learn about others?
• How do we learn new things?
• What happens when we learn new things?

CRITICAL CONTENT

Family structures

Different types of families

Meeting basic needs

Cooperation

Appreciating Differences

CONCEPTS

People, Places, and Cooperation

POWER STANDARDS

• Explain why groups of people need rules.
• Explain how basic needs are met.
• Explain how cooperation helps a community.
• Identify community resources/characteristics as natural or man-made.
• Describe the relative location of places using terms (e.g., near, far, towards, away from, next to).

ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS & GUIDING QUESTIONS

Essential Understanding: People create communities to meet their needs.

Guiding Questions

• What is a community?
• Who makes up a community?
• What do we need?
• How do communities meet our needs?
• Why are communities important for people?

Essential Understanding: Places have man-made and natural characteristics.

Guiding Questions

• What natural items can be found on the playground?
• What items on the playground are made by people?
• How do people deal with changes in the weather?
• How does climate affect the clothing you wear and the food you eat?

Essential Understanding: Places can be identified with numbers and names.

Guiding Questions

• What is your address?
• What is the name of our town?
• What is the name of our school?
• How do you tell someone where you live?

Essential Understanding: People and goods move from place to place in many ways.

Guiding Questions

• How do you get to school, the store, church, grandma’s house, etc.?
• How can people travel from place to place?
• Does everything we need grow in our backyards (neighborhood)?
• How do we get things (food, clothes, toys) from other places?

CRITICAL CONTENT

Different types of communities

• Families
• Schools and friends
• Neighborhoods

Characteristics of communities

• Man-made characteristics
• Natural characteristics
• Transportation (types and purposes)
• Environmental characteristics

Purpose for communities, growing and growing up, families

• Learning – school and park district
• Sharing – needs and wants
• Caring for each other – friendship
• Keeping people safe – police, fire, etc.

Cooperation and responsibility within communities

CONCEPTS

People, Places, and Cooperation

POWER STANDARDS

• Explain why groups of people need rules.
• Explain how basic needs are met.
• Explain how cooperation helps a community.
• Identify community resources/characteristics as natural or man-made.
• Describe the relative location of places using terms (e.g., near, far, towards, away from, next to).

ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS & GUIDING QUESTIONS

Essential Understanding: Communities have similarities and differences.

Guiding Questions

• How do people in other communities meet their needs?
• How is your community similar/different to another community?

Essential Understanding: Places have man-made and natural characteristics.

Guiding Questions

• How are the characteristics of your community similar/different to another community?

Essential Understanding: People and goods move from place to place in many ways.

Guiding Questions

• How do people in other communities travel from place to place?
• How do places get the resources / goods that they need?

CRITICAL CONTENT

Compare and contrast our community to one other

• Major land forms
• Climate
• Products
• Transportation
• Meeting needs
• Culture – the components found in different communities (e.g. clothing, shelter, food, traditions, etc.)