First Grade Unit Six: We Are Alike, We Are Different Sarah Blascovich Brown Teacher on Assignment

Unit Six Highlights

Performance Task

Resources (Character Education): Long list of sites from the Kennesaw EdTech folks: Teaching Tolerance: Don’t Laugh At Me: Character Education Booklist: ation.asp ation.asp

Resources (Geography & Landforms): National Geographic Epals: Landform map of the United States: SALandforms.htm SALandforms.htm Interactive landform map including NASA satellite footage of example landforms: vities/landformations/ vities/landformations/ Simple landform definitions with photographs: NASA’s satellite view of the Earth:

Teaching Unit Six:  Individuals, Groups, & Institutions:  Character traits  Review figures & relevant traits  Compare/contrast w/students  Local issues vs. issues of figures  Location:  Compare students’ location w/world  Identify continents, oceans, landforms  Compare students’ home with figures’ homes  Discuss influence of surroundings on our lives and on historical figures’ lives (and choices)

Teaching Unit Six:  Scarcity  Compare goods & services around the world  Review making good choices  Review need for jobs to provide goods & services  Compare goods & services of our time to historical figures’ times  Benefits of spending & saving  Time, Change, Continuity  Compare lives of historical figures to ours  Compare character traits  Discuss changes in time periods