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

2. Unit Six Highlights

6. Performance Task

7. Resources (Character Education): Long list of sites from the Kennesaw EdTech folks: http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/chared.htm http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/chared.htm Teaching Tolerance: http://www.tolerance.org/index.jsp http://www.tolerance.org/index.jsp Don’t Laugh At Me: http://www.operationrespect.org/ http://www.operationrespect.org/ Character Education Booklist: http://www.answerpoint.org/teachers_place/character_educ ation.asp http://www.answerpoint.org/teachers_place/character_educ ation.asp

8. Resources (Geography & Landforms): National Geographic Epals: http://www.epals.com/http://www.epals.com/ Landform map of the United States: http://broadmeadow.needham.k12.ma.us/TechCtr/U SALandforms.htm http://broadmeadow.needham.k12.ma.us/TechCtr/U SALandforms.htm Interactive landform map including NASA satellite footage of example landforms: http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/students/acti vities/landformations/ http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/students/acti vities/landformations/ Simple landform definitions with photographs: http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/landforms.htm http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/landforms.htm NASA’s satellite view of the Earth: http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/land.htm http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/land.htm

11. 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)

12. 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