Unit 1: Global Citizenship

• The children will explore the traits and characteristics that represent responsible citizenship. These traits include: respecting others, behaving honestly, helping others, making and obeying rules, being informed and sharing needed resources. These will be familiar to students through their experiences in their home, classroom, neighborhood community and global community.

Unit 2: Family Diversity

• Children will expand their understanding of families in general and the idea that families can be both similar and different. Children can see how their family and their classmates’ families share commonalities and differences. Children are offered opportunities to explore a range of family dimensions-structure, activities and traditions.

Unit 3: Family Stories

• Children are lead through an investigation of their families as a way to understand the concepts of past and present. Through the use of family artifacts (e.g., photographs, family trees, keepsakes), students learn that such items can reveal information about how life in the past differs from life in the present and how families have changed over time.

Unit 4: The President & Government

• The children will explore the meaning, purpose and function of government. They will learn the responsibilities of government leaders, including president, governor, mayor. Children will explore how laws are made and learn about the voting process.

Unit 5: Maps and Geography

• Children will investigate maps and spatial representations, exploring how and why we depict the physical world the way we do on maps. Children are encouraged to consider our ability to represent real world places on a map. The children will explore the meaning and purpose of maps, the tools that help us represent places, the purposes of those tools and how we use those tools to read and make maps.

Unit 6: Economic Choices

• The children will explore economic decisions and how families manage money. Children will investigate needs and wants, and the importance of saving and budgeting. Discussions will focus on choices made everyday and how economics affect those choices. Children will explore different methods people use to earn money.