Geography of the Neighborhood
Content
Content: Geography of the Neighborhood and Reaching Out to Times Past
CA State History-Social Science Standards (modified from Kindergarten for San Diego Unified School District) pp. 4 & 6
SDUSD TK.4 Students begin to consider the locations of people and places and describe their characteristics.
SDUSD TK.4.5 Demonstrate familiarity with the school’s layout and the jobs people do there.
SDUSD TK.6 Students begin to understand that people and events happened in the past.
SDUSD TK.6.3 Begins to notice the differences in how people who lived in earlier times lived and worked.
Students begin to study geography by exploring the immediate environment such as their school or neighborhood. Students will begin to learn to compare and contrast by examining land and water forms, globes and maps, and learn to identify traffic symbols, map/globe symbols and routes.
HSS TK-K Framework and Standards.docxInquiry
What is our neighborhood like?
How are we different from those who lived long ago? How are we the same?
Learning Activities
Where We Live: Geography of the Neighborhood
Compelling Question: What is our neighborhood like?
Evidence of Learning: Individual Student Scrapbook of Land and Water Forms
Lessons: The pace suggested by the publishers follows this 6-week plan. Note that each lesson is accompanied by a set of independent/group learning centers which enables the teacher to do the directed lesson in small groups. Student artifacts that correspond with lesson learning tasks should be kept so that students can construct their Scrapbooks at the end of the unit.
Introduction - Where We Live
Lesson 1 - Land and Water
Lesson 2 - Read a Globe
Lesson 3 - Traffic Signs
Lesson 4 - Read Map Symbols
Lesson 5 - Models and Maps
Lesson 6 - Follow a Route
Culminating Task: Scrapbook of Land and Water Forms
California Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI) - Some Things Change and Some Things Stay the Same
California Environmental Principle II: The long term functioning and health of terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems are influenced by their relationships with human societies.
Inquiry Question: How are we different from those who lived long ago? How are we the same?
Purpose: Students will...
become familiar with the idea that history relates to events, people, and places of other times.
understand that some things change, such as how school used to be, and others remain the same, such as how we rely on resources.
begin to make decisions for the public good as they start to see the interconnection of the world.
Learning Activities:
Citizenship
Guest speakers, who are staff members at the school (principal, custodian, food server, gardener, etc.), will come to the classroom or be available during a walking tour of the school, so that students can interview them about their job and their role in caring for the natural systems at their school.
Field experience at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum
Resources
California Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI) - Some Things Change and Some Things Stay the Same
RI.K.4 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words...
RI.K.7 With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear...
SL.K.2 Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
