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Grade PreK Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 13 (PreK Social Studies): Weather and the Environment

Help preschoolers observe and describe weather, compare outdoor places, and understand simple ways people use natural resources like trees, water, and sunlight every day.

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Unit Plan 12 (PreK Social Studies): Mapping Our Classroom

PreK children create simple maps and models of the classroom, noticing important places and how maps help us find where things are.

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Unit Plan 11 (PreK Social Studies): Where Things Are—Position Words

Help preschoolers learn position words like near, far, above, below, and next to through fun movement games and simple classroom maps for spatial awareness.

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Unit Plan 10 (PreK Social Studies): What Is a Place?

I help PreK children explore familiar places like home, school, and the park—what we do there and what we see outside—building early geography and observation skills.

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Unit Plan 9 (PreK Social Studies): Working and Helping Together

People work together in class and community to help others, take responsibility, and make group decisions through simple jobs and teamwork.

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Unit Plan 8 (PreK Social Studies): Helpers in Our Community

Community helpers keep us safe, healthy, and connected. Children learn about firefighters, doctors, police, and mail carriers through tools, workplaces, and helping actions.

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Unit Plan 7 (PreK Social Studies): Our Neighborhood

Teach PreK students to identify neighborhood places, what we do there, and the helpers who work to meet our needs, while noticing nature and weather outside.

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Unit Plan 6 (PreK Social Studies): My Family, My Home

Teach PreK students about families and homes by identifying family members, sharing traditions, exploring different homes, and learning basic needs vs wants.

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Unit Plan 5 (PreK Social Studies): Symbols of Our Classroom & School

Children learn classroom and school symbols like labels and logos, using them to find places, stay organized, and feel a sense of belonging in their community.

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Unit Plan 4 (PreK Social Studies): Being a Good Friend

Teach PreK students how to be a good friend with this 5-day social studies & SEL unit on sharing, taking turns, kindness projects, and building a caring classroom community.

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Unit Plan 3 (PreK Social Studies): Our Helpers at School

Explore school helpers, the tools they use, and how their jobs keep students safe, fed, and ready to learn while helping earn money for needs.

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Unit Plan 2 (PreK Social Studies): Rules Keep Us Safe

Help preschoolers explore why rules matter through play, stories, and art—building safe, fair, and kind classroom habits while helping others.

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Unit Plan 1 (PreK Social Studies): Building Our Classroom Community

Build a caring PreK community where kids learn routines, share, take turns, and help keep the classroom safe, kind, and welcoming for everyone.

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K-2 Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan (Grades K-2): Nature’s Number Trail - A Comprehensive K–2 Math & Science Unit

Hands-on outdoor math unit where K–2 students collect natural objects, sort them by attributes, count and graph their findings, and create simple addition equations to connect nature exploration with number sense.

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Grade K Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 36 (Grade K Social Studies): Cumulative Synthesis & Exhibition

Celebrates year-end learning as students create and guide simple stations for a “Kindergarten World Fair,” showcasing rules, helpers, maps, traditions, needs, wants, and caring actions.

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Unit Plan 35 (Grade K Social Studies): Taking Action Together

A Kindergarten social studies unit where students plan, vote on, and complete a simple class service project, learning to work together, help their school, and reflect on community action.

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Unit Plan 34 (Grade K Social Studies): Our Symbols and Traditions

Symbols and traditions help kindergarteners explore identity, community pride, and cultural connections.

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Unit Plan 33 (Grade K Social Studies): Caring for Our World and Each Other

Teach kindness and responsibility as children practice caring for people and the environment through daily actions and a simple class service project.

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Unit Plan 32 (Grade K Social Studies): Natural and Human Resources

Discover how natural resources, workers, and human-made features like roads and buildings work together to create everyday products for kindergarten learners.

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Unit Plan 31 (Grade K Social Studies): Making Choices and Sharing

Help kindergarteners practice choices, saving, trading, sharing, and voting through fair, simple activities that build economic understanding and classroom community.

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Unit Plan 30 (Grade K Social Studies): Working to Earn and Help

Kindergarten students learn why people work, how money helps meet needs and wants, and practice making choices through saving, spending, and simple class market activities.

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Unit Plan 29 (Grade K Social Studies): Goods and Services Around Us

Goods and services help our community run—this unit teaches kids to identify each, explore community helpers, and understand that people work to earn money and help others.

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Unit Plan 28 (Grade K Social Studies): Needs and Wants

Help kindergarteners learn needs vs. wants through sorting, stories, and a class store that teaches choices with limited resources.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade K Social Studies): Midyear Review—People and Places Over Time

Review key kindergarten social studies skills by sequencing events, identifying past vs. present, recognizing important people and traditions, and using simple sources to understand change over time.

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Unit Plan 26 (Grade K Social Studies): Tools and Technology Through Time

Explore how tools and inventions changed from past to present, helping people work, communicate, and do important jobs in the community.