Little Social Studies Thinkers UNIT 5: Our World {Kindergarten Social Studies}

Little Social Studies Thinkers  is a complete curriculum specifically for Kindergarten.  It's everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your kinder friends.  It is cross-referenced and aligned to the main topics of Kindergarten Social Studies Standards. 

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UNIT 5: Our World teaches students about basic world geography and where their place is in the world. It contains lessons on these specific topics:

Positional Words

Maps and Map Symbols

The Globe

Our Continents

Our Oceans

Our Country

My Place in the World

Here are the components of the Unit:

-A complete Teacher Guide

-9 printable/projectable Books for Read-Alouds

-Step-by-step Lesson Plans (Twelve, 35-minute lesson plans in all)

-Essential Question and Learning Target posters

-Anchor Charts

-Whole group Games and Activities

-Craftivities and Culminating Unit Activity

-Student Workbook that follows each lesson

-Quick Check for every lesson

-Kinder-appropriate Assessment and Rubric for scoring

-Parent Letter

-A COMPLETE unit PowerPoint to guide your teaching during each and every lesson (all books, targets and workbook pages are included in the PowerPoint to help you save paper)

Here is an outline of the lessons for UNIT 5:

Lesson 1: POSITIONAL WORDS

Lesson 2: WHAT IS A MAP?

Lesson 3: MAPPING OUR CLASSROOM

Lesson 4: MAP SYMBOLS

Lesson 5: MY TOWN/CITY ON A MAP

Lesson 6: GLOBES AND MAPS

Lesson 7: OUR CONTINENTS

Lesson 8: OUR OCEANS

Lesson 9: OUR COUNTRY

Lesson 10: MY PLACE IN THE WORLD

Lesson 11: UNIT REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT

Lesson 12: CULMINATING ACTIVITY

*Please download the preview to see all that is included, including samples of everything!*

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Click below to view additional units:

UNIT 1: Citizenship

UNIT 2: Then and Now

UNIT 3: Holidays Around the World

UNIT 4: My Community

UNIT 5: Our World

K-1 MINI-UNITS:

MINI UNIT A: Pilgrims and Native Americans

MINI UNIT B: America