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Family Unit

Unit Question: How should people work together to be a family?

Within this family unit, students will have the opportunity to explore families from an economic standpoint. Throughout each week students will explore the terms family, wants, needs, values, roles, and responsibilities. These terms will be taught and discussed through individual, partner, and large group activities.

 

After students learn the basic terminology for the unit, they will spend three weeks applying the terms to their own lives. They will explore what their family's wants and needs are and how their family works together to meet those needs. They will share and compare what their family values and why those values are important to them. Lastly they will revisit the terms roles and responsibility and will compare and contrast the different responsibilities within their families.

 

Following the self-connection portion of this unit, students will explore what different families look like around the world. Through book and online research, students will determine how other families live around the world and will in turn compare them to their own families. Throughout each week students will be creating worksheets, pictures, and writings that showcase their learning. Student work will be kept within individual folders so the teacher can provide feedback and students have the option to revisit their work as the unit progresses. Students will share out their findings to the whole class during the final week and the unit will end with an overall idea that all families work together to be successful.

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      • Student Objectives:

      • After talking about what a family is, students will draw a picture of their own family.

      • After sharing about their different families, students will create a t-chart that shows the ways that their families are similar and different from a classmates.

      • After learning about their own families wants and needs, students will draw a picture of how their families fulfill their wants and needs.

      • After learning about their own families values, students will draw a picture of their family values.

      • After learning what roles are a part of their own families, students will draw a picture of their family and what roles each family member has.  

      • After researching a family from another culture as a class, students will work in groups to research a different family and present their findings to the class.

SS.K-2.BS.4- Essential Concept and/or Skill: Understand the relationship of the individual to the components of society and culture

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SS.K-2.H.5- Essential Concept and/or Skill: Understand economic needs and wants affect individual and group decisions.

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SS.K-2.G.1- Essential Concept and/or Skill: Understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and environments.

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SS.K-2.E.6- Essential Concept and/or Skill: Understand the universal economic concept of needs and wants.

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RL.1.1A.1- Employ the full range of research-based comprehension strategies, including making connections, determining importance, questioning, visualizing, making inferences, summarizing, and monitoring for comprehension.

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RL.1.1- Ask and answer questions about key details in text.

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RL. 1.3- Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

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W.1.8- With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

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Standards met in this Unit
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