Our first unit for the year was Geography. This went along well with our science unit as we talked a lot about maps. Students learned about map keys, different types of maps, and cardinal directions (north, south, east, and west). They worked towards being able to read and interpret maps. We also talked a lot about communities. Students talked about the basic needs that people have and how communities fulfill those needs. We talked about the different characteristics of our communities, the environmental or natural ones and the cultural ones. We also discussed goods and services that communities provide.
We will then move on to learning and talking about how communities have local governments and what they are for in our next unit, Civics.
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The start of our social science (formally known as social studies) learning is community. So far we have talked about our classroom and school community as well as our families and what makes up a neighborhood community. This will then go into Geography and tie in with our science scope about landforms and maps.
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