Social Studies Units | Community & Citizenship | First Weeks of Back to School

Are you looking for a more engaging way to teach community and citizenship, fairness, community helpers, rules and laws, diversity, and more? Or maybe you want a new way to kick off your school year?

Does your district have a social studies curriculum from the late 90s? Or none at all?

Do you have to integrate social studies units into your ELA block and never have the time to ensure that this happens in a way that does justice to both subjects?

Let ETTC make planning for social studies a breeze with comprehensive, done-for-you units.   

In Unit 1 in the series, the September Unit - Community and Citizenship, you will find that we have included everything you need to teach engaging social studies lessons.

You’ll get an accurate portrayal of history while still being age-appropriate for students in grades K-3.

You’ll get an up-to-date look at social studies topics. Regardless of your teaching situation, you'll get enough materials and content to use.

And you know you’ll get it all for an incredible price.

We went big with this one, because go big or go home, right? Especially with social studies. It's SO important.

We’ve knocked it out of the park with a unit that can be used with any grade level K-3, in any schedule situation, including...

• Social studies integrated into ELA
• 15-20 minutes a few times a week
• 30 minutes alternating weeks with science
• 45+ minutes of dedicated social studies time daily
• And more!

We’ve included digital resources, printables with options for independent student work, teaching slides, project-based learning, and so much more.

You can pull elements of this unit into your

• Morning meeting
• Morning work
• Centers
• Small group
• Reading, writing, and/or social studies block!

Let us help you to create more knowledgeable, civic-minded, engaged citizens in your classroom that will be prepared to go out into the world and make it a better place!

What’s Inside:

• Teaching Slides - 11 Main Lessons
• Essential Questions & Essential Understandings
• Vocabulary
• Daily Interactive Notebook Activities
• Student Activity Book Work Pages
• Read-Aloud and Video Recommendations
• Lessons and Choice Board of Additional Activities that Include:
  • Digital (with Paper Option) Community Building Game
  • Craftivities
  • Conversation Starters 
  • Project-Based Learning
  • Citizen Engagement Activities
  • Diverse Biography Mini Books - Paper and Digital (Google Slides™) Versions
  • Timelines
  • Group Activities
  • Kids Make a Difference Lessons in Each Unit
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Home Connection Projects
  • Family Letters for Each Unit
  • Checks for Understanding - Blooket, Paper/Pencil, and Exit Ticket Options
  • Nonfiction Text Features

• Clickable Monthly Calendar of Special Days with Additional Daily Slides
• Spiraling Social Studies Standard Strands Throughout the Year

September Lessons Cover:

• Lesson 1: What Is a Citizen?
• Lesson 2: What Is a Community?
• Lesson 3: Community Helpers
• Lesson 4: Rights and Responsibilities
• Lesson 5: Rules and Laws
• Lesson 6: Fairness
• Lesson 7: Who’s in Charge? Authority Figures in Our Communities
• Lesson 8: Making Choices with Good Citizenship in Mind
• Lesson 9: Individuals and Community
• Lesson 10: Diversity in My Communities
• Lesson 11: Kids Make a Difference

Important Information:
✔︎ Please preview all unit contents and prior to teaching to ensure that the content aligns with your district expectations.

✔︎  ETTC will be putting out monthly units for the 2022-23 school year. Buy them early to save! Topics include 

• Community & Citizenship
• Economics: Wants & Needs
• History: Past & Present
• Sociology: Culture & Traditions
• Geography: Maps & Globes
• Government: The United States
• Legends, Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Tables
• Human Interactions with the Natural World - People & the Environment
• Identity and Development
• Freedom & Independence

✔︎ Teaching slides are available in Google Slides™ and PDF versions. Embedded links will take you to additional resources. Digital Biographies and the Clickable Calendar are also available in Google Slides™ format.

✔︎ Some components of these units are editable. Please ensure that you download the document and open with Adobe Acrobat Reader for full compatibility. Not doing so will result in inaccurate fonts and potential additional issues. Adobe Acrobat Reader is a free download available at: https://get.adobe.com/reader/

✔︎ Blooket™ is used as an assessment option. If you do not have a Blooket™ account, you can start one for free as a teacher.

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