This unit introduces children to aspects of his or her relationship to the classroom, school, and community.

Topics:

• School is a place to learn and share.
• Good rules are fair and help people word together.
• There are many workers at school.
• You can describe a location.
• Schools long ago were like schools today in some ways.  They were also different.
• Schools around the world are alike in many ways.

 This unit introduces children to communities and citizens.

Topics:

• Communities have rules called laws.
• Leaders help people
• The President is the leader of our country.
• Symbols remind us to show respect for our country.
• Good citizens help others.
• Citizens have rights and responsibilities.

Topics:

• People in a neighborhood share things.
• There are many kinds of land and water.
• People can use a globe and a map to find places on Earth.
• Natural resources are important to people.
• People need to take care of Earth's natural resources.
• People around the world live in all kinds of homes.

This unit introduces children to learning about people's needs, cultures, and celebrations.

Topics:

• Peopled have different roles in different groups.
• People have needs that they meet in different ways.
• People around the world have different cultures.
• People celebrate special times.
• Americans share many customs.

This unit introduces children to learning about time and change and the history of our country.

Topics:

• Things change all the time.
• Families share their history through stories.
• Like people, places also grow and change over time.
• Many groups lived in North and South America before Columbus arrived.
• Our country's history is made up of many people and the things they did.
• We celebrate holidays to remember our history.
• People who do important things are heroes we remember.
• Technology has made many changes in our lives.

This unit introduces children to learning about the jobs people do to earn money, and about goods and services.

Topics:

• People depend on one another for goods and services.
• People work together to make goods in a factory.
• People work to earn money to buy what they need.
• The kinds of work that people do and the way they do them change over time.
• People can be buyers or sellers or both.
• People must make choices about what they want.
• People around the world depend on one another.