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  1. School Readiness Activity Box: Social Studies
    Go to Record #6723  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.readyatfive.org/images/pdfs/social_stud...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities, Parent Resource
    Ages: 0-5
    Topics: Social Studies
    Commentary: This PDF booklet contains five social studies activities designed to help young children learn about themselves and others, their community and surroundings, and the need for rules in society. In some of the activities, the children make a book about themselves, learn about maps, and play a game that requires following rules...


  2. Community Map
    Go to Record #6460  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview?LPid=10625
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Social Studies — Geography
    Commentary: In this lesson, children place a picture of the school on a map of the community and then place other familiar buildings, too. They then are led to describe how to get to each location...


  3. 3-D Village
    Go to Record #6663  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/ect/3dvilla...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 3-4
    Topics: Social Studies — Geography, Neighborhoods
    Commentary: This activity begins with children taking a walk around the neighborhood to see what types of buildings are in their community. The teacher records the children's observations and comments...


  4. Cultures of Our Nation
    Go to Record #8646  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Social Studies — People in Societies, Cultures
    Commentary: In this lesson, the children get to know each other and the teacher by sharing on a daily basis in the classroom. Each person is given opportunities during the year to share their cultural heritage which opens the children's eyes to the similarities and differences among people...


  5. Friendship Fruit Salad
    Go to Record #8651  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.teacherquicksource.com/headstart/activi...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: Social Studies — Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities, Cooperation and Problem Solving
    Commentary: In this very simple activity the children work together with the teacher to make a fruit salad. Children bring fruit from home to combine in the salad...


  6. Blast Off!
    Go to Record #8654  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.teacherquicksource.com/headstart/activi...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: Social Studies — Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities, Cooperation and Problem Solving
    Commentary: In this activity children cooperate to construct a cardboard rocket ship in which to play. Working together to create the rocket should spark many conversations about space exploration, astronauts, and other out-of-this-world topics...


  7. Going Places: Handy Map
    Go to Record #3846  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://illuminations.nctm.org/index_d.aspx?id=71
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Mathematics — Geometry, Spatial Sense, Positional Words
    Social Studies — Geography, Maps
    Commentary: This activity can help young children understand what a map is and what it can show. It begins with the teacher tracing both hands and encouraging the children to name the parts of the hands and the differences between the hands...


  8. We're All the Same on the Inside
    Go to Record #8648  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/404.shtml
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Social Studies — History, All About Me, People in Societies
    Commentary: This is a very short activity that could supplement other study in many areas, including cultural diversity, individuality, and the similarities among people. Breaking a brown and a white egg and seeing the inside is a very good visual image, but one might want to be mindful of a young child's limitations when seeking to correlate the insides and outsides of people and eggs...


  9. Try Another Way: Redirecting Inappropriate Behavior in PreK
    Go to Record #9600  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/deli/exhibits/1000809/
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Social Studies — Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities, Making Choices, Cooperation and Problem Solving
    Commentary: Children learn best from things that interests them, and nothing interests children more than pictures of themselves. In order to capitalize on this self-focus, Mrs...


  10. Community Helpers
    Go to Record #8645  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Social Studies — People in Societies, Community, Economics, Community Helpers
    Commentary: In this lesson the children explore and share the "tools of the trade" used by their parents and others in a variety of jobs within the community. It is such a simple, but authentic way for the children to see and touch real tools people use at work and to have opportunities to connect them with the important adults in their lives that use these tools on a daily basis...


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