Build a Multi-Week Packet

I can explain what a community is and name places and people that make my community work.

I can sort communities into urban, suburban, and rural and explain how I know.

I can explain how a map and a globe are alike and different.

I can name and describe common landforms and find them near where I live.

I can use a map key, the compass rose, and a scale without help.

I can explain that Native nations were the first people in my area and name the nations whose homelands include where I live.

I can explain different reasons explorers and settlers came to North America, including people who did not choose to come.

I can find out when my community was founded and what was here before.

I can explain communities, needs, helpers, and community types.

I can find the United States on a globe and name its neighbors and oceans.

I can name the five regions of the United States and find my own region.

I can describe how Native nations of the Eastern Woodlands used the forest, and that they are living nations today.

I can name reasons people move from one place to another.

I can fix tricky map skills from Weeks 10 and 11, like regions and landforms.

I can explain what culture is and name parts of my own family's culture.

I can explain what immigration means and name reasons people move to a new country.

I can choose a U.S. state to research and write questions to guide my project.

I can review U.S. geography and the five regions.

I can explain what a government is and name things my local government does.

I can explain why the U.S. government is split into three branches and what each branch does.

I can explain what a citizen is and how a person becomes a U.S. citizen.

I can explain what voting is and hold a fair family vote with a secret ballot.

I can fix the trickiest ideas about the levels and branches of government.

I can explain what economics is and give examples of choices people make with money and time.

I can explain what producers are and name the resources they use.

I can explain scarcity and how it forces people and communities to choose.

I can review local government and the three branches at each level.

I can explain what interdependence means and trace one everyday item back to the people who helped make it.

I can read a resource map and tell where some important natural resources are found in the United States.

I can explain how people earn income and why learning new skills can help them earn more later.

I can explain reasons to save and make a plan to reach a savings goal.

I can trace goods through a chain of people and read the key on a resource or population map.

I can explain what civic action is and name the steps of a civic action project.

I can begin my civic action safely and keep a log of what I did and what happened.

I can choose a focus for my year-end community project that uses what I learned this year.

I can review the year's economics and money ideas and explain each key term.