Social Studies
We use many sources for information including copies of Steck-Vaughn's Communities book, National Geographic Explorer Magazine and a variety of trade books and internet sources. Students do not have a Social Studies textbook to bring home. Information is stored in a Social Studies folder and packets.GEOGRAPHY
All Year Long - integrated into units and also taught through the Postcard, Flat Stanley and Traveling Buddies Projects
Ability to Locate and Identify on a Map and Globe:
NeighborhoodLocal placesLocal landforms and waterforms
Local placesLocal landforms and waterforms The U.S. –Political Local communities Other urban, suburban, rural communities
Other urban, suburban, rural communitiesWorld communities continents, oceans, poles, hemispheres
Ability to Orient a Map:
- Cardinal directions
- Symbols represent places, geographic features, and characters
- Lines of latitude and longitude, special parallels, meridians
- Special relationships of world communities can be described by direction, location, distance, and scale
Physical Environment:
- Some things of importance in my neighborhood
- Some people in my neighborhood
- To meet basic needs people depend on and modify physical environment
- Urban, suburban and rural communities are influenced by geographic and environmental factors
September
LOCAL, U.S. HISTORY
School Neighborhood and Bethlehem Community Introduction
October
LOCAL, U.S. HISTORY
Type of Communites: rural, suburban, urban,
Columbus Day
November - December
CIVICS, CITIZENSHIP, GOVERNMENT
Veterans' Day
Election Day
LOCAL, U.S. HISTORY
January
ECONOMICS
People Give Us Goods and Services
Why People Work
February
ECONOMICS
Where Does the Money Go? Budgets
March
CIVICS, CITIZENSHIP, GOVERNMENT
Rules and Laws for Everyone
Leaders and Laws
April
CIVICS, CITIZENSHIP, GOVERNMENT
People Solve Problems Together
May
CIVICS, CITIZENSHIP, GOVERNMENT
Symbols of America
Memorial Day
June
CIVICS, CITIZENSHIP, GOVERNMENT
Neighbors Celebrate Together
Flag Day
LOCAL, U.S. HISTORY
Standard 1: Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understandings of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York State.
GEOGRAPHY
Standard 3: Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live – local, national, global – including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surfaces.
ECONOMICS
Standard 4: Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the U.S. and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scare resources, how major decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and non-market mechanisms.
CIVICS, CITIZENSHIP, GOVERNMENT
Standard 5: Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the U.S. and other nations; the U.S. Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.
Our Community: Bethlehem
Bethlehem
Town of Bethlehem Website
Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce
I Spy My Home Town: Bethlehem
Youth Activities and Services
Wilbooks has some inexpensive books available
