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Pre-Kindergarten Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 20 (PreK Social Studies): Change Over Time

Help preschoolers understand how things change over time by comparing toys, clothes, and technology from the past and present through pictures, stories, and play.

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Unit Plan 19 (PreK Social Studies): My Day—First, Next, Last

Teach preschoolers sequencing with first, next, last through daily routines and stories to build early understanding of order and simple retelling.

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Pre-Kindergarten Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 18 (PreK Social Studies): Midyear Inquiry Project—Our World in Maps

Explore familiar places with maps and models as children observe their world, compare environments, and create a collaborative “Our World in Maps” display.

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Unit Plan 17 (PreK Social Studies): Holidays Around the World

Explore global holidays and family traditions with engaging PreK activities that celebrate food, music, clothing, and customs from diverse cultures.

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Unit Plan 16 (PreK Social Studies): Caring for Our Earth

Promote Earth care with PreK lessons on noticing nature, sorting recycling, and keeping spaces clean through simple, hands-on environmental actions.

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Unit Plan 15 (PreK Social Studies): People Adapt to Where They Live

Children explore how people adapt to cold, hot, and rainy places by choosing the right clothing and homes that keep them safe, dry, and comfortable.

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Unit Plan 14 (PreK Social Studies): My City and the Countryside

Compare city and countryside features as preschoolers observe natural and human-made places, noticing differences like buildings vs. fields and traffic vs. open space.

The Admin Angle

The Admin Angle: Don’t Pass Students Along Without Mastery (Build Smart Remediation Instead)

Discover how to replace social promotion with effective remediation systems that ensure student mastery, readiness, and confidence through targeted, evidence-based support.

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Pre-Kindergarten Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 13 (PreK Social Studies): Weather and the Environment

Help preschoolers observe and describe weather, compare outdoor places, and understand simple ways people use natural resources like trees, water, and sunlight every day.

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Pre-Kindergarten Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 12 (PreK Social Studies): Mapping Our Classroom

PreK children create simple maps and models of the classroom, noticing important places and how maps help us find where things are.

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Unit Plan 11 (PreK Social Studies): Where Things Are—Position Words

Help preschoolers learn position words like near, far, above, below, and next to through fun movement games and simple classroom maps for spatial awareness.

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Unit Plan 10 (PreK Social Studies): What Is a Place?

I help PreK children explore familiar places like home, school, and the park—what we do there and what we see outside—building early geography and observation skills.

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Unit Plan 9 (PreK Social Studies): Working and Helping Together

People work together in class and community to help others, take responsibility, and make group decisions through simple jobs and teamwork.

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Unit Plan 8 (PreK Social Studies): Helpers in Our Community

Community helpers keep us safe, healthy, and connected. Children learn about firefighters, doctors, police, and mail carriers through tools, workplaces, and helping actions.

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Unit Plan 7 (PreK Social Studies): Our Neighborhood

Teach PreK students to identify neighborhood places, what we do there, and the helpers who work to meet our needs, while noticing nature and weather outside.

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Unit Plan 6 (PreK Social Studies): My Family, My Home

Teach PreK students about families and homes by identifying family members, sharing traditions, exploring different homes, and learning basic needs vs wants.

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Unit Plan 5 (PreK Social Studies): Symbols of Our Classroom & School

Children learn classroom and school symbols like labels and logos, using them to find places, stay organized, and feel a sense of belonging in their community.

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Pre-Kindergarten Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 4 (PreK Social Studies): Being a Good Friend

Teach PreK students how to be a good friend with this 5-day social studies & SEL unit on sharing, taking turns, kindness projects, and building a caring classroom community.

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Unit Plan 3 (PreK Social Studies): Our Helpers at School

Explore school helpers, the tools they use, and how their jobs keep students safe, fed, and ready to learn while helping earn money for needs.

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Unit Plan 2 (PreK Social Studies): Rules Keep Us Safe

Help preschoolers explore why rules matter through play, stories, and art—building safe, fair, and kind classroom habits while helping others.

Pre-Kindergarten Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 1 (PreK Social Studies): Building Our Classroom Community

Build a caring PreK community where kids learn routines, share, take turns, and help keep the classroom safe, kind, and welcoming for everyone.

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K-2 Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan (Grades K-2): Nature’s Number Trail - A Comprehensive K–2 Math & Science Unit

Hands-on outdoor math unit where K–2 students collect natural objects, sort them by attributes, count and graph their findings, and create simple addition equations to connect nature exploration with number sense.

Kindergarten Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 36 (Grade K Social Studies): Cumulative Synthesis & Exhibition

Celebrates year-end learning as students create and guide simple stations for a “Kindergarten World Fair,” showcasing rules, helpers, maps, traditions, needs, wants, and caring actions.

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Kindergarten Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 35 (Grade K Social Studies): Taking Action Together

A Kindergarten social studies unit where students plan, vote on, and complete a simple class service project, learning to work together, help their school, and reflect on community action.

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Kindergarten Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 34 (Grade K Social Studies): Our Symbols and Traditions

Symbols and traditions help kindergarteners explore identity, community pride, and cultural connections.