Grade K Social Studies Units

Explore Kindergarten Social Studies unit plans with standards-aligned lessons that build community awareness, map skills, and early civic understanding.

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

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

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Unit Plan 33 (Grade K Social Studies): Caring for Our World and Each Other

Teach kindness and responsibility as children practice caring for people and the environment through daily actions and a simple class service project.

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Unit Plan 32 (Grade K Social Studies): Natural and Human Resources

Discover how natural resources, workers, and human-made features like roads and buildings work together to create everyday products for kindergarten learners.

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Unit Plan 31 (Grade K Social Studies): Making Choices and Sharing

Help kindergarteners practice choices, saving, trading, sharing, and voting through fair, simple activities that build economic understanding and classroom community.

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Unit Plan 30 (Grade K Social Studies): Working to Earn and Help

Kindergarten students learn why people work, how money helps meet needs and wants, and practice making choices through saving, spending, and simple class market activities.

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Unit Plan 29 (Grade K Social Studies): Goods and Services Around Us

Goods and services help our community run—this unit teaches kids to identify each, explore community helpers, and understand that people work to earn money and help others.

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Unit Plan 28 (Grade K Social Studies): Needs and Wants

Help kindergarteners learn needs vs. wants through sorting, stories, and a class store that teaches choices with limited resources.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade K Social Studies): Midyear Review—People and Places Over Time

Review key kindergarten social studies skills by sequencing events, identifying past vs. present, recognizing important people and traditions, and using simple sources to understand change over time.

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Unit Plan 26 (Grade K Social Studies): Tools and Technology Through Time

Explore how tools and inventions changed from past to present, helping people work, communicate, and do important jobs in the community.

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Unit Plan 25 (Grade K Social Studies): Work and Jobs in the Past and Today

Explore how community jobs provide goods or services and compare tools workers used long ago with how those same jobs look today.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade K Social Studies): Family History and Culture

Explore how families grow, change, and celebrate traditions as students create simple timelines and share cultural practices through questions, drawings, and stories.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade K Social Studies): Change Over Time

Introduce kindergarteners to how everyday objects change over time by comparing old and new toys, tools, and clothing, using photos and stories to sort items and identify key details.

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Unit Plan 22 (Grade K Social Studies): Stories from the Past

Stories from long ago come alive as children explore real people and places, use pictures and maps as sources, and practice retelling key details with simple sequence words.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade K Social Studies): Important People and Holidays

Important people and holidays that teach fairness, freedom, and helping others, while introducing children to leaders and helpers who keep communities safe.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade K Social Studies): Long Ago and Today

Compare past and present through transportation, communication, and homes, helping kindergarteners identify changes using pictures, materials, workers, and simple timelines.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade K Social Studies): Our Daily Timeline

Help children understand daily routines by sequencing school-day events using “first,” “next,” and “last,” building simple timelines to strengthen time awareness and order.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade K Social Studies): Midyear Inquiry Project—My World

A kindergarten unit where students create a “My World” class book using maps, helpers, weather, and caring-for-places to show understanding of their home, school, and community.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade K Social Studies): Different Kinds of Homes and Places

Explore how different homes reflect their environments, materials, and cultures while helping kindergarteners compare where people live around the world.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade K Social Studies): School and Community Symbols

Explore how school and community symbols—like flags, mascots, songs, and signs—teach belonging, respect, and teamwork through listening, sharing, and simple voting.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade K Social Studies): Family Traditions and Celebrations

Celebrate family traditions with kindness—this unit helps kindergarteners share, compare, and respect diverse celebrations while learning about important people and holidays.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade K Social Studies): Caring for Our Environment

Teach children to respect and care for shared spaces by keeping classrooms, playgrounds, and nature clean through simple, responsible daily actions.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade K Social Studies): Weather and the World Around Us

Weather unit for kindergarten where children observe daily conditions, explore local features, and learn how weather affects clothing, activities, and caring for places.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade K Social Studies): Our Neighborhood on a Map

Explore neighborhood places with simple maps as kids learn to identify buildings, parks, and roads and understand how human-made features help communities.