Pre-Kindergarten Social Studies Units

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

Pre-Kindergarten Social Studies Units

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

Celebrate PreK learning with a fun “World Fair” showcasing family stories, helpers, maps, places, and traditions through student-made exhibits.

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Unit Plan 35 (PreK Social Studies): Our Place in the World

Help preschoolers explore where they live and belong—from home to the wider world—through maps, globes, and celebrations that build global awareness.

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Unit Plan 34 (PreK Social Studies): Taking Action in Our Community

Help PreK students plan and complete a simple service project—sharing ideas, voting together, and taking action to support their school community.

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Unit Plan 33 (PreK Social Studies): Caring for Others and Our World

Help PreK children practice kindness, responsibility, and caring for people, the classroom, and the environment through simple, everyday actions.

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Unit Plan 32 (PreK Social Studies): Our Symbols and Traditions

Celebrate community and national symbols with songs, stories, and traditions that build belonging, respect, and pride in PreK learners.

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Unit Plan 31 (PreK Social Studies): Sharing and Trading

Teach kids fair sharing, trading, and teamwork through pretend market play while learning to use and care for classroom resources together.

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

People work to earn money, meet needs, and help others; children learn fair sharing and trading through play and community helper activities.

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Unit Plan 29 (PreK Social Studies): Jobs and Workers

People in our community have jobs, use tools, help others, and earn money to meet their needs—introducing helpers children see at school and in their neighborhood.

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Unit Plan 28 (PreK Social Studies): Needs and Wants

Help PreK children learn the difference between needs and wants, explore resources like trees and water, and make smart choices through play and sorting activities.

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Unit Plan 27 (PreK Social Studies): Midyear Review—People, Places, and Stories

Review civics, geography, history with songs, stories, sequencing; kids ask questions, notice change, share people, places, celebrations.

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Unit Plan 26 (PreK Social Studies): Tools and Technology Then and Now

Tools change over time—kids compare old vs. new, explore materials like wood and metal, and see how technology helps people work more easily.

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Unit Plan 25 (PreK Social Studies): Working Together Through Time

Help PreK children explore how people long ago worked together to farm, build, and trade—connecting past teamwork to helping others today.

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Unit Plan 24 (PreK Social Studies): My Family History

Help PreK children talk about their families, share simple traditions, and describe how they’ve grown using first/next/last in short personal stories.

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Unit Plan 23 (PreK Social Studies): Traditions and Celebrations

Explore diverse family celebrations while practicing kindness, respect, and inclusion during shared traditions in PreK social studies.

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Unit Plan 22 (PreK Social Studies): Stories from Long Ago

Enjoy stories of family life long ago and retell them with pictures and words while exploring how traditions change and stay the same over time.

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Unit Plan 21 (PreK Social Studies): Important People and Heroes

Meet community helpers and heroes through stories and play, learning how they keep us safe, help others, and make our world fairer.

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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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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.

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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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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.