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FIRST GRADE
NVACS-SS ALIGNED INQUIRY LESSONS
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- What Was Life Like in the Past for People in Our Community?
- Who Makes Our Community Great?
- Can Conflict Be Productive? (Train Trench)
- Who Are We? A Study of Culture
- Why is the Truckee River Important to Our Community?
- What Choices Do We Make With Our Money?
- Where Do the Things We Use, Eat, and Play With Come From?
C3 INQUIRY LESSONS
- What Choices Do We Make With Our Money?
- How Can Families Be the Same and Different?
- What Do Family Stories Tell Us About the Past?
- Do I Have to Like Everyone?
- Why Should I Be a Global Citizen?
- How Do Maps Talk to Us?
- Can My Life Fit on a Map?
- Is the President the Most Important Person in Government?
- If We Live in the Present, Why Should We Care About the Past?
TEACHING GEOGRAPHICAL THINKING BY OUR SPACIAL BRAINS
VISIBLE THINKING LESSONS
READ ALOUD PROJECT LESSONS (Requires outside texts)
- Amazing Grace
- Charlotte’s Web
- Dear Children of the Earth, A Letter from Home
- Duck for President
- Martin’s Big Words
- My Great Aunt Arizona
- Samuel Eaton’s Day
- Ways People Live
- Where Do I Live?
- Who’s Buying? Who’s Selling? Understanding Consumers and Producers
READ ALOUDS TO BUILD KNOWLEDGE AND VOCABULARY (Requires outside texts)
- Miss Moore Thought Otherwise/ My Librarian is a Camel
- This is How We Do It: One Day in the Life of Seven Kids
- A Bike Like Sergio’s
- Vivian and the Legend of the Hoodoos
- Grandma Drove the Garbage Truck
- Alex and the Amazing Lemonade Stand
- The Curious Garden
CORE KNOWLEDGE DBQs
- Core Knowledge DBQ Different Lands Similar Stories
- Core Knowledge DBQ World Civilizations
- Core Knowledge DBQ Fables and Stories
- Core Knowledge DBQ A New Nation
CORE KNOWLEDGE ZOOM INS