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🗺️ 1st Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.3.K-2Unit 5: Cultures & celebrations

Celebrations around the world

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🎯 Objective: Students compare celebrations in different cultures.

Lesson outline

  1. Read alouds.
  2. Compare.
  3. Craft.
  4. Exit: one celebration.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.His.3.K-2

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe cultures and celebrations around the world

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎉 Holidays🦫 Encyclopedia: Countries⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Cultures & celebrations”

  1. What is culture?
  2. Celebrations around the world
  3. Our class culture book

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