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🗺️ 1st Grade · Social StudiesD2.Civ.1.K-2Unit 1: Rules, leaders & good citizens

Leaders

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🎯 Objective: Students describe leaders such as the principal, mayor and president.

Lesson outline

  1. Leader cards.
  2. Discuss jobs.
  3. Interview the principal.
  4. Exit: one leader.

Lesson 2 of 4 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.Civ.1.K-2

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain rules at home, school and community
  • Describe leaders and how they are chosen
  • Show good citizenship

✅ 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”.

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  4. Good citizens

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