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🗺️ 1st Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.1.K-2Unit 2: Families & life then and now

My timeline

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🎯 Objective: Students make a timeline of their own life.

Lesson outline

  1. Model a timeline.
  2. Draw events.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: one event.

Lesson 1 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.His.1.K-2

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Compare daily life in the past and today
  • Use a timeline

✅ 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

🎂 Age calculator🦫 Encyclopedia: Countries🎉 Holidays⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Families & life then and now”

  1. My timeline
  2. School long ago
  3. Transportation then and now
  4. Interview a grown-up

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