The following is a
list of some book titles that could be used to tie literature with the
social studies standard. Other titles can be found in Literature
for History-Social Science, Kindergarten Through Grade Eight, by the California
Department of Education, 1993.
Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs,
by Tomie DePaola, Putnam, 1973
This is the story of a boy's relationships
with his grandmother and great-grandmother. When the great-grandmother
dies, she becomes Nana "upstairs."
The You and Me Heritage Tree:
Children's Crafts from 21 American Traditions, by Phyllis Fearotte, Workman,
1976
This book contains step-by-step instructions
for more than 100 craft projects that reflect 22 different ethnic traditions
in the United States.
The Patchwork Quilt, by Valerie Flournoy,
Dial, 1989
African-American family life is reflected
in this story of love, caring and a quilting project that is shared by
grandmother and grandchild.
Blackberries in the Dark, by Mavis
Jukes, Knopf, 1985
Austin's beloved grandfather has died.
In this gentle story, he and his grandmother come to terms with their loss
and discover a new relationship with each other.
Grandparents: A Special Kind
of Love, by Eda LeShan, Macmillan, 1984
Written with care and sensitivity, this book
explores the unique relationship between grandchildren and grandparents.
Advice for dealing with conflicts and problems between generations is simply
stated.
Collections for Young Scholars, Open Court
Publishing Company, 1995
1. Unit 5, Responsibility, " A Pair of
Red Clogs," (pages 14-35, Framework for Effective Teaching). This
story ties a bit of Japanese culture and dress with a lesson on being responsible
for your possessions.
*Check your Student Toolbox for cross-curricular
activities that tie in with this standard, especially 13 Social Studies-Clothing
in Other Countries, 14 Social Studies-Shoes Then and Now, and many other
ideas on the cards labeled in light green.
2. Unit 8, Our Country: E Pluribus Unum,
"Out of Many People, One Nation," (pages 382-405, Framework for Effective
Teaching). This story illustrates the diversity of America's people.
while there is one American people, the roots of America's people extend
to countries all around the world.
* Check your Student Toolbox for
cross-curricular activities that tie in with this standard, especially
22 Social Studies-Places We Came From, and many other ideas on the cards
labeled in light green.
The Music Connection 2, Silver Burdett Ginn,
1995
The following musical lessons have a Social
Studies connection which supports the teaching of this standard:
Concepts
1. Unit 23, Lesson 1, pages 102-103,
"My Father's House"
Themes
1. Unit 11, Lesson 4, pages 184-185,
"Thanksgiving"
Schools of California Online Resources for
Education
Connecting California's Classrooms to the
World
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
This website is filled with resources and
lessons by grade level. Just click on to second grade, People Who
Make a Difference and you will find lessons that support this standard.
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From Footsteps to Flight
http://rims.k12.ca.us/
score/activity/
foot_to_flight/
Description: Interested in transportation?
Learn about how people progressed from walking to flying through exhibits
in this web museum. There are separate exhibits for boats, ships, horses,
wagons, trains, autos, and airplanes. Come join the fun reviewing the pictures
and doing the activities.
Comments: This is a wonderful unit on transportation
by Liz Rickett, Washington Elementary in Montebello.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
Grand Hall - Canadian Museum of Civilization
http://www.cmcc.muse.
digital.ca/cmc/cmceng/
grandeng.html
Description: The Grand Hall of this museum
has six Pacific coast Indian house facades connected by a shoreline and
boardwalk.
Comments: Graphics, detailed information,
activities, and Quicktime movies available, but younger students will need
adult help with reading.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
Kid's Window - Learn About Japan
http://www.jwindow.net/
category/kids.html
Description: Here are graphic links to library
(stories), restaurant (food), gallery (art), and school (language lessons
& origami).
Comments: This has links to many sites. It
has origami lessons, Japanese dictionary, stories in Japanese and English,
and great resources.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
Old Sturbridge Village
http://www.osv.org/
Description: This virtual museum tour of Old
Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts, with music, photos and descriptions
gives a window on life during the early national period of America.
Comments: This site could also serve as a
model for creating a virtual museum classroom project.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
African Stories
http://www.umich.edu/
~aaps/africa_stories/
Description: This site, developed by Huron
High School students, retells African stories from ancient and modern times.
The site also offers an opportunty for students to e-mail their responses
to these stories.
Comments: This is a model for the type of
student project other schools could do.
Resource Type: Literature/Story
Graphics Content: High
Rhymes & Nonsense
http://www.thekids.com/
kids/stories/rhymes/
Description: Rhymes and nonsense from many
centuries. English sources only. Illustrated.
Comments: Historical background of nursery
rhymes with great illustrations.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
Splendors of Ancient Egypt
http://www.chron.com/
content/interactive/
voyager/egypt/education/
educator.htm
Description: The more that 60 exquisite Ancient
Egyptian artifacts at this Houston Museum of Fine Arts site are supplemented
with a Real Audio discussion, student questions and background information
for teachers.
Comments: To get the full benefit of this
site, you need a Real Audio player.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
Statue of Liberty Facts, News and Information
http://www.endex.com/
gf/buildings/liberty/
liberty.html
Description: This site contains facts, news
and information about the Statue of Liberty.
Comments: Don't miss the virtual tour done
by Queensbury Middle School and their page devoted to the idea that we
may not know what we THINK we know about Ellis Island "
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
Stories From Everywhere
http://www.thekids.com
Description: Tales to tell for entertainment
about seeing how far out imagination can go and still come back to
"Happily Ever After ".
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
American Thanksgiving Tradition
http://www.plimoth.org/
Library/Thanksgiving/
thanksgi.htm
Description: Most of what we know about the
1621 event comes from the first-hand accounts of Governor William Bradford
and Master Edward Winslow, leaders of the young colony. Other facts can
be gleaned by studying English harvest home traditions, available foodstuffs
and cooking techniques, Separatist religious practices and 17th-Century
English social patterns and customs. Here is a collection of information
on all these subjects, prepared by Plimoth Plantation museum staff.
Comments: Compare the information found here
with the story of Thanksgiving found in a piece of children's literature.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
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1. Who's Who
in Room ____
To assist students in getting used to
using a map, take a survey of all the nationalities represented in your
classroom. You may need parental assistance to ensure accurate information.
Put up a large map of the world. Use yarn to locate the places on
the map represented by the nationalities in your classroom.
2. Family Crest
Social Studies Activity
Children can begin to think about their family
histories and their own lives by making a family crest. See this
website:
http://www.eduplace.com/
rdg/gen_act/family/f_crest.html
3. Where We Came From
Social Studies Activity
Children will explore their family heritage.
See this website:
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/
gen_act/family/where.html
4. Houghton Mifflin Activity Search
http://hmco.com/hmco/school/
search/activity.html
This website provides teachers in Grades K-8
with lesson plans for a variety of topics, including activities that support
this standard.
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Footsteps to Flight
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/foot_to_flight/
Follow the history of transportation from
the beginning of time until today. Let your imagination go as you enjoy
the activities in each room of this wonderful online museum.
Author: Liz Rickett
European Immigrant Journey Museum
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/immigrant/
immigrantmus.html
Follow the journey of immigrants from Europe
as they prepare for their journey to America, sail across the ocean, arrive
in the new world and migrate to their new home across the U.S. This site
is a perfect companion to Joan Sandin's books Long Way to a New Land and
The Long Way Westward.
Author: Gregg Legutki
Family Reunion Day
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/reunion/
Your relatives have asked you to use your
school's Internet-linked computer to create a family history. Are you up
to the challenge?
Author: Raleigh Conner
A New Coat for Anna
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/
score/annas/annastg.htm
This unit is designed as an cross-curricular
study of A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert. This supplemental unit
provides resources for students in first and second grade to understand
how people acquire goods and services. More specifically, the children
will learn about the process involved in making a coat, from sheep to clothing.
Based on a true story, the book A New Coat for Anna follows Anna and her
mother through their home town in post-World War Two Europe as they take
the required steps to get a badly needed new winter coat for Anna even
though money is in short supply.
Author: Pam McGregor
Abuela's Weave
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/
curriculum/socialstd/grade3/
Abuelas_Weave.html
A Young Guatemalan girl and her grandmother
weave some special creations and then make a trip to market. Learn about
the difference between handmade and manufactured items.
Author: Barbara Yingling
Games from Around the World
http://www.kconnect.com/
kc-ATW.html
Play counting, word and dice games from Japan,
colonial America, and Africa and learn while doing so.
Holidays Around the World
http://ctap.fcoe.k12.ca.us/
ctap/Lessons/
Holidays.Lesson
Learn about holidays around the world. Make
a holiday calendar using the Internet for sources. Classify holidays as
celebrations of religions, local events, national events and heroes.
Author: Classroom Connect
Japan
http://multimedia2.freac.
fsu.edu/fga/academy/
k1japan.htm#activity1
Have fun learning about Japan by studying
maps, making a clay volcano, cooking rice balls, creating a carp kite,
constructing a fan and doing loads of other activities.
Author: Marie Holland and Jeffrey Potter
Land and People in Mexico
http://multimedia2.freac.
fsu.edu/fga/academy/
k1mexico.htm
Experience the land, people and culture of
California's nearest international neighbor. Compare families here and
there, cook traditional Mexican foods, make a festival mask, and enjoy
many more exciting activities.
Author: Pat Sloan and Mary Sullivan
Life in Brazil
http://multimedia2.freac.
fsu.edu/fga/academy
/k1brazil.htm
Explore the land and people of Brazil. Learn
by growing rainforest terrariums, cooking traditional foods, dancing a
Bahias and many more exciting things.
Author: Mary Haynes
Little House in the Big Woods
http://www.sdcoe.k12.
ca.us/score/little/
littletg.html
Using Little House in the Big Woods as the
starting point, learn what it was like to live in a log cabin, make maple
syrup, and write a letter from a pioneer. This is a Cyber Guide lesson
from the Language Arts SCORE website.
Author: Lynne Hanan
Long Way to a New Land
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/
score/long/longtg.html
Read Long Way to a New Land by Joan Sandin
and expand your learning through these interesting SCORE Language Arts
CyberGuide activities. Make a choice about whether to immigrate to America,
write about what you would pack for your trip, make a map and write a letter
home.
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/
curriculum/socialstd/grade5/
Sweet_Clara.html
This lesson is based on a true, little-known
chapter in African American history retold by Deborah Hopkinson. As a seamstress
in the Big House, Clara knows she's better off than the slaves who work
the fields. But slavery has separated Clara from her mother, and she can
never be happy. Clara dreams that they will be reunited one day and run
away together - north to freedom. She sees how to use the cloth in her
scrap bag to sew a map of the land - a freedom quilt - that no master will
ever suspect is a map to freedom. To access this lesson, click on "return
to Social Studies Overview page" and then on "Economics and Geography Lessons
for 32 Children's Books." Select the title from the list.
Author: Patricia King Robeson
Three Young Pilgrims
http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu/
resources/ed_lesson_plans/
socst/Brower.html
This literature-enriched unit can be used
in classes without classroom Internet hook-up. Students learn about the
everyday life of Pilgrims, their trip to America, and how they settled
Plymouth.
Author: Michelle Brower
Uncle Jed's Barbershop
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/
curriculum/socialstd/grade2/
Uncle_Jed.html
Using the children's story Uncle Jed's Barbershop
by Margaree Mitchell, students discover not only the differences between
life now and long ago, but how the same economic principles still apply.
In the early 1900s, Uncle Jed is saving his money to buy his own barbershop,
but when his niece needs an operation, or when he loses his $3,000 savings
during a Great Depression bank closure, he must save much longer than he
once planned.
Author: Patricia King Robeson
Where We Came From
http://www.eduplace.com/
rdg/gen_act/family/where.html
Make a map showing the countries from which
the families of the children in your classroom came.
Author: Houghton Mifflin
World of Puppets
http://www.itdc.sbcss
.k12.ca.us/curriculum/
puppetry.html
Do you like the puppets on Sesame Street?
People all over the world love puppets. Come with us to see them in Japan,
Indonesia and Vietnam. Then make a puppet, write a puppet play and hold
your own show for children in another class.
Author: Cathy Jennings
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After studying a particular
culture, ask children to write a list of things someone might do in one
day that tell about their traditions learned from that culturem or family.
* Ask children to draw a picture of a tradition
learned from a family.
Have teams of children role play a conversation
between a child and one of his grandparents. Have them discuss how the
child's childhood is different from and the same as the grandparent's childhood.
* Ask children to pantomime an activity that
either a child or his grandparents enjoyed in their childhood. Have children
guess the activity and identify it as child's from today or a grandparent's
from another culture.
* Ask children to draw a picture of a child
celebrating two traditions, one that is from Mexico, and one from the United
States.
*Ask children to imagine they are a child from
another culture and they are writing a letter home to a friend in the country
which you may have just studied after living in Boston for a month. Have
them tell their friends what their new life is like and what they have
had to learn. They may either write or dictate their letters.
*Have children brainstorm a list things they
learned from one of their ancestors, such as stories, a sports skill, a
lesson about what is right and wrong, a way to celebrate a holiday, how
to cook a special food, and so on. Pair children with partners and have
them take turns teaching or explaining that thing to their partner.
* Ask children to draw a picture of themselves
with one of their ancestors during a time when they were learning from
that relative.
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Students should be able to trace the history
of a family through the use of primary and secondary sources,
including artifacts, photographs, interviews,
and documents.
They are able to compare and contrast their
daily lives with those of their parents, grandparents, and/or
guardians.
Students should be able to place important
events in their lives in the order in which they occurred (e.g., on a time
line or storyboard).
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