Collections for Young
Scholars, Open Court Publishing Company, 1995
1. Unit 5/Responsibility, "The Tale of
Peter Rabbit" (pages 66-83, Framework for Effective Teaching). In
this story we face the responsibilities of respect and obedience to authority
and of regard for other people's property. We also see the consequences
of failure to meet these responsibilities.
*Check your Student Toolbox for cross-curricular
activities that tie in with this standard. See the cards labeled
in light green.
The Music Connection 2, Silver Burdett Ginn,
1995
The following musical lesson has a Social
Studies connection which supports the teaching of this standard:
Themes
1. Unit 8, Lesson 3, pages 160-161
"Working Together"
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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Capitol Project with Graphic Archives, Maps
& Virtual Tour
http://xroads.virginia.edu/
~CAP/cap_home.html
Description: This site links to statuary,
portraits, and busts in the capitol, plus a virtual tour of the rotunda,
and maps of many locations in Washington, D.C.
Comments: This site is inked to many of the
icons of American history.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
Kennedy Space Center
http://www.spaceportusa.
com/main.html
Description: Everything about space travel
can be found here. Before you travel to space you must stop here to learn
what has already happened and what is planned for the future.
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: High
Welcome to the White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
WH/kids/html/home.html
Description: Socks, the First Cat, helps children
understand the importance of the White House to their country's history.
Comments: Socks the First Cat, takes the young
student on a tour of the White House giving children a sense of its importance
in their lives.
Resource Type: True
Graphics Content: True
Salt Trader's Justice
http://www.thekids.com
/kids/stories/world
/salttrader/
salttrader.1st.html
Description: This is a story about law and
government in ancient Egypt. It shows how difficult it was for a simple
man to prove he was not a liar to the court when so many others were.
Resource Type: True
Graphics Content: True
How Ideas Become Laws
http://www.assembly
.ca.gov/kids/kids1/
kids1.htm
Description: Students learn the steps in turning
ideas into laws as they as they become active participants in the process.
This site is brought to you by the California Assembly.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
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1. 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.
2. The Mediation Process In The Primary
Grades
In this lesson students will be able to list
the steps in the mediation process, and students will role-play the mediation
process in a variety of situations. See this website:
http://www.courts.wa.gov/
educate/lessons/Mediatio.htm
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What Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights?
http://www.civiced.org
/wtp_elem21_sb.html
Suppose your government does everything it
can to protect your rights. Is this enough? Will your rights be protected?
Do we have any responsibility to protect not only our own rights, but each
other's as well?
Author: We the People
Why Do We Need Authority?
http://www.civiced.org/
fod_elem_auth02_sb.html
Learn why authority in society is important
and some uses of authority. Examine a situation in which there is no effective
authority and identify problems which the lack of authority creates. Note:
This lesson will take teacher support but the concept is accessible and
interesting to young students.
Author: Foundations of Democracy
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Assessment
Write this sentence starter and have students
finish it:
Our country is like a big family because ___________.
Encourage students to illustrate their sentence.
* Have students illustrate a poster entitled
"We Are One Country."
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Students are able to explain how the United
States and other countries make laws, carry out laws, determine whether
laws have been violated, and punish wrongdoers.
They describe the ways in which groups and
nations interact with one another to try to resolve problems in such areas
as trade, cultural contacts, treaties, diplomacy, and military force.
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