Little Social Studies Thinkers  is a complete social studies curriculum specifically for primary.  It’s everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your primary friends.  It incorporates many state standards for 1st grade. This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Karen Jones.

UNIT 5: Geography teaches students how jobs and money affect people in a community. It contains lessons on these specific topics:

Tools for Geography
All About Maps
Manmade Structures
Landforms
Bodies of Water
Continents
Oceans
Where We Live

Little Social Studies Thinkers  is a complete social studies curriculum specifically for primary.  It’s everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your primary friends.  It incorporates many state standards for 1st grade. This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Karen Jones.

UNIT 4: Community Economics teaches students how jobs and money affect people in a community. It contains lessons on these specific topics:

Working in a Community
Earning Income
Wants and Needs
Goods and Services in a Community
Natural Resources and how they contribute to G/S
Producers and Consumers
Supply and Demand
Choices about Money

Little Social Studies Thinkers is a complete social studies curriculum specifically for primary. It’s everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your primary friends. It incorporates many state standards for 1st grade. This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Karen Jones.

UNIT 3: Holidays Around the World teaches students about holiday traditions and customs. It takes children on a tour all around the world to learn about holidays, celebrations, and traditions in different countries and continents. This unit explicitly teaches these holidays:

Mexico: Las Posadas
Germany: Christmas
Italy: Christmas
Sweden: Saint Lucia Day and Christmas
India: Diwali
Israel: Hanukkah
Australia: Christmas
United States: Kwanzaa
Africa/Middle East: Eid al-Fitr
Canada/U.S.: Christmas

Little Social Studies Thinkers is a complete social studies curriculum specifically for primary.  It’s everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your primary friends.  It incorporates many state standards for 1st grade. This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Karen Jones.

UNIT 2: Families, Long Ago & Today teaches students about how families have changed over time. It also explores diversity within the family structure and within our communities. It contains lessons on these specific topics:

Past, Present, and the Future
Using Books, Photos, and Artifacts to learn about the Past
Making a Timeline
Life Long Ago and Today
Diversity within a Community
Our Families
Our Family and Cultural Traditions

Little Social Studies Thinkers is a complete social studies curriculum specifically for primary.  It’s everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your primary friends.  It incorporates many state standards for 1st grade. This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Karen Jones.

UNIT 1: Responsible Citizenship is great for the beginning of the school year. It introduces students to rules and specific things that they can do to become a responsible citizen. It contains lessons on these specific topics:

What rules are
What laws are and how they are different than rules
How to show respect and responsibility
Good and bad choices
Friendship and honesty
Why teamwork is important
What is perseverance and how can we persevere
Good sportsmanship

Little 1st grade Social Studies Thinkers  is a complete Social Studies curriculum specifically for First Grade.  It’s everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your students.  It is cross-referenced and written to address the main topics of many 1st grade Social Studies Standards.

This full year-long curriculum contains lessons for the whole year. There are 5 full unit plans and 2 mini-units. Please note, this is a digital file download.