Students explore the places in a neighborhood — home, school, the store, the park, the library, and the doctor — learning what people do at each one.
Students will be able to…
Your neighborhood has lots of places you go. What are they, and what do people do at each one?
Project this map and tap each place. Have students tell what people do there — home, school, store, park, and more.
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Where do you go besides home — school? the park?
Students investigate.
Explore more.
Think it through.
Students take action.
Aligned to the C3 Framework for Social Studies and Common Core literacy in social studies.
Construct maps, graphs, and other representations of familiar places.
Use maps and other representations to describe places in the community.
Use maps and models to identify characteristics of places.
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have students draw a simple map showing the places they pass on the way to school. A printable map page is in the Social Studies library.
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A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.
A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.