Students zoom out from their own home to their city, state, country, and the whole world — discovering that they live in many places at once, each one nested inside a bigger one.
Students will be able to…
You live in one home — but also in a city, a state, a country, and the world, all at the same time! How can you live in so many places at once?
Project this and tap each ring, from your home in the center out to the whole world. Show how each place fits inside a bigger one.
Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.
Do you live in a home? A city? A country? (All of them!)
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, globes, and other simple geographic representations to describe places.
Use maps and models to identify characteristics of places.
Know and use text features to locate key facts or information.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have students write their full “place address” — home, city, state, country, continent, planet — from smallest to biggest. A printable nested-places sheet is in the Social Studies library.
Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.
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.