Year Long Plan: Goals and Questions

In class I chose to focus on first grade for my year long plan. I am the only person in the class focusing on first grad for the year long plan. This meant that I had virtually no one to bounce ideas off of for the goals and questions A.J. asked us to come up with. I’m not complaining, the advantage I had was to sit literally between kindergarten and second grade and listen to them. I also snagged their content standards and compared them to my own grade level. Still I’m not a hundred percent sure I like what I came up with for goals and questions so I’ve posted them below and am asking for input on how to make them better. Please feel free to rip them apart and give constructive criticism. I really want to make them better.

• Goal (Idaho Content Standard Grade 1: Reference)
• Question
• Understand how cultures make up our community. (ICSG1: 1.1 & 5.1)
• What are the similarities and differences between people in the community?
• Identify different continents and general cultures around the world. (ICSG1: 2.1 & 2.2)
• What are similarities and differences between people around the world?
• Identify ways people use money in our community. (ICSG1: 3.1)
• What are the differences between “needs” and “wants”?
• How do we use money to get "needs" and "wants"?
• Identify how the community creates and enforces rule/laws. (ICSG1: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3)
• How does the community create and enforce rules/laws?

 Idaho Content Standards Grade 1:

• 1.1: Build an understanding of the cultural and social development of the United States.
• 2.1Analyze the spatial organizations of people, places, and environment on the earth’s surface.
• 2.2: Explain how human actions modify the physical environment and how physical systems affect  humanactivity and living conditions.
• 3.1: Explain basic economic concepts.
• 4.1: Build an understanding of the foundational principles of the American political system.
• 4.2: Build an understanding of the organization of the American system of government.
• 4.3: Build an understanding that all people in the United States have rights and assume responsibilities.
• 5.1: Build an understanding of multiple perspectives and global interdependence.