Students explore what makes a family — the people who care for each other — and discover that families come in all shapes and sizes, but every one shares love and helps its members.
Students will be able to…
Everyone’s family is a little different. What makes a group of people a family, and what do families do for each other?
Project this and tap each family member. Talk about who is in a family and how families care for one another.
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Who takes care of you and loves you at home?
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.
Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks and establish responsibilities.
Compare life in the past to life today.
Describe how people have tried to improve their communities.
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 family tree with the people in their family and label who each one is. A printable family-tree page is in the Social Studies library.
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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.