Students explore the people and places that make up their school — teachers, the principal, the nurse, the library, and more — discovering how everyone works together so students can learn and be safe.
Students will be able to…
A school is a busy place with lots of helpers and special rooms. Who works at your school, and what happens in each place?
Project this and tap each school helper and place. Talk about how everyone works together to help students learn and stay safe.
Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.
Besides your teacher, who else helps at school?
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.
Explain the need for and purposes of rules in various settings.
Follow agreed-upon rules for the school community.
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 of their school showing the classroom, library, cafeteria, and playground. A printable school-map page 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.