My Community and Me, Civics for Grades K-2 FLEX

Lessons for this class will be uploaded once a week. Students will have access to printable resources that they can use to complete learning tasks to show their understanding of the concepts. 

To solidify their understanding and to interact with other students, students will upload videos to Flipgrid each week. 

Session 1:  Learn the definition of a communities and comparing different types of communities. Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community. Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks, establish responsibilities, and fulfill roles of authority.
Students will
--differentiate between urban, suburban, and rural communities
--Answer the following questions through a gallery walk. What parts of your community exist to make positive difference? What parts of your community are the most interesting to you? What part of your community is the most in need of help?
--play Community Battleship 
--learn about the importance of the roles our in communities and compare our communities to each others'.
--identify common tasks that communities have (education, health care, safety etc.)
--create pop-up communities that address all the needs of a community (including leaders, protectors, sustenances, citizens, and shelters). 

Session 2: Describe roles and responsibilities of people in authority.  Explain the need for and purposes of rules in various settings inside and outside of school. Identify and explain how rules function in public settings. Explain what governments are and some of their functions.  Explain how people can work together to make decisions.
Students will:
--explore the difference between power and authority. 
--act out skits with examples of authority and power
--connect their understanding of authority to those in our community with authority 
--discuss their house rules and consider the purpose of those rules
--create a circle map comparing rules to laws


Session 3-4: Describe democratic principles such as equality, fairness, and respect for legitimate authority and rules. Describe how people have tried to improve their communities over time.
--discover what type of government we have and the three branches that make it up
--examine items that our tax money pays for
--learn to make decisions together as a group
--examine what it means to be a citizen of a community, a state, a country, and the world
--discover the difference between equal and fair
--identify ways children can exercise good citizenship and service to their communities