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1st and 2nd Grade Community and Culture Lesson Plans

Students will learn about the different kinds of houses people live in around the world and how they relate to a culture, environment, and country. 

Houses and Homes Around the World

Teach your students to recognize systems in the world around them by identifying systems that exist in their classroom.

Exploring Systems with a Classroom Systems Hunt

Help your students become global citizens with this lesson that teaches the about culture. Students will explore their culture and the cultures of their classmates in this engaging, hands-on activity.

What is Culture?

Aid your students in becoming the best citizens they can be with this lesson that teaches students how to be, and what makes, a good citizen.

What is a Good Citizen?

In this hands on activity students will explore the advantages and disadvantages of specialization and interdependence through their creation of paper bugs.

Build a Bug!

Have your students experience the act of trading goods and services with bartering. In this activity, students will have the opportunity to make a deal, in order to get what they want. Better yet, make a deal without spending a cent!

Goods and Services: Let's Make a Deal!

In this lesson, your students will use their imaginations to picture why all communities need laws. Help them brainstorm the important role that laws and rules play in a variety of communities through these engaging activities.

Law of the Land

In this lesson, students will develop an understanding of communities and will learn how to locate their communities on a map.

My Community and I

How? In this lesson, your students will become familiar with using this question word to investigate how things work.

Ask Me How

What kinds of homes do we live in? In this lesson, students will explore and describe different types of homes. By the end of this lesson, students will have created a visual of their own homes and write about them!

Here Are Our Homes

Students will use their artistic and directional skills as they practice drawing maps and giving directions. By the time it’s done, everyone will know which way is the right way to go!

Plan That Trip

If you ask your students if they need ice cream, the answer may surprise you! In this lesson, your students will be able differentiate between wants and needs.

Do I Need It? Wants vs. Needs

Children need to understand the differences between goods and services and why both of them are important. Children will learn that and more with this lesson that teaches them about everyone's roles in the economy.

Kindergarten Economics: Goods and Services

Kids will enjoy hearing the story On Market Street as they become familiar with goods and services. From apples to zippers, students will understand how people buy goods, and how others provide services in our lives. 

Goods and Services: On Market Street

Your students will be mesmerized with models after this engaging and hands on lesson that gets students up and moving as they explore their community!

Make a Model of Your Community

What's the difference? In this lesson, your students will learn to describe what living in an urban, rural, and a suburban area is like.

Different Communities

Help your students make the connection between what they're learning in school and how adults use math in everyday life with this art lesson. Students will sharpen their critical thinking skills and share their ideas for the future.

Career Math

Our community relies on different kinds of resources to operate successfully. In this lesson, your students will learn how capital, human, and natural resources are all important for the functioning of a productive society.

3 Types Of Resources

It’s not a bird! It’s not a plane! It’s a Super Citizen! In this superhero lesson on citizenship, students will learn about the concepts of good citizenship while simultaneously getting a lesson on positive behavior! 

Superhero Citizens

Help your kids learn about landmarks with this lesson that takes them on a field trip around the school and has them record their findings in writing.

Landmarks Scavenger Hunt

Who is who in your school community? In this lesson, students will learn about the people who work at their school and how everyone helps each other to keep the school running safely.

Helpers in Our School Community

What do you use to make what you need? Resources! Students will explore the three kinds of resources producers use to create the products the use and sell. 

One, Two, Three Resources!

From teachers to farmers, many people and things together comprise a community. In this social studies lesson, students will identify and illustrate their dream community by making a pop-up card.

Pop-Up Communities

In this lesson, students collaborate to create a class-wide behavior contract. With your guidance, your class will develop and implement their own set of classroom rules.

Creating a Behavior Contract in Your Classroom

Do your students respect their peers' opinions? This lesson teaches first graders that their opinions matter by encouraging them to write out opinions and back them up with reasons.

Do First Grade Opinions Matter?

In this lesson, your students will learn how to identify what direction they are going when they move from one place to another. They'll be able to visually see directions in the classroom.

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1st and 2nd Grade Community and Culture Lesson Plans