Project Based Learning: Students will engage in inquiry and project-based learning for social studies. For example, during our unit when learning about inventors, students will create their own invention. Our first inquiry project will focus on civics and government while integrated with our reading series.

What is project based learning?

Project-based learning is a dynamic classroom approach in which students actively explore real-world problems and challenges and acquire a deeper knowledge.

Project: Develop a community for families. Include values, laws, jobs, building design, transportation, and how to acknowledge different cultures.

Unit Questions

1. What is a value?
2. What is a community and why are values important for a community?
3. What do we notice about communities?
4. Why are rules and laws important for life in our community?
5. How is a neighborhood community organized?
6. How do maps help us understand our world?
7. What can we learn about buildings by observing their architectural features?
8. Transportation is the way that people travel from place to place. How does transportation help a community function?
9. What businesses help a community?
10. How does culture influence a community?

Vocabulary

1. culture

2. community

3. architectural

4. transportation

5. neighborhood