When looking over the SCOS for third grade social studies I was pleasantly surprised to see that it's only focus wasn't middle class American communities.
After reading the SCOS I'm excited about teaching social studies in the early grades. A few of the objectives focus on the evolutions that different societies and communities have gone through, others focus on an individuals role in their society and how they can positively or negatively effect it, and, what I see as one of the most important schools can do for children, to talk about differences in communities, embracing their differences, and going even farther to understand and celebrate them.
When reading each objective, even more so for each broad goal, I was already attempting to come up with interactive and meaningful lessons for each. Goal 6 (especially objective 6.03) seems like a great opportunity to teach students about the concept of miniloans. As a class we could have a bake sale, car wash, or any other fundraiser and put what we make towards a mini-loan for some family, and, if we are working with the right agency, over the school year we could see what they are doing with it and how they've managed.
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