1st Grade  / 3rd Six Weeks

Overarching Concept: Systems

Organizing Idea: Systems Through Time

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Unit Contents

Students learn that a system is a set of components that work together to do a job. Systems for inventions, scientific investigation and problem solving will be explored. Buying, selling, and bartering is explored as students investigate our money system. Students learn about the historical figures who have solved problems for our country. Students learn the components and examples of a system for good citizenship.

Activities

First Grade Call Number - by Betty Jean Kennedy
The students will learn how fiction books are organized by call number.

Kids PAC Introduction - by Susan Jackson
Students will learn the library is a system, and to use that system to find books through the online catalog.

Moose on the Loose - by Kim Murff
Students will listen and look for clues in the story that communicate where the moose might be and why he's there, as well as to read clues that communicate how to find a word in an encyclopedia.

Parts Of a Book - by Cheryl Smith

Parts of the Library System - by Kathy Duke
The students will review the purpose of call numbers and relate them to the easy and fiction collections.
Students will be introduced to call numbers and relate them to the non-fiction collection.
Students will research a non-fiction topic and write one fact in their lesson folder
Research will be done with non-fiction books and online using NetTrekker search engine.

Raising Dragons - by Mary Jo Cooper (Fantasy Fiction)
Students make predictions using title and cover as an aid to comprehension, and recognize this book as fantasy literature.

Stella Louella's Runaway Book: Sequencing - by Susan Jackson
Students will learn about the sequencing of events in a story. They will retell that story in order. (You can also use this lesson in the 6th Six Weeks.)

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