Activity Guides: Grades K-5 Learn At Home (NYC)
Worksheets with activities for distance learning - these materials are designed to provide supplementary learning resources; they do not replace learning at school.
Lesson - Civics for All: Civic Responsibility
Objective: Understand your responsibilities as a community member
Lesson - Community Rules and Routines
Objective: Learn that rules and routines are important in keeping order in a community. Identify examples of community rules and routines
Lesson - Symbols of the United States
Objective: To learn that the ideals of the United States are represented by various symbols (Liberty Bell, bald eagle, American flag)
Lesson - Passport to Social Studies: Objects Tell Stories
Objective: Explore the stories that objects in our families tell
Lesson - Civics For All: What is Democracy?
Objective: Students consider the role of elected officials and how they are chosen in a democracy
Lesson - Civics for All: Children Solving Problems
Objective: Read about a young person who solved a problem in their community.
Lesson - Civics for All: Our Branches of Government
Objective: Explore the purpose of our government and why it is important. (Branches of government)
Lesson - Solving Community Problems -
Objective: Identify ways to solve community problems.
Lesson - Rules and Laws
Objective: Identify how rules and laws are different and why they are important for communities and the citizens living in them
Lesson - Civics for All: Roles of the President
Objective: Analyze photographs to understand the roles and responsibilities of the President of the United States
Lesson - Civics for All: First Ladies Make a Difference
Objective: Learn about how First Ladies use their role to advocate for important issues
Lesson - Passport to Social Studies: What Are Human Rights?
Objective: Interpret texts to understand the concept of human rights
Lesson - Human Rights
Objective: Students examine parts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and consider the relationship between human and civil rights.
Lesson - Power and Use of Power to Influence (2-day lesson)
Objective: Students investigate various roles of people in power to understand how they affect change.
Lesson - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Objective: Analyze two image to consider the creation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Lesson - Hidden Voices: Eliza Jennings Graham
Objective: Consider how a member of a community can change an unfair rule or law through the story of Eliza Jennings Graham.
Lesson - American Ideals
Objective: Analyze primary sources to understand how Americans symbolize their ideals. (Statue of Liberty)
Lesson - The Constitution
Objective: Analyze why the U.S. Constitution is important and interpret the Preamble and Articles
Lesson - Civics for All: Kid Lawyer
Objective: Write an advice column after analyzing a Supreme Court case about free speech. (Tinker v. Des Moines)
Lesson – Civics for All: Political Participation
Objective: Analyze images of people participating in the political process to learn more about how members of a community participate.