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Guided Student Tours : Stamp Stampede

Stamp Stampede

 
Lesson Plans for the Classroom  
Kindergarten - 1st grade
2nd – 3rd grade
Pre-Fieldtrip Pre-Fieldtrip
     Classifying      Timeline
     Timeline      Interview
Post-Fieldtrip Post-Fieldtrip
     Mail Carriers Then and Now      Goods vs. Services
     Writing to Owney      Graphing Stamps







D.C. Metro Area Learning Standards

Kindergarten - 3rd grade


District of Columbia

Maryland

Virginia







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Social Studies

Chronology and Space in Human History
  • Recognizes that people, places and things change over time
  • Compares everyday life in different places and times
Scientific, Technological and Economic Change
  • Identifies modes of transportation and types of communication devices used long ago and now
  • Examines how science and technology changed people's lives (transportation, communication)
  • Describes advances in transportation…[and] communication
  • Identifies the modes, advantages and disadvantages of transportation used to move people, products and ideas from place to place
  • Matches descriptions of work that people do and the names of those jobs with examples from the local community
  • Explains and demonstrates the role of money in everyday life
  • Practices exchanging money for goods and services
  • Discusses how people depend on one another for goods and services
  • Explains the impact of ….technological development on individuals and societies
Historical Inquiry, Analysis and Judgment
  • Uses artifacts, field trips, and electronic trips to interpret history
Mathematics

Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
  • Classifies objects that are the same, and identifies objects that do not belong in a group






Maryland

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Reading/Language Arts

Standard 2: Students will read, comprehend, interpret, analyze and evaluate
informational text
  • Develop knowledge of organizational structure of informational texts to understand what is read
Standard 6: Students will demonstrate effective listening to learn, process and
analyze information
  • Demonstrate active listening strategies
Social Studies

Standard 1: History - Students will use historical thinking skills to understand how individuals and events have changed society of time
  • Distinguish among past, present, and future time
  • Describe people, places and events in the past… using a variety of primary and secondary sources
Standard 2: Geography - Students will use geographic concepts and processes to understand location and its relationship to human activities
  • Describe places and regions
  • Describe how transportation and communication networks link places by movement of goods, messages, ideas and people
Standard 3: Economics - Students will identify the economic principles and processes that are helpful to producers and consumers when making good decisions
  • Describe and explain the production process
  • Examine and identify goods and services in communities
  • Describes skills people need in the work they do…
  • Describe how technology has changed the way people travel and communicate
Mathematics

Standard 2: Knowledge of Geometry
  • Match, sort, and regroup objects according to attributes
Science

Standard 1: Skills and Processes
  • Seek information through observation, exploration, and descriptive investigations
  • Classify objects…based on similarities and differences






Virginia

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History and Social Studies

History
K.2 The student will describe everyday life in the present and in the past and begin to recognize that things change over time.
2.3 The student will identify and compare changes in community life over time in terms of…transportation.
Geography
1.6 The student will describe how location…and physical surroundings affect the way people live, including…transportation.
Economics
K.6 The students will match simple descriptions of work that people do with the names of those jobs.
1.7 The student will explain the difference between goods and services and will describe how people are both buyers and sellers of goods and services.
Math

Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
K.17 The student will sort and classify objects according to similar attributes.
Science

Scientific Investigation, Reasoning, and Logic
1.1 c) Objects…are classified and arranged according to attributes or properties.













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