Grade 1 History and Social Studies | Weeks 33-34 | Practice Workbook
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Use the student lessons, matching independent practice, and separate teacher answers in order. Five school days are provided for each week. Student work stays with the family.
Week 33: Map a historic place near home
Day 161: Find a verified historic place
Independent printed record: Sample site card: Ivy Green, childhood home of Helen Keller; community Tuscumbia; state Alabama; historic subject learning and communication.
- What town is on the card?
- What state is named?
- Why is a museum record useful before making a map?
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Day 162: Draw a simple map with a key
Independent printed record: Fictional public square: park in the middle; history museum north; library east; bus stop south.
- What is in the middle?
- What is north of the park?
- Why should the map have a symbol key?
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Day 163: Local and state on a political map
Independent printed record: Location card: City = Tuscumbia; county = Colbert; state = Alabama; state capital = Montgomery.
- What county is named?
- What is the state capital?
- Why must a map label distinguish the local city from the capital?
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Day 164: Label whether a building is original
Independent printed record: Site labels: A = reconstructed Constitution Hall building; B = historic Ivy Green home; C = new visitor information panel.
- Which label says rebuilt?
- Which label describes a historic home?
- Why should a student not call all three items original?
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Day 165: Independent map and source task
Independent printed record: Fresh map task: fictional town has a museum west of a park, a river east of the park, and a school north of the park.
- Which place is west of the park?
- What is east of the park?
- How could a student improve this map for a visitor?
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Space for a labeled drawing or ordered record: _________________________________
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Week 34: Review notable people and events with evidence
Day 166: Match a person with a contribution
Independent printed record: Cards: Helen Keller, communication and advocacy; Jesse Owens, Olympic track; Lonnie Johnson, engineering and invention.
- Who is linked with Olympic track?
- Who is linked with invention?
- Why should a source name the right person?
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Day 167: Place three Alabama events in order
Independent printed record: Event cards: A = Birmingham Children’s Crusade begins in 1963; B = Marshall Space Flight Center established in 1960; C = Montgomery Bus Boycott begins in 1955.
- Which event is earliest?
- Which event is dated 1960?
- Why should a history timeline place the three events in order?
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Day 168: Use a photograph carefully
Independent printed record: Fictional caption: photo shows a rocket display at a museum in 2024. No launch is shown.
- What does the photo show?
- What year is in the caption?
- Why would it be wrong to say this picture shows a launch?
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Day 169: Match Alabama historic places with what they remember
Independent printed record: Historic site cards: A = Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, associated with the civil rights movement; B = Ivy Green, Tuscumbia, childhood home of Helen Keller; C = a fictional new library opened in 2025.
- Which card names a civil rights landmark?
- Which card names Helen Keller’s childhood home?
- Why must a history caption keep an actual historic site separate from a fictional new building?
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Day 170: Independent people-and-event review
Independent printed record: New cards: A = inventor born Mobile 1949; B = runner born Oakville 1913; C = Alabama admitted 1819.
- Which card describes Lonnie Johnson?
- Which card describes Jesse Owens?
- Which card describes an event rather than a person, and why?
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