Grade 1 History and Social Studies | Weeks 35-36 | Teacher Guide
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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.
Standards reference: 2024 Alabama Social Studies Course of Study, Grade 1, pp. 15-17. The labels below describe intended lesson alignment, not a claim that a child has mastered every standard.
Week 35: Investigate a community history question
Alabama standards: Investigate a community history question (SS24.1.12a, SS24.1.12b, SS24.1.12c, SS24.1.12d, SS24.1.13).
Teacher preparation: Teacher may substitute a child-safe local history source, provided its date, creator, and historical statements are checked. No private family interviews, home addresses, or personal documents are required.
Day 171: Ask a narrow history question
Record keyed: Fictional inquiry card: Pine Creek Museum opened in 1998. Student question = When did the museum open?
- 1. Pine Creek Museum.
- 2. 1998.
- 3. It asks about a dated fact, not an opinion.
Check Question 3 for a reason based on the printed record. For a drawing, assess the stated details, labels, and evidence. Accept accurate equivalent wording and reteach with a new example when needed.
Day 172: Find and name a source
Record keyed: Source cards: A = 2001 original meeting minutes; B = 2025 museum article retelling that meeting.
- 1. A.
- 2. B.
- 3. The minutes document the meeting and the article provides later context.
Check Question 3 for a reason based on the printed record. For a drawing, assess the stated details, labels, and evidence. Accept accurate equivalent wording and reteach with a new example when needed.
Day 173: Sort fact, idea, and unknown
Record keyed: Fictional old town notice: “Market opens at 8:00 on June 4, 1985.” No founder is named.
- 1. 8:00.
- 2. June 4, 1985.
- 3. No; the founder is not named.
Check Question 3 for a reason based on the printed record. For a drawing, assess the stated details, labels, and evidence. Accept accurate equivalent wording and reteach with a new example when needed.
Day 174: Research a historic place or observance
Record keyed: Sourced history card: Alabama Jubilee began Decatur in 1978; purpose included showing the city’s hot-air balloon.
- 1. Decatur.
- 2. 1978.
- 3. To show evidence for the origin details.
Check Question 3 for a reason based on the printed record. For a drawing, assess the stated details, labels, and evidence. Accept accurate equivalent wording and reteach with a new example when needed.
Day 175: Independent research record
Record keyed: New mini inquiry: official profile says Lonnie Johnson born Mobile in 1949; an inventor page says inducted 2022; neither lists his first classroom teacher.
- 1. Mobile.
- 2. 2022.
- 3. The name of his first classroom teacher.
Check Question 3 for a reason based on the printed record. For a drawing, assess the stated details, labels, and evidence. Accept accurate equivalent wording and reteach with a new example when needed.
Week 35: historical source register
Official standards: Alabama 2024 Course of Study
Source links support real-world historical facts; fictional practice records are marked as invented. Preview sources for age suitability. Do not present an adapted caption as a verbatim historic quotation.
Week 36: Independent Alabama community-history portfolio
Alabama standards: Independent Alabama community-history portfolio (SS24.1.8b, SS24.1.10, SS24.1.11, SS24.1.12a, SS24.1.12b, SS24.1.12c, SS24.1.12d, SS24.1.13).
Teacher preparation: Assess each portfolio part separately. For families outside North Alabama, choose a sourced local historic site and a public map. No attendance at observances, photo of a child, family budget, private address, or celebration is required.
Day 176: Portfolio page one: a public-place map
Record keyed: Independent map brief: Maple Grove Square has a library north of a park and a museum west of the park. Add title, key and north arrow.
- 1. Library.
- 2. Museum.
- 3. Title, key, and north arrow.
Check Question 3 for a reason based on the printed record. For a drawing, assess the stated details, labels, and evidence. Accept accurate equivalent wording and reteach with a new example when needed.
Day 177: Portfolio page two: calendar and timeline
Record keyed: New planning card: museum visit June 8 at 9:00; library visit June 10 at 10:30; class review June 12 at 11:00.
- 1. June 8.
- 2. 10:30.
- 3. The calendar gives days; the schedule gives times.
Check Question 3 for a reason based on the printed record. For a drawing, assess the stated details, labels, and evidence. Accept accurate equivalent wording and reteach with a new example when needed.
Day 178: Portfolio page three: a primary source
Record keyed: Source card: a resolution of the United States Congress, December 14, 1819, states Alabama is admitted to the Union; it does not name a particular child’s home.
- 1. 1819.
- 2. Alabama admission as a state.
- 3. The home of a particular child at that time.
Check Question 3 for a reason based on the printed record. For a drawing, assess the stated details, labels, and evidence. Accept accurate equivalent wording and reteach with a new example when needed.
Day 179: Portfolio page four: Alabama people and places
Record keyed: Reference cards: inventor Lonnie Johnson from Mobile; historic site Ivy Green in Tuscumbia; convention museum at a historic location in Huntsville with rebuilt buildings.
- 1. Lonnie Johnson.
- 2. Ivy Green.
- 3. Its structures are reconstructions, not original 1819 buildings.
Check Question 3 for a reason based on the printed record. For a drawing, assess the stated details, labels, and evidence. Accept accurate equivalent wording and reteach with a new example when needed.
Day 180: Independent final evidence check
Record keyed: Final source set: A = resolution of the United States Congress, December 14, 1819; B = Alabama Jubilee official history giving 1978 start in Decatur; C = current museum page about reconstructed Constitution Hall.
- 1. A.
- 2. B.
- 3. It is a modern museum webpage describing reconstructed buildings.
Check Question 3 for a reason based on the printed record. For a drawing, assess the stated details, labels, and evidence. Accept accurate equivalent wording and reteach with a new example when needed.
Week 36: historical source register
Official standards: Alabama 2024 Course of Study
Source links support real-world historical facts; fictional practice records are marked as invented. Preview sources for age suitability. Do not present an adapted caption as a verbatim historic quotation.