3-Social-Studies-May

Main Concept
Symbols of Citizenship in World Communities: Citizenship and Civic Life

Guiding Questions
-Why do different people/communities/cultures/countries celebrate different holidays? -What is a national sumbol? Why is it important? -What are some of the United States' national symbols?

Theme/Content Skills

 * People in world communities celebrate various holidays and festivals
 * People in world communities use monuments and memorials to represent symbols of their nations

Key Terms
symbols of citizenship, holiday, festival, monument, memorial, patriotic symbols

Holidays
Memorial Day

Student Outcomes
-Students will describe, illutrate and/or explain how people in world communities celebrate various holidays and festivals. -Student will report how people in world communities use monuments and memorials to represent symbols of their nations. -Students will identify important national symbols from countries across the world. -Students will identify our national symbols (USA).

Assessment/Project
-Students create a Cultural Holiday/Festival Patchwork Quilt, illustrating and writing brief descriptions of each holiday/festival depicted. -Class researches, plans and carries out a festival or holiday celebration from the world community -Students find, draw, or cut out pictures of patriotic symbols and explain where they are found and what they represent -Each student selects a country and researches one custom or other cultural element and create a diorama and/or report. Reports should include a picture or drawing of the nation's flag, the identifying of important buildings or memorials, and/or symbols unique to a particular country, culture or region of the world. -As students research world holidays, have them create charts that include countires, dates and reasons for celebrating. Students can also create a HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD MAP that includes symbols of each holiday: (some holidays to include: Rosh Hashana, Diwali, Bodhi Day, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year, Martin Luther King Day, Passover, Easter, Cinco de Mayo) -Have students create a world map that shows: famous monumnets (Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, Roman Colloseum, Great Wall of China. etc.); animals associated with specific countries or regions of the world (kangaroos from Austrailia, pandas from China, zebras from Africa); flags that represent the nations whose holidays they have studied. -Have students review American monuments such as the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Liberty Bell, and Mount Rushmore. Students can research each monument, use photographs or pictures and create an American brochure. -Have students create a classroom flag. What do the symbols mean?
 * Holiday || Country of Celebration || Date || Reason for Celebration ||

Resources for Students
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith's series of books told from a child's perspective about how each celebrates his/her cultural heritage: __Alex Lee, A Chinese Immigrant__ __April, A Pueblo Storyteller__ __Clay Hernandez, A Mexican American__ __Mark's Kwanzaa Celebration__ __Angela from the Arctic__ __My Family Lives in America__ by Susan Kuklin: Three American families, each of which has at least one parent who did not grow up in the United States, explain how these families celebrate special days, keeping old traditions, while also bringing in new traditions from the American culture.

Field Trip Suggestions
Grants Tomb WTC 9/11 Memorial Statue of Liberty The Cloisters Sailors and Soldiers Monument USS Maine Monument African Burial Ground National Monument