1. SOCIAL STUDIES KINDERGARTEN – PEOPLE AND PLACES
Similarities and Differences between Students’ Cultures and Others around the World
What Makes
Cultures/People
Unique?
Characteristics that Make a Culture Unique
What Are the
Similarities/
Differences in
the Cultures?
Content Vocabulary:
culture
similarity
difference
land
water
symbol
map
globe
geography
People
and
Places
How Does Geography
Influence How
People Live?
How Can We
Use Maps?
Identifying Land and Water
Features on a Map and Globe
Use of Map
Symbols
Characteristics of a Map and Globe
Essential Understandings/Concepts:
Maps are used in geography, the study of places.
Maps show places, like land and water, in relation to one another.
People use maps to find out where they are and where they are going.
The world is made up of many different land forms.
People live in many parts of the world and have different languages, shelters, and food.