Idaho Social Studies 1.SS.5.1
The Standard
Compare family life, structures, and daily routines of various cultures around the world.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students look at stories and photos of families in different countries. They compare who lives together and what people do during a typical day. They find things the families share and things that differ.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name one similarity and one difference between two families, using details from the stories. They can describe one family's routine without saying everyone in that country does the same thing.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every family has two parents and children, or that grandparents never live in the same home. They may assume one family's routine is shared by everyone in its country.
How to Assess It
- Give students two cards: 'Maya in Peru lives with her dad and sister and eats breakfast with them. Ren in Japan lives with his mom and grandpa and eats dinner with them.' Ask students to draw or tell one way the families are alike and one way they differ.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Use paper figures to build the households shown on two captioned family cards, then compare who lives in each home.
Read two short family stories and ask, 'What do both families do each day, and what does only one family do?'
Play a matching game with family story cards and picture cards showing household members and daily routines.
Read pages from two children's photo diaries about families abroad, then compare their school mornings with your class schedule.
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Related Standards
- K.SS.1.1
Describe how individuals have similarities and differences by sharing stories, pictures, and music of one’s own personal life, family, and culture.
- 1.SS.1.1
Compare differences in the ways families in the United States live today to how they lived in the past.
- 2.SS.5.2
Compare traditions in your community with those practiced in other parts of the world.
- 6-9.WG.2.10
Compare and contrast cultural patterns in regions throughout the world, such as language, religion, and ethnicity.
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