Idaho Social Studies 2.SS.5.1
The Standard
Compare your community with others in various parts of the world.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students locate their own community and two communities in other parts of the world on a map. They compare details they can see in photos, such as streets, schools, or markets.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student names one similarity and one difference between their community and each of two named places. They point to a detail in a photo to support each comparison.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume one photo shows how everyone in a city lives. They may treat different places as if they are all alike, or call an unfamiliar building or vehicle wrong.
How to Assess It
- Show labeled street photos from your town, Nairobi, and Tokyo. Ask students to write one visible similarity and one visible difference between their town and each city.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs labeled street photos from your town, Nairobi, and Tokyo; have them place photos on a map and mark matching features with sticky notes.
Show local and Tokyo school arrival photos; ask, 'What looks the same, what looks different, and what in the photos tells you?'
Play photo pairs with labeled pictures of schools, markets, and parks from three communities; students match places by feature and explain each match.
Ask students to list ways people traveled near school today, then compare the list with vehicles visible in a Nairobi street photo.
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Related Standards
- 3.SS.5.1
Explore connections that the local community has with other communities throughout the world.
- 2.SS.5.2
Compare traditions in your community with those practiced in other parts of the world.
- 1.SS.5.1
Compare family life, structures, and daily routines of various cultures around the world.
- 3.SS.5.2
Examine the contributions of various cultures from other parts of the world to the development of the community and how they make that community unique.
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