My Race, Your Race, Our Human Race! Racial Awareness and Tolerance in Kindergartners. We live in a confusing world. And our own individual cultures presents ways in which we grow and change our constructed identity daily. How do we approach these issues with Kindergartners in an honest, yet sensitive way? Throughout this unit, you will find five different lessons focused on the construction, the notions, and the social contexts that racial identities carry. I focused these lessons on.

Here you can find a unit plan that I created that has helped me develop as a teacher in Social Studies. I will access this page as I head into my student teaching semester and add lessons, unit plans, and other resources to this site throughout my teaching career.

Learning About Community and Social Action. The lessons were created Fall 2009 as part of my Teaching Social Studies methods course at the University of Wisconsin - Madison under the instruction of Katy Swalwell. Mapping the Neighborhood Lesson Plan. Mapping the neighborhood lesson plan. My Neighborhood Through Photography Lesson. What is a Community? .

What is a neighbor? Lesson 1-Our Neighborhoods through Illustrations. Observing what is around us. Welcome to a website focused on teaching young children about the world outside their home. I chose to focus on what is a neighbor and neighborhood mainly because after I interviewed four different students asking what these are, their answers varied immensely. I thought it would only be appropriate to teach them what the world outside their home was. What is a neighbor? .