Option One: A lesson about “”—the bald eagle, the American flag, the Statue of Liberty—which will focus mostly on the concept of a symbol. You’ll hear that the flag’s 13 stars stand for the 13 colonies, and that it symbolizes independence. If you don’t know what the colonies were or what “independence” means in relation to the United States, too bad. The lesson won’t go into those things, on the assumption that you’re too young to understand them.
At the same time, you’ve learned enough from previous lessons to understand today’s story. And over the next few weeks, you’ll listen to stories about the the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the Declaration of Independence, and more. You’ll participate in class discussions about all of this, and you’ll learn vocabulary likeEventually you’ll be asked to think about whether women, Blacks, and Native Americans were included in the promise of liberty and justice for all.
I’ve been in classrooms where both types of lessons were being taught, and I strongly suspect most first-graders would choose Option Two. And yet, Option One is almost certainly what they’ll get, if they get any social studies at all.
Whos history?
looking at crazy mass shootings I think conflictology is much more nessasary thing to study.
In Italy 🇮🇹 we already do it. History is everywhere in our country.
They need to know their origin.