Module 34: Cultural Celebrations in Our Community- Social Studies 3 - Course Guide

Module Overview:

In this module, your students will learn to Describe the beliefs and traditions of religious, historical, seasonal, patriotic, and local celebrations in their community.

Module Materials:

  • Pencils
  • Crayons or colored pencils
  • Notebook
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Highlighter
  • Markers
  • Blank paper

Module Objectives:

Lesson # Lesson Title Objective(s)
1 Religious Celebrations
  1. Describe the beliefs and traditions of religious celebrations in your community.
2 Historical Celebrations
  1. Determine the causes of historical celebrations in your community.
3 Seasonal Celebrations
  1. Identify the way seasons are celebrated in your community.
4 Patriotic Celebrations
  1. Explain the significance of various patriotic celebrations in your community.
5 Local Celebrations
  1. Identify celebrations that are unique to your local community.

Module Key Words:

Key Words
religious celebrations
holidays
celebrations
history
seasons
patriotic celebrations
local

Module Assignments:

Lesson # Lesson Title Page # Assignment Title
2 Historical Celebrations 6 Pictures in History Assignment
4 Patriotic Celebrations 5 Patriotic Comparison Assignment
5 Local Celebrations 6 Design a Celebration Assignment

Learning Coach Notes:

Lesson # Lesson Title Notes
1 Religious Celebrations After completing this lesson, ask your student to describe the religions holidays they learned about.
2 Historical Celebrations After completing this lesson, ask your student to describe the historical celebrations they learned about, and help them research historical celebrations that take place in their community.
3 Seasonal Celebrations After completing this lesson, ask your student to describe the seasonal holidays they learned about.
4 Patriotic Celebrations After completing this lesson, ask your student to describe the patriotic celebrations in The United States.
5 Local Celebrations After completing this lesson, ask your student to describe what they learned about local celebrations, and help them research local celebrations in their community.

Module Guiding Questions:

When a student starts a lesson ask them questions to check for prior knowledge and understanding and to review concepts being taught. At the end of the lesson ask the questions again to see if their answer changes.

Lesson Title Question
Religious Celebrations
  1. What kinds of religious celebrations are celebrated in your community?
Historical Celebrations
  1. What kinds of historical celebrations take place in our community?
Seasonal Celebrations
  1. What ways are the seasons celebrated in your community?
Patriotic Celebrations
  1. What are some of the patriotic celebrations in your community?
Local Celebrations
  1. What celebrations are unique to your community?

Module Video Questions:

When a student watches a video take time to ask them questions about what they watched. Suggested questions for the videos in this module are listed here. Suggestion: Have the student watch the entire video first all the way through. Then have them watch the video a second time, as they watch it pause the video and ask the questions.

Lesson Title Video Question

Module Suggested Read Aloud Books:

Take time to read to your student or have them read aloud to you. Read a different book each day. While reading the book point out concepts being taught. You may purchase these books or find them at your local library. Suggested things to discuss while reading the book:

  • What is the main idea?
  • What are three things new you learned?
  • How does this book relate to what you are learning about?

# Book Author Lexile Level
1 What Do You Celebrate?: Holidays and Festivals Around the World Whitney Stewart and Christiane Engel
2 The Book of Jewish Holidays Behrman House
3 The Gift of Ramadan Rabiah York Lumbard and Laura K. Horton
4 Juneteenth: A Picture Book for Kids Celebrating Black Joy Van G. Garrett
5 Ground Hog Day! Gail Gibbons
6 Black Beach: A Community, an Oil Spill, and the Origin of Earth Day Shaunna & John Stith and Maribel Lechuga
7 A Day for Rememberin': Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day Leah Henderson and Floyd Cooper
8 The Fourth of July Story Alice Dalgliesh and Marie Nonnast
9 Veterans: Heroes in Our Neighborhood Valerie Pfundstein and Aaron Anderson

Module Outing:

Take some time to apply what your student is learning to the real world. Suggested outings are below.

# Outing