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Lesson Plan

Past, Present, and Future

Subject Social Studies
Grades K-2

Introduction

This engaging lesson introduces the concept of past, present, and future to students in first grade. Students participate in partner activities to gain understanding of chronological order and how things change over time.

Learning Objectives

(2. Time, Continuity, and Change; 8. Science, Technology, and Society) Develop historical awareness by sequencing past, present, and future in chronological order and understanding that things change over time.

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