This Learning Lab collection offers a lesson plan in the format of the Inquiry Design Model blueprint and meets the following Nebraska Social Studies standards:

2nd Grade

(SS 2.4.2.) Compare multiple perspectives of events within neighborhoods.

(SS 2.4.2.a.) Compare and contrast perspectives from multiple sources regarding the same event. For example: compare and contrast different holiday displays in your neighborhood.

In this Learning Lab, there is a compelling question to drive instruction for this unit of learning. Supporting questions, formative tasks, summative performance tasks, and information for taking informed action are also included. For tasks, there are several options presented as a way for educators to choose what fits best for their students. To help support teachers, there is an additional document toward the end of the learning lab with resources to use before, during, and after instruction for a variety of neighborhood topics.

Please teach at your own pace, as you know your students best!

These lessons have the potential to bring up hard conversations. A section titled "Additional Resources for Adults" have been included to support our own individual learning and understanding so that you can help facilitate those difficult discussions if it comes up in the classroom.

Project Background

This Collection was created through the collaboration between PreK-12 Nebraska teachers and Smithsonian museum educators focuses on the following educational strategies: multicultural education, inquiry-based approaches such as the C3 IDM model, civics education, and socio-emotional learning.

These modules will be piloted in Fall 2022 and then published via the Smithsonian Learning Lab, and the Nebraska OER HUB, to ensure state-wide and national access to these teaching resources.

This collaboration between the Nebraska Department of Education and the Smithsonian Institution will leverage the breadth of content and education expertise that exist among the 21 museums at the Smithsonian with the expertise of Nebraska's educators and administrators.