Social Studies Standards Mail:Postal Workers, Letters and Envelopes

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Social Studies StandardsMailPostal Workers,
Letters and Envelopes

• Jennifer Norris
• Erica Tyler

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Contents

• Objectives
• Standards
• History
• People in Societies
• Geography
• Economies
• Government

• Citizen Rights and Responsibilities
• Social studies Skills and methods

Slide of Corresponding websites to follow
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ObjectivesStudents will

• Identify postal service worker as a community
  helper job
• Students will identify the different jobs of a
  postal worker
• Understand the parts of a letter and how to
  address a letter so a postal worker can deliver
  it.

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Academic Content Standards

• All Activities and Standards are for Social
  Studies First Grade
• Identify and correctly use terms related to
  location, direction, and distance including
• Left/right
• Near/far
• Identify and use symbols to locate places of
  significance on maps or globes.
• Locate the Local community, state and United
  States on maps or globes.

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Standards Continued

• Raise questions about how families lived in the
  past and use photographs, letters,artifacts and
  books to clairify what is know and what is
  unknown
• Describe Life in other countries whith emphasis
  on daily life including the roles of men, women,
  and children
• Describe the way people produce consume and
  exchange goods and services in their community
• Recognize symbols of the United States that
  represent its democracy and values including
• The bald Eagle
• The White House
• The Statue of Liberty
• The national anthem

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Standards Continued

• Obtain Information about a topic using a variety
  of oral and visual sources

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History Activities

• Compare and contrast the present day postal
  system with the 1960s postal system.
• Have a postal worker come in and talk to the
  class about their job in the postal system.
• Research the increases in the price of the stamp.
  Why did these price increases take place?
• Research the mail history from the pony express
  to present day with a focus on changes in
  technology including computerized mail sorters,
  vehicles, etc.
• Make a Venn Diagram comparing E-mail to standard
  post of how the two are used and discuss changes

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History Websites

• Forever Stamp
• United States Postal Service History
• History of Ohio Daily Life
• History of Womens Daily lives
• Postal Museum

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People in Societies Activities

• Students will interview their grandparents to
  see how many days it took to send mail and the
  price of a stamp from when they were young.
• Have students make a timeline showing all the
  important historical events that affected the
  United States Postal Service.
• Have students learn the name of their postal
  carrier and research the names of former postal
  carriers that served their local community.
• Have students make a list of the variety of items
  that we send through the postal service.
• Students will do research to determine what the
  penalty is for tampering with someone elses
  mail.

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People in Societies Websites

• United States Postal Service History
• Postal Museum
• Postal Pack PDF
• Postal Game
• Make your own stationery

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Geography Activities

• Students will learn and be assessed on new
  vocabulary words related to location, direction,
  and distance.
• Students will be able to identify their local
  community, state, and the United States on a map
  or globe.
• Students will construct a chart showing the role
  that the post office plays in helping consumers
  exchange goods and services in their community.
• Students will look at letters that are addressed
  with one part missing and try to determine if
  they can still mail it or if they need more
  information

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Geography Activities Continued

• Where does a letter go?
• Students will discuss the sorting process that
  goes on within the post office.
• Game Where does this letter go?
• Teacher will have a different collection of maps
  ones that represent the community state and the
  United states as well as a few easily
  identifiable foreign countries. Letters will be
  addressed to each of these places and students
  will be expected to find the address on the map
  and match the two together.

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Geography Websites

• Zip code Lookup
• Decode the Barcode Game
• Rail, Sail or Overland Mail Game
• Up Down Around Game
• Directions in the Rain Forest

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Economies Activities

• Students will hold a debate discussing whether
  the hobby of stamp collecting will increase or
  decrease in the future.
• Students will hold a discussion about how the
  postal system is being pushed aside and ignored
  due to email.
• Have students research and make a list of items
  that the postal service considers hazardous.
  Explain that consumers are not permitted to send
  or receive these hazardous materials.
• Students will do research to determine what the
  penalty is for tampering with someone elses
  mail.
• Students will look up and discuss the laws that
  pertain to mailboxes,trucks etc. being federal
  property

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Economies Websites

• Mail Security
• Suspicious Mail Poster
• Best Practices Mail Center Security
• Historic Stamp Scramble Game
• Pony Express Stamp Mix Up

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Government Activities

• Students will make lists of holidays and special
  occasions that people often use the postal
  service to send cards or packages for.
• Students will play Memory with laminated
  pictures of American Symbols
• Using interactive writing have students describe
  a postal worker, as far as uniform, job,
  transportation.
• Discuss Purposes of Mail to send cards, pay
  bills, solicit business etc.
• Write a Letter to a White House Pet

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Government Websites

• White House Pets
• Flat Stanley
• Famous Americans Stamp Game
• Symbols of our Government game
• US Symbols Matching Game

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Citizen Rights and Responsibilities Activities

• Discuss the importance of a postal service
  worker.
• Read The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
• Using interactive writing have students describe
  a postal worker, as far as uniform, job,
  transportation.

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Citizen Rights and Responsibilities Websites

• Character Education and Rights Stories
• Respect for others
• Write to Buddy
• Values
• Conflict Resolution

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Social Studies Skills and Methods Activities

• Write a letter with a heading, date, greeting,
  body, and closing.
• Address and stamp envelope
• Drop of letter at Post Office
• Reply to a pen pal
• Apply knowledge of postal work to daily life

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Social Studies Skills and Methods Websites

• Billy Bear will send you mail
• Make your own fold and mail stationery
• Arthur interviews a postal worker
• Find a Pen Pal
• Flat Stanley