With careful planning, social studies in early childhood education can be a creative and interactive learning experience. Bringing good citizenship and history to life for students can help students engage in the social studies instruction and create a foundation for future social studies learning. For this assignment, use the “COE Lesson Plan Template” to design a social studies lesson integrating technology and one other content area (literacy, mathematics, or the creative arts). Include the following in the indicated sections of the lesson plan template: Lesson Summary and Focus: Describe how the lesson integrates the cultural background, personal knowledge, family, and community of young children into social studies lessons. State Learning Standards and Objectives: Select a social studies standard and ensure the objectives relate to the social studies standards. Academic Language: Include content-related, age appropriate vocabulary that expands students’ awareness of local and global issues . Multiple Means of Representation: Explain how instruction will be differentiated to support students with language development delays or challenges . Multiple Means of Engagement: How the lesson uses and develops cross-disciplinary skills in varied contexts . Multiple Means of Expression: Create developmentally-appropriate assessments and explain how they align to the content area standards and measure learning objectives.