Unit Plan: Places & Regions

Lesson Plan for Friday Grade: 2nd Social Studies Strand: Geography

Submitted By: Rebecca Call

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science Nevada State College Spring 2014 Instructor: Karen Powell

Lesson Plan for Friday

Strand: Geography

submitted by: Rebecca Call

B. Summary of the Lesson Plan This social studies lesson is designed for 2nd grade students to learn how to construct a simple map of their community. This lesson uses Strategy 7: Developing Map Skills from the textbook Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies (p. 48-54). C. Basic Information: Grade Level: 2nd grade Time to Complete this Lesson: 50 minutes Groupings: teacher explanation, partners for discussion, & independent for assessment

D. Materials: construction paper markers/pencils/colored pencils clipboards E. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards o F. Vocabulary map a drawing or picture showing selected features of an area community a group of people that are located in one place G5.2.3A - Construct a simple map of the community. I can make a map of my community. Student-Friendly Standards

G. Procedure: 1. Refer to the textbook Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies page 50 Procedures before beginning lesson. o Share an example of a map you have created of the community you and your students live in. (your map should include the school, nearby homes, a grocery store, and a well-known landmark, i.e. San Diego Zoo) Point out the different places on the map that make up the place where they live, especially their schools and homes. Introduce vocabulary terms map & community

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2. The teacher will then visually show Google Maps up on the projector. The teacher will show them in satellite view a quick five minute tour of the community surrounding them.
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Lesson Plan for Friday

Strand: Geography

submitted by: Rebecca Call

3. The teacher will then instruct students to pair up with their face partner and talk about places they think make up their community. The students will then be instructed to create their own version of a community map using the construction paper, colored pencils, and markers provided. 4. To help students analysis the teacher can ask the following questions: o o o o o o Where does your house get your food from? What is your favorite restaurant? Where is somewhere you see almost every day? What is a place you go to every day? How do you get to school? Do you go north, south, east, or west? Where do your parents work?

H. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? Activity: Participation of creating their own community map will be the major way I will measure the students understanding. Also by seeing what they label and put on their maps will show me if they understand community. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. Students must Construct a simple map of the community to show they understand the concepts from the lesson. I. Closure: Students will present their community maps to their face partner they discussed with previously.

J. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? I think the easiest part will be showing students what types of places and people make up a community. The visual representations of this using Google Maps will be easy to show students. 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? The most challenging part for myself to teach is what community actually means in reference to individual students. This is because some students in my classroom might not be a part of the same communities. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? I will extend the lesson by having students create a map of just their school communities. 4. What can you do for students who dont grasp the concepts?

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Lesson Plan for Friday

Strand: Geography

submitted by: Rebecca Call

For the students who do not grasp the concepts I will pull them into a small group and reteach the basic concepts. 5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? I think I might need to change the activity map requirements to be more specific because students like exact directions. 6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? I really enjoyed writing this lesson plan, it was not difficult for me.

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EDEL 453 - Spring 2014

Karen Powell- Instructor

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