Unit Plan: CommunityLesson Plan for TuesdayGrade: 2Social Studies Strand: Geography

Submitted By: Deborah Thompson

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social ScienceNevada State College – Spring 2014Instructor: Karen Powell

Lesson Plan for Tuesday Strand: Geography submitted by: Deborah Thompson

B. Summary of the Lesson Plan : This social studies lesson is for 2nd grade students to create their own maps of the places in their communities. This lesson will be completed using a strategy from Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies textbook, Strategy 7 (p.48-54).

C. Basic Information: Grade Level: 2nd grade Time to Complete this Lesson: Approximately 50 minutes Groupings: Whole group discussion, independent work for assessment

D. Materials: Construction paperMarkers, pencils, colored pencils, crayons

Example maps of communities

E. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards

G7.2.1 Construct a visual model, i.e., graph, table, and/or choropleth map of population distribution.

o Student-Friendly Standards G7.2.1 I can construct a visual model.

F. Vocabulary location – a place where something is located: position model – a small copy map- a drawing or chart of all or part of the earth’s surface that shows detail

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Lesson Plan for Tuesday Strand: Geography submitted by: Deborah Thompson

G. Procedure: 1. Review the list of places and activities that were discussed in the previous day’s

lesson on communities.

2. Explain the concept and importance of a map.

3. Call students’ attention to the features of example maps of communities.

4. Identify & discuss some of the elements on a mapo Have students create a map including three places from their communitieso Map requirements

o 3 locations o Street names

5. Introduce vocabulary (location, model, map)

H. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding?

I will review each map to ensure that each student constructs a visual model (map) of their community with the places from their communities.

Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. I will check each map and make sure that all of the listed requirements are correctly shown on the map. 3 location and street names

I. Closure:

Brief discussion about concept and importance of a map, and discuss the elements of a map.

J. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach?

I think the easiest part to teach will be explaining the vocabulary words.2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach?

I think the part of the lesson that will be most challenging to teach would be getting the students to understand that maps are a model of an area or place.

3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson?

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Lesson Plan for Tuesday Strand: Geography submitted by: Deborah Thompson

For a follow up lesson I would have the students create a map of their homes or the school.

4. What can you do for students who don’t grasp the concepts? For students who don’t understand the lesson, I would review the lesson again and ask the students if they ever used the maps at mall when shopping with their parents and explain that is the same thing but we are making a map of the community.

5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change?The part of the lesson I would change is providing a list of specific places to put on the maps.

6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part?The most difficult part of the lesson was finding the correct NV State Standard for my lesson.

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