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Samantha Williams
Kidtown, U.S.A
Grade Level: 2
Length: 1 Day
Performance Objectives:
Students will know where important buildings in their community
are located (police station, fire station, and hospital).
Students will be able to make maps of their community.
Students will have an understanding of the importance of everyone
in their community.
Materials:
Construction paper
Markers
Crayons
Notebooks
Pencils
Procedures:
Introduction: Teacher and students will start by defining what
a community is and what it
is made up of. Explain to the children that there are small and
large
communities. The class will then decide if their community is
large or
small. Students will then discuss important places and/or people
within
their community.
Development: After the discussion on what a community is, the
students will tour the
police station, fire station, and hospital. If there are more
than three
second grade classrooms, the classes should rotate(each class
will
start at a different point).
When the students return, have the class discuss what they have
seen through
out the day. The students will be shown a map of their community
that was
made by their teacher. Each student will then make a map of their
own. On
each map will be the police station, fire station, and hospital.
Students will
use the symbol for each (H=hospital). Students can use other landmarks,
buildings, etc.
To establish a sense of community within the classroom, students
will be given tasks that will be done daily(ex. Writing the date
on the chalkboard, taking lunch count).
Closure: The class would then come back together in a circle and
discuss. The students will be asked again to define community
and give at least one reason why a particular building or person
in their community is important.
Assessment:
Students would turn in their writings and maps. Maps would be
checked to see if the buildings were put in close proximity of
their actual location.
Adaptation/Extension:
As a follow-up activity, students could do more writing (If I
were in charge of the world…). Children could do letter writing
and say thank you to all who made their field trip possible. Students
could compare and contrasts their maps to actual maps of their
community.
References: Scott, Foresman Social Studies
Neighborhoods and Communities
1988, Glenview, Illinois
The World and Its People Silver Burdett Social Studies
Neighborhoods and Communities
1986 Morristown, NJ
Scott, Foresman Social Studies
Communities Near and Far
1988, Glenview, Illinois
If I Were in Charge of the World & Other Worries: poems for
children & their parents Publisher: S&S Children, Je 1981.
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