Subject(s): Language Arts, Other, Social Studies Grades(s): Grades 6-7, Grades 2-3, Grades 4-5

By – Marie Allen

Community Unit Table of Contents:

• Unit Overview – What makes a good Community?
• This lesson asks What is Community?
• Here’s a lesson on Following Directions
• This worksheet goes with the Following Directions lesson
• Celebrating Diversity and Heritage are the topics of this lesson
• Here’s a section on Goal Setting
• This lesson looks at Community in Literature
• In this part students Explore the Multiple Intelligences
• Students find their most effective ways to learn in this lesson
• Teamwork is the subject of this lesson
• Here’s a collection of Community-Building Activities
• This is the first part of the Service Project
• Service Project Part 2…
• …and Service Project Part 3
• Here’s the Service Project Rubric

Following Directions

Subject: Reading, Writing

Objective:
Demonstrate understanding of the importance of following directions.

Standards:
R-E5. Evaluate an instructional manual such as assembly directions or user’s guide for clarity and completeness.
PO 4. Identify the sequence of activities needed to carry out a procedure.

Hook:
Hand out directions sheets to each students. Tell them to read the directions thoroughly and follow them exactly. Pair low readers with high.

Instruction:

After students have completed (or not completed) exercise, discuss times when it has been important to follow directions. Talk about what could happen when directions are not followed. Discuss emergency situations. Discuss learning situations, such as starting an assignment and doing it incorrectly, or answering the wrong question on a test.

Activity: Students will write their own set of directions and have another student try to follow them.

Assessment: Students will correctly follow each other’s directions.

Materials: Directions sheet, paper, pencil, crayons.

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