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Big Ideas

Essential
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Taxonomy
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Miss Dunmire
Social Studies
Second Grade
March 23, 2016/ 2 class periods
Identify characteristics of their own community.
Use language arts skills to read from their poster.
Identify vocabulary.
Use primary sources to determine the characteristics of
different types of communities.
What is a community?
What kind of sounds do you hear in this type of
community?
Do you have tall buildings in your community?
What kind of animals do you see in your community?
How do you travel in your community?
Standard 7.2 The Human Characteristics of Places and
Regions
Standard 7.3 The Physical Characteristics of Places and
Regions
After reading the book Where Do I Live-Author- Neil
Chesanow the class will have an open discussion, all
second grade students will participate in correctly
identify all the three types of communities by
expressing what makes each community.

Discussion on what makes each community.

Poster boards of making our own community, and what
remind us of our home community that we live in.
Test at the end of the Unit
Laptop- BrainPop Video on communities

Aid to help student cut pages from magazine.

Velcro strips for poster board.
Glue sticks

CK

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Plan
Introduction

Explicit
Instructions

Lesson
Procedure

CK
Activating Prior Knowledge
Review of what they see in their community.
How did the students get to school today?
Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
Brain Pop Video on Urban, Suburban, and Rural
Communities.
Big Idea Statement
What is a community? What do you see in your
community that makes your community fall into a Rural,
Suburban, or Urban community?
Essential Questions Statement
Where do you live? What time of buildings and
transportation do you see people using around your
community? What kind of animals do you see when
walking in your community?
Objective Statement
We are going to read a story on communities. There are
three types of communities. Think about what type of
community you live in.
Transition
Go Noodle Dance Video
Key Vocabulary
Community
Suburban
Urban
Rural
PreAssessment of Students
What is a community?
Modeling of the Concept
As a class we will discuss the three different types of
communities.
Guiding the Practice
Students will cut pictures from magazines of items that
remind them of their community. Students will then
share their posters with their classmates and explain
what type of community they live in.
Providing the Independent Practice
Students will turn in their poster boards with two
questions on answered on the back. 1. What type of
community do they live in and what is one thing they
like about their community. 2. What other type of
community have they visited or wish to visit and what
do they like about it??
Transition

 Go Noddle Dance Video

Glue Sticks
Scissors
Magazines
Pencils
Where Do I Live by Neil Chesanow
Evaluation of
Formal Evaluation
the
Poster of their community.
Learning/Master
Questions on the back of their poster.
y of the
Informal Evaluation
Concept
Worksheet
Closure
Summary & Review of the Learning
Review each community.
Review what makes each community?
Homework/Assignments
None
Teacher

Self-reflection

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