Week 2 (Social Science) 1:20-2:20 Social Science Lesson Plans: Week of 11-15 Mon Date: 3/11 Topic: Interview

with a Geographer ALCOS: 7. Describe ways people throughout the world are affected by their geographic environments. 8.) Identify continents, oceans, and the equator using technology, maps, and globes. Goal: The students will learn how to identify landforms and bodies of water. Tues Date: 3/12 Topic: Map and Globe Skills ALCOS: 7. Describe ways people throughout the world are affected by their geographic environments. 8.) Identify continents, oceans, and the equator using technology, maps, and globes Goal: The students will learn how to use a map key to locate different types of land and water on a map. Wed Date: 3/13 Topic: Where People Live Thurs Date: 3/14 Topic: Then and Now: How and Where People Lived ALCOS: 1. Compare features of modern-day living to those of the past. Fri Date: 3/15 Topic: Native Americans

ALCOS:7. Describe ways people throughout the world are affected by their geographic environments.

ALCOS: 1. Compare features of modern-day living to those of the past.

Goal: The students will learn how people live in three different communities. Objective: TSWBAT: Compare similarities and differences among families in different communities. Explain that areas

Objective: Objective: TSWBAT: TSWBAT: Identify landforms and Identify major bodies of water. landforms and bodies of water on Obtain Information a map. through interviews.

Goal: The students will learn how Native Americans used the Earths resources to meet their needs. Objective: TSWBAT: Understand how physical characteristics of places and affect peoples activities and settlement

Goal: The students will learn how Native Americans used the Earths resources to meet their needs. Objective: TSWBAT: Understand how physical characteristics of places and affect peoples activities and settlement

Materials/Resources: - Vocabulary sheet - Textbook vocabulary preview page 52-53 - Vocabulary review cards - Landforms KWL chart - Landforms Book - Scissors - Crayons Procedures for lesson: -TTW introduce the unit Our Earth. -The teacher and class will walk through the vocabulary picture preview. TSW draw a picture for each vocabulary word from the text illustration. -TSW cut out vocabulary cards to help them study for the unit test. -The teacher and class complete a KWL chart together on Landforms. -The teacher and class will interview with a geographer to learn about landforms. -TSW then create their own Landforms book. TSW draw,

can be classified as regions according to physical criteria. Materials/Resources: Materials/Resources: -Landforms and Water on a -Pen Pal Letters Map sheet - Venn Diagram - Textbook map review pg - Places Web 60 -Where People Live Review Sheet

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Materials/Resources: -How and Where People Live Story -Native American Graphic organizer -Crayons -Basic Needs Web

Materials/Resources: -Landforms Test -Native American Read Aloud -Native American Writers Response sheet

Procedures for lesson: -TTW review the chapter vocabulary with the students. -TTW orally quiz the students on the landforms that they learned the previous day. -TSW complete their Landforms book. -The teacher and class will discuss why people use maps and the different kinds of maps people use. -TTW model for the students how to read a map and map key. -TSW then practice reading landforms and water on a map.

Procedures for lesson: -TTW activate the students prior knowledge of pen pals. -The teacher and class will brainstorm what life would be like near a desert, on an island, and on a farm. -The class will read together pen pal letters from three different places. -After the students have read the letters, they will work with a partner to compare and contrast two of the three places that were studied on a Venn Diagram. -The teacher and class will discuss their Venn

Procedures for lesson: -TTW ask the students to look at the illustrations in their book and predict what they will be reading about. -TTW ask the students to list peoples basic needs. -TTW record their responses on in the class web. -TSW then listen to How and Where People Live. -TTW ask questions about the story to check for comprehension. -Following the story, TSW complete their Native American graphic organizer. TSW draw and label pictures of things

Procedures for lesson: -TTW begin by reviewing landforms with the students. -TSW then take their landforms test. -Following the test, TTW read a Native American Tale. -TSW write and illustrate a story. They will imagine that they are a young Native American boy or girl and write about their lives. TSW center their story around a geographic landform.

label, and define each landform discussed during the interview with the geographer.

-If time permits, the teacher and class will solve landform riddles together.

Assessments: The students will be assessed based on their KWL discussion, and Landforms book.

Assessments: The students will be evaluated based on their Landforms and Water Map Review sheet. Notes: ENRICHMENT!

Notes: This lesson may need two days! The students will be responsible for studying their vocabulary cards each night!

Diagrams and identify the physical characteristics that distinguish each geographic region that was read about during the story. -If time permits, the class will complete Where People Live Review sheet with the teacher. Assessments: The students will be assessed based on the similarities and differences that they have recorded on their Venn Diagram. Notes: Need to find Venn Diagram with lines!

Native Americans might have used to meet their needs.

Assessments: Students will be evaluated based on their web participation and Native American Graphic Organizer. Notes: Need to make web!

Assessments: The students will be evaluated based on their Landforms Test and Native American Story. Notes: Students will need succors and glue for their test.