Lesson Plan #1

Grade: 2nd grade Social Studies Strand: Geography

Submitted By: Courtney Donnelly

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science Nevada State College Spring 2014 Instructor: Karen Powell

Lesson Plan #1 - Geography

B. Summary of the Lesson Plan:

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This is a second grade lesson made for the students to teach them how to locate and scribe their city and state using a map. This lesson uses the Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Textbook Neighborhoods. (p. 66-69) C. Basic Information: Grade Level: 2nd grade Time to Complete this Lesson: approx 45 minutes Groupings: whole group readings & discussions, small group worksheet, and independent assessment

D. Materials: Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Textbook Neighborhoods for each student Paper & pencils map Unit Resources handout P. 16 for each student (preview on bottom of TE p. 66)

E. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards o

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G6.2.7: locate his or her city and state on a map. I can point out where I live on a map of the United States.
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Vocabulary

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country land where people have the same laws and leaders state the 50 places where you can travel to that make up the United States of America. continent large bodies of land nation another word for country

F. Procedure: 1. Refer to notes on Get Set To Read TE p. 66 Have the children look at the maps on pages 67, 68, and 69 then ask them what they expect to learn in this lesson. Guide the children to complete the handout that I passed out that teaches them what each vocabulary word means then have them find out where their school lies in the country, continent, state, and nation. Remind children that a town or a city is a community. Ask them the name of the community theyre in and what the address of the school is. 2. Ask the students as a class what a state is and what a country is. After they answer this have them look at page 66 and work together to see what Carlos address is. 3. Have the students look at the map on TE p. 68 then ask them questions under the section Continents Talk about it. Have the students answer the questions as a group. 4. Have the students write a sentence that tells me where they live using the words country, state, and continent. Then have them name what the seven continents are. G. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? Using Review/Assess on TE p. 69, have the students write their address using their country and continent. EX: I live in the town of Las Vegas, in the state of Nevada, in the United States, on the continent of North America. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. I will understand that the students learned the concepts from this lesson by their answer to the assessment question. I will have to see that they put the city, state, continent, and country in the right part of their sentence. H. Closure: After the students have turned in their answers, ask a few students, randomly, what sentence they came up with.

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Reflection:
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Lesson Plan #1 - Geography

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1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? I think the part of the lesson that will be the easiest is the idea of the 50 states and the city that they live in. I think it will be easy to get in their head that the city that they live in is still in the same state. 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? I think the whole idea of the seven continents is going to be difficult to teach the students since they might not have heard of all of them until the time I bring them up. I think if I just get across that we are always in Northern America then the other continents will click in their mind. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? I can extend this lesson or follow up with it by teaching them about the globe and how they can still find a number of answers to their address questions on it. 4. What can you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? I think students that dont grasp the lesson just need more one on one time and a more hands on approach to the lesson. I can make sure I break down each idea further so that they fully understand what a state is along with a country. 5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? I feel like the way the lesson is set up might need some changing since it might not flow as well as I think it does. I also think the assessment might not be the hardest thing to be giving them. 6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? I definitely think the flow of the lesson was the hardest part. I always have trouble wondering what should be added to a lesson plan and what needs to be left out. I never want to add information that will just confuse my students.

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