Lesson Plan #3: Integrating Language Arts &

Social Studies Grade: 3rd Grade Social Studies Strand: History

Submitted By: Ashley Hewitt

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

Lesson Plan #3 History

B. Summary of the Lesson Plan:

submitted by: Ashley Hewitt

This lesson is a social studies lesson that has been geared for 3rd grade students to learn about the history of their community. This lesson uses the textbook Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies: 25 Strategies for K-8 Inquiry-based Learning (p. 581-643).

C. Basic Information: Grade Level: 3rd grade Time to Complete this Lesson: 50 minutes Groupings: whole group during discussion and small group discussions when doing jigsaw activity, individual assignments

D. Materials: Paper and Pen Question sheets Pictures of different scenes around the community (past and present) E. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards

2. H1.3.2 Using artifacts and primary sources, and

investigate how individuals and families contributed to the founding and development of the local community.
o Student-Friendly Standards I can use artifacts and other primary sources to investigate how individuals and families contributed to the founding and development of the local community.

F. Vocabulary Artifact- an item from the past to help show history Community- a common place where people live.

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Lesson Plan #3 History

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G. Procedure: 1. Students will begin by getting in small groups of 4 o Students will choose a picture taken in the past and the corresponding picture of the scene in the present. I will start will an enlarged photo of an older place that the whole class can easily see The students will be asked what they see in the picture o The comments will be recorded by teacher The teacher will then teach the students to look at the photograph in four quadrants The teacher physically divides the pictures into four quadrants The class can discuss what they see in each of the individual quadrants. The students can do a jigsaw activity to accomplish this o o The students are in small groups and discuss one quadrant. After discussion they go back to their original groups and each students talks about what they discussed about their quadrant

2. As a class, we will discuss how to analyze a photograph. o o

The teacher can guide discussion to ask questions such as What do you see? Use lots of details Are there trees, cars, roads, etc? Can you guess about what year it was taken? Does the image look familiar?

The teacher then can tell students what the picture actually depicts and show the modern looking version. This can bring on discussion about how it has changes and what caused the change, such as human interactions

3. The students will now be able to repeat the photo analyzing in their small groups 4. Students then complete questionnaire (all questions except number 2 in Part 2 H. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? I will use the students information sheets to check for understanding This will help me see if they understand what causes changes in our community Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson.
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Lesson Plan #3 History

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Students will be able to use artifacts to investigate how changes occur in our community.

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Closure: Ticket out the door- Students will name three possible causes that causes their place to change

J. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? The part I believe will be easiest to teach will be the part where I teach the students how to look at the photograph using different quadrants 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? I think the most challenging part will be teaching the students how things change and why. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? I would extend this lesson by having the students research more events, which caused changes in our community 4. What can you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? I can pull students to a small group to help reteach or strengthen their understanding 5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? The jigsaw activity may need to be changed due to time restraints but can be changed to a whole group discussion. 6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? The most difficult part would have to be the vocabulary since I was not sure what the vocabulary for this type of lesson would be. 7. Explain the strategy from Integrating Language Arts & Social Studies that you included in this lesson plan. I used strategy number 7, which is what my entire lesson uses. The students use photographs to compare and contrast certain places in the community. This helps the students see how places can change and discuss whom or what changes these different places over time.

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2014

Karen Powell- Instructor

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