Information Sheet

History
H2 Living and Working Together in Communities
Use historical thinking to understand the past.
2 – H2.0.4 Describe changes in the local community over time (e.g., types of
businesses, architecture and landscape, jobs, transportation, population).

Grade: 2nd
Subject:Social Studies
- Class of 24 students

Topic: Changes in the Detroit Community from 1950-2010

Objectives
Language skills: Share information with group and class,research information, make
timeline and presentation

Content Skills: The students will learn the changes Detroit has experienced as a
community

Thinking/Study Skills -Working with others

Learning a new technology
Researching with books
Research on the Computer
Presenting information
Public speaking

Detroit Community Lesson Plan

Literature: Forgotten Detroit(Images of American) by Paul Vachon, other books they
use as resources that they find in the library different for each group

Motivation: 20 minutes(day 1)
-Put 10 pictures of Detroit on the board ask the students to help me put them in the
correct order according to date ( oldest to most recent)
-Ask students to explain why they think the pictures would go in this order
-Ask them to write down on a piece of paper I give them all the information they know
about Detroit
-I will collect the piece of paper
 Presentation:20 minutes(day 1)
-I will have go through the book Forgotten Detroit on the pages I have previously marked
and read some historical background to the class
- I will use show the students how to use Google Earth
- I will show what Detroit looks like in present day using Google Earth
- We will talk about the correct order of the pictures from the motivation and what is
going on in the pictures

Google Earth

Practice/Application: total research time 2 hours( over 2 days)(flexible on time)

-Students will be divides into predetermined groups of 4
-Each group will have to have to do a timeline on Detroit they can present in any
medium they would like
-We will go to the Library were they can use books I will pick out books for them to use
as resources before we go
-We will have one computer so each group will get 30 minute to use the computer
-Each group member is responsible for finding at least one different resource
-They will have class time to work on their project

Review
-Presentations(day 3)( take about 45 min of class time)
 -Give them a blank time line to fill out, I will ask them to fill in their time line as they
watch their peers presentation
-Will give them back their sheets of paper from the first day so they can see how much
they learned

Extension-Five questions in textbook,video on Detroit (may or may not use depending

on time)

Assessment
- The group project graded (informal) graded on effort not correctness, will look for
creativity