Curriculum Planning Chart - City Design

Generative Topic: Community Parks and Playgrounds Subjects Addressed: Social Studies, ELA, Science

Concept Standards Assessment Facts Skills Problems to pose Activities:

("The student will (How will you have ("The students will ("The students will ("Guiding questions"
understand…") evidence that they know…") be able to…") or "unit questions")
know it?)
Social Studies:
(The big idea, the - City design -Use prior -”What makes up -Generate a class
"enduring Standard - 7.4.3.B -Through class drastically changes knowledge and the natural list of ways that
understanding" Identify the effect of discussion we will the natural personal environment?” cities impact the
people on the physical
[Wiggins, 1998]; a systems within a gain insight into environment. experiences to think natural
broad way of community. student about the way in -”Why should we environment
making sense of understanding -How social which city designs care that urban
the world, or a ELA: environment is affect life of all development -Shared Reading
“life lesson”) CC.1.2.3.B impacted by the living things. changes the
Ask and answer -Write down three structures of city environment?” -Watch video about
Students will questions about the text facts they learned design. -Compare and rooftop green
understand that and make inferences when they compare contrast the land Do urban spaces in cities
from text; refer to text to
the ways cities and and contrasted PAS Community that PAS is on with environments have
support responses.
spaces are land resources are things what it looked like nature? -Work with a
designed have CC.1.2.3.I that benefit the before being partner to compare
significant impacts Compare and contrast -Written reflection whole community - developed. How are people and contrast aerial
on natural and the most important on outdoor parks, grocery impacted by the way images of PAS land
social points and key details observation. stores, rec centers, a city is designed? area from today
environments. presented in two texts on religious -Converse with and the past
the same topic. institutions, classmates (in turn What is a
Central problem / Designs provided by schools, etc. and talk and whole community resource - Outdoor
issue / or essential CC.1.2.3.J students group discussion) and why are they observation activity
question Acquire and use about important for
accurately grade- communities?
What are some appropriate
ways that city conversational, general
development academic, and domain-
affects the natural specific words and
phrases, including those
environment?
 that signal spatial and
How do you temporal relationships.
interact with the
environment? Science Cross-Cutting
Concepts:
Influence of
Engineering,
Technology, and Science
on Society and the
Natural World

Disciplinary Core Ideas:

ESS3C: Human Impacts
on Earth Spaces