Positive ImpactMegan Stone

nd
2

Grade

25 Students
12 Boys and 13 Girls

Very wide range of students.

Social Studies- Community

What are the different types of communities?
Can one person make a difference in their
community?

Unit 2- Different types of communities!

Summative Assessment: 9 Failed
Retaught/reviewed for a week and retested.
7/9 Passed the second time.

Unit 11- Can one person make a difference in their

community?
Standards addressed:
2-H2.05 Identify a problem in a communitys past and describe how it was
resolved.
2-H2.0.3 Use an example to describe the role of the individual in creating
history.

Objectives:
Students will be able to identify and describe how a citizen in the community
can make a positive impact.

Students will be able to describe a problem in a community and a possible

solution.

Assessment of Prior Knowledge

Pre-test and questions
KWL chart

Students Scores on Pre-Assessment

Average of 3.9/8
Students were able to come up with community problems.
Answers not consistent regarding whether one person can make a difference.

Lesson 1
Discussion about different problems within the school/classroom with a
partner.
Consequences of the problem on the school/classroom.
Possible solutions to the problems.

Lesson 2
Discuss problems that different communities have had and how they were
solved.
Power point and reading in the book.
1. Looked at the problem.
2. Tried to come up with a solution ourselves.
3. Looked at what actually happened.
4. Compared our solution to the actual solution.

Ticket to recess: I asked them to explain on a piece of paper how one person
can make a difference in their community!

Lesson 3
Review the problems and people from the day before. (Lesson 2)
Discuss problems that different communities have had and how they were
solved.
Power point and reading in the book.
1. Looked at the problem.
2. Tried to come up with a solution ourselves.
3. Looked at what actually happened.
4. Compared our solution to the actual solution.

Lesson 4
Reviewed the problems and the people who helped solve them. (Last two
lessons)
Read through a section in the social studies book. Real life student who
made a difference in her community.
Read aloud. Students volunteered to read aloud and we had a discussion about
what we read.
During reading we would stop and turn and talk with neighbor about what we were
reading, then we talked about it all together.

Post Assessment
Test and questions.

*Read aloud for students who needed it.

Students Scores on Post Assessment

Overall average score of 7.3/8
Lowest score was a five.
All students except one improved.

Pre and Post Test Scores

8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
1

10

11
Pre-Test

12

13
Post Test

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

What did I learn?

Each child is unique and has different needs.
Behavior management is the hardest part of teaching.

How was my teaching unique?

Solid foundation.
Building relationships.
Caring for the students.

Thank You!