Unit Plan: Geographys Role in Society

Lesson Plan for Friday Grade: 1st Social Studies Strand: Geography

Submitted By: Michele Stering

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

Lesson Plan for Friday

Strand: Geography

submitted by: Michele Stering

B. Summary of the Lesson Plan: During this lesson plan, students will learn where natural resources are found and how humans change the geography with overuse. This lesson uses the Houghton Mifflin Social Studies textbook Natural Resources (p.88-91) and Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies (p. 80-81). C. Basic Information: Grade Level: 1st Time to Complete this Lesson: approximately 50 minutes Groupings: whole group for reading, discussions, activity and individual for assessment.

D. Materials: Book Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Natural Resources (p. 88-91) Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies (p. 80-81) Paper + pencils pictures of how gathering resources has changed overtime compare and contrast graphic organizer E. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards o G8.1.2 Identify locations for accessing basic resources available to the student, i.e., food, water. G8.1.2 I can show where I can find basic resources like water and food.

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F. Vocabulary Natural Resources- something from nature which we use. Recycle: a way of taking something and making it reusable instead of throwing away.

G. Procedure: 1. Warm up-point to the maps and pictures we have looked at during this weeks lesson What are some of the geographic features we learned about? What are some of the natural resources the pioneers used in their new homes? 2. Identify and discuss: Get set to read (p. 88) 3. Introduce vocabulary words: natural resources and recycle
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Lesson Plan for Friday

Strand: Geography

submitted by: Michele Stering

4. Class Reading (p. 88-91): stop and ask questions which are in the margins of the TE. 5. Whole Class activity: Connecting with the Visual Arts Strategy (p. 80-81) We have learned how pioneers found and used natural resources, and now we are going to compare them to today. Create a compare and contrast graphic organizer on a big sheet of butcher paper. Discuss the pictures and pass them around to each table group to view. Compete the organizer to see how finding resources has changed over time. Past on the left Today on the right. 6. Ask question: Why are these natural resources so important in society? How would the geography change it we used too much of them? 7. Assessment: Draw a picture of one of the natural resources you learned about. Write a sentence telling me where you can find it and how humans can do to save this natural resource. H. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? Draw a picture of one of the natural resources you learned about. Write a sentence telling me where you can find it and what humans can do to save this natural resource. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. Students must Identify locations for accessing basic resources available to the student, i.e., food, water. Drawing a picture and answering the questions will show if the students understand that natural resource can be found all around us and the changes humans can make to preserve our natural geography. I. Closure: Question: What are some ways we conserve natural resources Las Vegas?

J. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? I think students will have a lot of background knowledge of where they find resources readily available to them. I think the compare and contrast activity will show student how much easier the access is to natural resources. 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach?

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Lesson Plan for Friday

Strand: Geography

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I students need to make the connection that although the way resources have been accessed has changed, we all still have basic needs of heat, water, and food. This is crucial to tie into the need for conservation efforts. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? I like the idea of students making a mobile showing ways to conserve natural resources. 4. What can you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? I would have some expository texts which highlight the recycling process in an age appropriate fashion. I would find things inside the classroom which students could match to the correct natural resource. For example, water, trees, fruit. 5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? If I felt the students were at an independent instructional level, I would let the students create the graphic organizer in groups on their own and share them as a whole class. 6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? Incorporating the strategy to fit my needs, I wanted to use the compare and contrast but finding artwork for natural resources is a stretch so I had to modify this strategy a little. I think it worked out good.

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Lesson Plan for Friday

Strand: Geography

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Karen Powell- Instructor

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Lesson Plan for Friday

Strand: Geography

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Lesson Plan for Friday

Strand: Geography

submitted by: Michele Stering

Graphic Organizer Sample

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