Stage 1 Desired Results

ESTABLISHED GOALS Transfer

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.8 Students will be able to independently use

Recall information from experiences or their learning to
gather information from provided
Know and communicate what resources
sources to answer a question.
their community has.
ISTE.CREATIVE COMMUNICATOR.6C
Students communicate complex Meaning
ideas clearly and effectively by creating
or using a variety of digital objects such UNDERSTANDINGS ESSENTIAL
as visualizations, models or simulations Students will QUESTIONS
. understand that Do all people live
the same way?
Communities have
things that people need Do all people need
to live. the same things?

Communities offer Are all

things for many people. communities the
same?
People visiting
communities need to
know what is available.

Acquisition

Students will know Students will be

skilled at
Communities have
people, jobs, Using technology
recreation, resources, to communicate 5
places to live, different
attributes of a
Communities can be community and
urban, suburban, or state how their
rural. community has
Technology can be that attribute.
used to communicate
and answer questions.
 Stage 2 - Evidence
Evaluative Assessment Evidence
Criteria

PERFORMANCE TASK(S):

See Rubrics- Students will create a community that includes information on all 5
Created with attributes of a community. They will include a description of the
Rubrics app community overall and if it is urban, suburban, or rural. Students will
and easily create a welcome brochure/website/presentation about the
evaluated information that a visitor could use.
using iPad

OTHER EVIDENCE:

I will collect Students work in groups to fill out if their own community that they live
these at the in is urban, suburban, or rural. They will identify examples of the 5
end of class different attributes of their own community. Students will read Places
time as well as in my Community and fill out worksheet for examples in current
have mini community or previous communities.
conversations
with each
group during
work time.
 Stage 3 Learning Plan
Summary of Key Learning Events and Instruction

Day 1

1. H Begin with an entry question, What are your favorite places to go? to hook
students into thinking about places in the community. Write these down on the
board.
2. W State Essential Questions: We will be learning
a. Do all people live the same way?
b. Do all people need the same things?
c. Are all communities the same?
3. W Go over vocabulary for the day:
a. Community: Where people live
b. Cities, suburbs, towns OR urban, suburban, rural
c. Jobs: What people do to work
d. Help: doing something for someone else
e. Job: where you work, responsible
f. Need: necessary for life
g. People: life in communities
h. Want: Something you dont need
i. Work: make money, school work
4. E-1/T Read book: Communities by Jason Harte
a. Students read in groups
b. Teacher leads group and reads WITH students who need help
5. E-1/T In groups, students fill out worksheet about communities.
a. SEE WORKSHEET A
b. Reteach: give students pictures that are labeled
c. Extension: encourage students to write more examples

Day 2

6. W/E-1 Review information about communities

7. E-1 Daily Vocabulary:
a. House: A place where people live
b. Live: People live in different places
c. Park: a place for recreation
d. Play: something people need
e. School: where kids learn
f. Shop: getting things people need and want
g. Store: where people shop
8. E-1/T Read book: Places in my Community by Zeina Mahran
a. Students read in groups
 b. Teacher leads group and reads WITH students who need help
9. E-1 Highlight that communities have 5 attributes:
a. People
b. Jobs/work
c. Recreation/stuff to do
d. Places to live
e. Resources/stuff we need
10. T/E-1In groups: create places in Sitka worksheet.
a. SEE WORKSHEET B
b. Reteach: Give students pictures to support each place and word
c. Extension: Students add more to list than just pictures

Day 3

11. H Show example project

a. http://prezi.com/ueyx9kumondf/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=c
opy&rc=ex0share
12. E-1/R Give students planning sheet for brainstorming
a. SEE WORKSHEET C
13. E-1/R Students write and draw/find images for presentation
a. Help students scan images when they are ready.
b. E-2 Give students rubric to make sure they have everything they need

Day 4 (May take multiple days)

14. E-1 Students work with technology to create presentation

a. For the purposes of my classroom, the students will be using Prezi.
15. E-2/R Students evaluate their product with rubric

Day 5 (May take multiple days)

16. E-2 Students present their community

17. E-2 Students give feedback for their peers
Create a Community Rubric

iPad Rubrics app view

Self-Assessment Rubric

iPad Rubrics app view

 WORKSHEET A

Name: ____________________________ Date:____________________________

Place to
Rural Urban Librarian Suburban Food Teacher
live

Ride Crossing Ice Police

Clothes Friends Movies
bikes guard cream officer

Different types of communities: Jobs in a community:

What people need: What people want:

 Worksheet B
Name: ____________________________ Date:____________________________

Fill in at least 3 for each box. Try to think of things from where you live
now or where you have lived.

My community is: Jobs in my community:

Urban

Suburban

Rural

Recreation in my community: Resources in my community:

Places to live in my community: People in my community:

 Worksheet C - Front
Name: ____________________________
Make up a new community. Where is it? What does it have?
My community is:
Urban Suburban Rural
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Recreation in my community:
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Places to live in my community:
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Jobs in my community:
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Resources in my community:
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People in my community:
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 Worksheet C - Back

Draw a picture for each in your community

My community is: Jobs in my community:

Recreation in my community: Resources in my community:

Places to live in my community: People in my community: