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TIP PROJECT  Unit on Community  (1st Grade)

﻿In this unit, my colleagues and I created a whole unit over community for a first grade class. We each created a lesson plan and also wrote a last lesson plan together. Throughout these lessons, students will also use technology by many different forms: use Kidspiration, Google Earth, Smartboard listen to a podcast through the class'wikispace and make a video. This is the Matrix where you can find all the PASS objectives and the whole unit we buit as a group: ﻿1) Community as a whole by Clarissa Alvarez. ﻿In this lesson, children will learn about what makes up the community around them by using Kidspiration. They will complete a graphic organizer and learn how to describe a map by using the following vocabulary: near/far, up/down, left/right, above/below and in front of/behind.        ﻿  2) Which Direction? by Melissa Smith. Here, children will learn how to locate different aspects of their communities while using Google Earth. 

3) Rural and Urban Areas by Claire Chauvet. Students will learn the main differences between rural and urban areas through literature and by completing a Smartboard activity as a class. We will read Town Mouse, Country Mouse by Jan Brett and discuss the main differences between the two areas. Then, children will fill out a table with pictures previously cut from magazines and sort them according to the corresponding area.    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="color: #8b00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">4) Communities From all Over the World by Amanda Leggieri. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In this lesson, children will learn about different communities from all over the world. They will be able to listen to This Is The Way We Go tTo School by Edith Baer, thanks to the podcast uploaded on the class' wiki. Then, they will complete the following activity.  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Link to the podcast: http://soonersenior10.wikispaces.com/TIP+Project  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">﻿  <span style="color: #8b00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">5) What is Community? ( Group Lesson Plan) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Children will watch a video to learn about different communities. Then, they will draw a picture of what community represents to them and finally be part of their own video. The teacher will give the children specific instructions on where to stand and what is expected from them. They will have to describe what they drew in front of the camera. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">﻿  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">media type="youtube" key="3_FDYFr1A-I?fs=1" height="385" width="640"    <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 0px;">In this video, we interviewed some of our classmates about what community represents to them.