Communities

Learning about and being part of a community is the focus of this Integrate project. Students in grades 1 - 2 participate in activities that integrate Social Studies, Language Arts, and Science curriculum with technology skills.

In the introductory lesson, students listen to the story, Disney's Winnie the Pooh: A Bear-y Good Neighbor. A discussion about neighbors and neighborhoods and a word-processing activity about addresses follow the story.

Other activities include map-reading, using an online map and address finder, exploring a community and creating a collage, building a model community, creating a BINGO card of community vocabulary words in a spreadsheet, comparing old community pictures to the current community, creation of a class "Seeing the Sights" multimedia book, writing a silly street story, and becoming active in the community.

Technology skills practiced include inserting lesson vocabulary terms into a spreadsheet, practicing English skills and inserting and formatting text in a word processing document, using a browser to navigate to a web site to locate and read a map, and creating a multimedia presentation to showcase sights in a community.

Wrap up the unit and continue the communities theme throughout the school year by becoming active in a community project like planting flowers and cleaning up litter.

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Communities Lesson Plan

Student Activities:

Bingo Cards (MS Excel)
Community Collection Data (MS Word)
My Address Sample File (MS Word)
Seeing the Sights (MS Powerpoint)