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= = LESSON PLAN Hidden Hollow 1st Grade

__Core Objective/Standard__:
Standard 1: Students will recognize and describe how schools and neighborhoods are both similar and different. Objective 2: Recognize and identify the people and their roles in the school and neighborhood. Explain how these roles change over time. Indicator 1: Identify roles of people in the school. Indicator 2: Explain the roles of the people in the neighborhood Indicator 3: List and discuss how neighborhoods change over time.

__Student learning objective__:
Students will be able to brainstorm and then write about the roles of people in the school and neighborhood now and then.

__Materials needed__:
pictures of community helpers community helper book

variety of books of community helpers community helper bingo

__Teacher (To) directions/actions/instructions__:
This is a writing activity that should extend through an entire week. Teacher chooses two community/school helpers to teach about each day. For example: DAY 1: Teacher/Firefighter Teacher should read a book about each helper. Then, the teacher should put the pictures of the helpers on the board.

__Teachers/Students (With) actions__:
Students and teacher generate a list of job descriptions for each helper and also what they might have been like long ago. The teacher should write these two lists on the board under each picture. The teacher explains to students that they will choose one of the helpers to write about today. The teacher should make an overhead of one of the helpers and demonstrate the writing. He/she should show students that they are to write two complete sentences telling about what they would do if they were a (teacher/firefighter.) They then should write one question they would ask a teacher/firefighter from long ago. Ex: What did your classroom look like? What did your classroom look like?

__Students (By) actions/activities students will do during lesson__:
Students should choose their helper out of the choices for the day and write using the guidelines listed above.

__Assessment-these may be written, verbal, observations, etc__:
Teacher allows students to share their writing with each other and does an observational assessment. Students may also play community helper bingo where the teacher uses describing words to tell about each community/school helper. She/he may also tell about what that person might have done long ago.