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= LESSON PLAN = created by: Greenwood 1st Grade Team

__Core Objective/Standard__:
Standard 1 Objective 1a, 1c, 1d

__Student learning objective__:
Students will be able to recognize and represent the roles of their environment within their community.

__Materials needed__:
2 lunch bags per student Butcher paper Note for lunch bags Note for career day Form for career day report Field trip plans Parent Visitors District Videos: DVD 2016 //Communities of the Past// VT 1027 //How Communities are Alike and Different// VT 1025 //How Communities Grow and Change//

Big Book: BB 1 WHAT 2 //What Is A Community?//

__Teacher (To) directions/actions/instructions__:
1. Teacher starts drawing a map of her classroom on the white board as students are watching. 2. Talk about what was just drawn, and then define/discuss what a community is.
 * draw the rooms and school around it
 * next the community (e.g. library, grocery store, bank, etc.)
 * then the state
 * finally the country (US)

__Teachers/Students (With) actions__:
3.Organize a community walk to visit various places the community (e.g. bank, grocery store, library, fire station, post office, police station, pizza store, fast food restaurant) 4.Take a community walk with the students and parent volunteers. 5. As a follow up activity have students choose one place that they visited and write a thank you note, or write a class thank you card.

__Students (By) actions/activities students will do during lesson__:
6. Send home 2 lunch bags with each student stapled to the 7. Discuss the importance of community and location of businesses and homes. 8.Together teacher and student, will build their community attaching the lunch bag houses and businesses to the butcher paper. Don't forget to add roads!

__Assessment-these may be written, verbal, observations, etc__:
9. What role do you and others play in your community (family, school, neighborhood)? 10.Send a copy of the career day note and report home. 11.Set aside a day that students can dress up like their favorite community helper and share their report. 12.Take pictures and make a class book.