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= LESSON PLAN = Cedar Ridge

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

__Student learning objective__:
Recognize differences within the their school and neighborhood. Share stories, folk tales, art, music, and dance inherent in neighborhood and community traditions.

__Materials needed__:
Schools, Then and Now (Rigby) Checklist of things that you see in a classroom. Black and white pictures of places in the community place and school places.

**__Teacher (To) directions/actions/instructions__:** Part 1-Read the big book-- Schools, Then and Now, find pictures of classrooms from different countries. Compare and contrast classrooms of Today, Yesterday and in different countries.

Part 2- With students generate buildings and landmarks in their neighborhood. Part 3- Compare how our school community is similar to our neighborhood community. We all have role, jobs and responsibilities. Double bubble/Venn Diagram.

**__Teachers/Students (With) actions__:** Part 1- Take a tour of different of classrooms in your school, K, 1st and upper grade and compare similarities and differnces within the classrooms.

Part 2- Sort pictures of different types of structures and landmarks. Sort by pictures of things in our community and not in our community. For instance houses, high rise buildings, parks, ocean, mountains, Disneyland, schools.

Part 3- Take a walking field trip of your neighborhood.

**__Students (By) actions/activities students will do during lesson__:** Part 1 Students share similarities and differences between the classrooms through spoken word, pictures or some type of check list.

Part 2-- Make and acrostic poem of your cities name, make a poster or brochure of fun things to do your community.

Part 3- Give half your class black and white photos of community places and the other half school pictures. Have students draw color pictures of themselves and place them in the black and white photo (like Mo Williems, Knuffle Bunny) Create a class book.

__Assessment-these may be written, verbal, observations, etc__:
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