Laura DeCarlo

Due: Tuesday March 10th, 2015

Social Studies 309-03
Unit Lesson Planning Template

Overview:
This is a second grade geography unit, these are lessons from four different Grade Level Content
Expectations. Students will first explore and understand the different uses of land, this means
they will understand the differences between where people live, where services are provided and
where products are made. Then they will be learning how to use to describe the community, the
concepts that the students will be using relative location and using distances, direction, and scale.
Third students will be comparing the physical and human characteristics of the local community
with those of another. The last expectation will have the students describing how the local
community is part of a larger region. These expectations are extremely important, they are the
foundation to lessons they will continue learning throughout their lives.
Rationale:
The lessons in this unit are extremely important and they provide the foundation to lessons
students will learn in the future. Students need to master these skills because they will continue
to use these skills as well as build on them throughout their lives.

GLCE and
Verb

2-G4.01 Describe land use in the community (e.g., where people live, where services
are provided, and where products are made)
Knowledge and understanding (worked with Kendall because we had the same
GLCE)
Knowlege/Understanding

Knowledge
(K)

Understand
(U)

DOL:
Demonstratio
n of Learning
(DO)

Vocabulary

I Can

Community:
a group of people
that live in the
same area (city
town or
neighborhood)
Services:the action
of helping or doing
work for someone.
Provide: make
available for
use; supply.
Products: Items
that are made
by people or
machines for
people.
Land: the part
of the earth's
surface that is
not covered by
water.
Factory: A
building where
goods and
products are
made.
Good: Items
made by
people ore
machines for
people
Residential
areas:
Places where
people live
Agricultural
areas: Areas of
land mainly
devoted to
farms.

Students will
understand that
there are
differences in how
the community
uses its land.

When given an
arial view of
Warren students
will identify where
residential area,
where services are
provided, and
where products are
made. They will
identify this by
circling the homes
in red, the service
buildings in blue,
and the product
buildings in green.
Then students will
write two sentences
about why they
circled the pictures
the way they did.

Services
Provide
Products
Land
Community
Factory
Residential areas
Agricultural areas

I can describe
where products are
made, where
people live, and
where services are
provided.

GLCE and
Verb

2-G1.02 Use maps to describe the spatial organization of the local community by
applying concepts including relative location and using, distance, direction, and
scale.
Skills as well as Knowledge/Understanding

Knowledge
(K)

Understand
(U)

DOL:
Demonstratio
n of Learning
(DO)

Vocabulary

I Can

Community: a
group of people
who live in the
same area
(such as a city,
town, or
neighborhood)
Direction: the
course or path
on which
something is
moving or
pointing
Distance: the
amount of
space between
two places or
things
Scale a ratio
which
compares a
measurement
on a map to
the actual
distance
between
locations
identified on
the map
Relative
location: a
point or place
in relation to
another point
or place
Compass: an
instrument for
determining
directions, as
by means of a
freely rotating
magnetized
needle that
indicates
magnetic
north.

Students will
understand what a
map is and how to
use it.

Students will be
given a map of the
local community.
They will pick four
places that they
want to go to on
their journey. They
will mark on their
map the ways they
are moving around
the community
using a the
compass on the
corner of the page.
Once they are
finished with their
destinations, they
will be writing
specific directions
on how they moved
around the map
using their compass
as well as the map
scales to determine
the amount of
miles.

Community
Direction
Distances
Scale
Relative location
compass
Miles

I can use a map

to describe my
community.

Miles: A large
unit of
measurement
Feet: A smaller
unit of
measurement

GLCE and
Verb

2-G2.0.1 Compare the physical and human characteristics of the local community
with those of another community.
Reasoning

Knowledge
(K)

Understand
(U)

DOL:
Demonstratio

Vocabulary

I Can

n of Learning
(DO)

Human
characteristics:
The human
characteristics
of a place come
from human
ideas and
actions. They
include
bridges houses,
and parks.
Physical
characteristics:
The physical
characteristics
of a place make
up its natural
environment.
They include
land forms,
bodies of
water, climate,
soils, natural
plants and
animal life.
Local
community:
The area that
you live in.
Rural area:
Rural
communities
are very spread
out, and there
are lots of farm
lands.
Urban
communities:
Communities
that are
directly located
in cities, many
people live
close together
not much open
space or farms
tall buildings.

Students will
understand that
different
communities have
different physical
and human
characteristics.

Students will be
asked to make a
foldable to
compare and
contrast the
characteristics
between two
different
communities. One
community will be
the local
community and the
other will be the
opposite of the
local community.

Human
characteristics
Physical
characteristics
Local community
Rural area
Urban area
Suburban area

I can tell
similarities and
differences
between my
community and
another community.

Suburban
communities:
communities
that are close
to but not in
cities, fewer
people, many
people have
yards.

GLCE and
Verb

2-G2.0.2 Describe how the local community is part of a larger region (e.g., country,
metropolitan area, state).
Knowlege/Understanding

Knowledge
(K)

Understand
(U)

DOL:
Demonstratio
n of Learning
(DO)

Vocabulary

Each local
community
makes up a a
city each city
makes up a
county, each
county makes
up a
metropolitan
area and each
metropolitan
area makes a
up a state and
each state
makes a
country.

Students will
understand that
each local
community is part
of larger region.

Students will be
writing sentences
explaining the
different regions
that their
community is apart
of. Then students
will be writing out
the different
regions of another
city of their choice.

Country
Metropolitan area
State
County
.

City: a
collection of
different local
communities in
one area.
County: a
collection of
different cities
in one area.
Metropolitan
area:
Characteristics
of or relating to
a major city.
State: A
collection of
cities, counties,
and
metropolitan
areas
Country: the
open rural area

I Can

I can describe the

different regions
that my community
is apart of.

outside of big
towns and
cities; or a
collection of
states in the
same area.