Beverly McBroom, RCOE, Appalachian State University
Two of
my Block classmates and I created a Social Studies unit plan. Our
unit topic was communities. Not only was the unit for Social Studies,
but Literature was integrated as well. The unit covered the basic
curricular connections, interdisciplinary links, essential question, goals
and objectives. Included also was a graphic organizer, and a schedule
containing four complete lesson plans. Included within the unit was
an author/illustrator study,a Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DRTA),
and an internet lesson plan. The internet lesson plan guided students
via a worksheet, to a web site. The worksheet contained questions
which were only able to be answered by visiting the particular web page
(12.1).
Also, by the students being able the use the internet to locate information,
they were fulfilling Grade Level: 3 Competency Goal 1.5 of
the Computer Skills Curriculum (10.4).
Besides complete lesson plans, were a plethora of miscellaneous activities
to go with basic lesson plans. As a group, we researched various
resources such as the North Carolina Department of Education (NCDPI) web
site, Internet, teacher guides, and textbooks (12.7).
One
of the references within the unit plan was a map of how the classroom was
to be arranged (12.4). There also were
examples of bulletin boards (one in which children would actively participate
in the rotating of community/classroom responsibilities) (12.5).
