Community Project Day 2!

The last blog post that I created included an introduction to the community.  Today I am going to share with you a power point that I used to help get my Community Unit started!  My students are currently working on 3-D communities.  Once the project is completed I will post my entire unit.  I hope that you can all use this power point presentation in your classroom to help you out with a Community Unit.  I showed the presentation and it sparked a lot of classroom discussion.  Discuss the presentation as you go along.  I used visuals to spark my students interest and help them gain new ideas.  

Download and let me know what you think!  It will help as I tweak my Unit Plan that will be posted in another week or so.  

Introducing Community Unit

Anticipatory Set

Those words sound like a crazy college assignment.  Of course it makes me want to cringe but yet we do it with lessons all the time.  How do we hook students?  How do we find out what they already know?  We have to do this somehow in order to know where to go with a lesson or unit.  In 2nd grade students learn about the community.  I am going to start my unit with a version of the typical KWL chart.  Of course we aren't going to begin learning on Day 1 because my unit takes a while so I have left out the L part on the chart I created.  On Day 1 I will be asking students what they already know and what they want to learn.  I have included this as a Freebie!  This is a sneak peek at the unit that I am creating and will post when finished!