Title of Unit: The World Around Us Title of Lesson: Urban and Rural communities Submitted By: Suzanne Garlick

A. Summary of the Lesson Plan: The students will learn about urban and rural communities. The students will draw a picture and write a sentence about urban and rural communities. B. Target Population: Grade Level: 1st grade Skill Level: All levels Grouping: o Whole groupdiscussion and Venn diagram o Individualwriting paper

C. Materials: Pictures of urban and rural communities White board and marker Picture paper for writing Pencils Overhead projector D. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards o G7.1.3 Identify characteristics of rural and urban communities.

Student-Friendly Standards I can identify rural and urban places.

E. Procedure: 1. Discuss with the class what they think an urban community is? 2. Explain that Las Vegas, the city that we live in, is an urban community. 3. Discuss what makes a place an urban community by displaying different pictures on the overhead. 4. Start a Venn diagram on the board. The first circle will be labeled urban community. List the different features of an urban community. 5. Ask the students what they think a rural community is? 6. Display pictures of rural communities and discuss the different features that are present in the rural communities. 7. Make your second Venn diagram circle and label it rural community.

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2013

Karen Powell- Instructor

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Title of Unit: The World Around Us Title of Lesson: Urban and Rural communities Submitted By: Suzanne Garlick

8. Make sure that you overlap a part of the circles. Explain to the students that this part of the diagraph is for things that are found in both places. Discuss which features can be found in both rural and urban communities. 9. Hand out the picture writing paper. 10. Have the students draw a picture and write a sentence about rural and urban communities. 11. CLOSURE: Today we learned about urban and rural communities. F. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? The students will identify urban and rural communities. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. I will assess the students understanding of this concept with the students picture and writing papers. G. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? I think that the visual pictures will help the students to understand the differences in these two communities. 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? I think that the concept of the Venn diagram may be difficult for the students to understand at first. I will try and use it later in the year to reinforce this strategy. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? I will discuss urban and rural communities in different content areas as they arise during the year. For example, in books that we read during the year we can discuss if the setting is rural or urban. 4. What will you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? If students do not understand this concept I would try showing them more pictures and ask them to identify the rural and urban communities. 5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? I hope that this lesson will not need to be changed. 6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part?

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2013

Karen Powell- Instructor

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Title of Unit: The World Around Us Title of Lesson: Urban and Rural communities Submitted By: Suzanne Garlick

The most difficult part of this lesson plan is trying to decide how to teach the concept.

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2013

Karen Powell- Instructor

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Title of Unit: The World Around Us Title of Lesson: Urban and Rural communities Submitted By: Suzanne Garlick

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2013

Karen Powell- Instructor

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Title of Unit: The World Around Us Title of Lesson: Urban and Rural communities Submitted By: Suzanne Garlick

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2013

Karen Powell- Instructor

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