Topic: People Adjusting to Their Environment Grade Level: 1st Name: Holly Gibson

# 10 in a series Grouping: Whole Group, Small Group, Individual

CCSS: CCSS.ELA-Reading Language.1.3 Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

2 Literacy Strategies: KWL, Free Write

Social Studies Standard: 1.SS.2.2.1 Describe ways people adjust to their environment

Objective/s: Student will be able to identify and describe at least 2 different examples through free write or drawing a picture of how people have adjusted to
their environment.
Vocabulary terms and definitions: Environment-the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
Adapt- make (something) suitable for a new use or purpose; modify.
Climate- the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
Season- each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from
the earth's changing position with regard to the sun.
Technology Integration:
ISTE 2b: Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked
devices.
The internet will be used to research an additional way in which humans have adjusted to their environment.
Four seasons song will be watched on YouTube.
Accommodations: 1.) Students with work with a partner on the worksheet partner reading. 2.) There will be a video that the children can watch instead of
the worksheet. It has the same information but in video and song format. 3.) Students can orally tell the teacher the identified ways people have adjusted to
their environment 4.) Teacher will read aloud the instructions to the students. 5.) Have a student draw a picture and write a sentence instead of free writing.
Time What the teacher will say and do. What the student will say and do. Materials
5 Anticipatory Set/Gain Attention& Recall prior Knowledge: Students will see KWL written across the top of the white -Whiteboard
- Before class begins a KWL chart will be drawn on the board. board. Students will ask the teacher what is a KWL. -Markers
Together as a class we will fill out the chart. “What does adjust and environment mean?”
-KWL charts are about what we already KNOW, what we “I don’t know how we adjust to the environment.”
WANT to know, and what we have LEARNED. “We wear different clothes for different seasons.”

“What do we know about humans adjusting to their

environment?” “What do we want to know?”

Adjust making a change or modifying for a new use or

purpose. An environment is the surrounding area where you
 live. What do we know about humans change or modify their
lives to adjust to the area they live in.

1 Teacher Input: “Today we are going to explore ways in “What if we don’t finish?” -Worksheet or
which humans have adjusted to their environment. Each of Video
us have adjusted to our environment whether knowingly or
unaware. For the next 20 to 30 minutes you have time to
complete this worksheet and answer questions. You can use
any books about geography in the classroom library or the
internet. Class what are we working on for the next 20 to 30
minutes? If the students do not finish this class they will have
more time to work on the worksheet after recess.
N/A Discovery or Inquiry questions: Discovery or Inquiry questions:
Look at all the pictures on the worksheet, what is different Why does the weather change?
about how the children are dressed? Why do we adapt to our environment?
What determines which season is spring, summer, fall, or
winter?
How did these children adjust to their environment?

How do you adjust to the environment?

What is another way that humans have adjusted to their
environment besides dressing for the seasons?

25 Explore Activity: Explore Activity: -Worksheet

-The teacher will show this YouTube video about the seasons Students will complete the worksheet or the video. They can -Video
of the year to the students who struggle with reading and work together or individually. - Computer
writing. - Pencils
- Internet
https://youtu.be/8ZjpI6fgYSY - Speakers or
Headphones
Refer to the discovery questions above, which are on the
worksheet below. Teacher is constantly walking around the
classroom asking questions and interacting with the children.
The questions on the worksheet require students to free write
 about their own experience adjusting to their own
environment.
Teach: The teacher will share the answers to the worksheet
that are short answer. The free write will be graded at a later
time.
Teach:
The children are wearing warm clothes. The children are
wearing clothes to help them stay cool.

Look at all the pictures on the worksheet, what is different The snow is cold. In the summer it is hot outside.
about how the children are dressed? Some children are
wearing short sleeve shirts and shorts. Some children are Why does dressing differently affect the environment.
wearing coats and boots.
I am adjusting to the environment every single day.
What determines which season is spring, summer, fall, or
winter? The temperature or climate

How did these children adjust to their environment?

When it was cold outside the children wore heavy coats to
keep them warm. When it was hot outside the children wore
less clothing to keep cool.

What is another way that humans have adjusted to their

environment besides dressing for the seasons?
Daylight Savings Time, Built Houses with heating and air
conditioning.

Have papers turned into the turn in box by the teacher’s desk.
10 Apply: Individually class you will free write one way in Apply: -Paper
which you adjust to your environment. You can choose which Students will free write for 7-10 minutes about how they -Pencil
season, fall, winter, spring, or summer. You can use examples personally adjust to the environment.
of what we learned about today or you can think of your own
way of how we adjust to our own environment. For students
struggling with reading and writing. They will orally say how
they adjust to their environment. Children who struggle with
reading and writing will be able to draw a picture and write a
short sentence if able to.
5 Closure: I want a couple students to share how they adjust to I adjust by wearing warm clothes in the winter time.
their environment.
I adjust by wearing sunglasses in the sunlight.

To be collected: Worksheet, Free Write, Pencils, Books

Reflection (done after the lesson)

Adjusting to Our Environment

Look at all the pictures on the worksheet, what is different about how the children are dressed?
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What determines which season is spring, summer, fall, or winter? _________________________________________________________________________

How did these children adjust to their environment?

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What is another way that humans have adjusted to their environment besides dressing for the seasons?
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How do you adjust to the environment?

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