Unit Planning Chart
Social Studies:
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Define & identify
communities,
culture, equality,
& diversity
Role play
community
members
Timeline of
changing
communities/cult
ures
Make a culture
pizza about
family diversity
Map making of
their community,
home, classroom,
school
Discuss: What
does it mean to be
a good citizen /
community
member?
Study the
communities our
ancestors lived in,
locate them on a
map
Identify some
customs, symbols
our community
has created.
Science:
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Weather, climate,
animals of
different
communities
Discuss how a
“pond” is a
community within
a community and
what is needed.
Book: The Pond
Community
Geology-how the
area has changed
through the years
of the
community’s
existence
Math:
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Written Language:
Measure
distances for
maps of
classroom.
Use a scale to
make a map
of school,
community.
Measure
distance of an
imaginary
trip around
community
Problem
solving
questions
involving
community
Voting- count
votes in class,
divide up a
community
for voting
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Make a class
book about “Our
Community”
Letter to a
community
official or leader
Write a poem
about their
community
Write thank you
notes to class
visitors
Oral Language:
Art:
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Learn words of
 Explore arts of
different
different
languages of
cultures/communi
those members of
ties-compareour community
contrast
 Give class
 Draw pictures of
presentation
own community
using aspects of
and members
community
within
learned
 Design a
community
 Readers’ Theater
on a book about
 Discover what
community or our
arts are in the
class community
local communitybook
types, visit
 Oral interview
with family
members about
their community
 Oral interview
with elderly at
nursing home
visit
Social Skills:
Teacher Resources:
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Equality
Respect
Cooperation
Service
Responsibility
Fairness
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City Hall/ Council
Nursing home
Mayor, police
station, fire
station, post
office, hospital
Parents
Internet sites
about local
community
Student
Music:
Reading/Literature:
 Create a song to
represent our
 Books about
community
local community
and how they
 Create a song to
have
represent our
changed/
classroom
evolved
community Ex:
Mrs. Jones’ 3rd
 Internet sites
on
grade
community
Community of
Learners
 Reading
maps
 Listen to music
of different
 Books about
cultures/commun
the people in
ities
our
communitygenerations
Technology:
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Discuss: How
has
technology
changed our
community?
Made it
better?
Use
computers to
create a
simple
community
Take a walk
around
community
and take
pictures of
modern
Physical
Education/Health:
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Go on a walk
around
community sites
Discuss: How
can we make a
more healthy
community?
Community Fun
Run
technology in
our
communityEx:
stoplights,
electricity
Field Trips/ Guests:
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Community
members visit
class
Parents visit class
and share family
diversity traitsteach a skill
Trip- Nursing
Home
Trip- Community
functions-cultural
Accommodations for
Learners:
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High use of
pictures with
simple labels
Time extension
for writing
projects, art
Aid with oral
presentation,
readers’ theater
Enlarged maps
around classroom
Books on various
reading levels
Read Alouds:
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Wilfrid
Gordon
McDonald
Partridge by
Mem Fox
The Gnats of
Knotty Pine
by Bill Peet
Culminating Activity/
Unit Projects:
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Put on a program
for parents,
school, or
community about
valuing everyone
in our
community
Visit nursing
home and share
“Community
Book”