{Standards}
Unit Topic:
Established
Goals-
Desired Result
Grade: 2 Unit:4
New York City Over Time
Understandings:
“Students will Understand that…”
Essential Questions: “…provocative…foster inquiry,
“…big ideas?” “What misunderstandings are predictable?”
understanding, and transfer of learning?”
Students will understand that New York City has changed over How and why did New York City change over the course of
time.
history?
Students will understand how the five boroughs of NYC
developed neighborhoods.
Students will understand the purpose of famous landmarks in
New York City.
Students will know… {key knowledge and skills}
Students will be able to… {actually- as a result of-knowledge/skill}
-New York City is made up of Immigrants
- On a map identify the five boroughs
-The names of the five boroughs that make up NYC
- Name one immigrant group that came to NYC before
-The following five landmarks;
1900
Statue of Liberty, Central Park
- Name the five landmarks discussed throughout the
Empire State building, Times Square
unit
Apollo Theatre
Key Vocabulary:Five boroughs, landmarks, Immigrant, Ellis Island
Assessment Evidence
Performance Tasks:
-Blank template used to identify the five
boroughs
Other Evidence:
-Field trip to the Lower East Side Tenement
Museum
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-correct spelling of Manhattan, Bronx,
Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island
-Paper Mache class museum of famous
landmark buildings
- class developed alphabet book
“H is for Harlem”
“The ABC’s of NYC”
Unit Topic:New York City has changed over time.
Grade: 2
Month: December
Monday
NYC has changed over time. It was
first settled by the Native Americans
and later by the Dutch from Holland
who named it New Amsterdam when
they settled in the 1500’s.
Virtual Field Trip to the the LES
Tenement Museum
Access website
http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour
/index_virtual.html
Tuesday
Other immigrants
came to NYC later
for different
opportunities
including work and
religious freedom.
These immigrants
came through Ellis
Island.
Wednesday
Read Aloud
Journey to a New
Land
What difficulties did
the traveling
immigrants face?
What was the voyage
to NYC like?
Thur
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Friday
SEM
Read Aloud When Jessie came
Across the Sea
Students can write their own
personal narrative from the Point of
View of the narrator of the books.
“Based on the books we have read
and what you have learned. You will
pretend that you are a child travling
to Ellis Island. Write will the trip be
like? What will happen when you
arrive at Ellis Island?”
SEM
Field trip to the LES
Tenement Museum
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Week 3- 5 Boroughs of NYC
Week 4- Landmarks of NYC
NYC is known for many famous
landmarks. This week, we will about 5
of them. A landmark is an important
building or place in an area.
Turn and Talk: If our school was in a
book, what would a landmark be at
PS153? (café,auditorium,gym)
Students look at maps of NYC with
highlighted landmarks to note their
geographical area on the maps.*They
can also list in Theme NB’s landmarks
they think they already know.
Today we will learn
about Central Park.
Central Park was
created by ______
and _______. In
_____. Turn and Talk
to your partner about
what you know about
Central Park.
Teacher has a blank
web about central
park. The class fills
in web on chart paper
about CP. Continue to
teach to points not
made by students.
Students can copy
web into their Theme
NB’s.
Today we will learn
about The Statue of
Liberty and the
Empire State Building.
Teacher gives
students five facts
about each landmark.
Turn and talk to your
partner about that is
the same about each
landmark.
Class fills in Venn
diagram comparing the
two landmarks.
SEM
Today we will learn about Times
Square and The Apollo theatre.
Students read from document
(teacher made) with facts about
each landmark. They will highlight
important facts and write them on
four index cards for either
landmark. Students create suitcase
book and put index cards in the book
as a virtual field trip souvenir.
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