Catherine Bethell Dr.

Kolar EDEL 453 March 26, 2012

How to Make Your World More Beautiful

Integrated social studies unit By Catherine Bethell Dr. Kolar EDEL 453

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Table of Contents
Introduction to the Unit..Page 3-6 Calendar of LessonsPage 7-9 Lesson PlansPage 10-13 Resources.Page 14 Comprehensive Reflection.Page 14-15

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Miss Rumphius

By Barbara Cooney Grade Level: 2nd Grade Summary As a young girl Miss Rumphius looked up to her grandfather who was an artist. He worked in a shop at the bottom of his house, and Miss Rumphius would help when he was very busy. Miss Rumphius would listen to her grandfather tell stories about all the faraway places he went to. She wanted to be just like her grandfather and travel

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faraway places too, and live by the sea when she gets old. Her grandfather emphasized the most important thing to do in ones life, and that was to do something to make the world more beautiful. Miss Rumphius traveled to a few faraway places, lived by the sea, and did something to make the world beautiful. As she grew old she shared all her stories to her niece and her nieces friends. Her niece wants to go to faraway places, live by the sea, and someday do something to make the world more beautiful. Themes Enhancing environment Sharing earth-space with others The Community Culture The themes of this unit are enhancing the environment, sharing earth-space with others, culture and the community. In the story of Miss Rumphius the character Alice sets goals and accomplishes them, and at the same time she is enhancing her own environment and learning about her community and who she shares the earth with.

NCSS Themes The book Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney fits into four of the NCSS themes: 1. Culture- This unit covers sharing the earth with others. Miss Rumphiuss travels to many places and comes in contact with different cultures. 2. Time, Continuity, and Change- This unit covers the theme of change and time. The story starts off with Alice a young girl and as time continues Alice turns into a beautiful Miss Rumphius. 3. People, Places, and Environments- This unit covers the environmental changes, places, and the influence of people. Miss Rumphius travels to many different environments, places, and meets lots of different people. 4. Individual Development and Identity- This unit covers a persons individual development and how they develop their identity. Miss Rumphius starts out as a young girl who is curious and looks up to her grandfather. As she gets older she

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travels to different places and gets a change to see different cultures. Her experiences help develop her identity.

Connecting the unit to the standards 5.0 Environment and Society Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources. 1.0 The World in Spatial Terms Students use maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments. 2.0 Places and Regions Students understand the physical and human features and cultural characteristics of places and use this information to define and study regions and their patterns of change.

Objectives for Social Studies

It is expected that student will:

Objectives for Language Arts

It is expected that student will:

Objectives for Service Learning

It is expected that student will:

The world in spatial terms: G 2.1.0 Derive and locate information about people, places, and environments through using technology. H 2.5.0 Read and understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750. Places and Regions: G 2.3.2 Describe what a map or globe represents [NS 1.2.2] G 2.3.6 Identify and locate land and water on a map or globe,

Key Ideas and Details:

RL.2.1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. RL.2.3. Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Craft and Structure:

RL.2.5. Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. G2.3.16

Identify the resources available, which support a cleaner environment. Recognize the effectiveness of student and community support. Understand recycling, waste reduction, and ecology. Study about ecosystems. Complete a service learning project.

Give oral directions from one location to another

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using the terms continent and ocean [NS 1.2.7]

within the school or community.

Integrating multiple subjects

Social Studies/History Study past Native tribes and their impact and influence on the students surrounding environment and culture. Research the beautiful plants in your community and Native American gardening methods to keep them beautiful. Language Arts Read Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney, and then list the cultures and environments discussed in the book, within small groups. Service Learning Students can learn how to make their own community more beautiful, by cleaning up trash, recycling, or something they believe makes their world more beautiful. Science Students can learn how to plant a seed and care for it until it blooms into a beautiful plant. Students can research the environment of a faraway place they would like to visit in the future and present their research to the class.

Interview local
community elders about how the environment used to be; write stories comparing these perspectives on how it is now.

Students can
make poster on ways to make their community more beautiful and put them up around their school and neighborhood.

Students will
research their own family history and where they originate from.

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Theater, Music, and Visual Arts

Languages

The students will create a 3-d place of where they would like to live when they are grown up. The students will brainstorm their own culture, and find music that represents that culture. They will bring in a sample of the music and share it to the class.

Students will pick a place they would like to visit and research the language/s, population, and describe the landscape in one paragraph.

Calendar
Day 1 4-17-12

Objectives: Students will answer the question- How can students make the world more beautiful? Activities1. Students will gather on the reading rug and listen to the story Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney. (15 minutes) 2. The class will discuss what Miss Rumphius set out to do, and what her outcome was. (10 minutes) 3. Each student will come to the board and write down something they have done to make the world more beautiful like Miss Rumphius did. (15 minutes) 4. The class will agree on a way that they can all make the school environment more beautiful. The teacher will guide the discussion to lead to recycling, and end the lesson.( 10 minutes)

Day 2 4-18-12

Objectives: Students will answer the question- What is recycling, and how do you recycle? Activities1. Guest Speaker from the recycling club will give a speech to the class

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about the club, and the purpose of it.( 20 minutes) 2. Guest Speaker will answers any questions from the students.(10 minutes) 3. Students will get in groups of four and brainstorm orally a way that they can contribute to the recycling club.( 5 minutes) 4. Students will create a recycling bin for the classroom, using materials from the classroom. (15 Minutes) Objectives: Students will answer the question- How do problems in the community, state, country, and world get noticed? Activities1. Students will watch an inspirational video to stop smoking created by children their age. (30 minutes) 2. The class will discuss the video and it will be guided to discuss about the awareness of recycling and waste reduction by the teacher. ( 10 minutes) 3. The class will repeat the definition of awareness, and ways on how to spread awareness back to the teacher to close up the lesson. (10 minutes) Objectives: Students will answer the question- How can we as students spread awareness about recycling to make our environment better? Activities1. A graphic organizer will be shown to the class on positive effects of recycling, and negative effects if the world doesnt recycle or reduce the amount of waste it producing. (15 minutes) 2. Students will then create a poster that spreads the awareness of the 3 Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), and hang them up around the school. ( 35 minutes) Objectives: Students will answer the question- How does a seed grow into a plant and how do you keep a plant alive and beautiful? Activities1. The students will watch a 20 minute video on photosynthesis by Bill

Day 3

4-19-12

Day 4

4-20-12

Day 5 4-21-12

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Nye the Science Guy. The students will be required to take notes in their science notepads. (25 minutes) 2. The students will get in groups of four and discuss how to plant a seed and how to care for a plant once it has grown. (15 minutes) 3. Then the teacher will provide pictures of the steps on how to plant a seed and how to care for one, and the group to put the pictures in the correct order the fastest will receive a homework pass. (10 minutes)
Day 6 4-22-12

Objectives: Students will answer the question What is culture and what is my cultural background? Activities 1. The students will have three guest speakers that are all of different cultures. Each guest speaker will share a sample of their cultural music, language, and food with the class. (30 minutes) 2. The students will research their own culture in the library and fill out the cultural worksheet the teacher provided them. (20 Minutes) 3. The students will be required to bring something from home that represents their culture and present it in class on 4-23-12. Objectives: Students will answer the question- How can I represent my cultural background? Activities: 1. The students will see the teachers presentation on her English culture, by presenting some English food for the students to try. ( 25 minutes) 2. Each student will now present the item they brought from home to represent their culture and share it with the class. The students will set up their desk with their presentation. ( 25 minutes)

Day 7 4-23-12

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TEACHER: _______Catherine Bethell______

TOPIC/TITLE OF THIS LESSON: How to make your world more beautiful!

Day # _1____ OBJECTIVES Students should be able to recognize something that they have done to make their environment/world more beautiful. The students should agree on something they can do to make the school environment more beautiful. H 2.5.0 Read and understand the impact of the interaction of peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750.
RL.2.3. Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

STANDARDS ADDRESSED

MATERIALS/RESOURCES/TECHNOLOGY USED IN THE LESSON Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney Dry erase marker

ANTICIPATORY SET: 1. The teacher will have each student come up to the board and write down something

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they have done to make their environment better. 2. She will lead a group discussion by asking what students can do to make their school environment better.

ACTIVITIES IN THE LESSON Students will gather around the reading circle and listen to the teacher read the book, Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney. Students will discuss the book within their assigned group tables. Each student will come up to the board and write down one thing they have done that has made their environment better or more beautiful. The class will then have an oral discussion on what they can do as a class to help their school environment become more beautiful.

ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING/UNDERSTANDING The students will have a ticket out the door. The ticket out the door is to write down three things you can do to help your environment and explain why they would help your environment.

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TEACHER: Catherine Bethell TOPIC/TITLE OF THIS LESSON: Day # 4

OBJECTIVES
The students should be able to understand how to spread awareness about an issue. Students should know the effects of recycling. Students should know the three Rs.

STANDARDS ADDRESSED
RL.2.1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

5.0 Environment and Society Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in use, distribution, and importance of resources.

MATERIALS/RESOURCES/TECHNOLOGY USED IN THE LESSON Poster Markers Tape Computer Graphic organizer

ANTICIPATORY SET:
The teacher will use a graphic organizer to show the effects of recycling and what can happen if the world doesnt recycle.

ACTIVITIES IN THE LESSON 1. The teacher will present a graphic organizer on the positive effects of recycling, and the negative effects if we do not recycle. 2. The students will then create a poster incorporating the three Rs, Recycle, Reuse, and Reduse.

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3. After completing the poster will hang it up somewhere in the school building.

ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING/UNDERSTANDING I will assess student learning by grading the poster the students created to spread awareness about recycling.

Third Lesson Plan

The students have been learning about culture and how they can represent their culture. Each student was required to bring something from home that represents their culture. It could be music, food, clothing, a language, a picture, or a book. They have to set it up on their desk and half the class will walk by each students desk and the student presenting will tell the other students about their culture. The teacher will also be presenting something that represents her culture, and will give a short speech to the whole class.

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Resources
Book: Miss Rumphius

Comprehensive Reflection
Creating this integrated unit was very time consuming, but extremely helpful. I have gained so much experience and knowledge on how to create a lesson plan integrating multiple subjects. I now understand how to connect the standards to the themes of my lesson plan. It was very hard to create the seven day calendar as I had to move a lot of my days around in order for the unit to be affective. It was difficult at first to integrate multiple subjects to a social studies lesson plan, but with more experience and practice it became easier and almost natural to incorporate another subject within my lesson. I had fun coming up with activities for my students to complete. It was also difficult to surround my lesson on one main theme at first, but as I continued my calendar activities it seemed to all work out and come together perfectly. My service learning project is a great idea for my lesson plan theme and I would like to use this actual idea in the future in my own classroom. It was very easy to tie in a childrens literature book into my unit. The book is what actually helped me complete my unit and give me a theme! I never realized how much a book could be used to help teach about social studies or any other subject for that matter. The three part integrated social studies unit

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was very well organized and a great way to help a future teacher prepare to create lesson plans that incorporate multiple subjects. I really liked the lesson plan template given for this assignment, and I will most likely use it again! Coming up with activities for seven days was actually kind of hard and I had to keep in mind that this unit is for the second grade level. I am glad that I was given this opportunity to gain experiences, skills, and knowledge on how to create an effective unit plan using the Childrens book I chose!

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NAME ________Catherine Bethell

SCORING RUBRIC FOR THE INTEGRATED SOCIAL STUDIES UNIT (PLEASE ATTACH TO YOUR UNIT)
60 Points Possible (20% OF COURSE GRADE)

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Title Page and Table of Contents + Over-all Presentation of Unit Introduction to the Unit The grade level, the theme, a summary of the central piece of literature (childrens book) of the unit, and the NCSS Themes addressed by your selected childrens book. Brainstorming Chart for the Integration of Multiple Subject Areas (Visual) AS WELL AS statement of the subject areas you chose for your unit. YOU COMPLETED THIS IN PART I. YOU DETERMINE HOW THIS IS PRESENTED IN YOUR FINAL UNIT. Calendar of Lessons for the 7-10 days of your unit. This calendar will delineate the subject areas in each lesson AND the CEF objectives for each subject area. Also, you will detail the activities. PORTION COMPLETED FOR PART II/ HERE WILL BE ALL 7-10 DAYS- COMPLETE CALENDAR ____/10First four days including objectives (COMPLETED PART II) ____/10 The remaining days of the calendar including objectives (PART III) Lesson Plans (one for the FIRST day of the unit, one for a MIDDLE day of the unit in DOE Lesson plan format or proposed lesson plan format; your THIRD lesson details the culminating activity of the unit (you can select your format of presentation) Presentation of Resources (ALL teacher and student- books, articles, websites, etc. used in the development of the unit) A 1-2 page comprehensive reflection on the total process of developing your unit. You can include narrative and visuals.

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Bonus Points will be assigned for exemplary contents