Project: Mapping our Community [2.0]
Grade: Second
Enduring Understanding:
Our community is made up of heroes who make a difference, and they come from many places.
Standards/Skills:
We have many heroes in our community (SS2.2)
Interviewing (ELA.SL 2.1, 2.3)
ELA informational writing
Driving Question:
How can we, as 2nd graders, honor the heroes in our community? [How can we as teachers do this in a more sustainable way?!]
Final products:
Students will interview community members. They will take what they learn from their interview to write an informational piece that will appear in the formal of a google slide.
Exhibition:
A community volunteer will help our class to identify where all those interviewed come from, on a large mural map. The location of each interviewee will be identified on the map with a QR code that passerbys can scan to see student writing about that person [google slide].
Benchmark #1: Historical heroes
-what traits do heroes have?
Benchmark #2: Interviewing community heroes
-to how interview
-grammar punctuation in our writing
Benchmark #3: Info Writing
-analyze exemplar
-modeling→ co-create rubric
-sentence frames -graphic organizers
-lesson on structure of info writing
-self reflect/feedback with rubric
To see the revised project overview [2.0] click community map