Wayne RESA

Unit PlannerSocial Studies 2

Wayne RESA – SS / Grade 2 / Social Studies / Social Studies 2 / Week 25 - Week 31
RESA, MAISA MC3 Units
Unit Abstract

In this unit students use historical thinking to explore their local community’s past and how communities change over time. The unit begins with a review of historical concepts and ideas from first grade. Using the book The Oxcart Man or a similar literature choice from the economics unit, students identify evidence the story took place in the past. Using a graphic organizer, students compare life in the past with life today. Acting as historians, students investigate various ways we learn about history and begin to gather information about the history of their local community. In a lesson on chronology (sequence) they explore a timeline of local community events. Using The House on Maple Street and A River Ran Wild or similar books, students investigate and compare change over time in a fictional and a non-fictional community. First, students investigate change in the community in The House on Maple Street and then investigate change in their own local community. Students identify historical figures in the local community and explain their contributions and significance in local history. Using the book, A River Ran Wild, students identify how a problem was solved in a community’s past and look for examples of past problems in their own local community. Students are introduced to the concept of historical perspective as they begin to understand why people may view the same historical event in different ways. Finally, using the information about their community’s past which they have gathered throughout the unit, students create a class book describing and illustrating the history of their local community.

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Stage One - Desired Results

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Standards
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Compelling Question

How do communities change over time?

Supporting Questions
  1. How do historians study the past?
  2. How can an individual impact history?
  3. How do communities change over time?
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Content (Key Concepts)

artifact
change
chronology
decades
historian
historical evidence
historical narrative
historical perspective
history
past
people
timeline

Skills (Intellectual Processes)

Cause and Effect
Comparing/Contrasting
Synthesizing

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Stage Two - Assessment Evidence

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Unit Assessment Tasks
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Stage Three - Learning Plan

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Lesson Plan Sequence
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Resources
  • Overhead Projector or Document Camera and Projector
  • Chart Paper and Markers
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Expectations/Standards
MI: Social Studies (2007)
1st Grade
History
H2 Living and Working Together
Use historical thinking to understand the past.
1 – H2.0.1 Demonstrate chronological thinking by distinguishing among past, present, and future using family or school events.
1 – H2.0.6 Compare life today with life in the past using the criteria of family, school, jobs, or communication.
2nd Grade
History
H2 Living and Working Together
Use historical thinking to understand the past.
2 – H2.0.1 Demonstrate chronological thinking by distinguishing among years and decades using a timeline of local community events.
2 – H2.0.2 Explain why descriptions of the same event in the local community can be different.
2 – H2.0.3 Use an example to describe the role of the individual in creating history.
2 – H2.0.4 Describe changes in the local community over time (e.g., types of businesses, architecture and landscape, jobs, transportation, population).
2 – H2.0.5 Identify a problem in a community’s past and describe how it was resolved.
2 – H2.0.6 Construct a historical narrative about the history of the local community from a variety of sources (e.g., data gathered from local residents, artifacts, photographs).
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