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The Unit Plan: Follow that Map
Essential Question/Big Idea:
How and why I use maps to get around?
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Meaningful Text(s): Me on the Map, by Joan Sweeny, Follow that Map: A First Book of Mapping, by Scot Ritchie, Around the World: A Colorful Atlas for kids, by Anita Ganeri
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Learning Outcomes:
Students Will:
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Tell about how the pictures help me to understand the text.
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Alignment with standards:
LAFS.K.RI.3.7: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
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LAFS.K.RI.3.8: With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
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Geography Standards:
G.1.1, G.1.2, G1.3, G.1.4, G.2.1,G.3.1, G.3.2
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Anchor 1
Written and Artistic Processes/Products
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Chalk Talk strategie with the question, "What is a map?"
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Vocabulary Tableaus​
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Entering text: In table groups do See, Think, Wonder using pictures from the texts
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Thinking strategy: TLC, what do you think, what did you learn, how has your thinking changed?
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Pair-Share and Turn and Talk
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Formative Assessments -
Looking and listening for understanding of…
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maps and prior knowledge of maps
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vocabulary essential for understanding the text
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key details and facts
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different types of maps and their purposes
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the texts and components and usefullness of maps
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MORE: See entire Unit Plan
Culminating Performance/Exhibition/Student Work
Students were able to demonstrate their understanding by working in groups to create their own maps. They then presented their maps to the class.
Reflection:
Above: Culminating event for the month long unit on Native Americans brought kindergarteners and first graders come together to sing songs about their history and share a “Thanksgiving” snack.
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Left: Unit Rubric
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