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History
H2 Living and Working Together in Communities
Use historical thinking to understand the past.
2 – H2.0.4 Describe changes in the local community over time (e.g., types of
businesses, architecture and landscape, jobs, transportation, population).
Grade: 2nd
Subject:Social Studies
- Class of 24 students
Objectives
Language skills: Share information with group and class,research information, make
timeline and presentation
Content Skills: The students will learn the changes Detroit has experienced as a
community
Motivation: 20 minutes(day 1)
-Put 10 pictures of Detroit on the board ask the students to help me put them in the
correct order according to date ( oldest to most recent)
-Ask students to explain why they think the pictures would go in this order
-Ask them to write down on a piece of paper I give them all the information they know
about Detroit
-I will collect the piece of paper
Presentation:20 minutes(day 1)
-I will have go through the book Forgotten Detroit on the pages I have previously marked
and read some historical background to the class
- I will use show the students how to use Google Earth
- I will show what Detroit looks like in present day using Google Earth
- We will talk about the correct order of the pictures from the motivation and what is
going on in the pictures
Google Earth
Review
-Presentations(day 3)( take about 45 min of class time)
-Give them a blank time line to fill out, I will ask them to fill in their time line as they
watch their peers presentation
-Will give them back their sheets of paper from the first day so they can see how much
they learned
Assessment
- The group project graded (informal) graded on effort not correctness, will look for
creativity