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The lesson plan describes a Grade 2 social studies lesson about Canada's communities. Students will take a virtual trip to Meteghan, Nova Scotia and learn about the physical geography of Inuit, Acadian, and prairie communities. During the lesson, students will watch videos of a flight to Nova Scotia and view maps of Halifax and Meteghan on Google Earth. They will then reflect on what they saw and how the communities are similar or different from their own. The goal is for students to understand how geography shapes community identity in different regions of Canada.

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Social Studies - Dec

The lesson plan describes a Grade 2 social studies lesson about Canada's communities. Students will take a virtual trip to Meteghan, Nova Scotia and learn about the physical geography of Inuit, Acadian, and prairie communities. During the lesson, students will watch videos of a flight to Nova Scotia and view maps of Halifax and Meteghan on Google Earth. They will then reflect on what they saw and how the communities are similar or different from their own. The goal is for students to understand how geography shapes community identity in different regions of Canada.

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Subject/Grade: Grade 2 Social Studies Lesson/Date: December 9th, 2019 Time: 11:15- 11:47

Room: 203

Stage 1: Desired Results


GLEs: Students will:
2.1 Canada’s Dynamic Communities
General Outcome
Students will demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of how geography,
culture, language, heritage, economics and resources shape and change
Canada’s communities.

SLEs: Students will:


Knowledge and Understanding

2.1.2 investigate the physical geography of an Inuit, an Acadian, and a


prairie community in Canada by exploring and reflecting the following
questions for inquiry:

• Where are the Inuit, Acadian and prairie communities located in Canada?
(LPP)
• How are the geographic regions different from where we live? (LPP)
• What are the major geographical regions, landforms and bodies of water in
each community? (LPP)
• What are the main differences in climate among these communities? (LPP)
• How does the physical geography of each community shape its identity? (CC,
I)

Learning Students will:


Objectives 1) Describe, in a journal reflection, what they saw and how they felt during their
virtual experience travelling to Nova Scotia.

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence


Formative  Observe what the Summative N/A
Assessment students have written Assessment
about in their reflective
journal entry.
 Observe the questions
that the students have
about travelling to Nova
Scotia. Are they curious
about what they see in
the videos? Are they
making connections to
previous lessons?

Stage 3: Learning Experience


Prior to  Prepare fake airline tickets. Resources to - Fake airline
Subject/Grade: Grade 2 Social Studies Lesson/Date: December 9th, 2019 Time: 11:15- 11:47

Room: 203

Lesson:  Set up chairs and seats for Bring: tickets


the students to “board their - Access to
plane”. videos on the
 Put tape down for isles. internet.
 Prepare a journal reflection.

Time: Content/Description Notes/Assessme


nts:
Introduction:
Let’s Take a Trip to Meteghan:
 Ask the students to line up in single file in front of me, just
like they would be standing in line for a boarding pass at
the airport.
10
mins.
Ask: “With a show of hands and no voices, how many of
you have been on an airplane before?”
Ask: “Without blurting out, what kinds of procedures do
you need to go through before you can board a plane?
What kinds of things might you need?”

 Look for answers and talk about things such as:


 Suitcase
 Money
 ID
 Passport
 Neck pillow
 Security
.  Metal detector
 Baggage scanner
 Boarding ticket
 Etc.
 Explain that the students will be receiving their own
personal boarding tickets and that we will be experiencing a
virtual trip to Meteghan, Nova Scotia.
 Ask the students to find their assigned seat from their
boarding pass on the reading carpet.
 Once everyone has taken a seat, play the video :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_LWyixk7UYR1E1Yjln 3:17 minutes
S05rbzQ/view
Ask the students to pretend like they’re on a real flight
by following along with the directions from the stewardess. 53 seconds
 Play the video: http://bit.ly/2mNSooN

Ask: “How was your experience traveling to Meteghan? Were


Subject/Grade: Grade 2 Social Studies Lesson/Date: December 9th, 2019 Time: 11:15- 11:47

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you nervous?”
 Have a discussion about how they felt and what they saw
(hands up to make a comment).

Body:

Google Earth:
 While the students are still at the carpet, tinker on Google
Earth.
 Remind the students of what Nova, Scotia looks like on a
10 map by showing them.
mins.  Indicate that Halifax is the provinces capital city.
 Show them what Halifax looks like on Google Earth.
 Show them what Meteghan looks like on Google Earth.
 Explain to the students that because Meteghan is such a
small community, they don’t have an airport so we should
need to fly into Halifax and travel by car or bus to the town
of Meteghan.
 Show them the route by googling “route from Halifax to
Meteghan on the map”.

Ask: “What are the differences you saw between Halifax and
Meteghan? Why do you think they’re so different?

 Have a short class discussion to check for understanding.


 Remind the students about carpet superstars and to be
respectful when someone is speaking. What does this
look like?

Closure:
 Hand out the students Meteghan duo tangs.
10  Ask the students to return to their table spots and glue their
mins. boarding pass to the back of their refection from
Monday’s class.
 Explain that they will be writing another refection on
Tuesday.
 Journal refection will be based on the following questions:
 What did they see?
 What are they excited about?
 How is Meteghan the same or different to
their community?
 Ask the students to do the following:
1) Put their duo tangs in the social studies bin.
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2) Clean up on and around their desks.


3) Get their lunches.
Stage 4: Reflection
1. How the students responded to the lesson as planned and taught:
2. Specific strengths of the lesson plan and delivery:
3. Specific weaknesses in the lesson plan and delivery:
4. What must be addressed to improve this plan?
5. How I have grown from this teaching experience:

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