Date April 5,

2016

Critical Inquiry Question:

How has our community grown and changed?

Lesson # 4

Subject Social Studies

Unit My Community:
Then and Now
Grade2

COURSE OUTCOMES
Knowledge:
2.2.6 analyze how the community of Lethbridge emerged
2.2.7 examine how the community of Lethbridge has changed
Attitude:
2.2.1 appreciate how stories of the past connect individuals and communities to the present
2.2.3 appreciate the importance of collaboration and living in harmony
2.2.5 appreciate how cultural and linguistic exchanges connect one community to another
Skill:
2.S.1 develop skills of critical thinking and creative thinking:
2.S.2 Develop skills of historical thinking
2.S.8 demonstrate skills of oral, written and visual literacy:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson students will be able to:
Explain how irrigation allowed Lethbridge to grow.
Describe 1-2 reasons why it's important to work together with others.
Guiding Questions:
Why is it important to work with others?
When did you have to work with others?
What places do cities always need, both in the past and present?
MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

PPT
Social studies journals (if they exist), lined paper for duotangs (if there are no journals)
PREPARATION AND LOGISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Load PPT over PM recess

INCLUSION

PROCEDURE
INTRODUCTION

TIME

Have the first few students in help hand out duotangs.

Does anybody remember what we talked about before the break?
What the prairies looked like
Buffalo
Coal
Hospitals
THE PAST
We're going to start off today by talking a little about the past, but this time we're
going to think about things that are the SAME as when Lethbridge became a
city as they are today.

2 min

Next we'll act out a new story about IRRIGATION and working together.
After our story, you'll write a journal entry. When you finish your journal entry,
you can work on the new ABC page.

BODY

Review (5 mins)
There's a picture in the top box on your SAME worksheet. Does anybody have
any idea what it means?
I chose this picture because it represents the different First Nations groups that
lived in this area a very long time ago, who still live here today.
Can someone come point to the Important Places box?
What do you think are some places that we had in the past and still have today?
Sketch 2 of them.
Story (10 mins)
Now we're going to move over to the carpet. How are we going to move there?
What will happen if we don't move there quietly?
What are you going to do when you get to the carpet?
Who remembers the first explorer from our story last week, John Palliser? He
was the one who said "We can't grow food here, it's too dry!"
Then everybody turned to their neighbour and whispered "There's coal in
Alberta! Go to Coalbanks."
Well, lots of families did move, and when they got here they needed to grow

TIME
min

food to eat.
Ask for a volunteer.
So here we have a coal miners wife. She wants to grow vegetables, so she
plants some seeds (as the volunteer to plant some seeds).
They get lots of light from the sun, but it won't rain so they can't grow.
Have the volunteer say "My family is going to STARVE! I need someone to help
me."
And someone did!
Ask for another volunteer.
This is Charles Ora Card! Have the volunteer say "I can help you!"
The farmer says "But you're a Mennonite!"
Who knows what a Mennonite is?
They're people who have beliefs that are a bit different from ours. They're very
peaceful and they never fight in wars. Because they had different beliefs and
didn't want to fight, lots of people in the past didn't like them. But (as you know)
they're very nice people, and GREAT farmers.
Have Charles Ora Card say "Well, it's hard to live here on the prairies. We have
to stick together. Let me help you."
Farmer says "Okay."
I need (half the class) more volunteers!
You are the mennonites.
The rest of the class stand up please. You are the settlers.
Mennonites pretend to dig in a straight line, then show settlers how to do the
same.
So Charles and his friends taught the settlers how to dig CANALS in the ground
that would take water from rivers and lakes right up to the crops.
This is called IRRIGATION. Let's all try saying it together.
So irrigation means watering plants. It's a way that we can give them water
without having to wait for rain. Today irrigation is sometimes still canals, or
sometimes you'll see farmers using big sprinklers.
Why couldn't people just use sprinklers in the past? They didn't have running
water or pipes yet.
We couldn't live here without irrigation. We'd starve too. We need to be able to
water plants even when it doesn't rain.
Let's move back to our desks. How are we going to get there?
Quietly, without talking.
What are you going to do when you get to your desk?
Heads down so I know you're ready to learn.

Journal Entries (Begin at 2:50 or 2:55)

Can anybody think of why the Mennonites might have helped the settlers?
Why is it important to help others, even if you don't like them?
When you help other people, you get a chance to learn about them, and lots of
times you learn that they aren't so bad.
In your journal, I want you to write about a time that you had to work together
with someone. Maybe your parents made you play with them. Maybe you
helped someone who was having a bad day. Can anybody think of something
they might write about? Hands up.
I also want you to tell me one reason why you think it's important to work
together with others.
If you didn't get a chance to share your idea, share it with me in your journal.
While you're writing, what should you do if you don't know how to spell a word?
Try your best. IDEAS are what's important to me right now, not spelling.
What should you do when you're finished your journal entry?
Put your hand up so I can check it.
Once I've checked it you may go get an ABC page.
Do you need to talk while you're writing in your journal?
No, that will be distracting to you and to other people.
Irrigation colouring page (5 mins)
There's a maze, you need to help the water find the potato.
Then there are 3 fields. Draw water in between them to show that irrigation is
happening. Colour the fields too.
WORK PERIOD

TIME
min

CLOSURE

TIME

You may put your binder away when you've told me one thing you learned or
wrote about today.
Modification: One person from each table needs to tell me one thing that they
learned. Then that person can collect/hand in duotangs while the rest begin
cleaning up.
ASSESSMENT

Journals and graphic organizers. Questioning/group discussion.

2 EXAM QUESTIONS

03:10:00

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

I is for irrigation.
Irrigation is a way of watering plants, even if
if it hasn't rained.

Help the water drop find the

potato! Then draw some
water between the crops
below.