Community

Grade Level: 3 rd grade

Approximate Length: 30-35 minutes

Curriculum area: Social Studies

Objectives:

Standard 1:
Students will understand how geography influences community location and development.

Objective 2: Describe how various communities have adapted to existing environments

and how other communities have modified the environment.

a. Describe how communities have modified the environment to accommodate their

needs (e.g. logging, storing water, building transportation systems). 

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Essential Question: What is your role in the community and why is it important?
How will you face challenges when growing up?

Enduring Understanding: Students will understand that communities play a huge

role and are important in many different ways. Understanding that people also have
challenges in life to overcome.

Materials: “Imagine” Book, “When I grow up” worksheet, pencils, and

coloring/drawing utensils.

Lesson Plan Summary

Students will learn that a community can make a huge impact on a person’s life. By learning
about what this stands for and expressing it to their peers can help the students learn how a
community forms and keeps building. By reading “Imagine” by Juan Felipe Herrera, the author
hopes and dreams of readers searching for their place in life.
 Instructional Procedures

Discussion (3-5 minutes): Explain to the students what we will be working on today
with Miss Rylee. Going over that we will be reading a book and then working on a
worksheet together as a class. Giving the students an outline of the lesson can
hopefully help them to understand what is being expected.

Brainstorm (5-8 minutes): Before reading the book to the class, talking and writing on the
white bored about the word community and ask the class what it stands for. I am
wanting the students to brainstorm what community means to them and what their
personal community looks like. Sharing to the class what does “giving back” look
like. Sharing examples with the class and hearing what they have to say.

Continued Discussion (10-12 minutes): After wrapping up the discussion on community, I will
then group the students together while I sit in front of the classroom and read the book called
“Imagine” by Juan Felipe Herrera. Throughout reading the book, I’ll be asking students if they
feel comfortable sharing a challenging time they have faced. Asking the students if they can
relate or share anything with their peers. Taking the time to connect with the class is so essential
when reading this book.

Worksheet and introduction to it (10-12 minutes): When completing the book and discussion
with the class, have the students work at their desks on the “What I want to be when I
grow up” worksheet. When the students are finished with coloring, writing their
name, and having a detailed picture they can advance to the backside of the
worksheet.

The backside of the worksheet is talking about their community. Each student will
then draw and write how you would want to help your community and “give back”.
Once completed, the students will then join a circle on the floor and share with the
other students who are finished on what they did on their worksheet.

Accommodations: I will constantly be scaffolding around the classroom while

students are working on their paper. If any student feels the need to be in a quiet
place to work on their worksheet, accommodations will be given if needed.
Assessment: I will check the work completed by the students and have each student come up and
show me what they completed. By assessing their drawings and what they want to explore with
their community will help me understand what they learned from this lesson.