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
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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

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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: