March 2022

Teacher Ana Ferzacca Grade Level 1

Subject Social Studies Unit Heroes and

Landmarks

GLOs 1.2: Moving Forward with the Past: My Family, My History & My
Community

SLOs 1.2.1 - appreciate how stories and events of the past connect their
families and communities to the present:
● appreciate people who have contributed to their
communities over time
1.1.2 - value the groups and communities to which they belong:
● demonstrate a willingness to share and cooperate with
others

Learning Students will be able to explain what makes a person a hero.

Objectives Students will be able to identify traits that make specific historical
figures heroes.
Students will be able to describe why a person from Lethbridge is
a hero.

Materials/Equipment/Resources

Lesson 1 “What’s My Superpower” by Aviaq Johnston

Anchor chart paper and markers
Visual Journals
Guided hero drawing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLJifFjjBAw

Lesson 2 Social Studies booklets

Hero cut and paste
Social A-Z Slides

Lesson 3 Trading card templates

A-Z slides for review
Cardstock
Trading card Example

Lessons

Lesson 1 Read “What’s My Superpower” by Aviaq Johnston

Hero visual ● Discuss what students think each others superpowers are
journal ● Why is it important to recognize other people’s
superpowers?
 Create Hero word anchor chart
Title: Superhero Characteristics
● Have students brainstorm words that they could use to
describe heroes
○ Strong
○ Smart
○ Hardworking
○ Brave
○ Caring
○ Kind
○ Etc.

Create visual journals

Title: My Grade 1 SuperPower
● Do guided drawing of superhero
● Writing prompt “My superpower is…”
● Have students colour and create their super hero
● Add words from out super hero anchor chart to the
background

Lesson 2: Review the traits that make someone a hero

Heroes of
Lethbridge Talk about heroes of Lethbridge
● Go through slides emphasizing impact on Lethbridge and
ask students what hero traits they think each person has.
● Why are these heroes important?
● Why do we have places named after them?

Divide class into teams and play guess the hero game.

Hand out hero pictures and have students sort glue them into
social books.

On the writing page have students write

“H is for Hero”

Writing prompt: A hero is….

● Someone who is smart and kind
● Someone who helps their community
● Someone who is brave
Extension:
“My favourite Lethbridge hero is _____ because ______”

Lesson 3: Review the different Lethbridge Heroes that we discussed and

Hero what they did.
Trading
Cards Get students to pick a favourite Lethbridge Hero and explain the
trading cards - have example ready to show

Have students start with the writing part

 “_____” is a hero because

This needs to be something that that person did to make them a

hero
NS: was a hard-working coal miner and was the first coal miner in
Lethbridge
KA: was a teacher when she was 16, she cared about her students
a lot
MD: was a caring nurse who never took a day off of work
WL: gave money to the coal mining business. Lethbridge is named
after him

Pick 3 hero words to describe your hero

Draw a picture of your hero, decorate trading card

Cut and glue to a piece of cardstock

Assessment - Formative

Hero cut and paste

Trading Card Rubric:

Hero Trading Card

Name:

Picture of the hero is coloured

and detailed.
What the hero has done is clearly
stated.
3 Hero characteristics are listed.
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