Michigan+Unit+Plan

Name: Tara Morrish

//(focused on student using technology)// //(focused on teacher’s using technology)// || **Instructional Objectives** //(Must contain a performance)// || **Tools and Resources** || Kindergarten Social Studies 2 || K – G1.0.1 Recognize that maps and globes represent places. || N 3c. Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital age media and formats || Students will be able to draw a picture of lower and upper Michigan in Microsoft paint by tracing their hand to make the shape of lower and upper Michigan and locate and label where in the state their school is located. || Go to the computer lab and show students how to use Microsoft Paint ||||=  || Kindergarten Social Studies || K – G1.0.2 Use environmental directions or positional words (up/down, in/out, above/below) to identify significant locations in the classroom. || N 2C Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources || Students will use cardinal direction in the classroom by locating and labeling items on the worksheet while working in groups. || On the classroom projector pull up the cardinal direction video on youtube. []
 * **Curriculum Unit Plan: State of Michigan**
 * Subject Area: Geography**
 * Grade Level: K**
 * Unit Title: The World around us** || **GLCE /HSCE-**
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 * Locate Michigan and School on a map
 * Learn directions and cardinal directions in the classroom then apply them to a map.



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 * Locate where the their house is compared to the city their school is in || K – G2.0.1 Identify and describe places in the immediate environment (e.g., classroom, home, playground). || PK-2.RI.1. interact with Internet based resources

Use Google Earth [|Google Earth] || Students will be able to explore the website and learn to navigate the different maps through Google Earth if they have the address of the facility they are looking for. || On the classroom projector the teacher will pull up the Google Earth and explore the program with the students || Michigan History 3 || K – G5.0.1 Describe ways people use the environment to meet human needs and wants (e.g., food, shelter, clothing). || N 2C Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources || Students will list(chart) the differences between human wants and needs that can be found in our community using the human wants and needs worksheet. || Create a chart that will list what students think are want and needs.
 * Ask students what the difference between wants and needs



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 * The student will identify our country’s flag as an important symbol of the United States. || K – C2.0.1 Identify our country’s flag as an important symbol of the United States. || N 2C Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resource || Students will be able to recognize and label 80% of the symbols of the United States when scrambled with other symbols. || Worksheets with symbols of the United States ||