Louisiana, My Home- Unit One First Grade ..... A look around
Louisiana, My Home- Unit One First Grade
It’s an exciting time for Louisiana teachers…. we have new State Standards in social studies. There is currently no curriculum to support the new standards in Kinder and first grades.
Enter…..
An exciting opportunity to introduce the Project-Based Learning model to your school, classroom and students. I’ve written a first grade curriculum which meets the new standards and it’s all PBL.
I’d love to show you a few of the exciting pieces of Unit One- Louisiana, My Home for first grade.
The video above is a quick glimpse of the overall unit. Let’s dive in….
Unit One includes:
1. An introduction and detailed explanation of the Project-Based Learning model
2. 20 days of detailed lesson plans
3. Concept board pieces to build on your board throughout the 20 days of instruction
4. Six inquiry stations with printable materials
5. A student created scrapbook to document daily learning
6. A 20 day interactive slide show to mirror the lesson plans- teachers can display the PowerPoint while teaching, to guide instruction
7. A culminating group project with rubric
8. Links for virtual field trips, read alouds, directed drawing
Let’s pull apart some of the pieces:
The six inquiry stations…. Here learners dive into investigating and discovering more about their amazing state, Louisiana. They’ll work in a cafe serving the amazing cuisine, discover more about the state symbols, create iconic LA paintings, spend time locating LA on a map and SO much more.
The Concept Board- Unit One Louisiana, My Home
This stunning and purposeful concept board is the central piece of the unit. It sits on a usable wall or bulletin board space in the classroom. The learning is documented on the board throughout the entire unit and teachers and students interact with it daily. All charts, vocabulary, thinking, questions, findings, pictures and support material hang here.
The student scrapbook is built over the first ten days of the unit and consists of a deep appreciation of LA culture. (food, music, musicians, artists, architecture, location and more)
The Button Map
Did I mention that this unit comes with an interactive slide show, which includes 20 days of slides perfectly aligned to the lesson plan?
I LOVE this!!! It’s the LA button map. Each day as the unit progresses and learners grow their knowledge of LA culture, the class collects and adds buttons to the LA map. At the end of the unit, the class will have collected 20 buttons. The buttons symbolize expert knowledge gained by each learner.
The students love looking at the buttons and talking about the learning they’ve discovered.