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Guide your students through the exciting world of social studies to help them become more thoughtful, knowledgeable, and understanding of people’s differences and similarities.Delivered in two modules per grade, Nelson Social Studies provides you with everything you need in one convenient place.

This package provides a sample of Our Community, from Nelson Social Studies Grade 1. Additional components for Chapter 1: Features of a Community, include:• 1 complete Lesson Plan• 1 Blackline Master• 1 Photo Card

To learn more about the series and to view sample material from other grades, visit us online at nelson.com/nelsonsocialstudies today!

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Unit Overview: Our Community 2

Chapter 1: Features of a Community 4Let’s Find Out about Maps (Inquiry Skill) 6Let’s Ask Questions (Inquiry Skill) 8What Areas Are in a Community? 10Then and Now 11

Chapter 2: People’s Needs 12How Do People Meet Their Needs? 14Let’s Find Information (Inquiry Skill) 16Let’s Understand Information (Inquiry Skill) 18

Chapter 3: Services in the Community 20Who Provides Community Services? 22Let’s Draw Conclusions (Inquiry Skill) 23Who Looks After Trees in a Community? 24How Do People Use Services? 26How Do People Work Together? 28Let’s Share (Inquiry Skill) 30

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Series Advisor

Stanley Hallman-Chong Series Authors

Mary Cairo Luci Soncin Senior Author

Jennette MacKenzie Author

Christine Finochio Bias Review

Nancy Christoffer Social Studies Review

Dyanne Rivers

Reviewers

Beverley Archer, Simcoe County DSB Jennifer Chamberland, Halton DSB Lori Flynn, Toronto DSB Krista Frey, Waterloo Regional DSB Lisa Galvan, Greater Essex County DSB Kelly Hackett, Lambton Kent DSB Lori Haeney, Peel DSB Kerri Hardy, York Region DSB Kim Jackson, Durham DSB Blair Janzen, DSB of Niagara Margaret Jarvis, Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB Anne Labonté, Ottawa Carleton DSB M. Love, Hastings and Prince Edward DSBDebra S. MacLean, Halton DSBJ. McMaster, Upper Canada DSBJamie Nyland, Upper Canada DSBAnne Powers, Limestone DSBByron Stevenson, Toronto DSB

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People live in different places. We all live in communities.

Our Community

How does our community help us meet our needs?

BIG Question

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Chapter 1

Every community has features that make it special. A community might have water, trees, rocks, flat places, and hills. These are the natural features of a community.

People build some features in a community. For example, they build roads, buildings, and pathways.

Features of a Community

What natural and built features are in our community?

Chapter Question

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The Big Question reflects the important learnings for the unit. Students will be returning to and reflecting on this question throughout the unit.

The Chapter Question encourages students to practice their inquiry skills.

The Unit Opener introduces the unit.

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The Big Book will help guide young learners through the exciting world of

social studies. Here are some of the features they will see.

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Path A

Path B

Legend

Here are some questions people asked.

We ask questions for different reasons. Questions help us find information, solve problems, and make decisions.They help us learn more about things we wonder about.

This map shows two possible bike paths. People in the community ask questions to get more information. More information will help them decide where the path should go.

Thin questions have short answers. For example, the question “Will the bike path be paved?” has a yes-or-no answer. Thick questions make you think and wonder and sometimes do research. Questions that start with Why or How are usually thick questions.

When will the bike path open?

Let’s Ask Questions

Will the bike path be paved?

How can we protect the plants and animals in the park?

Hi, I’m Eli. My community wants a bike path. Where should it go?

Why do we need a bike path?

What are some thin and some thick questions you would ask about the bike path?

Try It

Who will use the bike path?

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Try It questions encourage reflection and practice.

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What Areas Are in aCommunity?

Communities have shopping areas.

Communities have areas with homes. Homes include houses, townhouses, and apartment buildings.

Communities have parks with grassy areas or playgrounds.

What other areas does a community need?

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These photos show the same place in a community. One photo was taken a long time ago. The other photo was taken not very long ago. What do you notice?

Then and Now

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Why do communities change over time?

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I wonder... questions allow for reflection and discussion.

Big Book pages 8–9

Let’s Ask Questions

PurposeThis lesson introduces students to the inquiry skill of asking questions, as Eli, a student, wonders where his community should put a bike path.

Lesson Planning ChartSocial Studies Expectations

Application ● describes how people use natural and built features and human services to

meet needs and what might happen if these features/services did not existInquiry

● formulates questions to guide investigationsUnderstanding Context

● identifies natural and built features in community ● demonstrates understanding of elements of maps

Concepts of Social Studies Thinking ● Cause and Consequence ● Significance

Cross-Curricular Expectations

Language ● reads different types of texts

The Arts ● Dance: uses dance to express ideas

BEFOREBuilding Background KnowledgeTo introduce questioning to students, display photos of natural and built features in your community. Ask students to look at the photos and respond to them using the following prompts:

● I see . . . ; I wonder . . . After students share their responses, discuss:

● Even though we were all looking at the same photo, why did some of you wonder about different things? (different interests, different curiosity, different connections and experiences)

Have students brainstorm why wondering about or asking questions about what we view, learn, or read is important (e.g., we find out more information, we dig deeper, it helps us understand something better, we find out more about what we are interested in).

Our Community Resources

● Big Book pages 8–9 ● Photo Card 3: A Ribbon-Cutting Event

● BLMs 1.1, 1.4 ● Online Teaching Centre

Classroom Resources

● photos of your community showing natural and built features

Vocabularydecisionsinformationpavedpossibleproblemsprotectreasonsresearchsolvethick questionsthin questions

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DURINGReading and Discussing the TextDisplay Big Book pages 8–9: Read the title: Let’s Ask Questions. Tell students that they are going to find out more about asking questions and about the different types of questions that people ask. Have them look at the illustrations and talk to their partner about what they see and what they think the lesson will be about.

Read Eli’s speech bubble, explaining that Eli’s community has a problem it needs to solve. Discuss:

● What decision does the community need to make? ● Do you think a bike path might be an important thing for a community? Why, or why not?

Read students the first paragraph on Big Book page 8. Discuss the connections students can make to a time they asked questions.

Read the second paragraph. Have students examine the map, including its legend. Point out that Eli and his community will ask questions to find out information that will help them decide which bike path to build.

Focus students’ attention on the map. Have students use the legend to help them examine the two choices that the community has for the path. Invite a student to trace Path A through the park. As the student traces the path, discuss:

● Where does the path start? ● What natural and built features will the path pass by?

Repeat for Path B. Then, discuss: ● What do you think might help the community make a decision? ● How do you think asking questions might help them make decisions? ● What questions would you ask that might help you decide which bike path to choose?

Point to the speech bubbles on Big Book page 9. Read each of the questions as you connect it to the speaker. Then, reread each question and discuss:

● Is this an easy question to answer? Why do you think that? ● Would the answer to this question give us a lot of information or a little bit of information about the bike path?

● Which questions do you think are the most important ones for the community to ask? Why do you think that?

Read the last paragraph on Big Book page 9. Discuss the differences between thick and thin questions. To help students understand the differences, ask for volunteers to ask you questions about your school or community. Record the questions students ask. As you answer their questions, highlight for students how some of your answers are very short, just one or two words, while some answers are much longer. Help students recognize that the answers to thin questions are usually short and do not provide very much information. The answers to thick questions are usually longer and provide much more information.

Arts ConnectionEncourage students to create a dance or other type of movement that reflects the differences in each bike path. For example, how would bikers’ movements change as they passed the duck pond on the red path? How could students use dance to show a biker crossing a bridge? Encourage students to use their entire body, different parts of their body, levels, directions, tempo, rhythm, and energy.

Photo Card ConnectionProvide students with Photo Card 3: A Ribbon-Cutting Event. Included on the card are suggestions for student talk and related activities..

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Ask students to identify the questions on Big Book page 9 that are thin questions. Then, have students identify the thick questions. Reread the third sentence. Discuss what the word research means, making sure students understand that when they look for information to answer a question, they are doing research. Discuss:

● When have you had to do research? Why? ● Which questions that the people in Eli’s community asked do you think would have to be researched?

With students, create an anchor chart, such as the one in the margin. Discuss how students can use the anchor chart to help them come up with questions that will help them find useful information about a topic they are investigating. Post the anchor chart on the Our Community bulletin board.

AFTERTry ItWhat are some thin and some thick questions you would ask about the bike path? FORMULATE QUESTIONS

Read students this question and discuss it. Revisit the map showing the two choices for the bike path. Ask students to review the natural and built features that the paths will pass by.

Record student questions as they are posed. Then, discuss: ● Is this a thin or thick question? How do you know?

Encourage students to add their questions to their portfolio.

Assessment for LearningAssessment opportunities may be used with individual students, small groups, or the whole group, as appropriate for the expectation and the student.

Assessment OpportunitiesTask Look Fors Assessment Tools

Assessment for LearningAsking Questions

● Students complete the Try It task.Assessment as Learning

● Students complete BLM 1.4: Self-Assessment: Asking Questions.

● formulates questions (using criteria from anchor chart) about features of a community

● BLM 1.1: Gathering Evidence of Learning

● BLM 1.4: Self-Assessment: Asking Questions

Anchor ChartThick questions

● are on topic ● do not have short answers ● make you think ● make you wonder ● might need research to answer

● often start with words such as Why or How

Thinking about Cause and Consequence Discuss Path A and Path B and the natural and built features on those paths. Create a simple graphic organizer to show consequences of building the bike path near specific features. Include If–Then statements such as the following: “If the bike path is near the duck pond, then ...”; “If the bikes have to cross a narrow bridge, then ...“ Encourage students to consider what might happen to people walking, other bikers, birds, and so on.

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BLM 1.4

Self-Assessment: Asking QuestionsGreen = Good to go!Yellow = Not so sure.Red = Stop! I need help.

Asking Questions How I’m Doing

I think about my topic.

I ask thick questions that do not have short answers.

My thick questions may need research to answer.

I often start my questions with words such as Why or How.

Teacher Observations/Descriptive Feedback to Student

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Photo Card 3: A Ribbon-Cutting Event

• What special event do you think is happening in this photo? Who do you think some of the people are? Why do you think they are cutting a red ribbon? Explain.

• The white sign says “SHARED PATHWAY.” What two activities do you think will share the pathway? How do you know?

• What questions do you have about the pathway or the event?

• How will the new pathway help people in the community?

• Think about places in our community where you go to have fun. Draw pictures or take photos to share your favourite place with others. Include captions for your images.

• Think about questions that you think people might have about a place in our community. Write three questions and answers to include on a community website.

• Plan a ribbon-cutting event for our class or school, for example, the planting of a new tree. List the people who should attend. Create an invitation or a poster for the event.

Let’s Talk Let’s Do

About the PhotoLocal Markham politicians and several members of the community attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of a multi-use pathway.

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