2nd Grade History

Integrated Literacy Assignment

By Holli McAlpine

GLCE

2-H2.0.4 Describe changes in the local community

over time (e.g., types of businesses, architecture and landscape, jobs, transportation, population).

Books

An Illustrated Timeline of Transportation

-by Kremena T. Spendgler

Travel (Then and Now)

-by Vicki Yates

Books Cont.

Buildings (Then and Now)

-by Vicki Yates

My Community Long Ago-Bobbie Kalman

Songs, Dance, Music

Getting Things Done Song for Teaching Kids About Jobs By Frank Bruen

Poetry

If I Could Build a Town  Betsy Franco

 If I could build a town, well then, I know just what I'd make: an ice cream store, a toy shop, and a store with bread and cake.

 I guess I'd make a park  and build a nifty fire station. Say, would you like to help me? It just takes imagination!

Picture

Maps

Students could use maps found both on loc.gov and google maps to compare and contrast Grand Rapids in 1868 and present day. Differences in transportation, buildings, landscape, and population can all be discussed using these two resources.

http://www.loc.gov/resource/g4114g.pm003500/

https://www.google.com/maps search “Grand Rapids”

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saWHB5D_tu4 Grand Rapids History YouTube video.

This is a photograph compilation of Grand Rapids from 1865 through the 1980’s. A great way for students to see how a community can change through the years. Students can also compare and contrast the pictures to determine how the city has changed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3NWzRNfIaQ

Detroit History YouTube video• A video timeline of Detroit from 1701 to the 1900’s.

• Social Media Interactive • How Communities Grow and Change

• Very Informative video on why people move to a community and how a community grows and changes due to people moving in. There are also lesson ideas.

Supporting Websites

Eduplace.com This website has different sections for educators, students, and

families. There are interactive activities based on different books.

• Education.com• Free pintables and worksheets, including timelines. You can select grade level and Content area also.

Unit Abstract

http://members.scope.oakland.k12.mi.usFind second grade social studies.

Click unit 5 “How do communities change?”

The document is also contained within the next slide.

This is a great unit outline on how to teach students about how communities change over time. It includes 7 lessons:1. What is History?

2. How do We Learn About History?

3. What is a Timeline?

4. How Do Communities Change Over Time?

5. How Do People Create the History of a Community?

6. How Have Communities Solved Problems in the Past?

7. Writing About the History of Our Local Community?

Unit Abstract Word Doc

Works Cited

Spengler, K. T. (2011). An illustrated timeline of transportation (Visual timelines in history). N.p.: Picture Window Books.

Yates, V. (2007). Travel (Then and now). N.p.: Heinemann.

Yates, V. (2007). Buildings (Then and now). N.p.: Heinemann.

Kalman, B. (2010). My Community Long Ago. N.p.: Crabtree Publishing Company.

Grand Rapids History [Online video]. Retrieved October 11, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saWHB5D_tu4

Transportation poem (2011, October 27). In SMART Exchange. Retrieved October 11, 2013, from http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=eaf5d725-62bb-4ee3-975b-e6e08e4b0bc2

Google images. Retrieved October 12, 2013. http://www.playmerrilytoys.co.uk/product/6040/placemat--history-of-transport

(n.d.). In Education.com. Retrieved October 16, 2013, from http://www.education.com/worksheets/second-grade/history/?page=8

Works Cited (cont.)

https://www.google.com/maps

"Grand Rapids, Michigan 1868." Library of Congress. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2013. <http://www.loc.gov/resource/g4114g.pm003500/>.

Community chagned 2nd grade social studies. [Online video]. Retrieved October 12, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3NWzRNfIaQ

"Poems-social studies." Joanna Griffin. N.p., 2013. Web. 16 Oct. 2013. http://www.jologriffin.com/gazillion.cfm?subpage=25700.

Bruen, Frank. "Getting things done: Song for teaching kids about jobs." Songs For Teaching. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2013. http://www.songsforteaching.com/math/moneycurrency/gettingthingsdone.htm.

How Communities Grow and Change over. Web. 16 Oct. 2013. http://schoolmediainteractive.com/view/object/clip/DB2AE809CFC87760F7A96153DE6F6C78.

(2010, October 8). In Education.com. Retrieved October 16, 2013, from http://members.scope.oakland.k12.mi.us/docs/SS/SS020500/SS020500_unit.pdf

Social Studies (n.d.). In Education Place. Retrieved October 16, 2013, from http://www.eduplace.com/ss/index.jsp