Photography and Writing Integrated Into a Social Studies Curriculum

Holly Tilley LTP lesson plan 4/18/2011 Lesson Plan

Photography and Writing integrated into a social studies curriculum: 2nd grade

Title of project: Businesses in our community that provide a good or service!

NCSCOS: Social Studies: Goal 7 7.01 Distinguish between producers and consumers and identify ways people are both producers and consumers. 7.02 Distinguish between goods produced and services provided in communities.

Lang. Arts: Goal 3 Goal 3 3.03 Explain and describe new concepts and information in own words (e.g., plot, setting, major events, characters, author's message, connections, topic, key vocabulary, key concepts, text features).

Technology: Goal 2 2.09 Identify and use multimedia tools to combine text and graphics as a class/group assignment.

Time allotted for activities: 1 – 2 weeks (depends on number of students and writing process). This plan is for a small group setting.

Student objectives:

Students will be able to:  Look at photographs selected and discuss what the photographer is trying to say.  Take their own photos based off of our SS goal.  Create writings to go along with pictures to help explain how that provides a good or service to our community. Holly Tilley LTP lesson plan 4/18/2011 Materials: Cameras Images already taken Writing paper

Day one:  Introduce visual elements selected to focus on. I used; framing, scale, timing, and angle of a picture. Teacher needs to discuss each element with students to help them to interpret pictures or actually help them to take a photo.  Students decide which business they would like to work with to complete the writing assignments that go along with the photography.

Day two:  We walked to our locations and took pictures. I let the students talk about where they would like to stand and what to capture in their pictures.  After completed with picture taking students need to begin brainstorming information to include in their poems. They may use computers to research and each other.

Day three:  Today I will model how to set up an acrostic poem with using chocolate.  Students need to use information they have collected and make and acrostic poem with the name of their business. This will be there 1st draft.

Day four:  Once students have finished with their rough draft I will conference with them and encourage them to use poetry style writing or different words.  Then students are able to re write their final copy and illustrate it if they would like. Holly Tilley LTP lesson plan 4/18/2011

Day five:  On the last day students will write me a friendly letter about their business. In their letter they will need to at least include 3 of the following: o What did you take a picture of in our community? o Who are the producers and consumers? o Is this a good or service; or both? o In what ways does this help our community? o Does you parents/you use this good or service? How often?

I did not conference with them about their friendly letters. I wanted to see what they could do on their own and I wanted to see what they had learned about their business without my input.

Assessment: Rubric is attached.