Fieldwork Group 1

This past week the first group taught their lessons! Being first can be difficult, but this group did great!

Group one taught about the different types of communities: urban, suburban, and rural. In their direct lesson, this group went over vocabulary words such as urbanization, citizens, Ellis Island, ancestors, symbols, and Statue of Liberty. The group also taught the class about Newburgh and how it was founded. I liked how they included this because it related to the students and their home. The group also went into the benefits and problems with urbanization and discussed the pros and cons. For guided practice, the group did matching, a chart, and a quizlet game. 

Group one continued their study on communities by doing an inquiry lesson. The students met Emily, a girl who was living in a community that was becoming urbanized. They asked students to read about the positive and negative effects of urbanization on communities. After reading about urbanization the students were to fill out a chart about the good and bad sides of urbanization. Then the students were to decide if they felt if Emily should move or not. The students wrote a letter to share their feelings. This lesson went exactly with what they learned in direct and was a good continuation of learning. 

After learning all about communities, for the cooperative lesson, the group had the students create their own community. Students were to make a poster that included a community type and who lives in that community, one interesting thing to do with the community, and an issue in the community. Students then shared their creations. The posters were very creative and showed how much students learned over the lessons.

I loved watching group one, and I can't wait to see what the next group comes up with!