PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY7
The lesson will start by having a classroom discussion on present day jobs/professions. Students will identify some of the jobs they are familiar with in their neighborhood/community. (DOK 1) (Standard 8.3.1C) Read a book to inform students how jobs have changed over time (1800s to present day). Students will compare jobs then and now and draw conclusion as to why some of the popular jobs from the past are no longer (due to advancement in technology) (DOK 2 & 3) . Students will also identify the jobs that are still being done but how they may have changed and why.(DOK 3) Students could have a class discussion on what jobs they feel may become obsolete in the future and which jobs they feel will surely still be around. They will also give reasons why.(DOK 2 & 3) Culminating activity to follow will be having students create a foldable of “THEN and NOW”. (DOK 2 & 3) Students will demonstrate understanding of how life has changed for people over time in each of the following four categories: 1) transportation 2) clothing 3) jobs and 4) school. Students will illustrate the changes on the foldable. (Standards 8.3.1.C, 1.4.1B)
Domains: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2b, 2c, 2d, 3a, 3b, 3c
The lesson will start by having a classroom discussion on present day jobs/professions. Students will identify some of the jobs they are familiar with in their neighborhood/community. (DOK 1) (Standard 8.3.1C) Read a book to inform students how jobs have changed over time (1800s to present day). Students will compare jobs then and now and draw conclusion as to why some of the popular jobs from the past are no longer (due to advancement in technology) (DOK 2 & 3) . Students will also identify the jobs that are still being done but how they may have changed and why.(DOK 3) Students could have a class discussion on what jobs they feel may become obsolete in the future and which jobs they feel will surely still be around. They will also give reasons why.(DOK 2 & 3) Culminating activity to follow will be having students create a foldable of “THEN and NOW”. (DOK 2 & 3) Students will demonstrate understanding of how life has changed for people over time in each of the following four categories: 1) transportation 2) clothing 3) jobs and 4) school. Students will illustrate the changes on the foldable. (Standards 8.3.1.C, 1.4.1B)
Domains: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2b, 2c, 2d, 3a, 3b, 3c
Great job ! I created Constituion centers based on last year's class that the children really enjoyed. We will have to email and keep in touch to share ideas this coming school year.
ReplyDeleteI have seen some of the foldables from last year...they looked like a neat activity. Some variations for students who are not adept at drawing is to have pictures from clothing catalogs from different eras (from the internet or photocopied from books)that they can cut and paste.
ReplyDeleteLori,
ReplyDeleteYou might want to be careful about the "now" jobs - there were farmers, teachers, and mayors in the 1800s. As you note, there is a difference in how they did their jobs but the jobs existed. The trades which you highlight are the jobs which have vanished, at least as specialities due to mass production, which is its own kind of job.
You could probably have a lot of fun by looking at when sanitation worker became a job. How did people deal with trash at different times and places? If there was trash, what was it? How was it disposed of? If there wasn't much trash, why?
Rhonda