The+City+(an+overview)

= Pre-Assessment = __**Day 1**__ = = = Spark Experience =
 * Students create a map of their neighborhood, using pencils and cray-pas
 * Vague directions are intended; just remind them to include what makes their neighborhood a good place to be, and anything they would like to change about their neighborhood.
 * Class conversation about what is a neighborhood.
 * Students share out their maps at the end of each period
 * The Spark Experience for kicking off map-making will be to visit the Prudential Center to see a Bird's Eye View of the city
 * Students need to prepare for this trip

__**Day 2**__ __//Learning Target://__ I can help to make promises and agreements about how to represent my school, community, and myself properly when I am doing field work out of school.

//__Mastery Objective__//: By the end of the lesson students should demonstrate an understanding of how to act during our trip to the SkyWalk at the Prudential Center.

//__Criteria for Success:__//
 * Successful students will be able to brainstorm ways that students should act during field work.
 * Successful students will be able to act out appropriate behavior during field work

//__Language Objective:__//
 * Teacher's should explain the difference between a field trip and doing field work. By the end of the explanation students should understand that we do field work out of school because the best way to learn is to actually experience what they are learning. They should understand that the work that we do out of school should be fun but that it is serious work. We have to be professionals as we leave school because we are representing ourselves, our community (text talk word), and our school.

__//Lesson://__ Use the PowerPoint to go through the expectations of the trip. Have students brainstorm during this. Have one teacher go through the PowerPoint while the other teacher makes an anchor chart. PrudentialPrep.ppt

__**Day 3**__ Practice "play acting" the entire trip from beginning to end.

__**Day 4**__ After the trip students should do an Interactive Writing to introduce them to the parts of a friendly letter.

Visit Prudential: connect to Bird's Eye View (first week of November) connect orange line map to the number line

After the field trip:
Learning target:
 * I can explain why people make neighborhoods.
 * I can demonstrate the difference between the city and the neighborhoods in the city.

Use a [|city map with the neighborhoods marked]: here is the whole city (that we saw from the Pru) – here are the neighborhoods. Why do people make neighborhoods in the city? What is the difference between the whole city and a neighborhood? Which is bigger? Which has more things? So why do people make neighborhoods?

Make a T chart of the whole city and neighborhoods to focus on the differences. For example, the city has the school department, the neighborhoods have schools. What would happen if we only had one school for all of Boston? What about one hospital? Or one library?

//This is very abstract. We talked about neighborhoods / cities / state / country / world and used google maps to zoom in and out.//

Also use Google Earth to look at the whole city. Choose to have postal codes marked; it is the closest to seeing the neighborhoods.

o Discussion questions: What is a neighborhood? Is the school a neighborhood? Why not? What is the difference between a neighborhood and a community? – neighborhoods are smaller places where people can get what they need

What do people get from their neighborhood that they don't get from the whole city?

Activity:

Ask students to make a map that shows what they learned about the whole city, what neighborhoods look like in the city, and why people make neighborhoods. They should:
 * Show some things they know are in Boston and label them.
 * Show what is the difference between the whole city and a neighborhood.
 * Label at least one neighborhood. What are some neighborhoods you could label? Brainstorm neighborhoods in Boston. Where could you find the names of Boston neighborhoods in our classroom?

Brainstorm neighborhoods they might put on their map and make a list for them. Confirm which ones are neighborhoods versus streets or cities, etc. Put up the map of the city with neighborhoods marked for kids to use as a resource if they would like.