In the Our Neighborhood at Work unit, students learn about different types of jobs and the interdependence upon each other in a community. This blog includes three activities. Each activity builds upon the previous activity and takes students through the inquiry process to develop a completed project to conclude the unit. Activities can be completed whole group, small group, or independently with many different differentiation options.
Padlet Brainstorm - Inquiry/Flex
After introducing the unit and reading What I Want to Be, students will begin the inquiry process by brainstorming a career they are interested in and responding with a sentence or question on a virtual bulletin board called Padlet.
Padlet is an online virtual “bulletin” board, where students and teachers can collaborate, reflect, and share links and pictures in a secure location. If students in your class have never used Padlet, here is a getting started lesson. This Getting Started Padlet Tutorial will assist you with familiarizing yourself with Padlet’s layout, creating a discussion thread, and sharing the discussion with your students.
Create your Padlet class on the web, in the Padlet app, or use this ready-made Padlet. If you choose the ready made Padlet, you can click “remake” in top right corner and a copy of the Padlet will be added to your account. This will ensure you only see your class/students' responses.
Students can post to Padlet using iPads after reading the text as a response within their table groups or with a shoulder partner. This activity can also be used in workstations. If you decide to use this activity during workstations, be sure that Padlet has been downloaded to all student devices. You can use this task card for students to complete a post in Padlet independently.
If the teacher doesn’t have access to iPads, Padlet is also available on the web or here is the lesson without technology. More advanced students can add a photo to their post or more than one sentence or question. Digital Summarizing - Workstation
After students have read the texts, What I Want to Be, Everybody Works and Work Song, students should be familiar with jobs in the community using prior knowledge from Kindergarten Social Studies standards and experiences in the community with family members jobs. Kids usually know at this age what they want to be when they grow up. It’s usually a teacher, firefighter, police officer, etc. In this activity, students will summarize stories heard or read during independent work stations using the EPIC! App, Buncee and/or SeeSaw apps.
EPIC! is a great tool for assigning students leveled or themed texts. Below are suggested collections to assign to students for this activity. There are two options for assigning collections. Below there are a mixed collection of community helpers for high readers, on grade level readers, and below grade level readers. The other options for assigning collections for this activity are job specific collections. The jobs included are police officer, teacher, veterinarian, firefighter, and doctors and dentist. High level collection readers allow students to read each book independently. On-Grade level collection readers has books that are read to students and books that they must read. Below Grade level collection contains all books that are read to students.
Once assignments are given to students and they are familiar with using EPIC! here is the task card for students to work independently during work stations to complete the collection.
*Teacher Tech Tip: prior to workstations be sure that the EPIC! app has been downloaded to all student devices and logged into your class. Some books in the collections include quizzes to complete after reading. Teachers are able to see the quiz scores. EPIC! is a fun app with many books, but students need to be held accountable for their reading. Creating a response to a story is great accountability for students and helps the teacher to monitor their learning. There are many options teachers have for students to create a response after reading. In this activity, Buncee is a great option for students.
This Getting Started with Buncee Tutorial will assist you with creating an account and presentation.
Already familiar with the Buncee basics? Expand your knowledge by watching these tutorials on more tips and tricks! After the teacher has created student accounts, students can be introduced to the Buncee app.
Here you can find a getting started activity and teacher tips to introduce Buncee to your students. Click here for the task card for students to use Buncee to complete a response to one or several stories read in Epic! *If a teacher’s time is limited on introducing Buncee, another option is for students to create and post a response directly to SeeSaw. Click here for a ready-made SeeSaw response for Main Idea and Details or here for a 3, 2, 1 response. Here is an unplugged lesson that does not require technology if you have limited devices or want to differentiate for other students. Book Creator Informational Texts - Writing
This activity can be completed after students have read the texts, What I want to Be, Everybody Works, Work Song, A Busy Day at Mr. Kang’s Grocery Store, and Wake Up! and students have also read different texts in EPIC! in relation to different jobs in the community. Throughout this unit students learned about the different jobs in the community and were able to explore and inquire about the daily responsibilities, tools used for specific jobs, and how those jobs are important to the community. In this unit wrap up, students will create an informational text in Book Creator using the information that they learned in this unit.
Book Creator is an online resource andapp that allows students to create and publish their own ebooks using drawings, text, images, audio, and visuals. The possibilities of Book Creator are endless! Students can use this resource to create science reports, journals, comic books, and digital portfolios.
Follow the steps on this blog or watch this video to assist you with creating your first book with book creator.
Check out this support page for more tutorials and webinars on Book Creator.
Students can be introduced to the Book Creator app in a whole group or small group setting. Here you can find a getting started activity and teacher tips to introduce Book Creator to your students. Click here for the task card for students to use Book Creator to complete their informational text project. Students can work with a small group, a partner or independently to create a book depending on level of knowledge and independence in the classroom. Teachers may want to create a rubric for what should be included in the book based on the levels of the students in their class. For example teachers should give specific information that needs to be shared on each page. Page 1- tools the job uses. Page 2 What they do page 3 technology they use at their job. *Teacher tip: Students or teachers can export their book as a video to the camera roll or as a PDF and publish their book on the SeeSaw app. Students can share books through Seesaw or e-mail if the iPad has an e-mail account set up.
Standards
ELA 1-I.1.1, 1-RI.6.1, 1-I.3.2 CS 1-DL.2.1, 1-CS.1.1, 1-DL.1.2 AuthorsBianca Bashor
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