From Here to There (sequencing of locations by size)

Lesson 1

Objective:

 Students will analyze story elements and make comparisons after listening to the story,

 (Guided Practice-whole group activity)

Materials:

ü  Big Book “From Here to There”

ü  World Map

ü  Introduce the big book, From Here to There.
   & talk about story elements (title, author, and illustrator/characters/setting)

(Independent Practice–pair work)

Materials:

ü  Worksheet- outline map of the United States of America

U.S. map

ü  Have students find where Maria lives on the map.

ü  Give  students an outline map of the United States of America

ü  Help students find and label Texas (Maria’s state) & Maryland (their state) on the map

ü  Have students draw Maria & themselves on their map.

ü  Make comparisons (Ss & Maria live in the same country and continent, planet.

                                 Ss & Maria live in a different house, street, town, and state.)

Lesson2

Objective:

 Students will complete inverted pyramids to organize places from the smallest to the biggest.

(Guided Practice-whole group activity)

Materials:

ü  Picture cards of where Maria lives and where students live – 1copy

ü  Graphic organizer -Big inverted pyramid graph – 2 copy

Inverted Pyramid

Both inverted pyramids have five sections. For each pyramid, I made five pictures that were the same size.  I placed Velcro on the back of each picture so that they would stay on the inverted pyramid chart.  I wanted to help them understand the concept of size by seeing spatial representations of these ideas.

ü  Model how to organize ideas.

    T: ”This story tells where Maria lives. Each place we see is bigger than the place before. “

ü  Through the Big Book, name each place and display a picture of each place on the pyramid, from the smallest at the bottom to the largest at the top.

ü  Show where we live from the biggest to the smallest place through Prezi.

ü  Help Ss make a pyramid showing where they live.

ü  Provide copies of an inverted pyramid.

üHave Ss make their own pyramid.

Copy of From Here to There

I made this presentation to show the connections between places, from biggest to smallest -planet, country, state, town, and home.  Each picture slide shows the next step as a small image that you can click on to zoom in to the next level, for example from planet to country. It also includes both pictures and text so that I could ask students to read the captions as a way of incorporating multiple intelligences. 

(Independent Practice–pair work)

Materials:

ü Graphic organizer - Individual inverted pyramid graph

ü Provide copies of an inverted pyramid.

ü Have Ss make their own pyramid.

Inverted Pyramid