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Lesson 2: A Community Scavenger Hunt
Lesson 3: How to Use the Services in Our Neighborhood


Lesson 1: Asking for Directions

 

NYS Learning Standards:

Students will collect data, facts and ideas, discover relationships, concepts and generalizations. They will acquire, interpret, apply and transmit information.

Objectives:

  • To know and use the appropriate words to describe the immediate environment

  • To ask for directions to the hospital, school, bank, library and supermarket in complete sentences

  • To recognize the signs/symbols necessary for pedestrians and drivers

  • To use a map

Suggested Topics

  • Community landmarks
  • Getting to a new place
  • Getting lost
  • Street signs
  • Walking to a new place
  • Driving to a new place
  • Public transportation

Suggested Activities

  • Asking for and giving directions (“make a right/left”, “go to the corner”, etc.)
  • Flash cards that include words such as: north, south, street, avenue, left, right, mall, walk, stop, etc.
  • Pair students to practice telling where they live and how to get there
  • Place objects strategically in room and describe how to locate them

Resources

  • Flash cards
  • Basic Oxford Picture Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 1996)
  • Book: Community Issues: Where People Live (New Readers Press, 1994)

Reinforcement:

Lesson 2: A Community Scavenger Hunt
Lesson 3: How to Use the Services in Our Neighborhood

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