This 6-day lesson plan involves taking students on field trips around their town to learn about its layout and community roles. Students will visit places like the police station, hospital, churches, and parks. Each day they will observe and speak to people. Students will add drawings of each place visited to a map. They will then present their maps and discuss what they learned. The lesson aims to teach students about the set-up of their town and different societal roles through interactive, experiential learning.

1. Lorena Rodriguez
Marisela Cavazos
Claudia Chavez
Tiana Garcia
Round and Round, Around the Town
Lesson Plan Overview:
This lesson plan will help students understand and know their town and the people living
in there.
How Geography is used in the lesson plan:
The students will make their own map of their town. They will be exposed to human
geography by actively see diverse places and peoples in their town.
Part 1: Preparation and Goals
Number of Leaders: One classroom teacher and several parent volunteers depending on class
size.
Grade(s) of student participants for which the lesson is designed: 2-4
Number of sessions: 6
Length of sessions: 2-3 hours
General student objectives:
Students will learn the set-out of their town.
Students will learn and experience different roles of a society.
Students will learn the make-ups of a town.
Pre-Assessment:

2. The week prior to this lesson plan, the teacher will talk and read about aspects of
towns/cities. They should include police, fire station, hospitals, schools, churches, natural
environments. Teacher will have students draw their school in a big piece of paper with enough
space for other drawings to add on.
Teaching Materials:
1. School bus or another method of transportation.
2. Video camera.
3. Computer.
Student Materials:
1. Water and snacks.
2. Proper climate clothing.
3. Paper with the school drawing. (the map)
4. Colored pencils
5. Rulers
Part 2: Attention Getter and Procedure
Attention Getter for the lesson:
School bus
Presentation central activity:
Teacher will tell her students that they will be going to multiple fieldtrips around
the town for the next 6 days.
Main Activity:
Monday: Students will visit the police station, fire station and the town hall building.

3. Tuesday: Students will visit the hospital.
Wednesday: Students will visit churches.
Thursday: Students will visit different schools
Friday: Students will visit to their environment. For example, the zoo, the beach, recreational
park, oasis, any exposure to nature that their town offers.
Each day, students will stay in the places enough time for them to observe the people that go into
each place. If possible they would talk and ask questions to the people. They would pay attention
to their clothing, how they get there, gender, age, etc.
At the end of each day, the class will have a discussion and they will draw on the map.
They will add the place where they went. The teacher or someone else will be recording all the
fieldtrips.
Closure:
On the sixth day, students will recap the past week. They will present their maps and will
talk about the people that go into the different places. They will watch highlights of the videos
and discuss them.
Part 3: Assessment and Follow Up
Student Evaluation:
Students will be graded based on neatness, completeness, and creativity in accordance with the
rubric below.

4. Rubric:
Points Neatness/Completeness Colorfulness/ Overall Participation in
Creativity Activities
Fully complete and neat Full of colors 100% participation
5 Very detailed
Fully complete and Colors but not 75% Participation
4 somewhat neat. much detail on
Neat but not fully creativity
complete.
Half complete Few colors and 50% participation
3 Somewhat neat little creativity
on details
At least 1/3 complete and Few colors and 25% participation
2 not very neat no creativity
Less than 1/3 complete No colors and Less than 25%
1 and not neat or no creativity participation
not complete at all
Application/reflection/self-lesson evaluation:
I plan to evaluate the effectiveness of my work based on the response of the students. I will see
the student's understanding through the discussion after the activity. I will be able to find out if
there's a need for adjustments.

5. Follow-up activities or homework:
Students will write a paragraph report of the things they liked the most.