The City SchoolP.A.F

Chapter

Farzana Karimi

Social StudiesClass Teacher IV-K

The City School Jr. Section , PAF Chapter

Time Duration: one month

Plan for the month of September, 2011

– Week 01: Pakistan – Week 02: Major cities of Pakistan (Karachi)– Week 03: Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar and

Sialkot– Week 04: village life in Pakistan and Rivers of

Pakistan &– Patriotism

Key Points

The purpose of making this Action Plan is to accomplish our teaching goals by using 21st Century learning skills like BLOOMS TAXONOMY.

This presentation is based on the learning outcomes from Intel Getting Started Program.

Long term To enhance conceptual thinking

and to increase high order thinking by using different resources like: Visual aids Images http://www.education.com/

worksheets/social-studies/page2/

Short term

The students will be able to:

Give basic information about Pakistan, its main cities, culture, languages, physical features and their locations.

Brain Storming:• Students will be asked the meaning of

“PAKISTAN”. (The land of Pure)• Teacher is to take a world map to the class to

exhibit location of Pakistan, its cities and its neighboring countries to generate discussion.

• Mind mapping:• Pupils will be asked to make a mind map of

what they know about Karachi, which includes famous buildings, places, food and lifestyle.

• Activity:• “What am I?” pupils will be given clues

(including pictures) and will be asked to guess the place.

Discussion:Above mentioned strategies will be discussed in detail

• Class assignment:• Read pg 12 to students.Home Task: Research work ( pg

13 project work)• TOPIC: My Country• Class assignment: Activity 2-A.

The students will apply their knowledge about the land firms of Pakistan so before this activity the information of Pakistan’s map should be recap in detail.

Challenge # 2:Students are very hesitant to work with the

opposite gender.

Reasonthey may be shy.

Solution:They should be motivated to compete with the

other gender. Also they need to be reinforced that they are better than each other and hence

they should help each other.

Challenge # 3 Motivating students to ask answer questions or

participate in class.

ReasonThey may not answer because they hesitate of

wrong answers and others making fun of them.

Solution Let students know that wrong answers are better

than staying quiet. Give stars or incentives to students who regularly answer.

Time line

Resources Social studies Curriculum. Internet. Social studies Coordinators

and Colleagues.Oxford Atlas for Pakistan, map,

flag.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=ffds1&p=www.bbc+school+notes%3B+social+studies

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