The City School P.A.F Chapter

Farzana Karimi Social Studies Class 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 21 st Century learning skills like BLOOMS TAXONOMY.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  sheets/social-studies/page2/ sheets/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 Strategies

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. Reason they 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. Reason They 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 1 st week Pakistan the land of pure Activity 2A 2 nd week Major cities of Pakistan Karachi Activity 2B 3 rd week Islamabad & Lahore Activity 2- C (pair work) Project Work 4 th week Village life in Pakistan Rivers of Pakistan Activity 2E

Resources  Social studies Curriculum.  Internet.  Social studies Coordinators and Colleagues.  Oxford Atlas for Pakistan, map, flag. fr=ffds1&p= es%3B+social+studiessearch.yahoo.com/search? fr=ffds1&p= es%3B+social+studies

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