Grade 1 - The Earth Around Us

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Video Storyline:  People live in communities, where change happens every day. Around us we see a variety of land and water types which have helped to create our natural resources. We can also see changes around us throughout the four seasons.

Video length: 7:45 minutes.

Learning Resources with this Video*

Quizzes – PDF & Online

Match the Landforms Vocabulary Sheet

The Earth Around Us Landforms

Video Breakdown and Matching Cards

My Seasons are Fun

Draw a Scene

Universal Resources

National Standards

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Classroom Ideas 

The Earth Around Us

Landforms

Identify landforms and bodies of water around your community or your state.

 

Conservation

Prompt students to write about how people can conserve natural resources.

 

Local Waste Management

If possible, go visit your local metro waste authority to learn how they are helping preserve your town’s natural resources (if you can’t go to them, see if a representative can come to your classroom) or have students research their local waste management facility.

 

Cloze Practice

A cloze piece has full sentences used in the virtual field trip with blanks where students can write in the information that is missing. This task requires close listening to the trip in order to complete it.

Coral reefs are the _______ type of ecosystem in the world. They’ve been around for over _____ million years.

Answers:  oldest; 240

Alternatively, you could have students create 5-10 cloze statements and they could share those with the class.

A third alternative is to distribute the cloze worksheets before watching the video. Students can fill them in as they watch.

 

Art and Geography

Draw a picture of a community.

Draw a picture of the transportation you use to get to school.

Draw a picture of the transportation your parents use to get to work.

Draw a picture of the land you live in, (mountains, lake, etc).

Draw a picture of the items you recycle at home.

Draw a picture of the natural resources in your home town. (The ones you live by).

 

Visual Learning

Offer videos to struggling learners as another form of accessing information and creating knowledge. 

 

Explore Vocabulary

Identify key vocabulary terms while previewing each video. Prompt students to find the meaning of each word as they watch the video. Example: What do the words ecosystem and nonrenewable mean? Think about the meaning of this word as you watch the video.

 

Create Quizzes

Students create a quiz based on the information presented for their peers. This can be used as a review for a test, or jigsaw class activity where students are responsible for teaching other students assigned topics.

 

Mapping

Have students draw a map of their neighborhood and town with their home, school, library, police station, fire station, city hall, and other special places.

 

Writing Topics

Describe the community you live in. Does it have plains, hills, lakes, etc.

Write where you live, suburb, etc

What is the weather like where you live? Describe the weather.

What do the four seasons look like where you live?

What is your favorite type of weather and why?

What national resources are in or near where you live?

Why is it important to reduce, reuse and recycle?

How do you reduce, reuse and recycle at your home?

How do you reduce, reuse and recycle at school?

Repurposing

After talking about reducing, reusing, and recycling, bring in items from home (milk containers, plastic containers, newspapers, pop lids, etc. and tell students they have the class period to create something with those items provided (you can also allow them to use scissors, glue, markers, whatever you feel is appropriate for this task) and then the following day have them share with the class what they have created.

 

Classroom Ideas for ALL Videos

Here are dozens and dozens of ideas that you can use in your classroom along with our videos!

Topics Covered In This Video

Neighborhoods & communities

Cities, suburbs, & towns

Transportation

Community-building

Plains, hills, mountains

Lakes, rivers, and oceans

Weather and the 4 seasons

Natural resources

Recycling & conservation

Videos in this Series

Grade 1 - All About Work

Grade 1 - Life Long Ago

Grade 1 - Let's Learn About the Government

Grade 1 - Families and Neighbors

Related Videos

Grade 2 - Land and Water Around Us

Grade 3 - The Geography of Our Communities

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