Second grade learned about communities during our Social Studies units. We focus on the three main community types: Urban, Rural, and Suburban. We completed a variety of activities to learn about the communities including reading nonfiction books, watching short video clips, and listening to rap songs about community types. As a culminating activity students created posters about one of the community types and measured the buildings and objects in centimeters. One resource the kids LOVED was Nearpod. Nearpod is an iPad app that allows me to control lessons and content that get shared across iPads. We used the app for a variety of lessons, but the ones the kids love the best were for communities. In one activity they were able to go on virtual field trips to a city or town that represented one of the community types. They were able to use the iPad to get a 360 degree view of Times Square, a city in California, a farm, and farm lands. Another activity that they loved was using Nearpod to connect to Google maps to learn more about Killingworth. We used Google maps to have satellite and 360 degree views of the area by the school and to look at the surrounding towns. The following are a few videos and pictures of the kids using the app and of creating their posters:
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