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== =This wiki is a second grade project about their community in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The Bolles Lower School Ponte Vedra Beach Campus is located in Ponte Vedra Beach and the second graders are learning about communities in social studies. We are excited to venture out to the community and experience how each one of us can be a community helper.=


 * Along with learning about communities in social studies, the second grade technology classes will be learning about the community we live in. The project contains the following lessons. **


 * Step 1 - Discuss a powerpoint presentations enitiled [[file:Who Wears These Hats.ppt]] **


 * Step 2 - Watch and discuss video entitled [|America at its Best] **
 * Take video quiz at the end **


 * Step 3 - Use the United States Department of Labor Business Classifications to discuss different types of businesses in the United States. Assign each student a business classification and have them create a poster using powerpoint. **

[|Business Classifications]






 * Step 4 - Have students make flash cards using powerpoint to define the following terms. Use the dictionary in the back of the Social Studies book to find the definitions. **
 * producer, consumer, tax, goods, services, route, income, factory, trade, transportation, barter. **


 * Step 5 - The students will create a voki using [|www.voki.com]. The assignment is: If I were a community helper I would work in the __________________ industry. I would work as a ________________ and why. This project allows the student to use critical thinking skills by analyzing the different types of industries that they learned about and choosing one they would like to work in. In addition, the would evaluate why they would like to work in that industry and what they would like to do. Finally, they create a voki that expresses their assignment. **


 * Step 6 - Once the voki's are completed, the students will then become commentators on another student's voki. Again, these comments allow students to use critical thinking. **