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Begin the unit with teacher-in-role as the town mayor holding a town meeting, requesting that people move to your town and help establish a productive town for people to move to and visit. Ask the children to think about the type of role they might play in the new town and how they might support and benefit the community in this role.
Literacy |
Numeracy |
SOSE |
* Write a letter to the Mayor asking permission to set up a new business in the town, outlining the importance and usefulness of this role. * Brainstorm a list of words which you connect with your community. * Draw up an advertisement for your new town, or your new business within the town. |
* Go for a walk around your town, and do a survey on how many of different types of buildings there are - houses, shops, services. * Using the box model for your business (see technology) focus on the measurements for your building. |
* Draw a big town map on the board and let students design a town including pre-determined or own businesses. * Look at the impact of developing cities on the local environment. * Do some research on villages in less developed countries and focus on lifestyles in comparison to your student's lifestyles. |
Science |
Technology |
Information Technology |
* Investigate the local animal population in your town. * Do a study on electricity in a town.
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* Draw up a business plan for your proposed business to send to the mayor. Consider what resources you may need for your business to operate and how you might go about setting up shop. * Using an old box, design a model of your business building. Begin with sketches and your business plan (which should be pre-approved by the local mayor) |
* Design a website for your new class town. * Use the internet to research towns around the world to look at similarities and differences to your local town. |
Personal Development |
Physical Development |
LOTE |
* Discuss the importanc of communities working together to achieve common goals. * Investigate ways in which students interact with other community members and how that helps them in their daily lives. * Consider what sort of people or places in a community can help to protect and support children. * Research ways in which you might be able to help out in your community. |
* Explore your local town on a class walking excursion. |
* Investigate the cultural diversity of your local community. * Search through the phone book for your local area and try to establish how many different types of foreign food is readily available. |
Visual Arts |
Dramatic Arts |
Musical Arts |
* Discuss colours, shape, texture in photographs of your local community. * Paint/draw/collage pictures of people within a typical town community. |
* Teacher-in-role as the Mayor: Hold a town meeting to announce the opening of the new town and discuss what needs the community might have. * Teacher-in-role as the Mayor: Draw a large blank map on the board and have students act out the role as town planners and hold a meeting to design the business district of the town. * Students-in-role as members of the community. Offer scenarios (e.g. a child is lost in the mall) and let the students act out in different roles to solve the problems. * Have a play shop set up in the classroom for children to act out the role of shop keeper and customers - other ideas are hospitals/hairdressers/buses. |
* Compose a town song to celebrate the opening on the new town. * Hold a musical parade to celebrate the town's first birthday. |
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