Instructional Planning: Long-Term Plan Template

Name: Crystal Ogbu

To ensure your Long-Term Plan achieves its purpose, you should be able to articulate the answers to the
following key reflections.

1. Student Achievement – Can you briefly describe how this plan leads your students to the
achievement of the big goal?
This plan ensures that students master Georgia’s common core social studies standards while
incorporation reading and writing tasks that will strengthen their skills as authors and illustrators.
Students also have opportunity to master

2. Organization/Sequence of Units – Can you explain how the learning goals within each unit
logically fit together? Can you explain how the sequence of units or topics helps build student
learning?

The sequence follows Georgia’s common core social studies standards. The learning goal
progressively becomes more rigorous by integrating phonics, reading, writing as well as
technology publishing.

3. Timing – Does the timing of your units (each unit and the course as a whole) take into account
your school calendar?
Yes, Fulton County has approximately 179 instructional days this school year. This long-term plan
strategically takes up half of that time frame to alternate between science and social studies.

COURSE OVERVIEW & TIMING

This section is designed to help you see the flow of your units/topics across the entire school year.
Unit Unit Length

Unit 1: My World 28 days

Unit 2: Our National Heritage 42 days

Unit 3: A Changing Country 28 days

OVERALL COURSE TIMING

This section is designed to help you compare the number of available instructional days/weeks to the
number of days/weeks you have accounted for in your Long-Term Plan.

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 Course Length

Total number of instructional weeks/days in school year: 179 days

Total number of instructional weeks/days for all units included in Long-Term Plan: 98

*Note: Be sure to account for all instructional days in the school year, including those after end-of-year
testing (if any).
UNIT 1: <My World> UNIT 1 LENGTH: 28 Days

UNIT 1 LEARNING GOALS

SS1G2 The student will identify and locate his/her city, county,
state, nation, and continent on a simple map or a globe.
 After shared reading of the book “Me on the Map”, students will understand
vocabulary terms maps, city, county, state, and globe
 Students will illustrate a map of his/her room with labels and 5 sentences
 Students will illustrate a picture and write 5 sentences of his/her city, state,
country, continent, and planet

SS1G3 The student will locate major topographical features of

the earth’s surface.

 Students will be able to locate all of the continents: North America, South
America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, and Australia on classroom globe or
map
 Students will be able to create and label maps showing landforms and bodies
of water
 . Students will be able to create, label, and describe maps showing landforms
and bodies of water

 Integration for RELA literacy standard “Ask and answer key detail of a text” during
shared reading of book “Me on the Map”
Spiraling
 Integration of a whole group phonics skill during shared reading of book “Me on the
Map” and Big books of historical figures

Remedial (R)
Enrichment (E)  (R) At the guided reading station, students will illustrate and provide one word
(to be completed labels of a map his/her room, country and continent
after receiving  (E) At the guided reading station, students will illustrate and provide 5 sentences
diagnostic describing a map his/her room, country and continent
assessment results)

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 UNIT 2: < Our National Heritage > UNIT 2 LENGTH: 42 Days

UNIT 2 LEARNING GOALS

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 SS1CG1 The student will describe how the historical figures in
SS1H1a display positive character traits of fairness, respect for
others, and respect for the environment, conservation, courage,
equality, tolerance, perseverance, and commitment.
 Students will be able illustrate and write examples of how historical figures
displayed positive character traits of fairness, respect for others, and respect
for the environment, conservation, courage, equality, tolerance, perseverance,
and commitment.
 Students will be able to explain, illustrate and write about a time where they
displayed courage, respect for the environment, perseverance and
commitment.
 Students will be able to create a Venn diagram and compare his/her life to the
lives of historical figures: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark with Sacagawea, Harriet Tubman, Theodore
Roosevelt, George Washington Carver.

SS1CG2 The student will explain the meaning of the patriotic

words to

 Students will be able to create picture books illustrating America (My Country
Tis of Thee) and America the Beautiful.

 Students will be able identify digraphs and word blends in the songs Student
will be able to role play to provide goods and consumers with art or writings
and manipulative money from math station

 Students will be able to recite the song (My Country ‘Tis of Thee) and America
the Beautiful

SS1H2 The student will read or listen to American folktales and

explain how they characterize our national heritage. The study
will include John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, Paul
Bunyan, and Annie Oakley.

 Students will be able to write and illustrate picture books that retell American
folktales about Johnny Appleseed, Annie Oakley, Paul Bunyan, Davy Crockett,
and John Henry.
 Students will be able to record themselves retelling American folktales about
Johnny Appleseed, Annie Oakley, Paul Bunyan, Davy Crockett, and John
Henry.

 Students will be able to explain and write about American Folktales and
identify noun, verbs and adjectives in the writings

 n/a
Spiraling
 n/a

Remedial (R)  (E) At the guided reading station, students will record and narrative their stories on
Enrichment (E) ipads
(to be completed after
receiving diagnostic
 (R) At the guided reading station, students will identify personalized phonics goal
assessment results) or sight words with assignment and produce similar words

UNIT 3: < A Changing Country > UNIT 3 LENGTH: 28 Days

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 UNIT 3 LEARNING GOALS

SS1E1 The student will identify goods that people make and
services that people provide for each other.

 Students will be able to identify examples of goods as food, clothing,

supplies, etc.
 Students will be able to identify examples of services firemen, policemen,
lawn maintenance caretakers, banks, etc.

 Student will be able to role play to provide goods and consumers with art or
writings and manipulative money from math station

SS1E2 The student will explain that people have to make choices
about goods and services because of scarcity.

 The student will be able to explain how supply and demand impact decisions
families make about goods and services.
 Students will be able to identify examples of scarcity.
 Students will be able to explain that levels of supply and demand can be
dictated by the scarcity of goods and services.

SS1E3 The student will describe how people are both producers
and consumers.

 Students will be able to explain, illustrate and write about people in his/her
community that are consumer and producers
 Students will be able to create illustrations, poems, or paintings to be
consumed with station money from math station
 Student will be able to role play to be producers and consumers with art,
writings and manipulative money from math stations

 n/a
Spiraling
 n/a

Remedial (R)  (E) At the guided reading station for writer’s workshop write a paragraph on
Enrichment (E) consumers and producers
(to be completed after  (R) At the guided reading station, students will identify personalized phonics goal
receiving diagnostic or sight words with assignment and produce similar words
assessment results)

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