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Early Settlers of a Community
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Strand PHIL.II Philanthropy and Civil Society
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Standard PCS 04. Philanthropy and Geography
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Benchmark E.3 Describe the "characteristics of place" related to the school and neighborhood.
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Introduces students to "philanthropy" as an important aspect of their community's development and helps them recognize the relationship between community need and private action.
Duration:
PrintOne 45-Minute Class Session
Objectives:
The learner will:
- create a Venn diagram comparing their community today with the early 1900's.
- identify philanthropic efforts in the community in the early 1900's and today.
Materials:
- a social studies text describing a community at the turn of the century
- information on the history of the local community
- photographs and/or pictures of the local community at the turn of the century
Instructions:
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Display a Venn diagram with Title "Our Community" and labels "today" and "early 1900s." Introduce the idea of comparing and ask what youth already know.
Review definitions for the following terms:
- transportation: what people use to travel from one place to another
- history: the story of the past
- settlers: persons who move to a new place to make a home
- philanthropy: private action for the public good
Read a social studies text or resource describing communities in the early 1900s.
- Provide photographs or pictures and read early accounts of life in their own community. (A local museum may have a virtual site showing what your community was like at the turn of the 20th century.)
- Discuss the following:
- What might life have been like for the people of the community?
- In what ways might people have had to depend on one another?
- What needs did the people have at the turn of the century?
- How might those needs have been met?
- What types of volunteer organizations were there?
- As a class, fill in the Venn diagram comparing the community at the turn of the century to what it is like today.