Social Studies: Geography Lesson
Integrated with Math
Title: On Your Mark!
By: Marie Bindrup
Duration: One lesson/One hour
State Standards: 
Arizona Social Studies Standard: Geography PO2: Construct maps of a familiar place.
Arizona Math Standard: PO5: Recognize and compare the ordinal position of at least five objects.
Arizona Language Arts Strand: Speaking and Listening 5: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions to provide additional detail.
Behavioral Objectives: 
*Students will be able to listen attentively to a story read aloud
* Student will be able to understand what it means to be boastful and to persevere
*Students will be able to work as a group to construct a map of their classroom
*Students will be able to identify ordinal positions such as first, second, last etc.
Assessment: Informal: Observation of listening during the lesson and participation in constructing a map of the classroom. Interview each student to assess their knowledge of first, second, third, last etc.
Materials: Book The Hare and the Tortoise by Helen Ward
Various colors of blocks for assessment
Smart board for group map constructions
Graph paper, crayons for differentiated instruction
Vocabulary: Boastful, Boast, Persevere
Procedure: At the beginning of the lesson the teacher will ask if the students have ever participated in a race. The teacher will include being first, second, last in the discussion. Teacher will ask if they tried their best and include the definition and description of persevere. Teacher will then ask how they acted if they won and discuss the definition of boast.
Teacher read the book The Hare and the Tortoise by Helen Ward, discussing ordinal numbers throughout the story.
After the story, the teacher will review first, second, last etc.
The teacher will then ask the students to pretend the classroom is a race track. Class will discuss the various parts and objects in the room. Teacher will ask the students to pretend that the Hare and the Tortoise will be racing around their classroom and discuss which direction should they go, what do they come to first, second, third… and have each student take turns drawing these points on the smart board. After the track is completed, review with the students first, second, through fifth ordinal numbers.

Extension/Enrichment: Student can construct the race in the book and/or the classroom using graph paper or plain paper.
Differentiated Instruction: For the students who struggle with drawing and/or writing, they can use smaller objects to represent larger objects in the room to demonstrate the race and to discuss ordinal numbers.
For the students who need to be challenged, they can construct a map using graph paper of the playground and/or lunchroom or another familiar room in school.

Reference:
Ward, Helen. The Hare and the Tortoise: a Fable from Aeesop. Millbrook Press, 1999.