November Unique - Geography

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This month's Unique Learning is about geography. The elementary level is focusing on city and country, the intermediate level on transportation in the USA, the middle school level is focusing on the five regions of the USA and the high school level is focusing on working in the USA.

Here are some resources that may be helpful to using adapted the November Unique Learning for learners with significant, multiple disabilities.

General Online Resources:

• Regions of the USA Power Points at Pete's Power Points
• Animals on the Farm Movie
• Your Neighborhood Game
• Community Helpers Theme
• Community Unit
  

English/Reading:

• Transportation Mini-Book
• Transportation Songs and Poems
• Reading Comprehension about Occupations
• Community Club Community Workers
  

Math:

• Ed Helper Maps
  

Social Studies:

• Geonet Online Regions of the USA Game
• Explore the USA: New England
• Explore the USA: Mid Atlantic
• Regions of the USA
• Mixing Geography and Fun Ideas (has ideas for all areas of the curriculum)
• What Do You Like? Career Exploration
  

Science:

Adapted Physical Education/Gross Motor Skills:

• gather hats of various community workers and have a relay race that involves racing to the otherside, putting on the hat of a worker and returning passing it off to the next person who repeats the action
• draw flames on the sidewalk with sidewalk chalk and spray out with water bottles, race to see who can finish first
  

Community Based Education:

• visit and possibly interview people with disabilities at work
• visit and interview community workers
  
• visit community locations for a tour - grocery store, hospital, library, post office
• visit the chamber of commerce and hear about why people visit your area
  

Domestic and Self-Help:

• practice putting on uniform shirt for community works and doing the buttons
  

Fine Motor Skills:

• sort photos or mayer-jonhson picture communication symbols by community worker or region or the country or city vs. country
  

Arts and Crafts:

• Transportation Crafts
• Preschool Education Tranportation Crafts
• buy or sew inexpensive message bags then paint and decorate to be like your favorite community worker
  

Cooking:

• Northwest Recipes
• Flavors of the South
• Southern Food
• Mid West Living Recipes
• Midwestern USA Recipes
• Northeastern USA Recipes
• Make a pizza compass
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