Adaptations for Exceptional Learners
For students needing a greater challenge, the assignment will require them to write about their own region's location, place, movement and human/environment interaction. That which is not completed will become homework.
Lesson 2: For students needing assistance, the names of the locations will be provided along with a student atlas to enable them. They may check their work with the teacher. They may pair up with another student to look up information on the connections between Chicago and Milwaukee. Students who have difficulty writing may dictate their answers to an aide or student-scribe for the essay on relocation.
Students who complete the work ahead of time will do a powerpoint project with the information they gleaned from the two cities assignment.
Lesson 3: Students with vision impairment may do their assignment about what other senses can be used to distinguish one place from another. They may do an oral presentation about what they discover. A scribe may help students who have trouble with writing. For students with hearing impairment, the assignment may be to read the lyrics to Home On the Range and draw a picture of what is described and explain in writing what is human and what is natural about the environment.
Students who complete the assignment early will be asked to choose a place to write a report on and present to the class the next day.
Lesson 4: Students who have trouble writing may dictate their homework assignment to someone.
Students in the gifted category will go to the following website to read more extensively about climate change. They will create an informative poster that will address what can be done to help prevent climate change.
Lesson 5: Students who have trouble writing may have a scribe take dictation to write their essay about the immigration of religious groups. Students with vision impairment may be read to by another student.
Students who are gifted will be given an assignment related to the theme of movement in other areas such as goods, ideas, and resources.
Lesson 6: Students who have trouble writing may answer three of the questions as determined by the teacher and may dictate responses to a scribe. Students with visual impairment may have the questions read to them. Students with physical impairments may also answer only three of the questions as indicated by the teacher.
Students in the gifted category will write an essay after compiling another set of items in a list that are required to survive in another region.
Lesson 7: Students with visual impairments will hear all descriptions of all information in the powerpoint. Notes will be taken by scribes for all students who have trouble writing/seeing the information. A vocabulary list will be provided in braille for those students who need it.
Students in the gifted program will be required to identify the themes in their own neighborhood and will explain what the unifying characteristics of the "region" are.