Sample Template for a Lesson Plan (Teacher and Student Activities)

Class: _______________________
Social Studies

Date: _______________________
November 18/19, 2015

Identity - Flags of our people

Title: _______________________

Lesson Number _____

2 and 3 out of _____ Total in Unit

Objective of Lesson (in own words):

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The objective of this lesson is to get students to think about the different ways people and groups of people can be represented. By looking at the
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flags that represent these people I hope students will begin to see the importance of these peoples history.
Learner Outcomes (Program of Studies)

Plan for Diversity

2.1.1 (Values and attitudes)

2.1.3 (knowledge and understanding)

Students will have visual examples and will use art to make their
own flags

Prerequisite Knowledge, Skills, Strategies

and Attitudes

Preliminary Matters (Announcements, etc.)

No real prerequisite knowledge needed. Students will use their prior

critical thinking skills when talking about flags and other items that
represent these cultures

Time
Introduction
(Link to previous learning,
introduction of new
concepts)

Activity
Sequence
May involve Presentation,
Explanation, Guided
Practice, Independent
Practice
OR
Approaching,
Encountering,
Noticing
Internalizing
Applying,
Refining
Personalizing,
Transforming,
Assessing

Closure
(Summary of learning,
link to upcoming learning)

Students will be coming back from music

Teaching Strategy

Student Activity

Ask students who

remembers the three
groups of people we looked at,
and one fact about each group

Class discussion

(sitting on carpet)Introduce flags

by showing the Canadian and
Alberta flags. Explain how these
flags represent our Province and
Country.
Look at the flags of the Inuit,
Acadians and Ukrainians. Ask
students what they notice about
the flags and how they think these
flags represent the three cultures.
Have students go back to their
desks.Instruct them to create their
own flag that represents who they
are. Use colours that represent
who they are and images that
would help people to identify
them. (Show example of a flag I
created that reflects who I am)

Resources

Assessment

n/a

Class discussion

Design and colour flags

Encyclopaedia
Canada
(for pictures of flags)

Checklist

Communities in
Canada textbook

When students are done have them

fill out the three questions.
I will then present them to the class
and see if they can guess which
flag belongs to which person

Tell students what we will be doing

in lesson three. After lesson three
start talking about traditions.

Reflection
The first class in this lesson went well. Students were way more engaged and seemed to grasp the concept of creating a flag that represents them.
For the seond class in this lesson I need to make sure students are silent and focussed before I start talking. This was the biggest obstacle I found with this lesson.
Over all I am very happy with how it went, and my confidence was much better today!

Adapted from Alberta Education, Canada, 2008