Name: Crystal Orozco-Gamboa

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Content Area: Social Studies
Date for Implementation: 2/24/14
Lesson Title: El Aguila Clava
Whole Class
Language: Spanish

Standards

K.2 Students recognize national and state symbols and icons such as the national and
state flags, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty.

Content Objective/Learning Outcome

Students will be able to recognize the Bald Eagle as a national symbol and learn about
its history and location.

Language Objective/ Language Learning Outcome

Given sentence frames and vocabulary, students will identify the symbolism of the Bald
Eagle orally using descriptive words.

Assessment

Formative Assessment Task: I will listen to students discussions during think-pair-
shares.

Summative Assessment Task: Students will complete a GLAD chart (Guided Language
Acquisition and Design) identifying important facts about the symbolism of the Bald
Eagle.

Materials Needed

Bald Eagle Book, Marker, Chart Paper

Differentiation

I will give linguistic support to our Spanish language learners by: reading slowly,
connecting words to images in the book, think-pair-share, writing key points from the
book, and providing sentence frames for discussion.

Yo, aprend que________, El Aguila Calva tiene_____, and El Aguila Calva
es_______

Instructional Sequence

Introduction

1. I will begin by explaining the purpose of the lesson and behavioral expectations
that I have for the students during the read aloud and during discussions.
2. I will introduce the lesson and explain that we will be talking about one of the
national symbols for our country.
3. I will tap into the students prior knowledge by asking them if they can think about
any national symbols that they have already learned about (i.e. Statue of Liberty,
the Liberty Bell).
4. I will bring the class back together and read them an informational text about the
Bald Eagle. Before I begin the story I will ask them listen for important
information, and connect the information to the images in the text.

Body

1. After reading the text, I will write two sentence frames on the board Yo, aprend
que________, El Aguila Calva tiene_____, and El Aguila Calva es_______.
1. Next, I will pair up the students and ask them to discuss key points from the book
using the sentence frames as a guide.
2. As the students are discussing, I will listen in to their conversations while taking
notes to make sure that they are using the sentence frames and using new
vocabulary from the text.
3. I will bring the class back together and ask them to begin sharing out things that
they learned from the text.
4. As students are saying key points from the text, I will write them down on a
poster board around an image of the Bald Eagle. As the students are speaking, I
will also clarify any difficult words.

Closure

1. Once the GLAD chart is completed, we will go over key points the text, answer
any questions, and clarify new vocabulary.