Lesson Plan 3

Week 1: Construction Workers (Wednesday)

Teacher: Maria Lazaro
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: Kindergarten
Date: January 2017
Objective(s): What will students know/be able to do at the end of class?
When/how will I post, state, reinforce, and review the objective(s) during the lesson?
Are my objectives aligned with state standards and have I tagged each objective accordingly?
Students will be able to name a construction worker as a community helper.
Students will be able to name different the responsibilities of a construction worker.
Students will be able to name tools that a construction worker uses to do his or her job.
Kindergarten: Self and Others
People and Neighborhoods K.6
People work in neighborhoods and have different jobs and responsibilities (police, store
owners, sanitation workers, firefighters)
People in neighborhoods rely on each other for goods, services, and assistance
People deserve respect and understanding
Assessment(s): How will I measure my each students mastery of the objective(s)?
Are my assessments aligned with the days objective(s)?
Formative Assessments
Circle Map
Sentence Stem
A construction worker uses ___ (name of
tool / machine).

Link to Summative Assessments

All About Community Helpers Book

Key Ideas: What key ideas or steps will I

emphasize?

Potential Misunderstandings: What might

students misunderstand or struggle with?

1. Using sentence stems to promote vocabulary

and concept development.
2. Using a Circle Map (Thinking Map) to record
students thinking / brainstorming.

The sentence stems may be too complex for

some students to use and to explain their
reasoning.

Materials:

Chart paper (Circle Map)

Drawing paper with a picture box and 2 lines for writing
Photographs of construction workers in action
Book: I Want To Be A Builder by Dan Liebman
Markers

Agenda: Description of Instruction

Opening
Preview: How will I preview objective(s), agenda, and assessment?
(Before this lesson, I would have finished reading I Want To Be A Builder by Dan Liebman.)
Yesterday read this book and we learned about the responsibilities of a construction worker.
Hook: How will I capture the classs interest/motivate them to learn?
At the tables, there are objects that a construction worker uses. Pay close attention of the
photographs of construction workers in action using some of these objects. (Students take a
walk around the classroom, looking at the objects on the table. Students transition back to the
rug area.)
Mini-Lesson (I Do)
How will I engagingly present a digestible amount of material?
I heard you say a word that names the objects you saw. What are they called? Yes! They are
called tools. A construction worker uses different tools to do his or her job. Watch what I do
and say. I saw a saw. I know! A construction worker uses a saw. (Act out my sentence stem
as I say it.)
Shared (We Do)
How will I have students participate in the writing?
Now lets try it together. Turn and talk to a partner, and use the sentence stem to name another
tool a construction worker uses. Remember to act out it. (I walk around to listen and support
partners.) I listened to these two partners, and they named another tool of a construction
worker! (They said, A construction worker uses a hammer.)
Independent (You Do)
Will students have sufficient opportunity to hone their own writing craft?
Today you will work on draw a picture of a tool that a construction worker uses. You can
choose one from some of the tools we talked about. Remember to add details and labels to
your pictures. I will come around to check in on your work. (Students work independently on
their drawing. My co-teacher and I will have a clipboard to write down their dictations.
Students who are developmentally ready to do so will write phrases or sentences.)
Closing: How will I revisit objective(s) and ensure understanding?
(The timer sounds off.) It is time to clean up. Leave your drawings on the table.
(Transition to the rug for closing.) As I walked around, I noticed the pictures you drew of one
tool that a construction worker uses. What are other tools that construction workers use? (Take
3 students.) Tomorrow, you will use your drawings to make something.