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Elementary Education Lesson Plan Template

Social Studies--2018
Student: Julia Spivey School: Northwestern Elementary, Kokomo, IN
IWU Supervisor: N/A Co-op Teacher: N/A
Teaching Date: Grade Level: 1

LESSON RATIONALE
Students must learn the components of what makes a good citizen and how they can take part in their community to be one.

READINESS
I. Goals/Objectives/Standard(s)
A. Goal: Students will be able to describe components of a good citizen.
B. Objective: Students will be able to list qualities and examples of a good citizen and apply the concepts of citizenship to their own
lives.
C. Standards:
NCSS: Individual Development and Identity
IAS: 1.2.4 Define what a citizen* is and describe the characteristics of good citizenship.
Example: Fairness, honesty, doing you personal best, respecting your beliefs and differences of others, responsibility to family and
respecting property
*citizen: someone with rights and responsibilities in a particular community, city, state, or country.
II. Management Plan
a. Materials: anchor chart, slips of paper for anticipatory set, papers for assessment
b. Time: 45 minutes
c. Space: students will be at their desks for the first portion, the carpet for the second, and their desks for the last two. They
will sit in their normal seats.
d. Behavior: card flip chart, two students with sticker charts.
III. Adaptation to Individual Differences and Diverse Learners—I will explain that good citizenship looks different in every country
and place if I have a student that is not from the United States. I will even allow them to share what that might look like, similarities
and differences between their country and our country.
Because students are still mastering spelling/writing skills, the teacher may write names of jobs on the board for students to reference
to when completing the assessment activity.

PLAN FOR INSTRUCTION

IV. Anticipatory Set
• Students will begin at their desks.
 The teacher will call up about four student volunteers to play a game. Each student will draw a slip of paper that they need to act
out. Two slips will have actions that represent respect and responsibility, such as throwing away trash, and two will have actions
that represent the opposite, such as dumping out a bucket of markers, etc.
 We are going to play a game, kind of like charades. We are going to decide which of our friends here are showing responsibility and
respect. One at a time, our friends are going to perform and action and you, the audience, are going to give them a thumbs-up if you
think they are respecting our classroom, and a thumbs-down if you think they are not respecting our classroom and being responsible.
 Ask students questions such as, why is this action not respectful or responsible? What should they do instead? Do you think this action
represents a responsible student in this classroom? Why or why not?

V. Purpose: Because we are all citizens in America, we need to know what that means and our responsibilities to be a good citizen.

VI. Lesson Presentation (Input/Output)

 Students will be instructed to go sit on the carpet in the nook, where there will be an anchor chart on the board.
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 The anchor chart will have qualities and examples of a good citizen written on it.

 All of us here are citizens of The United States. Can anyone tell me what a citizen is? Response. A citizen is someone with rights and
responsibilities in a particular community, city, state, or country. That means that you are also citizens of ____________________
Elementary School, a citizen of [town], and citizens of the state of Indiana. These places make up your home, so it is important to take
care of them and be respectful to the land and people around us.

 The teacher will go through, one by one, and describe the qualities and draw a visual next to each. Halfway through, the teacher will
begin to ask the students for examples and how they can do that in the classroom. (example below)

 A good citizen has manners. What are some things you can say to show that you have good manners? Student response. Saying
“please” and “thank you” when necessary. If you bump into someone on the street, maybe saying excuse me or apologizing instead of
walking away? Teacher will illustrate next to the phrase on the chart. A good, respectful citizen uses kind words. If someone says
something mean to you, do you think it makes it right to say something mean back to them? Brief response. Even if someone else is
being unkind, a good citizen will still be kind to them. What are some examples of being respectful at home? Response. Out in public?
Response. At school, we can show respect by being kind to our teachers and classmates.

 After each point is illustrated and discussed, the teacher will dismiss students back to their desk: Now that you understand more
about what being a good citizen is, you guys are going to help me pick them out in our community.

 Students will be instructed to return to their desks and face the board, where there will be a simple web chart.
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 In the middle, it will say Good Citizens.
 What is one quality of a good citizen we just described? Response. Who in our community displays [quality]? Assist students if needed,
providing potential examples.
 Example: There are people in our community whose job is to protect you and I. Who are some of those people? How does a police
officer show responsibility? One quality we talked about was to take care of the people around them. Do you think a police officer does
that? How can we?

VII. Check for understanding.

 The teacher will allow students to take over the web chart by brainstorming and providing examples for its completion.
 The teacher will continually ask questions throughout the lesson to check for student understanding.

VIII. Review learning outcomes / Closure –

 We are all citizens in different parts of the country and it is important that we help one another and be the best citizen
that we can be by doing our part.

PLAN FOR ASSESSMENT

 Students will be given a piece of paper with a drawing space, a title, and lines underneath.
 Now that you know what it means to be a good citizen, we are going to do an activity. Think about what you might want to be
when you grow up into an adult or what job you might want to have. You are going to write that job on this line and that will be
your title. Underneath you will write one or two sentences about why you want that job and how it will show good citizenship.
 Provide students with an example and complete it on the board. For example, I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up. I would
write “Teacher” on this line (complete). Why do I want to be a teacher? So that I can help people to learn important things so that
they can grow up and be a responsible citizen. So on this line, I will write, “I want to be a teacher because I want to help people
learn.
 If you need help spelling, raise your hand. I will write some words you may need to use on the board and you can look at my
example. When you are finished, go ahead and put it in the turn in tray.

REFLECTION AND POST-LESSON ANALYSIS

1. How many students achieved the lesson objective(s)? For those who did not, why not?
2. What were my strengths and weaknesses?
3. How should I alter this lesson?
4. How would I pace it differently?
5. Were all students actively participating? If not, why not?
6. What adjustments did I make to reach varied learning styles and ability levels?
Include additional self-answer questions that specifically address unique lesson content, methodology, and assessment.

Student: School:
IWU Supervisor: Co-op Teacher:
Teaching Date: _____or IDK Grade Level:
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Audit Trail:

OPPORTUNITY FOR IMPROVEMENT Format COMPETENT OUTSTANDING

Heading Student uses the provided template for Social

Studies content.
Template Student includes all of the information in the
template heading.
Audit Trail Student includes a list of dates and methods
for communicating with cooperating teacher.
Rationale Statement of rationale for the learning
experience and environment in this lesson.

Goals The lesson plan contains objectives that

connect goals and standards with lesson
Objectives
activities and assessments.
Standards
Each objective should include the
following: Conditions; Desired learning;
Observable behavior; and Accuracy (as
necessary)

NCSS:

IAS:
Management Plan A. Materials:
B. Time:
C. Space:
D. Behavior:
E. Technology: (as appropriate)
Anticipatory Set The anticipatory set is clear and direct and
focuses students’ attention on the lesson.

Purpose The statement of purpose is clearly connected

to the content of the lesson and is presented
in terms that are easily understood by
students.

Plan For Instruction

Adaptation to Instructional opportunities are provided in

Individual Differences this lesson. The opportunities are
and Diverse Learners developmentally appropriate and/or are
adapted to diverse students.

Early Finishers
Reteaching-
ELL –
Exceptional Needs-
Lesson Presentation Candidates demonstrate understandings,
for Social Studies capabilities and practices associated with
the central concepts and tools in Civics,
Economics, Geography, and /or History
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within a framework of inquiry.

Lesson Presentation The candidate’s lesson demonstrates an

understanding of developmentally
appropriate practice.

The candidate’s lesson includes both

modeling and guided practice.

The lesson presentation includes relevant

activities that encourage student
participation and critical thinking.

Check for The lesson plan includes a plan and the means
Understanding to check for student understanding of the
lesson. A provision is included to reteach all
[CFU] or part of the lesson to all or part of the class.

Review Learning Lesson closure relates directly to the lesson

Outcomes and/ or purpose and/or objective.
Closure

Plan for
Competent 3
Assessment

Formal and Informal A plan for formal and informal assessment [

Assessment mainly formative]throughout the lesson is
included. The assessment strategies are
uniquely designed for the students.

Reflection and Post- The lesson plan includes all required self-
Lesson Analysis answer questions.

SCORING
A lesson plan with elements that do to meet the A competent lesson plan earns a score of An outstanding lesson plan earns a
competent level will receive a score of 33 /40 or lower 34-37/40. score of 38/40-40/40

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