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Lesson Plan #4

Grade: 1st

Social Studies Strand: Civics

Submitted By: Staci Gengler

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science

Nevada State College – Spring 2014

Instructor: Karen Powell



Lesson Plan #4 - Civics submitted by: Staci Gengler

Nevada State College EDEL 453 - Spring 2014 Karen Powell- Instructor page 2

B. Summary of the Lesson Plan:

This is a first grade civics lesson that will introduced to the idea of varying opinions about

classroom responsibilities within the community of the school. This lesson plan is the

fifteenth strategy out of the text Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies, page 105.

C. Basic Information:

Grade Level: 1st grade

Time to Complete this Lesson: 50 mins

Groupings:

o Whole group: during read- aloud and class discussion

o Independently: listing personal opinions

o Group: listing group’s opinions and preparation for discussion.

D. Materials:

Opinion sheet

Pencils

Book, I Want an Iguana By: Karen Orloff

E. Objectives:

o NV State Social Studies Standards

C13.1.3 Participate in class decision- making, i.e., individual responsibilities

in the classroom and school.

C16.1.1 Name their school.

o Student-Friendly Standards

I can express my opinion during a class discussion regarding classroom

jobs.

I can name my school.

F. Vocabulary

Opinion: what someone thinks about a particular thing

Fact: a true piece of information

Responsibility: is taking care of your duties, it is answering for your actions, and it is

being trustworthy.

Debate: a formal discussion with varying opinions

Decision- making: the process of coming to a conclusion after a lot of thought





G. Procedure:

1. Start a short discussion about varying opinions.

1. Have any of the students had a disagreement with family members or friends? If

so about what?

2. Read the story, I Want an Iguana By: Karen Orloff.1. During the reading quickly point out examples of opinions and facts to remind

students what fact and opinions are and how they are presented to make a

point.

3. Introduce the topic for the large class debate/ discussion.

1. Should students have jobs and responsibilities at their schools? If so what kind of

job and why.

Students will independently write down their own opinions on the opinion

sheet before talking to anyone.

4. Students will create two groups; one group for responsibilities and one group that isagainst having a job/responsibility at school.

1. Students will discuss within their group the most important facts or opinions that

will allow the other group to understand their side. Students will create a list for

the class discussion.

5. Students will then conduct a debate as a whole class and take turns speaking on each

side.

H. Assessment:

What will you use to measure student understanding?

Students will be assed on their participation in the class discussion and by

filling out the opinion sheet, with school name, personal opinion, group

opinion, other group’s opinion and classroom compromise.

Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson.

Students will demonstrate knowledge of their school’s name and their ability

to participate in a class discussion by completing the opinion sheet and

communicating with classmates.

I. Closure:

As a whole class we will designate responsibilities or jobs to each member of the classaccording to what each student thought was important. Example: Michelle thought

two lunch monitors should remember the lunch boxes so Michelle and a buddy will be

responsible for carrying the cold lunch bucket to and from the lunchroom.

J. Reflection:

1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach?

a. I think teaching the students about the art of discussions and opinions will be the

easiest.





2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach?

a. Teaching the students how to respect varying opinions and how to compromise will

be the most difficult especially for students who are not exposed to the concept at

home.

3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson?

We could follow up with a debate about a topic in current events and have the

children research and find facts about a specific topic.

4. What can you do for students who don’t grasp the concepts?

If a child does not comprehend what another child is saying the instructor or an aid

can act as a mediator of the conversation.

5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change?

Depending on the class’s opinion of responsibilities assigning jobs or grouping may

be difficult.

6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part?

Thinking of a topic for young student to discuss and presenting it in a manner that

would allow the students to have varying opinions was the most difficult aspect.

7. Explain the strategy from “Integrating Language Arts & Social Studies” that you

included in this lesson plan.

Strategy fifteen on page 105, is a strategy of introducing varying opinions to

younger students. For older student they can research a topic after recording initial

reaction and see how their opinion has changed after learning more about thetopic





Name: School Name: Date: _______

My opinion:

__________________________________________________________________________

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__________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

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My Group’s Opinion:

__________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

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Other Opinions:

__________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

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Class Decision:

__________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

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