Paper #2: Using the Teacher Edition

Family
Submitted By: Suzanne Garlick
EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science Nevada State College Spring 2013 Instructor: Karen Powell

Paper #2: Using the Teacher Edition

Family

submitted by: Suzanne Garlick

A. Summary of the Lesson Plan: The students will learn families can learn together and help each other. I will introduce reading skills of main ideas and details. This lesson uses the 1st Grade Houghton Mifflin Social Studies textbook Family (p. 26-27). B. Target Population: Grade Level: 1st grade Skill Level: Students at all learning levels Grouping: Whole group discussion and reading. Individual writing and drawing assessment. C. Materials: Houghton Mifflin Social Studies textbook Family (p. 26-27). Drawing paper and crayons Pencil Reading skills worksheet titled Reading skills-Main Ideas/Details, from Houghton Mifflin Social Studies textbook Family p. TE 21I Video Going to School Is Your Job from unit one of Houghton Mifflin Social Studies textbook. Overhead projector White board and markers D. Objectives: NV State Social Studies Standards o H3.1.2 Compare and/or contrast their daily lives with those of their parent or guardian. Student-Friendly Standards o H3.1.2 I can see that my daily life can be the same and different from my parents or guardians. E. Procedure: 1. Introduce the Social Studies question of the day that is written on the board How do you help your family? 2. Have the students find todays date on the calendar and count to find Saturday. Ask them what they like to do on Saturdays with their family? 3. Show the reading skills worksheet to the students on an overhead projector. Explain the worksheet to the students. 4. Introduce the new vocabulary word: Family. Explain the definition of a family. 5. Have the students look at the pictures on pages 26-27. Ask them: What are some things that families do together? Discuss as a class. 6. Read to the students from page 26. Emphasize the main idea on the page, which is that People in a family help one another.
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Paper #2: Using the Teacher Edition

Family

submitted by: Suzanne Garlick

7. Discuss with the students what they know about families? What do people in families do to help one another? 8. Have the students refer back to their worksheet and discuss what families do together. Have them write it in the correct spot on the worksheet. 9. Discuss with the students what a family is. You can have them refer back to page 26 or to their worksheet. 10. Looking at page 26 and 27. Ask: What are the families doing together? How does working together in a family help get jobs done faster and easier? 11. Ask the students if they know some things that everyone in their family does that are the same and some things that are different each day? 12. Write on the board the students responses given to the following discussion. What does each member of their family do each day, including themselves? Make two different columns on the board for what the parents do and what the children do. Some things will be in both columns. Compare and contrast what is written on the board between what their parents and family members do each day with what the student does each day. Show that sometimes they do things that are the same and sometimes they do things that are different. 13. Show the video, Going to School is My Job. Then discuss how like their parents they have a job to do each day. 14. CLOSURE: I will have the students draw a picture of what their parent and/or guardian jobs are and what the students daily job is. They will write a sentence describing their picture explaining the difference of their daily jobs. A few students will share their drawing and explain what the differences in their lives are from their parents. F. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? I will informally assess during the class discussion. I will also assess the individual drawing of their family to see if they understand that their lives are sometimes like their parents and sometimes different. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. By viewing the students drawing and reading the students sentence I will see if they understand the concept that their lives are sometimes the same and sometimes different from their parents or guardians. G. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? I think that the entire lesson will be easy to teach because students at this age usually understand the concept of a family. They also usually have talked with or overheard their parents talking about their day. Students love to share things about their own personal lives.
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Paper #2: Using the Teacher Edition

Family

submitted by: Suzanne Garlick

2. Which part will be the most challenging for you to teach? It will be challenging if the students do not have an idea of their own to draw for the picture of their family and themselves. I do not want to put thoughts into their heads. I will want them to think of the things that we discussed as a class or experiences they have had themselves and draw and write about them. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? I will reference back to this subject throughout the week to reinforce the concepts taught. 4. What can you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? For the students that dont understand the concept I would use a job chart to discuss what the different jobs different members of a family do. Then we would discuss the pictures on pages 26-27. I would discuss with the students their own personal experiences with helping in their own family.

5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? Time permitting I would like to have all the students show their picture and explain what they have drawn and written about their different jobs.

6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? The hardest part for me in writing this lesson plan was using the textbook online. I like to have the textbook in front on me so that I can easily flip to the page I want to read.

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Karen Powell- Instructor

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Paper #2: Using the Teacher Edition

Family
JOBS

submitted by: Suzanne Garlick

Job 1 Family members name

Job 2

Job 3

Job 4

Job 5

Job 6

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Karen Powell- Instructor

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