PK-3 Lesson Plan Format 

 
 
Name: Victoria Pecot     Grade Level: Second          
Date:  3/23/21       Group Size: Whole, 22 students.
 
Subject/Lesson Topic: Gender Equality

Objectives:  (TLW:) 
1. Students will know what gender equality is.

2. Students will be able to compare and contrast gender

equality from earlier in history to present day.

3. Students will know some of the people that were important

in gender equality.
Standards/GLEs:
NCSS Standards: 3 (people, places, environments), 9 (global
connections), 2 (time, continuity, change), 6 (power, authority,
governance).
LA/CC Social Studies Framework: 2.1.1 Create simple
timelines to describe important events in the history of the U.S.
2.1.2 Compare and contrast present day with past.
2.1.5 Describe how the achievements of famous Americans, of the
past and present, changed society.
C3 Framework Organization: Dimension 1: Developing
questions and planning inquiries.
Common Core: SL Comprehension and Collaboration #1.
 
Contextual Factors: I am at Tanglewood Elementary School with
the second graders. I have 22 students in my class. There is one
ELL student in my class, who is a boy. There are 10 girls and 12
boys in the class. A few students have ADD/ADHD, and one has
dysgraphia. All of the students in my class are white, except for the
ELL student who I am unsure of the background of. The school is
in a rural part of Central.

Teacher Materials/Resources:         
                                                    
1. Lesson plan
2. Copies of Venn-Diagrams
3. Timeline worksheet
4. Sticky notes
Student Materials/Resources:      
1. Pencil

 
Technology Integration: 
A global history of women’s rights, in 3 minutes - YouTube
Women's Suffrage Movement | BrainPOP | Women's History | Culture | Grades 3-5, 6-
8, 9-12 - YouTube
Kids React To The Gender Pay Gap - YouTube

Family/Community Connection or Extension:

Dear parents or guardians,

Hello, my name is Victoria, and I am the student intern from LSU in
your child’s class. Today, we learned about gender equality, and the
history of it. We made a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the
equality back then to now, and things that are still the same. Your
child learned about important women’s suffrage leaders, such as Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony. We
learned about the recent executive order president Biden passed on
gender equality, and the importance of it. We watched videos, made a
timeline, and made connections to equality in other countries, and
other races. If you have any questions, please email me at
vpecot1@lsu.edu

Sincerely,
Victoria
 
Pre-Assessment: Give them each a sticky note to answer the
question, “What is gender equality?” And have them hand it to me to
see what they know.
 
Lesson Procedure and Activities:
 
Opening/Motivation: A few weeks ago, President Biden passed
an order on gender equality. An order is sort of like a written rule.
Do you think boys and girls have always had the same rights? (Have
them discuss with me) There used to be many rules in place so that
girls/women could not do the same things as men, which was
wrong.
 
Procedures/Activities:
1. Define gender equality to the students.
2. Give them a timeline worksheet, and go through the
important years and people that started gender equality
in the U.S.
3. Have them write down the certain years and people on
the worksheet.
4. Go over vocabulary they may not know: executive order,
suffrage, equality, discrimination, etc.
5. Talk about what President Biden passed.
6. Show them the BrainPOP YouTube
7. video.
8. Have them discuss what they think about this. Do you
believe gender equality is good? Why do you think we
don’t see many men fighting for this? Why do you think
these laws were put in place in the beginning?
9. Talk to them about other countries, global connections,
how different their gender equality is from the U.S.
 10. Show them the global history of women’s rights
YouTube video.
11. Discuss if there are any laws that still separate men
and women.
12. Show them the gender pay gap YouTube video.
13. Handout the Venn diagrams and have them compare
and contrast individually the differences from gender
equality then, to now. Group discussion about it
afterwards.
 
Closure:  Go over the Venn diagram and discuss. Make
connections to how this relates to race equality as well, which
we can learn about next time. Have them tell me a name they
remember learning about, or a law, or something they learned.
 
Differentiation: One of my students is an ELL student, and he is
a little behind for reading and writing. Others have issues
paying attention. For the ELL student, I may have him use his
friend next to him for help in case he forgets how to write
something. For the students that struggle to pay attention, the
videos are relatively short on purpose, and also, these videos
can be a break from me talking, which children are always
interested in watching. Also, I provided worksheets, so there is
always something we are doing.

 
Assessment: I will have them get into groups of 3, give one team
each a small white board. I will then ask questions about what we
just learned, and they will have to work together as a team to
write the correct answer on their board, and hold it up when I call
time. The team with the most correct answers wins. A more
formal assessment to do is, I could give them a fill in the blank
quiz with a word bank, on the people and important points we
just learned about.
 Reflection

The lesson I planned out for my students is on gender equality. I feel as though

second graders are able to learn about this subject now, and it is important to start talking

about it. I did not learn about this in school until high school, and I really wish I would

have learned about it sooner. This is important for girls to be educated on, to have their

confidence start to grow more. It is just as important for boys, so they will know that girls

and boys should be equal. At such a young age, we already develop so many stereotypes

of men and women. There are superheroes that my students watch that are mostly men,

and the girls in their shows are normally in dresses. I want them to start challenging their

thinking, and learn that people fought for these stereotypes to be diminished, and for men

and women to be equal. The current event on President Biden signing an executive order

on gender discrimination in schools. This is more important than ever to learn about this,

since it is very recent in the news. This will help them build on other topics that may be

hard to talk about as well, such as race and culture discrimination/equality.