California State University, Fullerton

Elementary and Bilingual Education

Lesson Plan Format

Name: Courtney Marquez

Grade: TK/K
Subject/Content: Global Citizen Education Lesson/ Voicemail Kind Words Challenge
Time length of Lesson: Unit- 2 to 4 weeks in 45 minute increments

Materials/Resources, including Technology

List all the special materials you’ll need for the lesson, including teacher and student materials.
Thinking map to brainstorm and organize ideas with class, drawing template for students to record
ideas, voicemail recording in iPhone using personalized class phone number, the book Have You
Filled a Bucket Today?: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kid, access to YouTube to show short
funny kid-friendly clip (discussed in Body)

Concept(s)
State the “big idea” that all students will acquire or develop.
Students will develop an understanding of the impact they can have on other’s attitude, spirit,
and happiness and how even small actions and words can make a positive difference for those
around them and therefore those afar. They will acquire the concept of kindness is contagious
on a global scale utilizing voicemail technology.
Alignment with Standards
What standard(s) does this lesson teach to? Think in terms of both State and District standards.
K-2.IC.19
Work respectfully and responsibly with others when communicating electronically.
K-2.CS.3
ELA/Literacy SL.2.5: Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other
visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas,
thoughts, and feelings.
Objectives
Using observable verbs, list the student behaviors you expect to result from the lesson. What,
specifically, are the desired learning outcomes?

Content: Students will discover the impact their thoughts and shared words can have on others
both near and far as we are all interconnected. (Filling someone’s bucket can help that person
want to fill another person’s bucket and so on).

Language: Students will use encouraging messages including helpful and kind words for
anyone feeling mad, frustrated, or nervous, helpful and kind words for anyone who needs
words of encouragement and life advice, and helpful and kind words for anyone who needs a
pep talk, and lastly, children’s laughter to make others smile.
Assessment
How will you monitor understanding throughout the lesson? How will you assess the students to
assure that the objectives were met? How will you determine what else they learned, such as changes
in their attitudes? Remember to vary your use of assessment techniques (i.e., informal as well as
formal methods should be included here). Remember to include opportunities for student self-
assessment as well.
Formative assessments of student and class thinking maps, informative assessment of individual and
whole class participation, students will complete self-assessment to assess how they think the lesson
project might make others feel and how it makes them feel. Overall assessment on participation in class
voicemail recording.

Procedure
A. Focus/Motivation (Open) (Time estimate: 20 )
How will you gain students’ attention, build interest in the lesson, and introduce the topic? How will
you set expectations for learning?

We will read, Have You Filled a Bucket Today?: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kid. This
will help guide our objective.

Students will brainstorm individually then share to whole class some things that make them
happen and what they do when certain feelings occur. This conversational research will
answer the following questions: What do you do when you feel mad? Frustrated? Nervous?,
What do you tell yourself or others when they feel sad or like they cannot do something?,
What do you tell yourself or others when they are tired and having a hard time accomplishing
something difficult?, How does laughing make you feel? What does your face do when you
laugh? (smile)

B. Development (Body) (Time estimate: 20)

How will you develop the content related to your objective? Who’s going to do what and when? How
will you support interaction with the subject matter and materials? Include some questions you might
ask when the lesson is going on (you may be surprised how difficult it is to remember what you
intended to ask when everything is happening).

Students will apply and organize thoughts and ideas into class thinking map. Topics we will
discuss/experience include:
1. If you’re feeling mad, frustrated, or nervous
2. If you need words of encouragement and life advice
3. If you need a pep talk from TK/Kindergarteners
4. If you need to hear kids laughing with delight

While the whole class will partake in brainstorming together, the delivery of the lesson will be
broken up in groups for certain parts.

The class will be in two large groups (50/50 of the class). One group will respond vocally on
the phone voicemail machine to idea number 1. The other group will respond vocally on the
phone voicemail machine to idea number 2. The whole class will chant together on
brainstorms words for the pep talk in idea number 3. The whole class will watch a funny
cartoon clip and laugh in delight together.
C. Closure (Close) (Time estimate: 5 )
How will you bring the lesson to a close? How will you have students identify what the lesson’s
learning was?

Students will present their brainstormed words in a voicemail recording. Class will respectfully listen
and watch as students take turns sharing. Students will self-assess how the lesson has made them feel
and students can share their special class phone number to their friends and family.