Subject/Grade: Lesson Title

Teacher: Ms. Kish

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results
Key Understandings: (‘I Can’ statements) Essential Questions:
- I can understand that by filling buckets, I am - How can I continue to fill my own and others
making them and myself feel good buckets?
- I can explain ways buckets are filled and dipped
into
Prerequisite Learning:
- What Respect and kindness are
- Various ways to make others and selves feel good
Instructional Strategies:
- Turn and talk
- Discussion and brainstorming

Outcomes:

USC 2.4

Examine social and personal meanings of "respect" and establish ways to show respect for self, persons, living things, possessions, and the
environment.

b) Realize a range of culturally sensitive ways to show respect (e.g., handshake, eye contact) and begin to develop the abilities to act on this
realization including:

 recognize and avoid exclusionary behaviors

 identify ways to show genuine kindness and gratitude.

d) Illustrate what respect looks like, sounds like, and feels like (e.g., take turns, listen without interrupting, ask for and provide help, smile, use
people's names, disagree politely, adapt tone of voice, avoid "name calling" and unkind criticism of others).

Stage 3: Build Learning Plan

Set (Engagement): Length of Time: 25 minutes Materials/Resources:
- Filling buckets book
Review what respect and kindness are how we can use it to fill the bucket of others - Whiteboard for
and ourselves. TURN &TALK brainstorming
- Pencils
Home/school/playground/earth- verbal examples – get one example per area - activity
Possible Adaptations/
Introduce the book and ask students to listen closely as we figure out what a bucket Differentiation:
is, what it means to fill and dip buckets (summarizing the main ideas following -option to draw or write ideas
instead of predicating and me telling them the answers- will expand and explain
further afterwards) Management Strategies:
- Stop look and listen
*Read book* - It’s too loud
- Really emphasizing
On board: raising of hands
Safety Considerations:
Things that might fills peoples buckets / Dips buckets
A great way to fill buckets- compliments. Compliment circle, option to pass (where I
will compliment instead so everyone gets one). MAYBE

Confirmation activity using brainstormed examples (pretending to fill or dip bucket

by changing our levels while standing)

Development: Time: 15 minutes

Introduce the activity sheet :

- What fills our buckets activity- have students write what makes their own
buckets feel full and makes them happy.
- What we will do today to fill someone’s bucket- why how and how it would
make them feel.
Give warning as end of work period approaches

Learning Closure: Time:

Ask students to share a few ideas they wrote and how they plan to fill other
buckets.

Remind students to do the bucket filling that they mentioned over the weekend and
we will talk about it on Monday.
Stage 4: Reflection