LESSON PLAN Class: 3rd grade Subject: Language Arts

and Social Studies

Civic Action - Helping Hands

LESSON TOPIC:
Students read and discuss a story about people
AIM: coming together to help one another, and then work to
think of a school event to help others in their
community.
Students will be able to:

OBJECTIVES: • Explain specific ways they can help people in need in

their communities.

• Plan and facilitate an event to donate good to

charitable organizations in their area.

• Assess their involvement in a community service

project.
The lesson will begin with a read aloud of the book,
INTRODUCTION What Can a Citizen Do? We will also discuss what it
TO THE LESSON: means to be a citizen in our own community as well as
the larger global community.
Students then complete a service learning activity. This
MAIN ACTIVITY: will involve them working together in small groups to
identify a cause they care about, such as assisting
refugees, feeding the homeless, or helping animals.
They will then vote on the one cause they care about
the most and do research on local organizations that
they could help. We will come back to our desks from
our groups and vote on the cause the whole class
wants to contribute time to. If able, we will attempt to
plan an event at school. For example, if they chose to
give jackets to a homeless shelter, we could plan a
jacket drive at school.
The closing of the lesson will involve an art project that
CLOSING/ has students tracing their hands and cutting it out.
ASSESSMENT: Students will write down on the hand one idea they
had about how to help people in our community. We
will then attach all of the hands to a picture of the earth
I will put up.
Read Aloud Book, iPads for research, construction
MATERIALS: paper, scissors