Lesson Plan Template

Module 6: Non-Fiction

Name: Lauren Butts

Lesson: Respect the Walk
Siber, Kate. National Parks of the USA. Wide Eyed Editions, 2018.
Target Grade Level: 6-8th grades

Standard(s): SL.5.5 Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics,

Put the appropriate sound) and visual displays in presentations when
common core standard appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or
here. themes.

SL.5.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative

discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with
diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on
others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly

Objective(s):
What are your goals for this
lesson? What do you want
your kids to be able to do
afterwards?? Why are you
doing this lesson??
● Students will act out the Leave No Trace hand symbols
● Students will explain the positive ethics of Leave No Trace
● Students will design a camera using recycled materials
● Students will pick a national park they want to travel to
Students will be constructing a camera using upcycled materials.
They will get a template to trace if they so choose, to cut out the
shape of the camera on the cardboard. Once they have the box
built for the base of the camera, they can add features using
recyclables ; lens, shutter button, strap, and any other decorations.
This is practicing respecting nature by using upcycled materials,
and by explaining to students it's better to take a picture of what you
want to take rather than taking the object. Early finishers can create
a polaroid of the object they wanted to “take.”

Materials: -cardboard (from cereal boxes)

List absolutely EVERYTHING -hot glue guns
-hot glue sticks
you need to do this lesson—
especially since you are
going to be sharing it. From
paper/pencils, chart paper
or whatever
Instructional Strategy:
This is your step by step
guide to what you are going
to and in what order. Put
ideas about time involved to
do it step. Be specific so
others can follow this plan.
-fun paper (cage has stacks of old wallpaper book)
-cardstock
-ribbon
-jar lids, bottle caps, old glue caps, buttons etc.
other misc. items that could be used as parts of a camera or for
decorations
Camera template
Presentation
1. Intro students into getting excited about travel by
reading the book National Parks of the USA
2. Then I will go through the powerpoint to explain how
when we get to go to these places we must respect
them using LNT
3. Do the LNT hand motion video
4. DEMO:
● First you will trace the the stencil on the cardboard (I
will trace it on the cardboard)
● Next you can cut it out using scissors or an
exacto-knife (I will have a precut camera ready)
● Then you will fold on all of the corners of the camera
edge, and the flaps you will use to glue the base of
the camera together (show them how to apply glue
to the tabs) (have a box fully glued together
● Explain that when using hot glue to glue tabs you
need to wait and hold the box together in order for
the box to stay together
● Add on any surface decorations before gluing on the
lens and shutter button (have precut decorations)
● Next you can combine various lids together to make
a camera “lens” and “shutter button” using hot glue
● After this add in any other decorations you desire,
may add in a box for the “flash” you can make your
camera as detailed or personalized as you wish, but
remember to keep the basics of the camera
recognizable
● When you finish decorating you will glue on the
camera strap, the camera strap is important so you
can bring your camera with you on your adventures.
(have precut strap to glue on)
○
● If you have time left over you can make a polaroid
that you “took” with your camera, of an item in
nature you wanted to take.
● You can draw a rectangle or square where the
bottom border is larger than the rest of the borders.
● Then you can date the polaroid “Sept 30, 2023”
● For example I wanted to take a wildflowers so I’ll
paint that for my photo

Differentiation:
Put at least two strategies as
to how you can address
students with varying
abilities, both above and
below typical students.
Assessments:
How will you know if your
students learned what you
wanted them to learn? How
can you prove it???
*Adapted from a lesson plan I created for Saturday Art, to fit Ohio Language Arts Standards*
Respect the Walk_Grace and Lauren.docx
5. Then students can make a polaroid, via drawing,
capture a picture of their National Park of choices
and the object they “found” in it.
Video:
Students will get a supplemental video of the LNT hand
motion video, which will have them using fine motor skills,
and L/R brain crossovers before getting to create
High Achievers:
They can make their camera function by adding an element
to their camera where the polaroid pulls out of it from an
attached ribbon mechanism on the inside.
Low Achievers:
Will receive an already glued together box so they can focus
on decorating the box to make it turn into a camera
Students will produce a camera made from upcycled
materials to display their knowledge of LNT ethics SL.5.5
Students will discuss in small groups which National Park
they are traveling to, and what they might see at that
national park. They will display their discussion either
verbally or through a created polaroid picture the draw
SL.5.1