Lesson Plan Template

Name: Abigail Yarborough

School: Mount Olive Elementary School CT: Ms. Julie Cox Grade: 2nd

Remember the Standards, Objectives, Purpose and Assessments

must match.
Standards: (Common Core, Next Gen, etc.): CCSSW.K.2
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose
informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing
about and supply some information about the topic.

Objectives: Students will be able to understand more about the story

of thanksgiving as well as begin to understand what it means to be
thankful. Students will be able to convey this through their thankful
turkey craft.

Purpose/Overview: (Brief description of what the finished product will

be.) I will read a brief Thanksgiving story to the students, afterward
they will start on their thankful turkey craft. The thankful turkey craft
is where they color or draw on their turkeys and then either write or
draw what they are thankful for on the turkey's feathers.

Resources: (websites, Teachers Pay Teachers, Teachers Manual

Name and Publisher, etc.) Teachers Pay Teachers

Grade Level: PreK-2nd

Time Duration: 20-30 minutes

Materials: (a list of everything you and your students will need for
your lesson) Scissors, glue, markers, construction paper

Behavior Expectations: (You will list the expectations of the student’s

behaviors ex. I expect you to raise your hands, listen attentively,
participate etc.) These need to be stated before you begin your
lesson: We want to keep our eyes focused and ears listening so we
can get to our craft afterwards.

Anticipatory/Introductory Set: (This helps them get excited about the

lesson): I will tell students about the craft we will be doing after
reading the story, so they have something to look forward to while
listening and following along.

Teaching: (This will be exactly how you will teach the lesson. It must
include scripting of higher order thinking questions.) This section
should be written so someone could teach the lesson from this
portion: First go over the objective for the day, what we will be doing,
which is reading a thanksgiving story and then working on our
thankful turkey craft. Next, we will read the story once or twice as a
group and then go over the meaning. Include a few “who, what, when,
where, why” questions after the story to get the students thinking.
What does it mean to be thankful? What are some examples of what
you are thankful for? Lastly, we will talk about the craft itself, what
they’ll be doing, listing what they are thankful for on their turkey.

Guided Practice: We will read the story as a group and go over any
questions that I or the students may have.

Independent Practice: The students will start on their craft and what
they are thankful for.

Assessment: (This needs to assess your objectives.): The thankful

turkey is used to show what they learned about thanksgiving and
being thankful through drawing and writing about what they are
thankful for on their turkey.

Closure: (This activity will show you that the students have met your
objective for the lesson at the end of your lesson. Unlike homework
that makes you wait for 24 hours): Depending on time, students will
finish their thankful turkey and we will go over some of them, letting
the students tell some of the things they wrote down and what they
are thankful for.

Pedagogy/Theorists: (You will need to state the theorist, the theory,

and how you are demonstrating it in your lesson.) Project based
learning. Project based learning is where students can develop
knowledge and skills through engaging projects about real word
things. For our lesson students will listen to the story and then use
the knowledge they gained and demonstrate it through their craft.

Accommodations: (*IEP students,*gifted students, * RtI students,

*ELL learners) (How are you modifying the lesson to meet the needs
of the subgroups in your class.): For students who may need a little
extra help, the story can be re-read to them personally afterwards and
can be helped come up with thankful ideas for the craft.

What Ifs (These are before thoughts of things that might cause you to
change your lesson ex. The technology is unavailable during your
lesson. How will you compensate or modify your lesson to handle it):
If there isn't enough time to finish the craft, we can go through as
much as we have time for, talk about what we did as a group, and
then finish it a different class period.