EDEL453 Spring2014 Sandramontgomery Unit Plan Wednesday

Day 3 Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan #3Grade: 1Social Studies Strand: CivicsSubmitted By: Sandra Montgomery

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social ScienceNevada State College – Spring 2014Instructor: Karen Powell

Lesson Plan #3 – Civics submitted by: Sandra Montgomery

B. Summary of the Lesson Plan : This lesson will be about people who work in our community. From Doctors, police

officers, nurses, firefighters, even our military men.

C. Basic Information: Grade Level: 1 grade Time to Complete this Lesson: 45 – 50 minutes Groupings: small group

D. Materials: Picture of doctor, nurse, firefighter, policeman, a navy officer; see attached. Information on each one and what they do and how they help the community. Books/articles

Teacher PreparationTeacher needs to have a station per community helper set up, with the picture and the information to

that helper.

E. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards

H3.1.3 Identify and describe occupations in the community that help people, i.e., police officers, fire fighters, and nurses.

o Student-Friendly Standards H3.1.3 I can know what people do for work in the community that help people.

For example: police officers, fire fighters, and nurses.

F. Vocabulary Police officer: a person who protects the people. Fire fighters: A person who fights fires. Nurses: someone who is licensed to tend to people who are sick. Doctor: someone who is licensed to practice medicine.

G. Procedure: 1. TW will go over definitions and leave them up on the board so students will be able to refer

back to them as they are working on their assignment.2. TW model what he/she expects of the students. He/she will go to a station and give one

example.3. SW be grouped into five groups and be assigned to a station.

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4. SW work together and come up with at least 5 different things about the community helper they are working on.

5. TW go around the room and observe and guide the students.6. SW will gather together in their groups at the desks.7. SW come up as a group and share what they learned about the helper they worked together on.8. TW ask students if any of them had the experience of any of these helpers helping them, and if

they don’t mind sharing to share with us. Make sure they understand that they don’t have to share if they don’t want to!

Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding?

The students will turn in the paper they wrote the information on. This will tell the teacher if they understood what the helpers do for the community.

Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. The students will have written down what the helper does and how it helps the community.

H. Closure: Students will share their findings with the class.

I. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach?

The modeling of what is expected of the students.2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach?

Making sure the students are doing what they are supposed to be doing at their stations.

3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson?The students will be learning how they can be part of the community by helping out at their school.

4. What can you do for students who don’t grasp the concepts?Get a copy of each groups helper, give to those students and then have them look at the information at the stations for them to take notes or to refer to the information and notes.

5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change?I can’t think of anything that I would change in the lesson.

6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part?I didn’t really have trouble with writing this plan.



*Note: These are actual fallon community helpers.

Police Officer



Firefighter



Dr. Jacques is a dentist



Nurse



Naval military personell


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