Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Lesson
Title/Focus

My Community: My Family

Date

13 November 2014

Subject/Gra
de Level

Social Studies / Grade 1

Time
Duratio
n

30 Minutes

Unit

My Community

Teacher

Miss. Megan Krzyzanska

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcomes:
Specific
Learning
Outcomes:

1.1 Students will demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of how identity and self-esteem are

enhanced by their sense of belonging in their world and how active members in a community contribute
to the well-being, growth and vitality of their groups and communities.
1.1.2.a demonstrate a willingness to share and cooperate with others.
1.1.3.a What different types of communities or groups do you belong to?
1.1.3.c In what ways do we belong to more than one group or community at the same time?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Cooperate with others.
2. Identify different groups and communities they belong to.
3. Indicate ways that we belong to more than one group or community at the same time.
ASSESSMENTS
Observations:
Students are cooperating during the gallery walk and other partner/group
activities. (1)
Key Questions:
Is it possible to belong to more than one group or community at
the same time? (2,3)
After walking around the classroom and seeing everybodys
community pictures what are some communities that we belong
to? (2)
What is one community that all of us belong to? (2)
Products/Performan My Family Community Chain
ces:
LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED
MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT
Alberta Program of Studies
Smart Board
We All Have Different Families Book
Strips of multi-colored paper (enough
for at least 4-6 per student)
Glue
Pencils
Pictures from last class
PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson
Ensure that students have their art books open to their Me in My
Community drawings from last class.
Make sure that the Smart Board is ready to use for more
brainstorming.
Introduction
Time
Attention Grabber
Assessment of
Prior Knowledge
- Is it possible to belong to more than one
Expectations for
community at the same time?
Learning and
- Have students engage in a gallery walk to see the
10 Minutes
Behaviour
different communities other students belong to.
- Get students back to the carpet by using the rain stick.
Advance
Organizer/Agenda
Transition to Body
Body
Time
Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

Learning Activity
#1

Assessments/
Differentiation:

Learning Activity
#2

Assessments/
Differentiation

Learning Activity
#3
Assessments/
Differentiation

Assessment of
Learning:
Feedback From
Students:
Feedback To
Students
Transition To Next
Lesson
Sponge
Activity/Activities

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Discussion: What types of communities do we
belong to?
What is a community that we all belong to? A:
Family.
Discuss family and how different our families are.
Read We All Have Different Families.
Introduce activity= Making family chains. Show
Exemplar. Each student will take a strip of paper and
write ME and their name on it and glue the two ends
together making a loop. They will continue to make
more loops (that will be linked together) with their family
members written on them, but ONLY the family
members that live in the house with them. Ie: Mom,
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Dad, Brotheretc. Miss. Meil and Myself will share our
Minutes
family links with the class and we will be able to see the
different family communities within the classroom.
Send students back to their desks and have one
student in the table group get a bucket of pencils
for their table group.
Students should FIRST write the names of themselves
and their family members in the MIDDLE of the slips of
paper.
Bring students back to the carpet to show them how
to properly link the slips of paper (student should be the
1st/top link).
Send students back to their desks to finish linking
the papers.
Closure
Time
Give students a five-minute, two-minute and oneminute warning to finish making their family chains.
Thumbs up if you think that all families are
different and thumbs down if you disagree.

5 Minutes

Finish My Community Drawings from last lesson. If finished that students

can silently read at their desks or take out their drawing books.

Reflections from the

lesson

* I would like to thank Miss. Jennifer Meil for the wonderful idea of making family
chains!

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe