Detailed Lesson Plan Preparation

Elementary Education

Name: Jess Baity

Title: Like A Girl
Grade: 4th
Concept/Topic: Gender Inequality
Time Needed: 45 minutes

Backward Design Approach: Where are you going with your students?
Identify Desired Results/Learning Outcome/Essential Question:
Learning Objective: Students will demonstrate knowledge of how technology and media influences
gender stereotypes.
Unit Question: What is gender inequality and how does it affect us?
Lesson Question: Students will identify how technology generates gender stereotypes.
NCSCOS/Common Core Standards:
4.G.1.4: Explain the impact of technology (communication, transportation and inventions) on North
Carolinas citizens, past and present.
Assessment Plan:
Students will understand gender stereotypes can be harmful to a person and that these stereotypes are
developed through media.

Meeting the student where they are:

Lesson Introduction/Hook:
Frozen clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK8hAHejUwM
Cinderella clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6SdCDpvTnw
Always commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs

Heart of the Lesson/Learning Plan:

Differentiation/Same-ation:
This lesson will be taught to the full class. I do have multiple ELL in my class however, so special
consideration will be taken during instruction in regards to language and explanation.
Lesson Development:
Show clips to students.
1. Cinderella
2. Frozen
3. Always commercial
Talk to students about how each clip portrayed girls.
1. Were they strong and independent? Were they weak and helpless?
2. Remind students both characters are princesses that society has created.
Create venn diagram about each main character. Brainstorm adjectives about each princess.

Ana

Cinderella

1. Fill the diagram with adjectives explaining each different princess and then traits that they
share.
Cinderella: dependent, stuck, helpless, hopeful, waiting for prince, passive, quiet, obedient, sad

 Ana: outgoing, motivated, strong, independent, driven, happy, brave

Both: girls, princesses, pretty, lost their parents (orphans)
Ask students how movies, tv shows, and commercials affect thinking, stereotypes, or opinions.
Can you think of another example of how a female character is portrayed in technology or
media?
How does this lesson alter or change your thinking about girls?
How does it change or alter the way you think about the shows you watch and what you hear
on tv or on the radio?
Specific Questioning:
What are some stereotypes you know about girls vs. boys?
Does media or technology build upon or strengthen these stereotypes? How so? Can you list some
examples?
What can we do to break down these stereotypes?

New Vocabulary:
Equality
Stereotype
Alter

Concluding the Lesson/Closure/Debriefing:

On a sticky note, write if you think the phrase like a girl is most often used positively or negatively. Tell
me an example of a movie or tv show you have seen or we discussed where a girl was made to feel like
she couldnt do something because of her gender.
Materials/Resources:
Youtube
Sticky notes/index cards

Teaching Behavior Focus:

Questioning: Can I ask appropriate questions to guide class discussion and further childrens thinking on
the topic?
Follow-Up Activities/Parent Involvement:
This lesson is the first of a unit on gender equality and womens roles throughout society and North
Carolina history.