1st Grade Constitution day Lesson Plan and Library Use Review

Standards Addressed

Nationally mandated standards for Constitution day:

1st Graders will:

understand the rights, responsibilities and privileges of citizens living in a democratic

republic.

1stnd Grade State Standards 1st Grade Information Literacy Standards

.0101.2.4 Summarize what has been heard using the logical 1.2.1 Display initiative and engagement by posing
sequence of events. questions and investigating the answers beyond the
collection of superficial facts

4.2.1 Display curiosity by pursuing interests through

multliple resources.

4.2.2Voluntarily generates questions that go beyond

an assignment.

Objectives

1. Students will be taught that the Preamble “comes before” the

Constitution. It explains what the purpose of the Constitution is. The
Constitution will be introduced as the “rules and procedures for the united
States.”
2. Students will be reminded that just as our country has rules, so too,
does the library. Their classrooms and our school have rules and
procedures – just like the Constitution. Introducing the book by
describing how we all have to help each other to make our classroom, our
Library and our world work. In this book let’s see if we can see how the
characters work together.
3. Students will through our webpage visit the constitution and
practice to participate appropriately in a group, help each other, follow
cues (through modeling of the classroom teacher - about when to
participate in discussion.
4. Students take a pretest (found under Explore the Library on the
Home Page) to see how much they remember from Kindergarten about
Library procedures. Students will print out their quiz to practice how to
print.
5. Students will be introduced to the Constitution Website games on
our homepage.
6. Through modeling students will be reminded about how to take
care of a book, how to turn pages, from the top down gently, how to take a
book from the shelf and not to replace it unless they have marked there
 spot. Students who model this behavior will receive dragon dollars after
they check out and are standing in the line modeling how to hold the book.

Materials and Resources

1. We the Kids – Children’s book based on the Preamble to our

Constitution.

Procedures:

1. Students will be reminded of the simple rules Be Respectful, Be Responsible,

Be Safe. They will practice checking in and going to the story circle and
sitting criss-cross applesauce and facing the story chair.
2. Students will enjoy singing Hi-Ho Librario to remind them of the places in the
library and the what we do in each of those places.
3. The book We the Kids will be shared and discussed as indicated above.
4. Students will go to the go to the lab and take the pretest as they are reminded
of the procedures in the lab and practice printing out (and the fact that they
only print after they have asked permission)
5. Students will exit the library in proper form and receive dragon dollars for
showing good citizenship.