Teacher: Alena Munro

Lesson Title: Good Citizenship in the 21st Century: Learning Stations Day 1
Grade/Subject: 12th Grade ELA
Central Focus: Students will be able to read about modern-day examples of good citizenship. Students will analyze
how the learning station examples are representations of good citizenship. As a result of this lesson, students will
relate these examples back to their own lives and see that they can be good citizens.

Essential Question: What can I learn about good citizenship from the first three learning stations?

ELA Standard(s):
Listening: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such
that listeners can follow the line of reasoning.

Writing: Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches
effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the specific task, purpose, and audience;
integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on
any one source and following a standard format for citation.

Reading: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g.,
visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.
Learning Objectives
Content Objectives: Evaluating multiple sources, critiquing the examples of good citizens, gathering information
from multiple sources, and presenting findings on the hand-out.

Process/Skill Objectives: Reading effectively and for understanding, listening to the TedTalk and also their peers on
their takes about the good citizen they are critiquing, and relating the idea of good citizenship back to their own
lives.
Academic Language: Students will READ and/or LISTEN to a learning station. They will CRITIQUE the
learning station example based on their idea of good citizenship. Students will DESCRIBE how the person is a good
citizenship.

Vocabulary Words
Citizenship: Honesty is the basic theme of good citizenship. A person must be honest with others, and with
himself or herself, in order to be a good citizen. Compassion is the emotion of caring for people and for
other living things. Compassion gives a person an emotional bond with his or her world- Teaching Good
Citizenships Five Themes (Education World)

Learning Station: a way to supply your class with multiple ways to learn and understand concepts. Much
like a menu offers patrons a variety of options to satisfy their appetite, learning stations expose students to a
variety of strategies and choices that address many learners needs.- Differentiated Instruction Strategies:
Learning Stations (Teach Hub)
Monitoring Student Learning: Formal & Informal Assessments prior to, during & after learning
How will you know students are on track during lesson?
The teacher will walk around the room during the learning spaces activity in order to see whether students
are on track during the lesson. This will give the teacher the opportunity to answer any questions and
concerns from students.

How will you know at the end of the lesson what students learned?
At the end of Day 2 of the learning stations activity students will hand-in a worksheet that students had to fill
out during the activity.
Instructional Resources and Materials: Learning Stations Folder, iPad to display the TedTalk, and worksheets for
students to write-up during the activity.

Connection to prior academic learning and requisite skills: Students learned about good citizenship through a
prior lesson and a New York Times article; students also learned about good citizenship from Anne Mungai.

Connections to cultural/personal/community assets: Students will learn from the learning station examples that
good citizenship comes in all sizes, races, gender, etc.
Instructional Strategies & Learning Tasks that support diverse student needs
Motivation: What can I learn about good citizenship from the first three learning stations?
Procedure: Learning Station Activity
Time Teacher Action Student Action
Mins: 0-10 The teacher will recap what students did the The students will ask teacher any questions they have about
prior day with Anne Mungai, open the floor for the Mungai foundation. Students will get into their learning
any questions. Students will then be placed in station groups, receive the first folder and worksheet.
their groups; the first three folders and
worksheets are handed out.

Mins: 10- The teacher will start with an explanation about During this time students are working in their groups.
40 the learning station; explain how to rotate the
folders, and explain the worksheet. As the
students are working, the teacher will walk
around the room to make sure the students are
on track and answer any questions.

Mins: 40- The teacher will let the students know to wrap During this time students will wrap up final thoughts and
up their last thoughts or sentences. The teacher ideas and hand in their worksheet. Students will ask any
45
will collect the worksheets so that the students questions they might have about the activity and discuss what
do not lose them and to track their progress. they learned so far.
The teacher will open the floor to questions
about the learning stations and discussion for
what they learned thus far.
Closure: how will you end the lesson?
At the end of Day 1 the teacher will ask during the last 5 minutes of class if there are any
questions from the students.
If there is enough time at the end teacher will have a short discussion with students about
what they learned from the first three learning stations.
How students will reflect on their own learning: Students will reflect on their own learning on Day 2 of the lesson.
One of the learning stations is a reflective learning station where students think about someone in their own lives that
they believe are examples of good citizens.
Accommodation/Modification based on IEP or 504 plans (special needs students): Some of our students need
accommodations. When we teach, we need to make sure we organize our lessons to align with their needs. You fill
this in only if you are teaching in a class and have students with IEPs or 504 plans.

Differentiation strategies FOR ALL STUDENTS:

We all learn differently. Some of us are kinesthetic (movement-based) learners, others are visual or listeners or
readers How do you make sure that how you teach enables all of your students to access the learning?

The learning stations are designed for differentiation. Each learning station has a picture of the person on the
front of the folder to incorporate a visual element. The TedTalk allows students who learn through listening to
access the learning. The biographies, speeches, and articles allow students who learn through reading to
access the learning.
Technology integration to support learning: will you use a smartboard? Projected imagery

For this lesson there was a learning station that was a TedTalk; students listened to the TedTalk on an iPad
while also reading the TedTalk transcript.