ED 345 Calvin College Teacher Intern Lesson Plan Template

Teacher Intern: Rachel Jung Date: 10/15

Grade Level: 1 st Subject/ Topic: Social Studies/ different cultures and races (extended to 2 days)
Approx. time spent planning this lesson: 2 hours
DOMAIN 1: PLANNING & PREPARATION
Main Focus/Essential Questions: The world is a diverse place with full of unique cultures and different races.
By understanding cultural differences, students will become more accepting of others and will have better
understandings of themselves and the world around them. This lesson introduces various food and clothing
types of the world.
Brief Context: Students will be able to gain understanding of the world culture, and how there is a variety of
cultures in world.
Students will be able to learn about cultural differences and similarities.
Students will be able to write brief descriptions about their personal culture and share them with the class,
Students will be able to explore different clothing and food from the countries around the world.
Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills:
Lesson Objectives/Learning Targets Aligned Assessments
Consider formative & summative tools
Please number objectives and the aligned assessment measures.
The learner will: I will assess learning by:
1. Students will be able to gain understanding 1. Having students read the book “can you say
of the world culture, and how there is a peace” and explore different cultures and
variety of cultures in world. races
2. Students will be able to learn about cultural 2. Students predict where the country is from
differences and similarities. when shown different traditional customs or
3. Students will be able to explore different clothing from different countries.
clothing and food from the countries around 3. Students work on paper dolls activity.
the world.

Standards Addressed in Lesson: 1.SS.2 Demonstrate respect for all cultures, as God calls us to love our
neighbors over all the earth. (Include full standard.)
Instructional Resources: paper doll worksheets, book “Can you say peace?”, ppt slides

Consideration of Learners:
How have you responded to your diverse learners? Consider UDL (Multiple means of Engagement,
Representation, Action & Expression) & principles of differentiation. If appropriate, identify individual
accommodations you will make in response to needs or interests of students.
- Ganza- visual support and one-on-one instruction after the whole group instruction
- Students will complete the paper doll and write a brief explanation of what he/she observed
- Students will be able to demonstrate the similarities and differences by reviewing with the whole class.
- Students share about their own country in front of the class.
- Students will be shown different traditional customs or clothing from different countries and allow
students to predict where those are from.
- Students will be able to represent their own country by working on the paper doll worksheet.

DOMAIN 2: THE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT

COVENANT MANAGEMENT: Relationship & community building (Note any specific ways in which you plan
to build or strengthen relationships and community: student-student & teacher - student.]
 - Students work on different paper doll that represents different countries and share with the whole
group.
- Student will choose one that interests them or somewhat relates to their cultural identities.
- Have students share their cultures while presenting the ppt about different countries.
CONDUCT MANAGEMENT: (Behavioral expectations, strategies to encourage self- regulation, etc.)
Identify at least 2 ways you will gain whole group attention:
- One, two, three eyes on me
- Asking if they are self-controlling their body and their words.
- Remind them the class rules and how they are following those rules.
Strategies you intend to use to redirect individual students:
- Walking around the classroom
- Tapping the shoulder who do not seem on task
- Helping students who seem to struggle
CONTENT MANAGEMENT: Note procedures/routines that are expected or embedded.

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT: Note any specific ways you will use the environment to contribute to the
learning.

DOMAIN 3: INSTRUCTION

CONTENT MANAGEMENT: YOUR INSTRUCTION

Motivation/Opening/Intro: [Think creatively about how to recruit learning.]
- Teacher will review what they’ve learned from the last class period. (Review vocabulary and concept)
This review is to help students retrieve their learning and be ready for new information. The main
purpose of this is to grab students’ attention and motivate them to learn.
o Yesterday, we talked about differences and similarities. Can anyone tell me what those terms
mean? Similarity is things we have in common and difference is things that make us different.
Can anyone give me some examples of differences or similarities that we observed and shared
last time?
- Read “Can you say peace”- this book represents different cultures and races.

Development: [It may help to number your steps with corresponding times.]
- Introduce different cultures (Day 1)- ppt
o Teacher introduces today’s lesson- “Just like we as a class share similarities and differences, the
world does too! Different continents or countries of the world share similar and different
cultures”.
o Show different traditional customs or clothing from different countries and allow students to
predict where those are -from. Do some of the food as well. Ex) For Mexico, show students
burrito, nachos, poncho, etc.
o Teacher goes over the ppt and defines “Culture”- “These are some examples of “culture”.
Culture is common clothing, food, beliefs, art, etc., shared by certain group/society”.
- Paper doll activity (Day 2)
o Teacher will introduce the activity. “Today, each one of you will represent a country. Your job is
to learn and teach us the culture of your assigned country”
o Students will be given a photo of assigned country’s clothing. Students will color his/her paper
doll’s traditional clothing using the colors represented in the photo. Then, students will write a
brief explanation of what he/she observed. On the paper doll worksheet, clothing for students
to color, flag, popular food, population, and capital city of the country are recorded.
Closure: (Be creative and consider authentic audiences for the work. Think beyond giving an assignment or
independent practice.) (Day 2)
- For closure, students will go around and share the culture of their country. Using students’ masterpiece,
we will create a “Paper dolls around the world” wall at the classroom.

DOMAIN #4: PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

EVIDENCE OF PROFESSIONALISM: Please note recent evidence of your efforts as a professional.

I have attended staff meetings and identified the dates that students will participate in school events. I have
done looking for lots of resources that would engage students to identify and to explore different cultures.
REFLECTION AFTER TEACHING THE LESSON:
This lesson went very well. Students were very curious to learn about different countries and cultures. They
even wanted to decorate more than one paper doll. I could notice that students were able to celebrate the
differences that each country has throughout the activities. If I were to teach this lesson again, I would
spend more time on identifying each student’s culture and sharing their cultures to the class.