Lesson Plan

(Based on Danielson Framework)

Intern Name: Elizabeth Gilmore, Grace Schwandner, Hailey Pawlak

School: Metcalf Elementary School
Grade Level(s): 4th or 5th
Lesson Date & Time: November 12, 2019

Instructions: In the boxes below, include the relevant information concerning your planned
lesson.

Purpose/ ● To explain what poverty is.

Rationale ● To show how prevalent poverty is in America.

Objectives ● Allow students to learn how to empathize with others.

● Allow students to learn about poverty and think about poverty and
homelessness in their community.
● Learn how to advocate for people in poor and homeless situations.

Academic ● Food insecurity

Language ● Homeless shelter
● Food bank

Standards ● CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2.B
○ Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete
details, quotations, or other information and examples
related to the topic.
● CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1.C
○ Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or
follow up on information, and make comments that
contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of
others.

Assessmen ● Journal for students to write down responses to questions asked

ts during this lesson as well as what they learned from the lesson
(formative or (summative).
summative)
 Resources ● Whiteboard
(Materials used) ● Paper and pencil for every student
● Computer and projector for videos
● Poster board
● Markers, crayons, scissors, colored pencils, tape
● Student Journals

Opening - ● Write “home” on the board.

Engagem ● Ask the students to think about words, emotions, or ideas that they
ent associate “home” with
● Ask the students to list activities they do at home.
● Write “poverty” on the board.
● Ask the students what they think the characteristics of poverty are.
● Ask the students how those living in poverty would go about doing the
activities you do at home in a homeless shelter, on the street, or in a
car.
● Explain poverty is when someone does not have enough money to pay
for everyday things like food, a home, clothes, shoes, school supplies,
or medicine.
● Explain what a food bank and homeless shelter are and what their
purposes are.
● Learn about the prevalence of poverty in your community/school/state.
● Learn about the organizations in your community that are helping
tackle the issue of poverty.
○ Home Sweet Home Ministries
○ Midwest Food Bank
○ School Street Food Pantry
● Watch clip about what poverty is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2r55tAOXAc

Instructional ● Put the class into groups of 3-4 students.

Strategies ● Have the students come up with an organization that assists people in
(Class Procedures) poverty.
● They need to create a poster that includes:
○ Name and logo
○ The organization’s mission statement
○ The organization’s goals
○ How they can teach other kids about poverty in their
community.
● Each group will share with the class their poster and organization they
created.
Closure ● Have the students write in their journal about the following prompt:
○ Describe poverty in your own words and how makes you feel.

Modificatio ● Modify language if students are having a hard time understanding

ns/ poverty.
Differentiati ● Differentiation based off of the socioeconomic status of the class and
on their personal experiences with poverty.
(if appropriate)