Detailed Lesson Plan Preparation

Elementary Education

Name: Alec Porter

Title: Peace Doves: What can you do?
Grade: 3rd
Concept/Topic: How to apply peace in your own lives
Time Needed: 30-45 minutes

Backward Design Approach: Where are you going with your

students?
Identify Desired Results/Learning Outcome/Essential Question:
Students will learn about some of the things that they can do in their
daily lives in order to make world peace possible.

NCSCOS Standards:

3.C&G.2- Understand how citizens participate in their communities.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to
the text as the basis for the answers.
3.V.2. Apply creative and critical thinking skills to artistic expression

Assessment Plan: This lesson is a small group lesson. I will be working

with 4-5 students. Those students will be creating Peace Doves
individually after concluding the book and discussion. On the doves,
they will write down an act of kindness that they can do in order to make
kindness ripple in their world, and create an illustration for it. They may
also choose to draw a detailed picture with labels that clearly
demonstrates an act of kindness. After the students are finished, each
of them will present their dove and explain either what they wrote down,
or what the picture that they drew represents.

Meeting the student where they are:

Prior Knowledge/Connections:
Students will make the connection that a lot of the expectations that are
set by the teachers for their behavior in the classroom, for instance, no
fighting, hands to yourself, listen to what your peers have to say, and so
on, are consistent with what they need to do in their daily lives outside
of the classroom to inflict change in the world.
Lesson Introduction/Hook:
The students will listen to a read aloud of the book Each Kindness by
Jacqueline Woodson. I will ask them questions about the book as I read
to ensure that they are understanding what the book is addressing and
to keep them actively engaged in the lesson by having them make
connections to their own lives.

Heart of the Lesson/Learning Plan

Differentiation/Same-ation: I will be reading the story aloud to them and
most of the lesson will be dialogue among the students, which will be
helpful for those students that may struggle with reading. When the
students begin working on their doves, I will provide additional support
to those students as needed. If the student is struggling with what to
write, I will allow them to draw a detailed picture of themselves doing a
peaceful act, such as helping a student who has fallen down, comforting
a friend, or being kind and generous to people.

Lesson Development: To begin the lesson, students will listen to a read

aloud of the book Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson. The book
will introduce the idea that acts of kindness have a ripple effect,
meaning that one act of kindness creates another act of kindness, and so
on. Throughout the video, I will be pausing to ask questions to ensure
that the students are understanding what the story is telling them. For
instance, I will be asking them to share, if they feel comfortable, a time
that they felt like a person was not being nice to them, and how it made
them feel, or vice versa. The main point is to get their minds thinking
about what might be the best way to solve conflicts in the future, and
how these acts of kindness can go a long way in bringing about peace in
our world. After I have finished reading the story and facilitating a
discussion, I will pass out paper doves. I will explain to them that doves
are a common symbol for peace. Then, I will give them a choice. They
will either write down an act of kindness that they can do in their
everyday lives to create a kindness ripple, illustrate it and explain why
they believe this way, or they may draw a detailed illustration, including
labels that clearly demonstrate that it is portraying an act of kindness.

Specific Questioning:
Have you ever been in a classroom where a new student was introduced
after the school year had started?
How did you treat that student?
Have you ever been in Maia's position where you went to a brand new
school and didn't know anybody there? If so, how did you feel?
Were the students treating Maia kindly? Why do you think they were or
weren't?
Why do you think that Chloe refused to be Maia's friend?
What could Chloe and her classmates do the next time a new student
comes into the classroom?
What do you think about what the author says about how an act of
kindness can cause a ripple in the world?
What can we do in our daily lives to try and create a ripple of kindness
and take steps towards peace on earth?

New Vocabulary:
Peace: Everyone gets along and there is no fighting or wars, and
everyone can live together in harmony.
Ragged: torn or worn out
Tattered: torn
Kindness: friendly feeling
Illustration: a picture used to help a reader understand what is going on
in a story.
Concluding the Lesson/Closure/Debriefing
At the end, students will be presenting their doves by discussing their
acts of kindness and their drawings.
Materials/Resources
Peace Doves: http://www.first-school.ws/t/cp_animals/dove_1.htm
Each Kindness by Jaqueline Woodson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i48Mi3OK4Zc

Teaching Behavior Focus

My teaching behavior focus is keeping students actively engaged
throughout the lesson.

Follow Up Activities/Parent Involvement

Students can keep track of the acts of kindness they do each day in a
journal, or the teacher can put up a bucket and slips of paper at the front
where students can write down their acts of kindness and see how fast
they can fill the bucket. This can be a school wide, district wide or even a
state wide project.