Lesson Plan #4

Grade: K
Social Studies Strand: Economics
Submitted By: Janis Gomme-Campbell


EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science
Nevada State College Spring 2014
Instructor: Karen Powell




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B. Summary of the Lesson Plan: SW identify different community jobs and
their duties. SW participate in activities that will heighten their depth of
knowledge (D.O.K.) about people in the community. This lesson will be
taught in conjunction with Career Day.
C. Basic Information:
Grade Level: K
Time to Complete this Lesson: 50 minutes
Groupings: individual, partners, whole class
D. Materials:
text: Best Practices in Literacy Instruction, fourth edition, Mandel-
Morrow, Lesley, PhD, and Gambrell, Linda, PhD, Guilford Press, New
York, N.Y., c. 2011.
text: Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies, Meiber, Leah, and
Hunter, Alyce, Sage Publications, c. 2009.
crayons
pencil & lined paper
colored construction paper
various magazines / newspapers / pamphlets
3x5 note cards
stapler
scissors
glue
E. Objectives:
o NV State Social Studies Standards
E9.K.2: Identify jobs in the community.
o Student-Friendly Standards
E9.K.2: I can identify jobs in my community.
F. Vocabulary
career - a job or profession a person has for a long time.
salary - regular payment given to a person for the work that they do.
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talent - a special ability or skill.
passion - a very strong feeling about something.
G. Procedure:
1. TW present text (literacy modeling): Jobs People Do, By Christopher
Maynard. TW ask students what they think text is about? (predictions)
TW then read text to students.
2. Group discussion - SW raise hands and share what their caretakers do
for a living. Teacher: "Would anyone like to share what their parent or
guardian does when they go to work? (10 min)
3. TW introduce vocabulary words and their definitions (career, salary,
talent, passion)
4. TW first ask students, then give examples why people choose the jobs
they do: career, passion, talent, salary, etc.
5. SW brainstorm jobs in the community for teacher to write on the white-
board. These jobs will be used on the "Career Collage" bulletin board.
6. Each student will receive a 3x5 note card and be instructed to write a
job that they brainstormed on that card. Cards will be collected and
stapled on bulletin board, randomly, about 16 inches apart from each
other.
7. SW partner, find, and cut out pictures of people in different careers to
be stapled on the Career Collage board. TW will staple pictures to
board around appropriate 3x5 cards. (20 min)
8. SW individually select a job from the board (or make-up their own)
and write about why they would like to do that job when they grow
up. (3+ sentences). Student may draw a picture to accompany.
9. SW individually complete worksheet - matching jobs to their pictures.
Integrates literacy: comprehension. (see attachment)
10. The fore-mentioned activity teaches literacy by having students read
about what job a person does, then they must match the description
to a picture by drawing a line. Picture clues are a strategy a student
may use to complete the worksheet.
H. Assessment:
What will you use to measure student understanding?
Observation, individual writing assignment (Procedure #8)
Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the
lesson.
Participation worksheet (see attachment)
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I. Closure:
TW ask leading questions, whole group:
1. What age do you think you can you start a job? (if you are
responsible. any age- you just find something to do that will help
other people)
2. What is a good job for a person your age? (do chores around
the house, help parents with the baby, pick weeds in the
garden) Answers will vary.
3. Let's name the people we have seen doing their jobs today! (SW
raise their hands and name those they have seen doing various
jobs- activates prior/background knowledge) TW write
professions on the board. (List may include: teacher, crossing
guard, principal, office worker, janitor).
J. Reflection:
1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to
teach?
I love to read books to children, so that would be simple and most
pleasurable.
2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach?
I believe the group discussion may be the most difficult, simply
because, as children begin to think about connections in their own
lives, they tend to want to get too detailed. It will be my
responsibility to keep them on task.
3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson?
I would read, Workers Who Help Us as a follow-up.
4. What can you do for students who dont grasp the concepts?
Individual help identifying the jobs on the Career Collage board.
5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change?
I do not anticipate changing any part of this lesson, but if I had to, it
might be the activity because it may take longer than usual to find
pictures of people depicting different jobs. However, being an
artist, I could already have pictures drawn that may be unavailable
in the magazines.
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6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult
part?
Initially, the most difficult part was filling 50 minutes; however, once I
began to think up ideas, 50 minutes seems like it is not enough time
for all that I want to teach.
7. Explain the strategy from Integrating Language Arts & Social Studies
that you included in this lesson plan.
Student will listen as teacher reads text, which allows teacher to
model/demonstrate proper reading skills.
Students will write about what they would like to do when they
grow up (procedure #8)
Students will read and match pictures to job definitions on provided
worksheet. This activity promotes comprehension and reading.
(procedure #9)

























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Name:________________________________
Draw a line from the job to the picture.
doctor builder veterinarian astronaut painter baker
teacher police firefighter florist

I work at a
school
------------
I paint
color on a
wall or
canvas
-----------

------------ I go up into
space.
I build things
-----------

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I take care of
------------ sick animals
I enforce
--------- laws


I bake bread
and
deserts
----------
I fight fires
-----------
I help sick
people get
_______ well