Candidate

Name: Mariah Brashar Host Teacher Name: Lindsey Huberty

School: Susitna Elementary Grade Level: 4 # of Students: 29
Date & Time of Lesson: October 10, 2018 Length of Lesson: (day or days) 30 minutes
Topic of Lesson: Decisions Content Area: Health

Materials: Include all materials including types of technology used:
Paper, pencils


Alaska Content Standard: (One standard for the lesson)
S.E.L. Standards ASD
Self-Management 2C.
Student uses effective decision-making skills.


Transfer Goal(s) - Unpacked Standard (Transferability)
Students can make appropriate choices for themselves.


STAGE ONE: Essential Questions and Enduring Understandings (Meaning)
Enduring Understanding(s) : (1 or 2 are Essential Questions to be Considered: (As
sufficient) related to Enduring Understandings…) (1 or 2 are
Students will understand that…. these are the BIG sufficient)
ones! How does considering consequences help
…thinking about a decision before you make it is you make appropriate choices?
the easiest way to choose things that benefit you.


STAGE ONE: STAGE TWO:
Objectives/Learning Targets (Acquisition) Assessments/Acceptable Evidence Of Learning
Knowledge and Skills: What knowledge and Sources of Evidence: Formative, Summative,
skills related to content and/or content and/or Performance?
language should students know and be able to
do by the end of the lesson?

Students should be able to name ways that Discussion - formative
they make choices.

Students should be able to explain how they Brainstorm – formative
can weigh pros and cons to determine if a
choice is going to be helpful for them in the
long run.

Students should be able to explain what a Essay response - summative
consequence is.




STAGE THREE: Learning for Understanding: Instructional Activities, Products, and Strategies
Pre-Requisites: What is the prior knowledge/learning students have to have before starting this
lesson?
Students need a basic understanding of the expectations in school. Vocabulary: choices, descisions,
consequences, actions, positive, negative

Overview/Introduction/Main Hook (Make a connection with students’ backgrounds and/or prior
learning using an authentic situation to start them thinking about the objectives and the essential
question the lesson addresses.)
Who in this class has ever been told to “make a better choice” or to make a good choice?
What do you think that means? What is a “good” choice?
Process: Teacher Does/Student Product(s): Specific Strategies for
Does… Assessment/Evidence of supporting diverse learner
Learning. skills and abilities throughout
the lesson

Teacher: discuss the standard after Partner Discussion Partnering
the principal announces it. Ask for
feedback on the kinds of choices we Brainstorm map Verbal/oral component
make every day in school. Written component
Essay
Students: partner discussions about
the kinds of choices they make in
their days.

Teacher: leads a brainstorm (map
on the white board) about how we
make choices (thinking about what
we want, what others want, what
will happen if we do one thing or
another)
Explains what a consequence
means (good or bad).

Students write a short essay about
one way that they can make a
responsible choice in school.
Answer the questions:
What is something I can choose for
myself in school? How/what do I
usually choose to do? What do I
base my choice on? What are the
consequences of my choice? Are
there other things I should
consider?

Closure:

Ask or one or two student volunteers to share their essay and discuss. If students are hesitant to
share, ask about choices within friend groups: ie How can we choose to be kind and support our
friends? Is this always easy? Why/why not?

Reflection: This lesson went well. Students mostly met the objective, which was determined by the
journal responses. Students struggled to come up with choices that they regularly made, but with
prompting most began to popcorn out ideas. Students mostly did well, but some students seemed reluctant
to participate, one in particular repeated that she "never made any decisions." In the future, the teacher
will give an option to write about a choice that students would like to make.