TITLE: Social Thinking

AUDIENCE: Kindergarten and 1st Grade

OBJECTIVE:

1. The students will be able to demonstrate thinking with their eyes, body in the group and brain

in the group behaviors.

2. The students will be able to verbally identify an expected behavior they had in the class/group.

Need: “Social Thinking” was identified as a guidance lesson because of the purpose to teach

students through the year how to have their brain and body within the group.

MATERIALS /RESOURCES:

1. “Wombat Walkabout” By: Sophie Blackall

2. Wombat coloring page

3. Crayons or colored pencils

ACTIVITY: (30 minutes.)

1. In the beginning of the lesson there will be discussion about the difference between

expected and unexpected behaviors. Discussion will include: examples such as what

others do in a restaurant and how their behaviors are expected when they are sitting their

eating dinner, comparing those to expected behaviors that they have within the

classroom, and identifying what unexpected behaviors look like as well. (5 minutes)

2. There will then be discussion on what it means to have your brain and body within the

group by having students identify their brains and teach them their brains are able to

control their body including their eyes, ears, and their mouths. (5 minutes)
 3. The book “Wombat Walkabout” will be read to students. (8 minutes)

4. Students will discuss how the wombat’s brains and bodies were not in the group when

they were captured by the dingo. (2 minutes)

5. Students will then be directed to form a circle. They will then be asked to turn to their

partner next to them and say, “Name it looks like you have (color of their eyes)”. That

student will be directed to do the same to their partner. They will then turn to the next

person within the circle and continue the pattern. (7 minutes)

6. Students will then discuss how some may have found it hard to look into someone else’s

eyes, or how it was hard for some students to keep their brains and bodies within the

group the whole time. (3 minutes)

7. Students will be able to color a wombat if time allows.

AMERICAN SCHOOL COUNSELING ASSOCIATION (ASCA) STANDARDS

ACADEMIC DOMAIN:

A:A1.5 Identify attitudes and behaviors that lead to successful learning

A:A2.4 Apply knowledge and learning styles to positively influence school performance

A:B1.6 Use knowledge of learning styles to positively influence school performance

PERSONAL/ SOCIAL DOMAIN:

PS:A1.8 Understand the need for self-control and how to practice it

PS:A1.9 Demonstrate cooperative behavior in groups

SWBAT= Students Will Be Able To

SWBAT: KNOWLEDGE/REMEMBER- The students will know how to keep their brain and

body within the group.

SWBAT: DESCRIBE/EXPLAIN- The students will be able to explain what expected and

unexpected behavior means.

SWBAT: ANALYZING- The students will know how certain distractions of other having

unexpected behaviors can make them not have their brains and bodies within the group.

SWBAT: CREATING- The students will be able to keep their brains and bodies within the

group even if there is someone else that’s brain and body is not within the group.

EVALUATION DATA

Process Data: Students will participate within discussion of social thinking.

Perception Data: Students will listen with their brains and body while story is being read to

them.

Results Data: Students will follow directions when a teacher asks them to have their “brain and

body” within the group.