Teacher: Nancy Solis
Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
Lesson Title: Good Citizens
Lesson Plan Objective:
TEKS
113.4 (13) (A) (C), 113.4(18) (A-B), 113.4(19) (A-B)
Students will recognize the importance of being a good and bad citizen.
Students will recognize the importance of working with their community, taking care of others, being a good friend and neighbor.
Students will learn the importance to respect others; identify the social issues, emotions and feelings.
Materials/Resources Needed:
“Un Sillón Para Mi Mama” by Vera B. Williams
A bubble map
Social Studies Journals
Anticipatory Set:
Hoy vamos hablar acerca de ser buenos ciudadanos. Un ejemplo seria: si voy por la calle y a una persona se le cae un billete, ¿Qué tengo que hacer para ser un buen ciudadano?, Si yo tiro la basura en la calle, ¿soy un buen o mal ciudadano? Ahora ustedes me podrían dar un ejemplo de lo que es ser buen ciudadano.
Objective /Purpose:
Students identify what is a good and bad citizen, and how can they help others.
Input:
Read to the students the book “Un Sillón Para Mi Mama”. Ask students questions about the story.
¿Porqué es importante que Rosa y su familia llenen el botellón de monedas?
¿Porqué quieren comprar un sillón?
¿Qué le paso a la casa de Rosa?
¿Quienes son los buenos ciudadanos?
Vocabulario
Ciudadanos, respeto, honestidad, cama, cortinas, silla, platos, mesa, alfombra
Vocabulary
Citizens, respect, rug, plates, table, chair, honesty, bed, curtains
Palabras Reto
Pimenteros, mudarnos, estantería, canturrea, bizcocho, botellón, pila, estampado, hogar
Model:
Create together, teacher and students develop a bubble map with ideas of being a good citizens in base of the story. Bubble map will be on the students view as a guide.
Check for understanding:
Students will work in pairs; they will discuss and design the new rooms of Rosas new home. They will label each piece of furniture with the vocabulary words.
Guided Practice:
Students will create a bubble map on their own about how they can be good citizens around their neighbor.
Closure:
In base of the bubble map ideas the students will create a story about “how they can help improve their neighborhood and be good neighbors”.
Independent Practice:
For homework students can draw their own chair and write about the importance of the chair for Rosa and her family.
Related Literature
Works Cited
"19 TAC Chapter 113." Content Has Been Relocated. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. <http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter113/index.html>.
Cumberland County Schools - Fayetteville, North Carolina. Web. 11 Oct. 2011. <http://www.ccs.k12.nc.us/>.
"Madeline Hunter Lesson Plan Template." College of Education Student Computing Labs. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. <http://coe.nevada.edu/ckeeler/lessonplantemplates/hunter.html>.
"Student Examples - Thinking Maps." Welcome to Thinking Maps. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. <http://www.thinkingmaps.com/examples.php>.
Web. 12 Oct. 2011. <http://www.liveoakmedia.com/client/client_pages/guides.cfm>.
WILLIAMS, VERA. UN SILLON PARA MI MAMA: A CHAIR FOR MY MOTHER. NEW YORK: SCHOLASTIC, 1982. Print.
