Grade 1-2-4
Grade: _First Grade Lesson Title: Litter Bugs and the Recycling Bin
Date & Estimated Time: Approx. 25 min, January 30th
Learning Standards:
D2.Civ.2.K-2. Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community.
D2.Civ.3.K-2. Explain the need for and purposes of rules in various settings inside and outside of school.
D2.Civ.7.K-2. Apply civic virtues when participating in school settings.
CCSS.ELA-Informational.RL.1.2: Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
CCSS.ELA-Inforamtional.RL.1.7: Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
CCSS.ELA-SpeakingandListening.RL.1.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 …show more content…
• Students will be able to tell you on fact from the book, “what does it mean to be green?”
Connections to Students’ Interests, Prior Knowledge, and Experiences: (Describe how you will assist your students in making connections to students’ interests, prior knowledge and past experiences. Present evidence if any, such as students’ learning from prior lessons, pre-assessments, and observation)
Students have heard of the national holiday, Earth Day. Students have grown up in classroom that have recycling bins therefore all students have prior knowledge on recycling. This lesson is aimed towards learning more about helping the earth and their communities. They will learn ways to help their communities through the importance of recycling. Students are interested in learning more about ways to help their community, and knowing they can help the environment no matter what age they are.
Key Vocabulary (List content vocabulary that you will introduce, teach, and assess for the lesson)
Reduce, reuse, recycle, environment, pollution, public laws, waste management, landfill, energy, communities, resources, duty, respect, responsibility, courage, recyclable, …show more content…
• Closure (List the steps you will take to complete your lesson) o To close the lesson, I will ask students to share what they liked about the story to the class. o Then I will ask the class to say what are ways we can help our school community.
Assessment (What assessments will reveal whether your students have achieved each learning objectives of the lesson? List formal/informal assessments you will use to assess students’ learning outcomes. Make sure that you plan to gather at least one work sample from each child in your class/group)
Formal: In conferences with the students I will ask the student what the three R’s of waste management are. I will also ask the students to give me one way we can help our community and school. This way I can see if they retained information from the lesson.
Informal: During closing circle, I will ask the children to either pick one way they can help the school or environment, or they can tell me one fact they learn about the environment from the book. I will also use observation to see if the children are using the new vocabulary learned from the
Date & Estimated Time: Approx. 25 min, January 30th
Learning Standards:
D2.Civ.2.K-2. Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community.
D2.Civ.3.K-2. Explain the need for and purposes of rules in various settings inside and outside of school.
D2.Civ.7.K-2. Apply civic virtues when participating in school settings.
CCSS.ELA-Informational.RL.1.2: Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
CCSS.ELA-Inforamtional.RL.1.7: Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
CCSS.ELA-SpeakingandListening.RL.1.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 …show more content…
• Students will be able to tell you on fact from the book, “what does it mean to be green?”
Connections to Students’ Interests, Prior Knowledge, and Experiences: (Describe how you will assist your students in making connections to students’ interests, prior knowledge and past experiences. Present evidence if any, such as students’ learning from prior lessons, pre-assessments, and observation)
Students have heard of the national holiday, Earth Day. Students have grown up in classroom that have recycling bins therefore all students have prior knowledge on recycling. This lesson is aimed towards learning more about helping the earth and their communities. They will learn ways to help their communities through the importance of recycling. Students are interested in learning more about ways to help their community, and knowing they can help the environment no matter what age they are.
Key Vocabulary (List content vocabulary that you will introduce, teach, and assess for the lesson)
Reduce, reuse, recycle, environment, pollution, public laws, waste management, landfill, energy, communities, resources, duty, respect, responsibility, courage, recyclable, …show more content…
• Closure (List the steps you will take to complete your lesson) o To close the lesson, I will ask students to share what they liked about the story to the class. o Then I will ask the class to say what are ways we can help our school community.
Assessment (What assessments will reveal whether your students have achieved each learning objectives of the lesson? List formal/informal assessments you will use to assess students’ learning outcomes. Make sure that you plan to gather at least one work sample from each child in your class/group)
Formal: In conferences with the students I will ask the student what the three R’s of waste management are. I will also ask the students to give me one way we can help our community and school. This way I can see if they retained information from the lesson.
Informal: During closing circle, I will ask the children to either pick one way they can help the school or environment, or they can tell me one fact they learn about the environment from the book. I will also use observation to see if the children are using the new vocabulary learned from the