Teacher: Wheat, PamelaGrade Level: Kindergarten

Lesson Name: Community Helpers

Subject: Integrated Social Studies and Language ArtsSchool: Cliftondale Elementary School

School District: Fulton County

Date: November 18, 2013

A. IDENTIFY/REFERENCE NATIONAL/STATE PERFORMANCE (OR QCC), LOCAL CURRICULUM STANDARDS:

Georgia Performance Standards:

SOCIAL STUDIES:SSKE1. The student will describe the work that people do (police officer, fire fighter, soldier, mail carrier, baker, farmer, doctor and teacher).

Local Standards:

SOCIAL STUDIES:SSKE1. The student will describe the work that people do (police officer, fire fighter, soldier, mail carrier, baker, farmer, doctor and teacher).

B. SPECIFY ESSENTIAL CONTENT/OBJECTIVE(S):Enduring Understandings:

Students will understand:

1. Understand the roles of a variety of community helpers and how they help our communities.

Knowledge:Students will:1. Demonstrate how to respond to literature using details from the story to make personal connections.2. Demonstrate how to communicate effectively through listening and speaking.3. Demonstrate how to communicate needs, feelings and ideas to peers and adults.4. Ask and respond to questions.

Skills:1. Students will be able to identify at least seven community helpers.2. Students will be able to explain why we need community helpers.3. Students will be able to describe what each community helper does.

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Essential Question: Can you name some community helpers?Can you name some different jobs community helpers perform?What is a community?What will life be like without community helpers?Where will you find each community helper?Why do we need community helpers?Which community helper would you like to be?

C. COLLECT A VARIETY OF MATERIALS/RESOURCES FOR STUDENT USE:Community Helper YouTube video: http://youtu.be/__T933kP0Bw. Community Helper Pictures. “Tools of Their Trade”. Book: Helpers in My Community (Bobbie Kalman's Leveled Readers: My World: G)

D. PRE-ASSESS AND ACTIVATE STUDENT PRIOR KNOWLEDGE:Pre-Assessment of Prior Knowledge : I will begin my lesson by handing out a pre-assessment sheet that has pictures and matching words. The students are to draw lines from the picture to the words that match/describe the picture. As they are doing this, I will be walking around with an on-going checklist, making note of which student can correctly match the pictures to words and who cannot using their prior knowledge. After about five minutes, I will take up all sheets then show them a Community Helper video from YouTube, describing many community helpers and the jobs they are responsible for doing on a daily basis. We will use the YouTube video to start my whole group discussion of community helpers, using the essential questions that were noted earlier.

Activation of Prior Knowledge : I will show them a small slideshow of only “tools” the community helpers use with their jobs this will begin preparing them to individually start their activation of prior knowledge activity, which will be tiered according to their ability(ies). Students by now, will have been exposed to multiple community helpers from the viewed YouTube video and the slideshow, to assist them in activating their prior knowledge.

IDENTIFY DIFFERENTIATED STRATEGY (IES) AND ELEMENT(S) USED:

Differentiated strategy used: Tiered Differentiated Activities

Differentiated element used: X _ content X_ process_X__ product learning environment

E. PROVIDE FOR NEW KNOWLEDGE ACQUISTION

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High Level Thinking Processes - Bloom's Taxonomy

Knowledge- Name a community helper.Comprehension - Discuss the jobs of the community helpers.Application - Make a list of different community helpers.Analysis - Choose a community helper that you feel is helpful in your community.Synthesis – Design on paper, a person for your community helper.Evaluation - Decide which character trait your community helper would need to use more at his/her job and why.

F. ADJUST ASSIGNMENTS FOR STUDENT APPLIED PRACTICE:

Explain to the students that they will now apply what they have learned about community helpers in our communities. Each student will individually reflect on what was learned about community helpers. Students will be placed in one of three groups. They will be given three

differentiated tasks according to ability.

The higher leveled learners will draw two community helpers or their tools and write one word that describes their job.

The middle leveled learners will match the “title” of the community helper to their correct community helper picture.

The lower leveled learners will match pictures of community helpers to the tools they use. I will walk around the room scaffolding and assessing each group as they complete their tasks.

(a) HIGH- - Community helpers draw two, write one.(b) MIDDLE- - Community helpers match with words.(c) LOW-- Community helpers match with tools.

G. POST ASSESSMENT & STUDENT SELF ASSESSMENT OR REFLECTION:

As each group finishes their activities, each student will individually complete a post-assessment. The post assessment will consist of pictures of community helpers and words that match their titles. This is the identical assessment as the pre-assessment given earlier to asses the student’s comprehension level of community helpers after they have been exposed to the entire lesson.

Post Assessment: The post assessment will be graded using the post assessment key which is included as an attachment.

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Tiered Differentiated Activities: Content Differentiation/ Student Readiness

Lesson Attachments

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I teacher made the pre/post that I wanted graded.

Post Assessment RubricDirections: Draw a line from the picture to the word that matches

Police officer Fire Fighter Soldier

Barber Mail Carrier Nurse

Baker Farmer Doctor

Teacher Judge

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Ongoing Assessment Checklist

Student:

Ava/Nena

Student able to correctly

match picture to word

Yes/no

JadonAlexiaHannah

RoderickTameia

KlebNiamMizanSanai

ShurunteIsaiahSean

SamayaBreanna/Ashanti

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Xavier/AishaNicholas/Emory

I teacher made the pre/post that I wanted graded.

Post Assessment RubricDirections: Draw a line from the picture to the word that matches

Police officer Fire Fighter Soldier

Barber Mail Carrier Nurse

Baker Farmer Doctor

Teacher Judge

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TOOLS OF THEIR TRADE:“What do they do?”

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Group HDirections: Draw two different community helper tools and write one word that describes them.

Tool #1 Tool #2

Descriptive Word: Descriptive Word:

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Group MDirections: Match the “title” to the correct picture.

Teacher

Doctor

Baker

Mail Carrier

Soldier

Police

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Group LDirections: Correctly match the pictures to the words. Police

Farmer

Baker

Fire Fighter

Soldier

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