Detailed Lesson Plan Preparation

Elementary Education

Name: Jess Baity

Title: Political Equality
Grade: 4th
Concept/Topic: Gender Inequality
Time Needed: 45 min

Backward Design Approach: Where are you going with your students?
Identify Desired Results/Learning Outcome/Essential Question:
Students will discover gender inequality in the area of politics as they explore local and state
government officials.
Unit: What is gender inequality and how does it affect us?
Lesson: Is there gender inequality in state and local governments and politics?

NCSCOS/Common Core Standards:

4.C&G.1.4: Compare North Carolinas government with local governments.
Assessment Plan:
Through group and class discussion, ensure students see the vast differences in number of men vs.
women between local and state governments.

Meeting the student where they are:

Lesson Introduction/Hook: *
Ask students to take 5 minutes and sketch what they think a politician looks like. Have students
volunteer to share their picture. Talk about similarities they see in each others pictures. (some key
details expected are: older, male, clean cut/shaven, wearing business suit or carrying briefcase) Teach
students genre: realistic representation of people that depicts ordinary event of the day and how
their pictures represent stereotype sin politics that are realistic!

Heart of the Lesson/Learning Plan:

Lesson Development:
Textbook Fishing: In groups, have students use social studies textbooks to research political
leaders or figures in North Carolina throughout history. Give approx. 20 min. reminding students
to use their skimming skills to search through lots of information quickly. Encourage them to use
headings, pictures, and captions to keep tally of how many men and how many women of
political importance they could find.
Have students share out their talley ratios.
Pull up wakegov.com, nc.gov, and photo of past NC governors and look at ratio of men vs.
women in state and local government.
Ask students why it would be important to have a more equal ration of men and women in
government and politics.

Concluding the Lesson/Closure/Debriefing:

Have students to brainstorm one reason it would be important to have a more equal number of men vs.
women in politics.

Materials/Resources:
Social Studies textbooks for 4th grade
http://www.ncgov.com
http://www.wakegov.com/commissioners/Pages/default.asp