Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Lesson
Title/Focus

Environment games

Date

December 3, 2014

Subject/Gra
de Level

Social/ Grade One

Time
Duratio
n

45 MINS

Unit

My World: Home, School, and Community

Teacher

Angela McPeake

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcomes:
Specific
Learning
Outcomes:

1.1 Students will demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of how identity and
self-esteem are enhanced by their sense of belonging in their world and how active
members in a community contribute to the well-being, growth and vitality of their
groups and communities.
Knowledge and Understanding:
1.1.4 Determine what makes their communities thrive by exploring and reflecting
upon the following questions for inquiry:
How do our actions and decisions contribute to the well-being of groups and
communities?
(C, I, PADM)

How does caring for the natural environment contribute to the well being of
our community?
(C, LPP)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Recognize what actions harm the environment and community
2. Recognize what helps the environment and community

ASSESSMENTS
Observations:
Key Questions:
Products/Performan
ces:

Students will show they understand positive and negative actions and
their consequences on the environment.
What can we do to help our community?
What harms our environment? What are the consequences?
Students will design/create a board game which requires the
player to move forwards or backwards depending on their actions
to the environment.

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Alberta Social Studies Curriculum guide:
http://education.alberta.ca/media/456082/sockto3
.pdf
50 ways to help the planet:
http://www.50waystohelp.com/
Book: The Great Kapok Tree, by Lynne Cherry

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

Exemplar
Large sheets of paper for students
Markers, pencils
book

PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson
Attention Grabber
Assessment of
Prior Knowledge
Expectations for
Learning and
Behavior
Advance
Organizer/Agenda

Have paper ready, have book ready

Introduction
Read book at the Carpet
What harms our environment and community?
What can we do to help the environment?

Time

Students will be on task and respectful of materials. Students

will also work cooperatively
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Read Book
Brainstorm/ discuss
Move to desks
Give instructions
Students create game
Students play game

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

45 MINS

Transition to Body
Learning Activity
#1
Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation

Learning Activity
#2

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Move to desks: you walk and you walk, and you walk and you
stop
Body
Time
Read Book: The great kapok tree
Have students identify the ideas from the book
10 MINS
Discuss ideas from previous classes
Expand on the students ideas
Explain what the impact of doing things is, and how it
can be reversed or helped
Explain activity and have students work
Sitting in desks: use the exemplar, explain and show
15 MINS
how to play
Write sayings on the white board

Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation
Learning Activity #3

Assist students with writing,

Have them work in pairs to help with spelling

Play games
With a partner, students can play their games

Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation

Circulate classroom
See how students games turned out

Consolidation of
Learning
Feedback From
Students:
Feedback To
Students
Transition To Next
Lesson

Sponge
Activity/Activities

Closure
We move forward in a better community if we help our
environment. We will move backwards in our community if we
dont help our environment.
Did anyone think of a new idea or see a good idea from a
classmates game?
Good work today on your games! It really shows the positive
and negative impacts on our environment !
Tomorrow we will hang our environment posters to show people
in milk river all of the ideas you have came up with to help the
environment!

15 MINS

Time
5 MINS

Students can create another game board

Reflections from the

lesson

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe