Name: Amanda Rogowski

Lesson Title: Good Citizenship

Date: 4/30/2016
Subject: Social Studies
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Lesson Length:
10 minutes

Common Core Standard:

Discipline: Civics/Government (CG)
Standard 2: Individuals have rights and responsibilities.
People/Roles: Citizen
Places/Institution: My school
Skills: Make choices, share, participate in collaborative conversations with
diverse partners about Kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in
small and larger groups (KCCRS SL.K.1)
Why is this content important? Where is this in their personal world?
It is important that Kindergartners learn about what being a good citizen
looks like because being a good citizen creates a functioning society. Being a
good citizen not only applies to the community, but to their family and to
school as well. It is also important in caring for others, respecting the law,
caring for the environment, and improving the community.
Objectives:
SWBAT explain what a citizen is.
SWBAT describe how a good citizen acts.
Materials:
White board/expo marker
Pictures of good citizens and bad citizens
Slips of scenarios (On lesson plan)
White paper
Colored pencils
Possible Questions
Beginning:
What does it mean to be a good person? How do good people act?
Middle:
How does being a good citizen benefit you? How does being a good
citizen help your family? How does it help your classmates?
End:
What is a citizen?

Beginning of Lesson:
The teacher will have pictures laid out on the table. The teacher will tell the students to
sort out the images based on if they think the kids in the pictures are showing good
behavior or bad behavior. The teacher will give them a minute to sort them out. Once the
images are sorted, the teacher will ask the students how they sorted them. The students
will explain how they sorted the images. The teacher would tell the students that all of the
pictures included citizens. The teacher would then continue to tell the students that on
one side, the kids were being good citizens and on the other side, they were being bad
citizens. After that, the teacher will ask the students, What does it mean to be a
good person? How do good people act? As the students are calling out
characteristics of a good person, the teacher will write them down on the board.
Middle of Lesson:
The teacher will then tell the students that they just described characteristics of a good
citizen. The teacher will tell the students that every person is a citizen. The teacher will
tell the students that a citizen is a person who lives in a particular place, specifically a
country. The teacher will tell the students that the teacher, each of the students, their
family members, and their friends are all citizens. The teacher will explain that everyone
who lives in Manhattan is a citizen, that everyone who lives in Kansas City is a citizen. The
teacher will then tell the class that they are going to an activity that goes along with
deciding on if you are going to be a good citizen or a bad citizen. The teacher will group
the students into groups of 3-4. Once the students are in their groups, the teacher will ask
the students, How does being a good citizen help you? The teacher will have the
students talk in their groups for about a minute and then share their answers with the
class. The teacher will then read the students a series of scenarios. The teacher will ask
the students to act out how they would react to the situation based on what they have
learned about being a good citizen. The students will talk with their group for a short
amount of time about what they would do in the situation. After talking, the students
would get up in front of the class and act it out. The students would do this for the 3
different scenarios or however many that time allows. After the scenarios are acted out,
the teacher will ask the students, How does being a good citizen help your family
and classmates? The teacher will have the students discuss in their groups once more
for about a minute and then share their answers with the class. The teacher will tell the
students that they all have a choice in whether or not they are going to be a good citizen
or a bad citizen. The teacher will then have the students go back to their desks.
End of Lesson:
Once the students are back at their desks, the teacher will ask the students, based on
what you have learned today about citizens, I want you to come up with your own
definition of What is a citizen? The teacher will then have the students talk with their
shoulder partner for about a minute about what they think a citizen is then have each pair
of students explain their answer to the class. After explaining their answers, the teacher
will tell the students to draw themselves doing something in school, the community, or at
home that makes them a good citizen.

Scenario 1: You see a classmate playing by their self at recess. What would you and your
friends do?

Scenario 2: Your friends decided that they didnt want to follow the rules that your mom
gave at your birthday party. You want them to think your cool, but dont want to make
your mom mad, what will you decide to do?
Scenario 3: At lunch, you see a classmate purposefully throw some of their trash on the
floor. What would you do in this situation?