EDUC 474 LESSON PLAN

Candidate Name:
Amanda Lockwood

Date:
05/02/16

Lesson Title:
What Makes a Hero?

Grade Level:
2

Type of Lesson:
Inquiry

Content Area:
Social Studies
Content Standard:
2.5 Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how
heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others lives.
ELD Standard:
1. Exchanging information and ideas (Expanding)
Contribute to class, group, and partner discussions, including sustained dialogue, by listening
attentively, following turn-taking rules, asking relevant questions, affirming others, and adding
relevant information.

Lesson Objective:
SWBAT to identify and describe traits that make someone a hero and identify one person in
history or their community that fits those traits.
Driving Question:
What Makes a Hero?
Assessment Plan (formative & summative):
Formative: Observation, class and group discussion, personal hero definition, hero statements.
Summative: Completed hero book pages (see rubric) and journal entry.
Assessment Accommodations (formative & summative, per focus student):
EL: (Formative) Students are placed in small groups for peer support. This student will be placed
in a group with another student who is fluent in their primary language to assist with unfamiliar
words or phrases. Students discuss what statements and definitions mean before making
choices about each of the phrases and creating their own. Student can create their statements
and definitions using describing words and phrases in lieu of complete sentences. (Summative)
Book page templates provide visual support. Student will be provided sentence frames to
answer questions for book page sections as well as journal entry to allow them to focus on
content and receive additional 1:1 support as necessary.
ADHD: (Formative) Students are placed in small groups to increase student interaction and
engagement as well as peer support. The student will be offered computer as a research tool to
increase engagement. The student will also be offered regular breaks as necessary. (Summative)

Book page templates provide organization and focus for student writing. Student may complete
book page in chunks and will be provided additional time if necessary.

INTO (intro event or hook, driving question)

Teacher shows collage of historical/community/fictional heroes and asks class if they

can think of anything they have in common. Allow for discussion.
Teacher shares that many people would consider everyone shown to be a hero.
Class discussion - Why would any of these people be considered heroes?

Driving Question:
What makes a hero?

THROUGH (cycle of inquiry, formative assessment/checking for understanding)

In small groups of 3-4, students will discuss what each of the statements mean on the
What Makes a Hero questionnaire. Students will complete their answers
independently after discussing what each statement means.
Students use class dictionaries to search for two definitions of the word hero and write
them down on their graphic organizer.
Small groups discuss what each of the definitions mean and if they agree or disagree.
Students work to create an improved definition (i.e. including all people instead of just
the word man or adding/changing traits).
Students review the heroes list and discuss what they know about them and how they
made a difference in the lives of others.
Students review original answers to questionnaire and change answers if they choose,
then add 2 new statements to their list of what makes someone a hero.
Students will choose one hero from the list provided or anyone they believe has the
traits of a hero and research them using classroom, school, or local library for more
details about them. Students will create a book page using template provided for a class
book about heroes.

BEYOND (application or presentation of learning, summative assessment)

Students will share completed book pages with their group members and complete a
walk-about to read about other heroes. Those that want to read their pages to the
class will sit in the authors chair during the read-aloud time.
Class will complete a journal entry on what they learned about being a hero and one
thing they can do to be a hero now.
Book will be bound and made part of the classroom library.

Hero Idea List

Abraham Lincoln
Susan B. Anthony
Nelson Mandela
Joan of Arc
George Washington
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sitting Bull
George Washington Carver
Marie Curie
Benjamin Franklin
Cleopatra
The Wright Brothers
Sally Ride
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Harriet Tubman
Galileo Galilei
Albert Einstein
Gold Meir
Jackie Robinson
Neil Armstrong
Rosa Parks
Amelia Earhart
Cesar Chavez
People around us:
Firefighters
Police Officers
Doctors and Nurses
Principals or Teachers
Heroes from your culture
Someone who helped you
Someone who helped your family