Title of Unit: Red, White and You Title of Lesson: People in Your Neighborhood Garlick/Waite Submitted By:

A. Summary of the Lesson Plan: This lesson will discuss people and laws that keep our neighborhoods safe and secure. This will be accomplished by inviting parents or neighbors to be guest speakers to discuss what they do in the community.

B. Target Population Grade Level: 3rd grade Skill Level: all skill levels Grouping: whole group-discussion, small group-discussion C. Materials: Paper (Civic notebooks) Pencils Guest speakers D. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards C13.3.1 Identify and discuss examples of rules, laws, and authorities that keep people safe and property secure. o Student-Friendly Standards I can identify people and laws which keep our neighborhoods safe.

E. Procedure: 1. Have a quick review over what was learned in the previous lesson. 2. Now extend the idea of helpers that are in our town. Students will brainstorm and name people that help the town run properly. 3. Have the mayor come in and explain to the class what his job is and some examples of rules, laws and responsibilities that citizens should follow. Also have him briefly address how he got his job through elections and the importance of his job in the government. 4. After the guest speaker split the class into groups of 3-4. Have them discuss and write down some ideas to these questions: What is government and what role does it play in our lives? Why do we need government? 5. After a few minutes bring the class back together to discuss their ideas. Make sure that the students know that in its simplest form, a government determines the way in which a country, state, county, township, city, or village is run. At every level, government makes laws that citizens must obey and creates policies about
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everything connected with the daily life of a communitywhether that community is a nation, a state or the town where you live.

6. CLOSURE: Have the students write down the words democracy, vote, and majority in their notebook and help them define each of them. Democracy- rule for the people, by the people Vote- to choose between two different people, rules or ideas Majority the greatest amount F. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? I will measure student understanding by the questions they ask the guest speakers and if they have the proper definitions written down in their Civic binder. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. I will know if the students understand the concepts by the collaboration they have in their small group discussion and the answers that they wrote down during their discussion. G. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? The easiest part to teach will be when the guest speakers do the teaching. 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? The most difficult part will be explaining how the government works for us and what a democracy is. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? The lesson will be extending with the follow up lesson regarding voting and majority rule. 4. What will you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? I will ask fellow classmates to help explain the concepts to the ones who do not understand.
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5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? If I cannot get guest speakers to come into the class, I will need to change it to a PowerPoint or some other video clip about people in our neighborhood. I remember some jingle about Who are the people in your neighborhood? ,when I was in elementary school. 6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? The most difficult part was figuring out to organize the procedure in an order that flowed well.

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