Lesson Plan Template: YOUR NAME: Brielle Bellerand

Lesson Title or Compelling

Question: Our Neighborhood: The Things We Do

Example: How do You What do we do to maintain cleanliness in our neighborhood?

Distinguish Between a Need and
a Want?

Grades (You can select another 2-3

grading sequence, such as K-2, or 1-
3, or 3-5)

Time One-class period

NCSS Standards Science, Technology, and Society

C3 Framework:
The College, Career, and Civic Life
(C3) Framework for Social Studies
State Standards: Guidance for
Enhancing the Rigor of K-12 Civics,
Economics, Geography, and History
D2.Civ.6.K-2. Describe how communities work to accomplish
common tasks, establish responsibilities, and fulfill roles of
authority
D2.Civ.14.K-2. Describe how people have tried to improve their
communities over time.

D2.Geo.5.K-2. Describe how human activities affect the cultural

and environmen- tal characteristics of places or regions

Common Core State Standards

Common Core State Standards for
1) Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where,
English Language Arts & Literacy in
when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of
History/Social Studies, Science, and
key details in a text
Technical Subjects (ccsso.org)
2) Use information gained from the illustrations and
Incorporate at least one Reading
words in a print or digital text to demonstrate
Standard for Literature K–5 (See
understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
page 11 of 66)
3) Distinguish their own point of view from that of. the
narrator or those of the characters.

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Objectives
1. Review the Financial
Literacy Standards.
2. See page 11 pf 42.
3. Select an objective
https://www.councilforeconed.org/wp-
content/uploads/2021/10/2021-
National-Standards-for-Personal-
Financial-Education.pdf
Differentiation: How will you
modify the lesson or help students
who need extra attention to learn
what you want them to learn?
Interest Building (introduction
anticipatory set) How will you
introduce this lesson?
Lesson Development
What will you do and the students
do in the next 20-25 minutes so
that students will learn what you
want them to learn? (i.e., We will
hold a mock election)
What do you want students to know and be able to do or
appreciate at the end of the lesson?
By the end of the lesson: Students will be able to understand
that:
1. Most income is taxed by the government to pay for
government-provided goods and services .
a. 4-7b . Explain why citizens are required to
contribute to the cost of fire protection, police,
public libraries, and schools .
For struggling students,
- During the group collaboration, allow them to work in
a teacher-led group
- You may even replay the BrainPop video for
the group on a laptop and individualize the
different points they make in the video to
assist in making the group’s list
BrainPop Video: Humans and the Environment
For the 1st 10 min of class, watch the video tagged above. In
this video, students will hear about the different ways in which
we can harm the planet as well as different methods to prevent
or fix those bad habits.
Class discussion:
- After watching the BrainPop video, ask your students
the following questions
- What do you and your family do to keep your
part of the neighborhood clean?
- Who is responsible for keeping the
neighborhood clean? Are these people
included your DREAM neighborhood?
- During the discussion, bring up that their parent’s tax
dollars help to keep the neighborhood clean
- Ask “ What would happen if we didn’t direct
funds to neighborhood maintenance?”
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Assessment
How will you know if students
have learned what you wanted
them to learn? What assessments
will you implement so that you will
know if they learned the materials
(the objectives for the day)?
Materials
What do you need in terms of
materials and resources to teach
- By the end of this class discussion, students should
have an idea of who keeps the neighborhood clean,
what’s done to keep it clean, and why we must
continue to do so.
Group Work:
- In groups of 4’s students will develop a list of action
plans they’ll incorporate in their DREAM
neighborhoods to keep it clean
- The list must include at least 5 plans
- Plans should target the following
- Air Pollution
- Trash
- Plant maintenance
- Water Pollution
- Energy Conservation
- After their lists are made, allow each group to share
one method they decided on.
Homework: Now that students brainstormed ideas to maintain
cleanliness and heard ideas from peers in other groups, they
will incorporate it into their DREAM neighborhood project.
- Students will have to bring home their DREAM
neighborhood maps and make sure the following is
included by tomorrow's class
- Physical features that make a neighborhood
(Day 1)
- People with important roles used to protect
the neighborood (Day 2)
- Habits that work to maintain a clean
neighborhood (Day 3)
- BrainPop Account
- Collected drafts to hand out again
- Pencils
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this lesson?
Integration
How can you integrate other
subject areas in this lesson? How
do you plan to integrate the English
Language Arts (ELA) in this lesson?
- Projector
CCS ELA:Students are required to participate in conversations
with diverse partners (discussion) which is an integration of
CCS/ELA/Literacy.
CCSS ELA Literacy/CCRA .R.1. Students are reading closely to
see what the text says to make literacy connections between
their maps and the video (Humans and the Environment ) .
CCS ELA CCRA: W.4: Produce clear coherent writing in which
the development, organization and style, are appropriate to
the task, purpose and audience