Class 3 week 2

Jahon Magee

03/30/2021

ECH/ 430

Wendy Schulze

Introduction

A lesson plan refers to a document that outlines the content of one's lesson step-by-step. The plan involves a list of proposed tasks for the students which the teacher expects the student to undertake or achieve at the end of a lesson. A lesson plan acts as a guide to the teaching process. The plan is prepared early in advance before the actual activity of teaching and learning is carried out. The plan aims at planning and structuring learning activities to allow ease of facilitation.

Producer and Consumer Lesson Plan

The lesson plan portrays the plan meant to be used in teaching the topic of producer and consumer's lesson. The plan illustrates the activities the teacher hopes the students to achieve at the end of the learning process. The plan guides the teacher through the materials needed and the preparations that are required in the completion of the topic. The lesson plan stipulates the instructions and the requirements needed for the lesson and which the teacher should make available to the students. The lesson plan is also inclusive of other material required apart from the provided learning material that the students should use to better understand these reforms. The lesson plan was downloaded from the Education.com website.

The objectives of the lesson plan are to enable students to effectively identify consumers and producers in the community and explain their functions as it relates to economics. Students will be required to illustrate different types of consumers and producers as part of the lesson activities. The students will then be required to write down services and goods that are provided by consumers and also provide a list of the consumers of these goods as part of their lesson activities.

The lesson plan follows the standards provided by the state content for the social studies discipline. The lesson has well-stipulated student guidelines and activities that should be undertaken by the students to enhance understanding and comprehension of the lesson concepts. The state content standards require that every lesson plan should contain an assessment at the end of every lesson. The lesson plan provided has a lesson plan at the end of the lesson.

The lesson plan utilizes standards set out by the NCSS to ensure that the students are well conversant with the topic lesson. The lesson illustrates well-developed content knowledge which is the first standard for every lesson plan in social studies. The lesson also shows an application of content by planning and according time for every activity stipulated. NCSS's third standard states the design and implementation of instruction and assessment through data literacy and self-assessment to enable the promotion of civic competence (Cuenca, 2018). The lesson plan contains a self-assessment test thus addressing the standard as stipulated by NCSS.

NAEYC expects that teachers use picture books in teaching social studies in the Elementary School Classroom. The lesson plan makes use of symbols and gestures of the different types of landforms to make it easy for the young learners to understand the lesson concepts. The plan also requires learners to identify the different types of consumers and producers which portrays the knowledge gained by the learners from the lesson. NAEYC expects that teachers should be able to gauge the ability of their learners in understanding the concepts provided.

The significant perspectives in early childhood social education are sociocultural theory, cognitive-stage theory, and psychosexual theory. The psychosocial theory states the significance of social relationships and cultural contexts for the learning and development of children. Social studies is involved in the creation of a good relationship and creates an understanding of the environment for young children.

Developmental appropriateness of the lesson

The lesson plan is appropriate for the development of young children as it engages children in identifying the different players in the social environment economics and helps them appreciate the role played by each player in the economy.

REFERENCES

Cuenca, A. C. (2018, January 1). National Standards for the Preparation of Social Studies Teachers. Retrieved from National Council for the Social Studies: https://www.socialstudies.org/sites/default/files/media/2017/Nov/ncss_teacher_standards_2017-rev9-6-17.pdf