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Angel Winslow

Walden University

Date: June 19, 2020

PR009: Teaching the Arts, Social Studies, and Health in Preschool Settings

Part 2: Integrated Social Studies and Arts Lesson

Part II. Integrated Social Studies and Arts Lesson

Foundation of Lesson Plan

Content Areas and Developmental Domains

The main content area of this lesson is citizenship which will major on being a super citizen.

State/District/Professional Standards

The professional standard that in this lesson is that early childhood classroom is an inquiry based learning experience that puts children’s interest as a priority in the heart of learning. Thus I considered using art which children seem to enjoy to learn about being a citizen.

Learning Goals

· My main goal is to provide the learners with knowledge and skills that will allow them to become good, responsible citizens.

· To motivate the learners to use effective, responsible activities and be good citizens.

· Student will have the ability to relate good citizenship to their personal behaviors.

· Student will have the ability to determine and describe the features of a good citizen.

Materials

· Pencils

· Scissors

· Crayons

· Colored yarn

· Glue

· Superhero cape, body, and head patterns

· “I am a Good Citizen” worksheets for both teacher and students.

· A projector to show pictures that show features of a good citizen.

Lesson Sequence

Introduction/Anticipatory Set

To draw the children into the lesson, capture their attention and make them feel connected and include I will ensure that:

I’ll begin the lesson with a motivation. This may involve explaining to them what the lesson is all about. Once I explain to them that the lesson will be about making baskets they may be so fascinated and eager to learn.

I will as well involve them in the lesson plans. The students tend to pay attention to the lesson if they know that, that which they like most has been included in the lesson plan.

I will as well ask the kids to use the skills acquired from drawing skills acquired from the former art class.

Building/Applying Knowledge and Skills

· Open the lesson with “I have great news today! We shall be learning on how to be good citizens” this will make them get excited and eager to learn.

· Ask the learners who a great citizen is. Motivate the learners to discuss it with their colleagues through the think, pair and share technique. This will trigger creativity among the kids.

· Ask the learners to give some features of good citizenship and outside of school.

· We shall then develop a word web on the board. In the Centre of the web we shall include super citizen, and great citizen and then we shall begin to fill in the word web.

· Describe to the learners who a good citizen is and examples of the characteristics of good citizens. This will help them to get the basic knowledge of who a good citizen is.

Example modelling: (“I am a Good Citizen” Teacher worksheet)

· Use the projector to display “I am a Good Citizen” worksheet in order for the entire to see.

· Direct the learner’s attention on the three pictures on the worksheet.

· Describe the events in each point as I point to them.

· Ask the learners to think about the good citizen based on the features learnt.

Guided Instruction: (“I am a Good Citizen” Student Worksheet)

· Provide each student with “I am a Good Citizen” Student Worksheet.

· Ask the student to identify the pictures on the worksheet.

· Ask the student to circle the picture that describes a good citizen. This will aid even in evaluating the learner’s listening abilities as well as comprehension.

· Ask the learners to read the instructions at the bottom which expects them to draw a picture that shows an example of a good citizen.

· Then I will provide the students with good citizen cape patterns and ask them to draw pictures of the way they can be good citizens on the cape.

· After completing developing the good citizen capes, then I will guide them to develop a person to represent themselves.

· I will provide them with the citizens’ head, body and ask them to start.

· Once each student has finished I will provide them with colored yarns and have them select the yarn for hair.

· Have them cut out patterns and then attach them together with the yarn on the head.

· Once they have finished with their good citizens, they will be instructed to label their model with the names and hand it in to me.

Assessment

Students will evaluated in several ways during the lesson. Learners will be assessed on their listening and understanding skills when responding to questions and providing explanations of what a great citizen is. Learners will be evaluated on their understanding and performance capabilities when asked to circle pictures, develop pictures of great citizenship and develop their very own good citizens.

Closure

I will ask the learners if they enjoyed the activity. I will have every learners show the class their good citizen and describe the good actions in the picture. I will then consider asking the learners if they have any questions. I will as well consider areas of confusion that the learners may be experiencing and identify ways that can aid in clarifying them. Will as well consider oral reviews where I will use the last 10 minutes of the lesson to ask each learner what they learnt. This will aid in identifying the areas that have not been effectively understood.

Reflection

From the implementation of the lesson plan,

· I found out that most of the learners had understood the use of baskets to identify different culture.

· Most of them had as well understood on the way to create baskets.

· I was well prepared for the lesson considering the fact that I had all the materials required for the lesson.

· During my lesson, as we were making the baskets I ensured that we were all on the same phase prior to moving forward to another phase.

· My writing format was well organized.

· My assessment technique was as well effective since it involved each learner at time thus giving me a chance to effectively assess a learner. I would as well have considered other types of assessment such as asking learners to reflect and using the hand signal technique.

· However in the next lesson I would consider having an extra class with the two students with developmental delays since they were being left behind by other learners.

· I would as well consider advising the parents to ensure that they take their children through what we have learned during the day in order to emphasize and ensure that the learners understand the main details about that which was taught.

· I will ask parents to help the children in their assignments.