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Patriotic Symbols
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Social Studies:
Standard 2- Students will recognize the roles and responsibilities in the school and the
neighborhood.
Objective 3- Name school, neighborhood, Utah State, and national symbols, landmarks,
and documents.
a. Identify the school symbols and landmarks.
b. Identify neighbor and community symbols and landmarks.
c. Identify Utah state symbols, documents, and landmarks.
d. Identify national symbol, documents, and landmarks.
e. Demonstrate respect for patriotic practices and customs.
Writing Standard 2
Write informative/ explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about
the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
Language Standard 1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when
writing or speaking.
Language Standard 2
Demonstrate command of conventions of standards English capitalization, punctuation,
and spelling when writing.
Language Standard 6
Use words and phrases acquired through conversation, reading and being read to, and
responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunction to signal simple.
Vocabulary:
Lessons
Lesson 1
Materials: pictures of different symbols, white paper, and crayons
Time
2 min.
2 min.
3 min.
Lesson
Management
Students will be
expected to raise their
hands if they want to
guess what they think
they sign means.
Students have to listen
carefully and raise their
hand before they share.
13 min.
Content/Activity:
Students will be sent to work at Students will quietly
their tables. Students will draw transition from the
as many symbols as they know. carpet to their tables.
Students, now what I want
you to do is to quietly go back
to your tables and draw as
many symbols as you know on
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Closure:
Students will share their
drawings with the class.
Assessment:
Drawings will show their
understanding about symbols.
Lesson 2
Materials: school song lyrics
Time
5 min.
Lesson
Introduction:
Yesterday we began
talking about symbols. We
said symbols can be
pictures as well as hand
signs and sounds.
Today we will talk about
some symbols in our
school.
What is our school
mascot?
Management
10 min.
Content/activity:
We will take a walk around
our school and look for
symbols we can find.
5 min.
Think-pair-share
Assessment:
Students can provide one or
two examples of the
symbols we saw in our
school.
Adaptations: Students will think-pair-share before they share with the rest of the class.
Integrations: If we have time we might chorally read our school song. This will integrate
reading to social studies.
Lesson 3
Materials: book, crayons, watercolors, and white paper
Time
Lesson
Management
Introduction:
10 min.
5 min.
15 min.
2 min.
Closure:
Explain to students that we
will be writing a paragraph
to describe our drawings
next time.
Students next time we will
be writing about your
Adaptations: Have a map of Utah available to point out some of the landmarks. For this
lesson I will have to think how I can be more cultural relevant for my students who are
not familiar with any of the landmarks mentioned in the book.
Integrations: art into social studies.
Lesson 4
Materials: PowerPoint, book, and graphic organizer
Time
Lesson
Management
2 min.
Introduction:
We also have national and
world symbols. This
symbols represent or even
serve as a way of
communication.
5 min.
Show PowerPoint. We
will be watching a
PowerPoint with examples
of symbols.
10 min.
10 min.
5min.
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Adaptation: I will write in the graphic organizer in order for students to keep up with all
the information.
Integration: writing and speaking into social studies.
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Lesson 5
Materials: book, worksheet, and crayons
Time
10 min.
Lesson
Introduction:
Read Uncle Sam and Old
Glory: Symbols of
America, by: Delno C.
West.
We have been talking
about symbols and
landmarks. We now know
that we can find symbols
everywhere. We also wrote
about landmarks we have in
our state. Today we will
have a matching activity in
which we will be testing our
knowledge of symbols.
15 min.
5 min.
Content/ Activity:
Students will go back to
their tables and get out a
red, blue and yellow crayon.
Quietly go back to your
tables and get out a read,
blue and yellow crayon.
You will complete this
worksheet individually.
Closure:
We will go over the whole
sheet as a whole class.
Management
Students are expected to
listen during the book. They
will need to raise their hand
if they need to ask a
question or share any
thoughts.
Assessment:
The works sheet will assess
if they can categorize
symbols in their different
categories.
Adaptations: Explicit direction before they individually start.
Integration: Listening into social studies
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Unit Closure
During the unit we talked about school, state, national, and world symbol, but we didnt
talk much about community symbols. A good way to close the unit would be for them to
see some symbols in their neighborhood. For the closing activity if the weather allows it
we will walk around the neighborhood. For this activity we might need some parent
volunteers. It will be a great way to connect the concept of symbols to their every day
lives.
Assessment
Lesson 5 is the summative assessment for the unit, but every lesson has formative
assessment. Formative assessments for all my lessons include observations and the
activities. We will be displaying some of the projects in our classroom and others will be
added to their portfolio.
Bibliography
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