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Lesson Plan Template

TOPIC Family CK
Name Mackenzie Kilduff
Subject Social Studies
Grade Level 1st Grade
Date/Duration 30-40 minutes
Big Ideas There are different types of families.

Essential Questions What is a family?

What does a family look like?
Who makes up a family?
What kind of people are in a family?
What does a family do?
What do the people in the family do?

PA/Common Standard 6.4.K.4: identify the specialized role performed by each

Core/Standards member of the family.
Standard 6.1.K.B: Identify family wants and needs.
Standard ELP.5.R.PK-K.2: Identifies self and family members in
drawings or photographs.

Objective Independently, the first grade students will identify the members
of their family by drawing a picture and labeling the parts of their
family with 100% accuracy.

Formative & Formative Assessment: The students will each individually create
Summative their own picture of their family and turn their drawing in. The
Assessment teacher will access their drawing for correctness.
Evidence
Summative Assessment: At the end of the unit, with the help of
their parents, students will create a mobile of their families.

21st Century Skills The students will be able to utilize technology while viewing the
Technology example of the activity on the projector. The students will watch
as the teacher uses the smart board to label parts of her family.
Accommodations, The teacher will stand by Mary while the group discussion is
Modifications going on about the family.
The teacher will also ask Mary independently about her family
and the members that are in her family.
SUPERVISING
TEACHERS
SIGNATURE
 Seton Hill University Lesson Plan Template Step-by-Step Procedures
RATIONALE for the CK
Learning Plan
Introduction Activating Prior Knowledge
Before starting the lesson, the teacher will ask the students about
their family. The teacher will ask questions such as:
o What is a family?
o What does a family look like?
o Who is in your family?
o What do people in your family do?

Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
Whos in a Family? By Robert Skutch
Teacher will read students this book and explain that not all
families are the same and some in many shapes and sizes.
Explicit Big Idea Statement
Instructions There are different types of families.

Essential Questions Statement

What is a family?
What does a family look like?
Who makes up a family?
What kind of people are in a family?
What does a family do?
What do the people in the family do?

Objective Statement
Independently, the students will draw a picture of their family and
label the members of their family.

Transition
To receive their materials, the teacher will call the students up by
command to get their supplies. For example, the teacher may say,
Everyone wearing a blue shirt may go to the art center and get
their materials.

Key Vocabulary
Family
Different
Similar
Members

Lesson Procedure Pre-Assessment of Students

Before this lesson, students will have the opportunity to use the
interactive bulletin board. They will be able to take a piece of paper
and draw a family different from their family.
 Modeling of the Concept
Directions to model concept:
1. Show students your drawing of your family on the
projector.
2. Label the parents of your family using the smart board
3. Assure them that no family is the same.

Guiding the Practice

Questions to ask students while they are working:
o Who is that?
o Where are you in the picture?
o Why did you draw your family like that?
Look Fors:
o Are the students drawing their families?
o Are the students labeling their families correctly?
o Are the students talking with other students about how
their families are similar or different?

Providing the Independent Practice

Directions for students:
1. Gather materials needed for completion.
a. Paper
b. Pencil
c. Markers/paints/crayons
2. Draw all the members of your family.
3. Label the members of your family.

Transition
The students will be able to work anywhere in the classroom to
complete this activity.

Reading Materials Materials:

Technology o Construction Paper
Equipment o Pens
Supplies o Pencils
o Markers/crayons/paints

Evaluation of the Formal Evaluation

Learning/Mastery The students will be assessed on their mobile. If more than 85% of
of the Concept the students complete the mobile with success, the lesson will be a
success.

Informal Evaluation
After turning in the drawing, the students will have a discussion
about what they learned. The students will share their drawings
with each other. The teacher will take down notes on a check-list
observation sheet to assure that all students are grasping the
knowledge.
Closure Summary & Review of the Learning
The informal evaluation above will allow the teacher to know if the
lesson was a success.

Homework/Assignments
For homework, the students will go home and share their drawings
with their parents.
Teacher n/a
Self-reflection