Melanie Lange

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Collaborative Lesson Plan

Subject: Social Studies/Language Arts Lesson: The Importance of Rules Grade: 2
nd


Collaborators: Melanie Lange and Allison Beach

Lesson Summary: While learning the importance of rules, students will also revisit comparing
and contrasting, learn the difference between fiction and non-fiction, and learn about a police
officers job.

Lesson Outcome:
The students will learn that rules provide order, security and safety in the school.
The students will learn what the duties of a policeman are.
The students will learn that fiction stories are not true and non-fiction stories are true.

(AASL) 21
st
Century Learner Standards:

1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media,
digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning.
2.1.3 Use strategies to draw conclusions from information and apply knowledge to curricular
areas, real- world situations, and further investigations.
3.1.5 Connect learning to community issues.
4.1.1 Read, view, and listen for pleasure and personal growth.

State Academic Standards:
SS2CG1.The student will define the concept of government and the need for rules and laws.
ELA2R4. The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text.
The student:
l. Recognizes plot, setting, and character within text, and compares and contrasts
these elements among texts.
m. Recognizes the basic elements of a variety of genres (e.g., poetry, fables, folktales).
Words and Terms:

Safety
Officer
Community
Authority
Leader
Protect
Order
Security
Genre
Fiction
Non fiction
Rule
Essential Questions:

Why are rules important?
What are the duties of a policeman?
What is the difference between fiction and non-fiction books?

Procedure:

Day One
Classroom Teacher will:
Show students pictures of different safety signs and rules to open up the lesson.
Have students guess what the sign stands for.
Explain the importance of the signs and rules.
Explain to the students that the job of a police officer is to protect us and to serve our community.
Introduce the story, Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann.
Discuss vocabulary, book genre, and have students make predictions about the story.
Read the story.
Ask questions pertaining to the story and rules.


Day Two
Media Specialist will:
Show the following clip on the Smart Board:
http://www.rcs.k12.va.us/pfes/third%20grade/reading%20sem%201%20theme%201/officer
%20buckle%20and%20gloria/officerbuckleandgloriahome.htm . This is a ten minute video
clip of the story, Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann.
Use a Venn diagram on the Smart Board and have the students state what Officer Buckles role
as a Policeman was in the story. I will write their responses on the left side of the Venn diagram.
Discuss that Officer Buckle and Gloria is a fiction book because it is not a true story. I will
highlight different reasons that this book is fiction and ask the students to give examples.
Introduce the story, Aero and Officer Mike by Joan Plummer Russell by stating that this book is
about a true policeman and his dog.
Explain that a true story is called a non-fiction story because it has facts in it.
Ask them to name facts about Officer Mike and Aero. I will write their responses on the right side
of the Venn diagram.
Tell the students that we will now compare and contrast both stories by thinking of ways the two
stories are alike. I will write their answers in the middle section of the Venn diagram.
Introduce our guest policeman, Officer Groves.
Ask Officer Groves to discuss his role as a policeman and the importance of rules

Guided Practice:

Day One
Classroom Teacher will:
Ask questions about the events that take place in the story.
Allow students time to turn and talk about what they noticed about Officer Buckles job as a
policeman.
Have students help create a list of safety tips that can be used at school.
Have students discuss the importance of safety rules

Day Two
Media Specialist will:
Have Officer Groves answer questions that the students ask.
Take pictures of the students with Officer Groves.
Have Students complete a Venn diagram handout. They will compare and contrast Officer
Groves with Officer Mike, showing the differences and similarities in their jobs as policemen.

Check for Understanding:

Day One:
Classroom Teacher will:
Complete Rules activity sheet. Students will find and write the name of the rules needed in the
illustration.
Create a poster for a rule of their choice on a construction paper star.

Day Two:
Media Specialist will:
Distribute a Fiction or Non-fiction activity sheet. Students will identify which titles of books are
fiction and which are non-fiction.
Check and re-teach as needed.


Resources and Materials:

Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann. Putnam Juvenile, c. 1995.
Aero and Officer Mike by Joan Plummer Russell. Boyds Mills Press, c. 2001.
Rules activity sheet
Fiction/Non-Fiction worksheet
Smart Board

Extension:

Students will use digital cameras to take pictures of each other acting out rules.
Students will take a field trip to a police department where they will meet their police dog. They
will tour the department to learn what a typical day as a policeman is like. Once back at school,
they will write about their trip and what they learned. They will compare and contrast the police
dog that they met with Gloria in Officer Buckle and Gloria.

Homework:

The students will make a list of ten rules/safety tips for their home.
The students will check out a fiction or non-fiction book to take home.