ETE 335

Elementary Social Studies Lesson

deBonos Thinking Hats
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
deBonos Thinking Hats
Lauren Antkowiak

Social Studies/Economics (Thanksgiving)

2nd

Soups Up!

ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
deBonos Thinking Hats
Goals:
Students will learn how the Pilgrims prepared their meals.
Students will learn how the Wampanoag tribe prepared their
meals.

Objectives:
Content/Knowledge:
Students will identify the ways both the Pilgrims and Native
Americans dealt with scarcity of food.

Process/Skills:
Students will be able to understand how important food was to
the Pilgrims and Native Americans.

Values/Dispositions:
Students will be able to recognize how food was not readily
available to the Pilgrims and Natives as it is to us now.
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
deBonos Thinking Hats
Rationale:
The importance of learning about scarcity really allows students
to put into perspective how appreciative they should be that we
have the proper resources available for them. The Pilgrims and
Native Americans grew their own crops and hunted for their
food. There were no supermarkets there for them to go shop
whenever they please.

Standards:

State Illinois Common Core or Learning Standards
15.C.1b Identify limitations in resources that force
producers to make choices about what to produce.

National NCSS Themes
Theme 7: Production, distribution, and consumption

Objective
Students will read about the food the Pilgrims ate on the
Mayflower in the Mayflower handbook (p. 14)
Students will explore the following website to learn what the
Pilgrims ate.
Students will explore the following website to learn what the
Wampanoag tribe ate.
Students will learn about The Three Sisters

Materials:
-Laptops
-Laptop cart
-Mayflower handbook.
Objective
Intuitive
As a class, discuss ways people get food.
Students will learn how the Pilgrims ate the same meal everyday
for almost 10 weeks straight.
Students will express how grateful they are to have a variety of
resources available for them to get food.
Students will then write a Thank You letter to their
parents/guardians.

Materials:
-Pencil
-Paper

Intuitive
Positive/Strengths
Positive/Strengths
Students will learn how the Wampanoag tribe greeted the
Pilgrims with food.
Students will learn that the Pilgrims wanted to pay or trade for
their food.
Students will be answering the following question: What
benefits can the Pilgrims gain by having a relationship with the
tribe?

Materials:
-Laptops
-Laptop cart
-Pencil
-Paper
Negatives/Weaknesses
Students will read what the Pilgrims ate on the Mayflower and how they
prepared their meals in the Mayflower handbook (p. 14).
Ask the students the following questions to lead a small discussion:
When you have an upset stomach, do you feel like eating?
Do you have much energy?
If this lasts for a week or so, do you lose weight?
Tell the students many passengers had bad upset stomachs for the entire
voyage, but none of them died.
Have students answer the following question in their journal: What else might
have happened to the passengers who were ill?

Materials:
-Mayflower handbook
-Pencil
-Paper
Negatives/Weaknesses
Creative
Creative
Students will be preparing their own plate as if they were a Pilgrim and a
Native American.
Students will put these two plates side by side to display the similarities and
differences of the meals.
Students will write two paragraph describing their plates and how they are
similar and different
Students will be making their plates out of clay and then painting them when
finished.

Materials:
-Clay
-Kiln
-Paint
-Paint brushes
-Sculpting tools (if needed)
-Paper
-Pencil
Thinking About Thinking
Thinking About Thinking
Students will be making comparisons and contrasts on the
following topics between the past and the present:
Resources for food
Food eaten
Production of food
Illness

Materials:
-Pencil
-Paper

ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
deBonos Thinking Hats
Assessment:
I will assess students by having a rubric for their clay plates.
This rubric will be handed out to the students. I will also
assess the students written work by using the guideline I have
created for each assignment.

Online Resources:
All links have been used in a hyperlink throughout the
PowerPoint.