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Lesson Plan

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Grade/Subject: Grade 3 Health Unit: Growing as a group Lesson Duration: 25 min

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES
General Learning Outcomes:
Group Roles and processes.
Specific Learning Outcomes:
3.8 - develop skills to work cooperatively in a group (Listening skills)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Interpret a poem by listening and drawing what they hear.
2. Discuss the important things you need to do in order to listen.
3. Apply these listening skills during a drawing exercise.

ASSESSMENTS
Observations:
Key Questions:
As I read the poem, I will watch students to see What does good listening look like and sound like?
if they are demonstrating the listening skills that How does good listening improve your group working
we have discussed.
skills?
Written/Performance Assessments:
Written assessment will be the drawing. I will look at them, and see how well the students listened to the poem.
This will also be used as part of their self reflection.

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Resource #1: Teachers Pay Teachers
Resource #2:
Resource #3:

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

* Shel Silverstein Poem
* Paper to draw on.
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PROCEDURE
Introduction (__min.):
Hook/Attention Grabber: Give Me Five
Assessment of Prior Knowledge: I will ask students if they have ever read anything by Shel Silverstein. I will also ask
them what they remember about listening.
Expectations for Learning and Behaviour: Behavior expectations will be written out in the agreed upon classroom
rules. Expectations will also be laid out when we talk about listening.
Advance Organizer/Agenda: Agenda will be on the board, and I will tell the students what we will do today.
Transition to Body: Join me on the carpet.

Body (__min.):
Learning Activity #1: The first thing I will have the students do is sit on the carpet with me and talk about
important listening skills. (Attention on speaker, ears open, mouths closed.) We will make a list of what listening
looks like and sounds like. Then we will move on to the next activity.
Assessments/Differentiation: The assessments here will be observational. I will be looking for students to be listening to the class
discussion about listening.

Learning Activity #2: Listen to Poems: Students will listen to the poem, and draw what they hear. I will pause
for just under a minute to give students to draw what they hear during each line of the poem. At the end of the
poem reading, I will ask the students to self-evaluate.
Assessments/Differentiation: This will be a written assessment, as I will see what they did or did not hear in their drawings. I really
want to get students to evaluate their own learning behavior by thinking about their listening skills.

Learning Activity #3:

Assessments/Differentiation:

Closure ( __min.):

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Consolidation/Assessment of Learning: I will go over the elements of a good listener on the board once again.
Feedback From Students: I will use sticks to randomly select students to share one listening skill they demonstrated,
and one listening skill they did not demonstrate. I will also ask the students to write down one way in which they could
improve their listening skills on a post it note and I will look at them after class.
The big question I will ask: Am I a good listener? (Green = good listener, Yellow = Okay listener, Red = Needs
improvement.)
Feedback To Students: I will be telling the students how well they are doing with listening after they have evalutated
themselves.
Transition To Next Lesson: