Title of Unit: Our Everyday Lives Title of Lesson: Helpful Jobs Submitted By: Martha Rendon

A. Summary of the Lesson Plan: (2 sentences) Students will be able to give examples of jobs that help people. Students will also be able to talk about the importance of those jobs in the community. B. Target Population: (3 bullet points) Grade Level: 1st grade Skill Level: all skill levels Grouping: Whole group for steps 1-2. Shoulder partners for step 3. Whole group for step 5, shoulder partners step 6, whole group step 7, table groups step 8, whole group step 9 and whole group closure. C. Materials: (bullet points) Pictures of professions that help people ELMO projector D. Objectives: (bullet points) o NV State Social Studies Standards o H.3.1.3 Identify and describe occupations in the community that help people, i.e., police officers, fire fighters, and nurses.

Student-Friendly Standards H.3.1.3 I can give examples of jobs in the community that help people.

E. Procedure: (numbered steps) 1. TW have students start to think about different jobs in the community that are specifically for helping people. 2. TW put a picture up on the ELMO of a firefighter. Do we know what job this is? How does this job help people? 3. Give students time to talk to their shoulder partner to discuss what occupation is shown in the picture and how that job helps people. 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 with different pictures of different occupations (ex. Nurse.) 5. TW will pose question, What other jobs can we think of that help people? How does that job help people? Talk to your shoulder partner about your ideas. 6. TW ask students to share some of the ideas and talk about each example (ex. A teacher helps people learn.) 7. TW ask, What if these jobs did not exist? What do you think would happen? 8. SW discuss ideas in their table groups.
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Title of Unit: Our Everyday Lives Title of Lesson: Helpful Jobs Submitted By: Martha Rendon

9. TW ask students to share their ideas with the class. 10. CLOSURE: Today we learned about different jobs in our community that help people and talked about why those jobs are important. F. Assessment: (bullet points) What will you use to measure student understanding? I will use the student discussions and class participation to measure understanding. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. I will know that students understand the concepts through discussion and if the student is able to discuss the importance of these jobs with me and with their groups. G. Reflection: (answers to assignment specific questions) 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? I think this whole lesson will be fairly easy. 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? I dont think I would run into any big difficulties with this lesson. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? I would want to have students write a story about one of the helpful jobs and why it is important. 4. What will you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? I would pull a few students at a time to review the concept and allow more oneon-one time for the students who may need the additional help. 5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? I think I would need to include more partner work (sometimes a peer can explain a concept better than a teacher can.) 6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? I think the most difficult part was finding how I wanted to word everything and what kind of dialogue I would use to explain the concepts.

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2013

Karen Powell- Instructor

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Title of Unit: Our Everyday Lives Title of Lesson: Helpful Jobs Submitted By: Martha Rendon

Example of Pictures of helpful jobs

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2013

Karen Powell- Instructor

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