Kallie Lapp Lesson Plan Title: Characteristics of a good citizen

Core Standard/ Objective:

Standard 2 (Citizenship): Students will recognize and practice civic responsibility in the community, state, and nation.
Objective 1 -Examine civic responsibility and demonstrate good citizenship. a. Describe characteristics of being a good citizen through the examples of historic figures and ordinary citizens.

Instructional focus (explicitly teach): Characteristics of a good citizen and what that looks like in our classroom. Main focus for today: honesty, responsibility, helping, and doing your best. Time: social studies block 2:00-2:45 SWBAT describe what it means to be a good citizen by making a recipe card with the ingredients being good qualities/ characteristics. They will also be able to better explain recipes and giving directions. They will know that recipes have a title, use measurements, have commands/ steps in order, and are said in short phrases. They will also be able to look at historical figures and see if they were good citizens, and what characteristics they have. Materials needed: Mixing bowl, spoon, towel, measuring cups, flour, sugar, milk, eggs, recipe cards, smart board, definition cards, index cards, paper clips, and cookies, example recipe card, books. (provide clear examples for ELLs, books on their level, and a word wall as a resource they can go to for help with writing.) Pre assessment: At circle time see how much students know about being a good citizen- what it means, who it can be, how they would be one, etc. Engagement: Making cookies and looking at famous chocolate chip cookie recipe
Intro: Show students an example of a chocolate chip recipe. Engage by discussing who likes cookies, who has made them, etc. Review parts of a recipe: -ingredients (with measurements) - steps written in short commands -directions might go onto the back -all in a precise order Start by having students sit in a community circle at the rug. (Have a towel laid in the middle with all the ingredients and an example recipe card ready.) Today we are going to review the parts of a recipe and how to give directions then we are going to make our own pretend cookies and see what it means to be a good citizen.

Review parts of a recipe: - Title (all capital letters) -lists measurements - Commands/ steps in order - No sentences- all short phrases (write all these steps on the board as a visual aid/ good resource) Today we are going to make our own recipe (Have big one on the board) We are going to make chocolate chip cookies, and our own recipe: How to be a Good Citizen. First, who knows what it means to be a good citizen? *put definition on board. A good citizen is someone who works hard to make their community a better place. What is our community? (our classroom) We should all work hard to make this a better place. Experiment: Show them a big mixing bowl- tell there are a lot of characteristics that make up a good citizens just like there are a lot of ingredients that make up cookies. We will follow a chocolate chip cookie recipe while we write our own recipe for a good citizen. Then, later, we will read books about famous people from history and decide if they were good citizens and if so, what characteristics they had. Put in each ingredient and briefly have children explain each one (define and give real world examples). 1 cup Flour- honesty. What does it mean to be honest? Put up sign, write definition, examples on index cards, discuss the importance of it, and what it would look like in real life. (Repeat for each ingredient) 2 cups Sugar- Responsible 1 Egg- Doing our best 1/2 cup Milk- Helping Now we will see what each of these characteristics looks like in real people throughout history. When you see one of these traits give me thumbs up, and if you see another trait that makes them a good citizen raise your hand and we can add it to our list of ingredients. Read various stories from the book, We Were There Too by. Phillip Hoose. Give students a choice of who to read about (engagement= choice) *Note- next time I teach this, spend a second day on this activity. Day two: review recipe card and provide them with a ton of books about famous historians. Allow them to work in partners, pick a book, read it together, and write down what characteristics they see. Provide them with a writing assignment to write a report on what they learned and later share about their famous person in community circle. Discussion: After putting in all the ingredients, mixing them together, and baking them what do we get? Cookies! (Give students a store bought cookie.) Would these cookies taste good if there was no flour? Would you be a good citizen if you didnt have honesty? No, because then you would be dishonest. Continue to discuss if the other characteristics were missing. Our bowl represented our classroom community. We all have jobs and help make this a wonderful place to learn. Would we have a good community if only one person was a good citizen? How about half of us? Is it important to follow the directions to a recipe and include everything on it? Now you are going to make your own Good Citizen Recipe Cards. Go back to your seats and I will pass them out and tell you what to do next.

Recipe cards: Put the recipe card we made as a group on the elmo/ smart board. Have students write honesty, responsible, doing our best, helping, and 2-3 of their own ideas (that were discussed while reading about the famous historians). Give them guidance on how to add their own ideas. Make sure to include measurements. For the bottom part of how to mix have them write short demands explaining how they will mix these together to create a good citizen. Explain that we will keep the ingredients hung on the wall and they can keep theirs in their locker so they will be reminded every day of how to be a good citizen. Give them time to finish their recipe cards. When finished can silent read until majority of the students are done. Encourage advanced students to write more qualities and a longer paragraph. Hang in locker when they are done. Closure: (After they have all finished their recipe cards and have cleaned up their desks) Is our classroom the only place we can be good citizens? Where else? - School, neighborhood, city, state, and world. Who are some other famous people throughout history that you know of? Were they good citizens? What character traits do they have? Read the book I did it, Im Sorry By. Caralyn Buehner and Mark Buehner - Has discussion questions after each pages scenario. Discuss which word it is describing (honesty, helping, responsibility, doing our best, etc)

Post assessment: Read their recipe cards. See if they were able to come up with any ideas of their own and see how well they could form a paragraph- look for handwriting, meaning, use of words, and concept of being a good citizen.