First off, sorry this is getting posted so late! I have been out of town and busy prepping for a midterm in my other class! I also couldn't find the powerpoint in D2L with the list of requirements for a lesson. I looked at a couple of your all's blogs and Kate had a list of them! (Thanks Kate! :) )
So... I have not started on my lesson plans yet, but have a few ideas floating around in my head. I'm a super procrastinator, something I'm trying to get better at, so I'm going to make up a lesson with an objective on the fly for this post.
The objectives I'm grading this lesson on are:
□ Includes accurate information
□ Learning objective met
□ Appropriate to audience
□ Interesting to age group
□ In good condition
□ Employs creative thinking
□ Motivating and engaging
In one of my lessons, I am planning on doing a review over parts of a newspaper article. It will look something like this:
The objective will be:
The students will be able to label the parts of a newspaper article, using a word bank, with 95% accuracy, independently.
Before hand, we will fill out a KWL chart about newspapers.
First Grade Class
The lesson will be us as a class talking about the parts of a newspaper. I will have pieces to tape/drag onto the poster to show where the correct placement for it is. This is kind of like a bubble chart (is that a stretch?). Hopefully I can get away with using something like this and calling it a bubble chart because it does have a center topic and bubbles coming off of it. Let me know if you think that would work.
We have some newspaper articles around our school hanging up, and I don't think a lot of kids know how to read one, or where to find certain things. That is what this activity is centered towards.
Overall, I think this lesson meets the criteria. It displays accurate information after we discuss as a class, I believe their learning objective will be met, it is on grade level for first graders, in good condition, and is engaging. I don't know if it employs creative thinking, though. Maybe if their assignment was to create their own newspaper front page, would it be considered creative.
Rachel,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog! I do not think you are stretching in using a bubble map for the students to break down information from a news paper article. Some students have never seen a news paper because there are so many families that just do not read a hard copy of the paper. I think by letting the students write out what they know or see on an article will help them learn more about the reading itself (comprehension). Great ideas!
Michelle
I had never thought to use a newspaper. I am mixing all my classes up but one of the books mentioned all kinds of reading materials other than books. When I was a kid, every family had a newspaper subscription. I can’t tell you how many years it’s been since I bought a hard copy of a newspaper. Newspapers would be good for main ideas and finding the authors purpose. Hopefully, the words in the articles aren’t too difficult for first graders or have sensitive topics.
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