RUNNING HEAD: Social Skills and Cooperative Learning Lesson

Social Skills ITIP and Cooperative Learning Lesson Plan

17 March 2016
EDS 498
Grand Valley State University
Carly Szczytko

Social Skills ITIP Lesson Plan

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Name:
_______________________

Subject :
_______________________

Grade:
_________4th/5th_________

Unit: _______________________

Lesson Title: _____Looking Closely________

Objectives

Materials &
Resources

Anticipatory
Set

Objective

-Students practice focusing their attention on an object

and describing visual details that are observed.
- Students strengthen their visual vocabulary and
memory through mindful seeing.

-puzzle piece for each student (9)

-Sensory Web worksheet for each student (9)

-Sensory web worksheet handout and walk through

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How do we describe an object?

What does it mean to observe something?
What are details?
Input (What
students already
know.)

Vocabulary:
Mindful Seeing enables us to better observe
ourselves, other people, and our surroundings to more
fully enjoy and learn from them.

Model (How will

Teacher models how to fill out Sensory Web by thinking

aloud and filling in one bubble on the worksheet.

you demonstrate
skills?)

Check for
Understanding

Guided
Practice

Independent
Practice

Closure

The students will be prompted throughout to show hand

signals (thumbs up, sideways, or down) in order to gage
students understanding.

Students are asked to provide an example of a detail

they can find in the classroom before completing
Sensory web worksheet.

Students complete Sensory Web worksheet, filling in as

many bubbles as they can with details regarding their
puzzle piece.

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Tell me one way you can be mindful.

How can we be mindful every day?

*Template via: http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/templates/mhunter.html

Reflection
Going into teaching the Social Skills lesson to the nine 4th/5th grade students, I was very
nervous. A number of thoughts crossed my mind, Will all of the students be in attendance?,
Would they listen to me?, Would a student have an outburst during my lesson? Would I know
how to handle it?, Will the students be engaged in the lesson? Many of these questions and
fears worried me. I was pleasantly surprised to find that my worries and fears did not come to
fruition. The students were very well behaved- stayed seated, worked quietly, did not speak out
of turn, attempted to participate in the lesson, etc.
Overall, I would say my lesson was effective in that the students were silent they were
not talking or whispering to each other when I was talking and presenting the material. Only two
of the students (who I have observed actively participating in previous class periods) were not as
active in participating as I had thought they would be. I was able to present all aspects of the
lesson and had a solid beginning, middle, and ending. All students listened, completed the
worksheet, and attempted to the best of their understanding. Looking back, I think I should have
talked less in order for the students to talk more. In a perfect world, I would have wanted to have
the students lead the discussion and figure it out on their own, with my guidance. In the future,

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to help reinforce the social skill presented, I would try to incorporate the idea of being mindful
into daily lessons and activities where I see fit. When an opportunity arises, I would try to
discuss with my students to think about what other classmates may be going through in order to
try and understand their actions and feelings.

Cooperative Learning Lesson

Name:
_______________________

Subject : Writing/Social
Studies____

Grade:
_________4th/5th_________

Unit:
_______________________

Lesson Title: _____Life in the Colonies________

Objectives

Materials &
Resources

-Students practice focusing their attention on an idea,

What if I lived in the 1700s?
- Students strengthen their visual vocabulary and
memory through mindful seeing and thinking about what
life may be like for those during this time.

Writing Journal
Pen
Sensory Web Worksheet (if needed, as a reminder)

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Anticipatory
Set

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Set the scene: Have students close their eyes and

imagine what it may be like to live during the time of the
American Revolution.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1: Write opinion pieces on

topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons
and information.

Objective

5 U2.3.3 Describe colonial life in America from the

perspectives of at least three different groups of people
(e.g., wealthy landowners, farmers, merchants,
indentured servants, laborers and the poor, women,
enslaved people, free Africans, and American Indians).
(National Geography Standard 6, p. 154

Students will know details about life during the

1770s/American Resolution.
Student will know the expectations for writing in a
journal.
Input (What
students already
know.)

Vocabulary:
Mindful Seeing

Model (How will

you demonstrate
skills?)

Students will be expected to journal about life in the

1770s.
Students will create their own Sensory Web in order to
gather details and thoughts before journal writing.

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The students will be prompted throughout to show hand

signals (thumbs up, sideways, or down) in order to gage
students understanding.
Teacher will gage understanding when asking student to
Check for
recall Sensory Web activity and clarify any
Understanding
misunderstandings.

Guided
Practice

Independent
Practice

Closure

Students are asked to remember the Sensory Web

activity they previously completed. Students are asked
to remember what the activity was and discuss the
questions, How were we mindful thinkers? What did we
do when we practiced mindful thinking?
Teacher models new sensory web using historical
details to fill in bubbles. Teacher explains that the middle
bubble should say something like, Life in 1700s or Life
during American Revolution.

Students complete the journal writing activity using the

details gathered from their individual sensory web.

Exit Slip: Write down one thing you realized after having
time to reflect and be mindful, in regards to what it
must have been like living in this time period.

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Reflection
I was unable to present this lesson to my students. Based on the positive results from the
first lesson, my expectations for this lesson would be very high. I would expect the same respect
and attentiveness that I received the first time. For the second lesson, I would be aware that the
students are able to act appropriately, however, I would be cognizant of the fact that out bursts
happen and think of how I would handle those situations, too. By creating an academic lesson
related to a social skill, I was able to see how easy it is to apply the skills and find ways to
incorporate them into daily academics.

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