Detailed Lesson Preparation Guide: ELA/Social Justice

Elementary Education
Name: Casey Bohnenblusch

Title: The Kindness Effect

Grade: 3rd

Concept/Topic: Sequencing and Friendship

Time Needed: 1 hour and 40 minutes

Note: A detailed lesson plan is specific enough for another teacher to read and teach
effectively. There should not be any question regarding what to do or how to do it.

Backward Design Approach: Where are you going with your students?
I can statements:
I can recognize cause and effect within text
I can understand cause and effect (how my actions affect others)
I can recognize characteristics of a good friend
I can follow instructions to create something
Ensuring Lesson supports district and state goals
NCSCOS Standards:
RI3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events,
scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using
language that pertains to time, sequence and cause/effect.

Assessment Plan:
Kahoot on Because Amelia Smiled and cause and effect
o https://create.kahoot.it/#user/96ad19c0-ecf5-4437-a003-
a28288a5d9ce/kahoots/favourites
Exit ticket on what they learned about being a good friend and how their
attitude and actions affect those around them.
Meeting the student where they are:
Prior Knowledge/Connections:
(After hook)
Ask students if they have a friend.
Ask them how they know that person is a friend and how they show that person
they are a friend to them.
Ask students if they can list some characteristics of a friend
Ask students if they have ever had someone say hurtful things to them and
how did that make them feel
Ask students if they have ever said hurtful things and how they think it made
that person feel

Lesson Introduction/Hook:
Apple activity to introduce cause and effect with bullying (10-15 min)
 o Show the students 2 apples
o One has been thrown on the ground and bruised and one has not.
o Show the students that the apples are the same on the outside but tell
students I really dont like this apple, lets say mean things to it and
insult it. For the other apple I will tell students I love this apple, it has
done a great job, let's praise this apple. After the students have
insulted the one apple and praised the other apple I will cut them both
in half and show students the effect bullying has on other people.

Heart of the Lesson/Learning Plans

Differentiation/Same-ation:
I will be sure to place students in groups that encourage positive collaboration
For those that require accommodations...
o I will read-aloud instructions for each activity to the entire class
o I will place ESL students within groups that aid in communication
Lesson Development:
Hook: Apple activity
Discuss friendship and bullying and how it affects those around you
(explain that they are a community)
I DO: Read Because Amelia Smiled
WE DO: Discuss how the events are sequenced and have students predict remainder
of the story
1. Talk about the idea of cause and effect as it relates to the text
2. Explain to students that they have the power to make a difference in the world
by being joyful just like Amelia
YOU DO:
Center 1: Put students into groups and have them create a Friendship Pie by
following instructions and using what they learned about cause and effect and
sequencing related to peoples feelings.
Center 2: Play Cause and Effect Kahoot as a group (formative assessment 1)
Exit ticket (formative assessment 2):
Have students reflect on our discussion about how our actions, attitudes and
comments affect others around us. Have students write one thing they will
work on in order to help improve classroom community and build stronger
relationships in order to create a positive learning environment.

Specific Questioning:
Intro:
Have you ever been bullied?
Have you ever bullied someone else?
How do you think bullying makes people feel?
Do you think that your attitude and actions have an effect on people around the
world?
Who knows what cause and effect means?
o Can you give me an example?
Does anyone know what an inference is?
While reading:
Do you think this book shows sequence and logical order?
 o How do you know?
How did Amelia impact those all over the world?
What do you think might happen next based on what we have read and what
we have discussed about cause and effect?
After reading:
Can you think of a way that you can make a difference by being kind?
Do you think Amelia has characteristics of a good friend?
Can you think of some characteristics of someone who is a good friend?
Can you think of some examples of characteristics that are shown in a bad
friend or a bully?
Friendship Pie Activity:
What do these ingredients mean to you?
How can you going to use these Friendship Pies to impact someone in a
positive way?
Can you find someone in the room with similar ingredients?
New Vocabulary:
Cause and Effect: An event or action that causes something else to
happen.

Concluding the Lesson/Closure/Debriefing:

Bring students together to share a few Friendship Pies and discuss what we
have learned about how our actions and words affect others.

Materials/Resources:
2 Apples
Poster Board to create list of characteristics
Text: Because Amelia Smiled
Another poster for the cause and effect anchor chart
Friendship Pie Worksheet (20)

Teaching Behavior Focus:

Teaching Practice:
Teaching students to make sense of concepts by using a logical order and
systematic thinking.
Teaching students the ideas of cause and effect and sequence of events.
o Relating that to how they can make a difference by being kind

Follow-Up Activities/Parent Involvement

Have students go home and talk to their parents about ways they can impact
others through cause and effect
o Have students take notice of ways those around them influence them
Have students record one thing that they witnessed that
impacted their attitude that day and bring it in to discuss
Sharing these ideas will show students how easy it can be to
change the world one step at a time