Lesson+Plan+Example

Instructor: Mrs. Kopp

Date: March 2, 2009

Class: Connections

Class Name: All Classes

Topic: Beauty Introduction

Objective: Students will be able to identify that inner beauty reflects on outer beauty and that they may have more in common with their classmates then they think.

Rationale: The students need to learn this because as they grow up it's important for them to be open minded about meeting new people and to also realize that it's important to be a good person of character and it's less important to be beautiful on the outside.

Lesson Content: During this lesson students will view profiles of two "mystery" students. These profiles will contain information they might know about a peer just by seeing them in school and not talking to them. Students will decide which they'd more likely be friends with and then they will learn about the real student. We will complete inner and outer circles and compare them to see how they may have more in common with their peers than they thought. We will discuss this. Students will complete the webquest about themselves for homework.

Instructional Procedures:

Anticipatory Set: When students walk in they will see a quick writing on the board and they will spend 5 minutes writing about the quote "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." After we will have a short discussion on what they think this means about 5 minutes.

Teaching Procedures: Step 1: Show students profiles of Mystery students Step 2: Students will choose which they'd be friends with based on the profile Step 3: Students will learn about the true stories about the profile kids and we will discuss how your opinion can change once you learn more about a person and you don't judge them by their outward appearance. Step 4: Teacher will demonstrate how to fill out an inner/outer circle by filling her own out on the board Step 5: Students will fill out their own Inner and outer circles Step 6: Students will compare their inner and outer circles with each other and report back on whether or not they were surprised to learn that they had more in common with their peers than before. Step 7: We will discuss these findings as a class. Step 8: Students will be given homework sheet to complete which will be due tomorrow.

Formative Check: Throughout the lesson the teacher will ask students questions to check their progress. Questions will be based on discussions.

Student participation: Students will participate by being asked questions, working in small groups to share, and volunteering to answer questions or participate in the discussions.

Closure: Teacher will ask the students to write a sentence describing how they will react differently to people they don't know after this lesson. We will do a quick share before the students leave.

Evaluation Procedures: Students will be evaluated through question asking and discussion in class.

Materials: Profiles on smart board, inner/outer circles, pens, pencils, paper.

Attached: Inner/outer circle worksheets, Homework webquest, Mystery student profiles