ETE 335

Elementary Social Studies Lesson

Gardners Multiple Intelligences
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardners Multiple Intelligences
Ashley Roth
Civics and Government-Citizenship
3
rd
grade
Being a Responsible Citizen

ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardners Multiple Intelligences
Goals:
Students will be able to identify and describe aspects of
being a responsible citizen.
Objectives:
Content/Knowledge:
Students will be able to identify concepts such as
patriotism, respect for the law, civility and working with
others.
Students will be able to apply these aspects to their own
lives.
Process/Skills:
Students will be able to list and draw different aspects of
being a responsible citizen.
Values/Dispositions:
Students will be able to learn and understand how to
respect one another and the law.
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardners Multiple Intelligences
Rationale:
This lesson is important because students need to
understand what they can and should do to be a
responsible citizen and respecting others.
Standards State Illinois Common Core or
Learning Standards
C. Understand election processes and responsibilities of
citizens.
14.C.1 Identify concepts of responsible citizenship
including respect for the law, patriotism, civility and
working with others.
National NCSS Themes
Civil ideals and Practices, Power/Authority and
Government, Individual development.

Logical/Mathematical
Logical/Mathematical
In this activity students will be counting how
many containers each family recycles.
(estimating how many pop cans, milk cartons
etc.) In the activity the students will be
learning math as well as understanding why it
is important to recycle.

Materials:
-Cut outs of different items that can be
recycled.
-Paper
-Pencil

Verbal/Linguistic
Verbal/Linguistic
In this activity students will write their own
paper (a 2 or 3 sentences) why they are or are
not responsible in class, must have 2 reasons
why. Once every student is done, the students
will read their paper, explaining to the class
why or why not. This activity has students
think to themselves what it takes to be
responsible. Then as a group the class will
discuss how they are responsible citizens,
outside of school.
Materials:
-YouTube clip
-Paper
-Pencil
Musical/Rhythmic
Musical/Rhythmic
Students will get in groups of three and
create a song or a rap that they can sing to
the class about being a responsible citizen-
can link to any holidays that they have
previously studied (patriotism). Within the rap
they must include 3 examples and the rap or
song must be at least 30 seconds long. The
students can write it out and use the paper if
they want to while performing.
Materials:
-Group sheet of paper
-One group member will write
Visual/Spatial
Visual/Spatial
In this activity, students will create a picture
of the effect of being a responsible citizen. For
example a student could choose helping
others and the effect of that would be a closer
and safer community. There are so many
options for this visual activity.
Body/Kinesthetic
Body/Kinesthetic
In this activity students will be paired with
another student. They will create a two parts
to a skit. The first part being responsible for
their actions, and the second not caring (not
working with others) etc. The students will
then present their skit-making the situation
seem real and come to life.

Materials:
-Paper
-Pencil
-Skit
Interpersonal
Interpersonal
In this activity students will be assigned
groups. Within each group, they will create a
poster on a way or two ways they can be a
better and more responsible citizen. Each
groups poster should have all the group
members names, the ways in which they can
be more responsible, a picture, and how they
can influence other people to be more
responsible citizens. In this activity students
are interacting and working together with one
another.
Intrapersonal
Intrapersonal
In this activity students will reflect on their
life so far. They will answer this question, If
someone were to ask you to define how to be
a responsible citizen in one sentence how
would you define it? Intrapersonal is about
students reflecting and doing a journal is an
awesome way to get feedback on what the
students are thinking and learning.

Materials:
-Writing notebooks
-Pencils
-Prompt
Naturalistic
Naturalistic
In this activity students will take a field trip
within the community. As a class they will
decide on one way they can all improve and
be a better and more responsible citizen. For
example: it may be picking up trash, or
helping elderly people. Doing this activity will
allow student to apply what they have been
learning throughout all the activities and show
what they have learned.

Materials:
-Classmates
-Field trip activity
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardners Multiple Intelligences
Visual Learning and Assessment:
Visual Learning, Assessment, and Online Resources:
Visual Learning:
NOTE: Be sure to include one image that is germane
to the focus of your lesson on each of the 8 lesson
activity PowerPoint slides.
Assessment:
I will assess the students based on the poster they
have created, and the information and pictures
provided on the poster.

Online Resources:

https://delicious.com/ashleynicole21