LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Your Name: Alexander Kubes

Title of Lesson: Poverty of the Real World
Grade: 10th grade
STANDARDS

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2.A
Introduce a topic and organize ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections
and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and
multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
Concept 3:
Macroeconomics PO 1.
Determine how inflation, unemployment, and gross domestic product statistics are used in policy
decisions.
LESSON SUMMARY/OVERVIEW
Students will research Poverty in the United States. Students will be introduced to poverty on the first day of
the unit the students will watch a video introducing them to poverty. The second day they will be going over a
provided website about poverty and have to fill out a graphic organizer about the website and its different
parts. The third day the students will get into groups and find their own websites on poverty and have to give
a short presentation of their website to the class. The fourth day the students will create a graphic organizer
of all they have learned so they can write a paper to present the next day, they will provide a program or plan
to help solve the poverty issue in the United States. Students will present their solution to the class in a speech
or a short presentation.
OBJECTIVES
Students will learn how connect topics using information they have gathered throughout the week. They will
have to use all their connections to put together a solution to a problem in the form of a formal speech. They
will learn about the poverty issue that the United States is facing, they will learn about the unemployment
rate and all other subjects surrounding poverty.
ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION
I will be grading the students on their overall presentation, word fluency, concept ideas, and resources.
Students will be graded in a scale of 1-5 by how thorough they are with each of these different areas.
PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE
Students will have to learn about poverty issues that affect the United States. The students will have to learn
what programs are already in effect against poverty.
MATERIALS
Computer, pen, paper, white board, markers, and graphic organizers.
VOCABULARY/KEY WORDS

Unemployed- without a paid job but available to work.

Poverty- the state of being extremely poor
Demographic- relating to the structure of population
Population- inhabitants of a locations
Bankrupt- federal law declaring one cannot pay off ones debt.
Poverty Line- level of household income needed in an area to provide for an independent
Malnourished- not properly taken care of, food wise, shelter wise, ect.
TEACHING PROCEDURES
Procedural Steps (Step by step instructions for teaching the lesson):

Students will be greeted once they enter class. They will go to their assigned seats so they may receive
instruction. Teacher will instruct the students to get out their laptop and start making a graphic organizer
with the information they gained from all the research they learned earlier in the week. Students will have to
make up an organizer that they use for their final presentation. The presentation will be about a program to
use to combat poverty. Teacher will observe students and then teach where need be by helping students with
their ideas and how to put their ideas into points to help their presentation.
RESOURCES
WAYS OF THINKING CONNECTION
The lesson plan will provide future thinking to the students. The students will be able to use the knowledge
they gain about poverty through this lesson to help them realize how serious this issue is for the United States.
When students learn about how people come into the state of poverty and how hard their lives are they will
be able to avoid this path to poverty. They will also be able to help others that are in poverty other than just
leave them to suffer.