Lesson 3

Shannon Dusute

Content:

A Standards

K-C2.0.1 Identify our countrys flag as an important

symbol of the United States.
K-C2.0.2 Explain why people do not have a right to do
whatever they want (e.g., to promote fairness, ensure the
common good, maintain safety).
PK-2.CC.2. Use a variety of developmentally appropriate
digital tools (e.g., word processors, paint programs) to
communicate ideas to classmates, families, and others.

B Enduring Understandings &

Essential Questions

The American flag symbolizes freedom.

As citizen of the United States we have freedom, but we
still have rules and laws to follow.
Why is it important for us to have laws and rules?
What could happen if we did not have laws and rules?

C Objectives: (SWBAT)

Students will be able to give examples of scenarios of

what it may be like if people did not follow laws or rules.
Students will be able to create a virtual book using their
iPad.
Students will be able to respond to comments/questions on
the class blog as a group.

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Assessment:
A Formative Assessment (Active
Strategies to Check for
Understanding, Guide Practice,
Exit Class, etc.)

B Summative Assessment (when

appropriate quizzes, objective
tests, essays, projects, etc.)
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Instruction:

- Teacher will check for understanding throughout the

lesson through group discussions and questions.
- Students will submit their virtual book entry displaying a
scenario of why it is important that we have rules to the
teacher.
N/A

A Anticipatory Set

- At the circle the teacher will discuss with students how the other
day they learned about why the American flag is an important
symbol of the United States of America.
- Ask students, Does anyone remember the other day how we read
about and discussed some different things that our flag symbolizes?
Can you give me some examples? Allow students to respond to the
question. If students dont mention Freedom bring it up in the
discussion. Ask students, What is Freedom? and define freedom
for students explaining that, Freedom allows us to act, speak, or
think as we want. Although we are a free country, we still have laws
and rules to follow.

B Instructional
Activities (includes
Introduction,
Presentation, Clues for
Discovery, Modeling,
and engagement in
gradual release, as
planned)

- Continue the discussion asking students, Why do you think we

still have laws and rules to follow?
- Share the cover of What If Everybody Did That? by Ellen
Javernick. Tell students, To help us understand why we have laws
and rules were going to read this book.
- Before the story is read aloud to the students the teacher will do a
walk through of the text with the students. The teacher will display
each page for all the students to see on the ELMO. The left pages in
the text it displays the little boy in the book and a scenario where he
is breaking a rule. Ask students, What is the problem here? Then
ask students, What would it be like if everyone did this? Dont
show the right page of the text until the story is being read aloud,
this allows the students to see if their predictions were correct.
- The teacher will read the text aloud and display the pictures for
students to see. After each scenario the teacher will ask students,
What is it like if everyone did this? Were our predictions correct?
- As a class discuss different What if? situations. Stress situations
that would be harmful or dangerous if we all did it. (e.g., What if we
all ran in different directions on the track? Someone could get hurt
from running into each other. This is why we have the rule to run in
one direction on the track.)
- Students will work together to create their own What If
Everybody Did That? book. Students will work individually
drawing a picture of a scenario where they are doing something that
may be breaking a rule and then drawing a picture of what it may
look like if everybody did that scenario. The teacher will give an

example of pictures she drew of one person sharing out loud

without raising their hand, and another picture of everyone sharing
out loud without raising their hand. Relate this picture to how we
have a rule in our classroom about raising our hand before we share
at circle.
-The teacher will model what students will do with their pictures
after they are completed. Students will take their iPads and take a
picture of their drawings and add a narration to their pictures in the
app Book Creator for iPad. Their narration will explain what the
scenario is and what happens if everybody did it.

With special attention

to:

- Students will begin working on their drawings and book. After the
pairs complete their book on the iPad they will save it to icloud. The
teacher will access the students books and combine all of the
entries. All of the entries will be combined into one book, which can
be shared on the classroom blog for others to view and comment on.
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Differentiatio
- For lower level or ELL students
n
they may have a scenario
provided for them to draw out.
These scenarios may be things
that they experience in school
such as: one person going down
the slide at a time, or no running
allowed in the hallways.
- Students at the grade level will
choose a scenario of their own.
- Students at a higher-level will
choose a scenario outside of
school to draw and narrate on.
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Higher Order
Thinking

- Students are analyzing why we

have rules and what may happen
if we didnt.
- Students are creating their own
book to share their understanding
of why we have rules.
- Students may act out some of
the scenarios if it is not harmful

to themselves or others, these

videos may be added to the
virtual book.
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Technology
Students will use the app Book
Creator for iPad to create a page
for the class book:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/b
ook-creator-foripad/id442378070?mt=8

C Gradual Release
Techniques (See
Formative Assessment
Checking for
Understanding,
Guided Practice,
Independent Practice,
Class Exit)

D Closure

- Students will view the virtual book on the SMART board with all
of the entries combined.
- The teacher will upload the virtual book to the class blog. The
class will have a discussion on what question they may post on the
blog with their virtual book (e.g., Why do you think its important
for us to have rules/laws?)

- The virtual book will be posted on the blog with the question the
class created.
- Throughout the week at large group time the class will check on
the blog for comments and answers to their questions. The class will
give the teacher feedback on what their responses or comments
should be.

Reflection:

A How can I and they do better?

B What are they and what am I

ready to do next?

- Students could role-play different situations. These

situations could include everyone talking at once and
discussing how an individual person couldnt be heard.
This is why we have a rule that one person talks at a time.
- The next lesson will introduce campaigning and voting
for different things such as rules. This will introduce how
we make decisions like what should be a rule or a law.

Book Creator for iPad iTunes App

By Red Jumper Limited
Cost: $4.99
Features:
- Add text
- Add photos and images from your iPads photo library or web
- Resize, rotate and position content as you like
- Add video and music, and even record your voice
- Use the pen tool to draw and annotate your book
- Share your book by email, AirDrop, cloud service, save as a movie and upload to the web, or
print as a PDF

What If Everybody Did That?

By Ellen Javernick
$6.50 on Amazon
Summary:
If you drop just one soda can out the window, its no big deal ... right? But what if everybody did
that? What if everybody broke the rules ... and spoke during story time, didnt wash up, or
splashed too much at the pool? Then the world would be a mess. But what if everybody obeyed

the rules so that the world would become a better place? Using humorous illustrations rendered
in mixed media, these questions are answered in a child-friendly way and show the consequences
of thoughtless behavior.