Hailey Rhum

Health and Social Skills

9/16/13

Lesson Title: Kind Words

Grade Level: 1

Iowa Core Curriculum and 21st Century Skills

Health Literacy-Essential Concepts and Key Elements
1. Essential Concept #2 : Understand and use interactive literacy and social
skills to enhance personal, family, and community health.
a. Key element: Demonstrate social and communication skills to enhance
health and safety.
2. Essential Concept #3 : Recognize critical literacy and thinking skills
related to personal, family, and community wellness.
a. Key element: Demonstrate decision making skills
Concept Area(s): Using kind words
Outcomes/Behaviors:
1. Students will see the way that mean words hurt Paper
2. Students will participate in putting Paper back together
3. Students will use kind words with their classmates
Assessment Evidence
A. Performance Task: Coming up with kind words in order to tape Paper back
together
Lesson Plan
A. Reminders for teacher:
Tape up the new student Paper
Have the whiteboard previously prepared with Humpty Dumpty illustration
Prepare new bulletin board for Kindness Day detectives
B. Active Plan:
Welcome students to class for the day
Tell students they have a new classroom and look around the room to find
her
Introduce Paper and have everyone welcome her to class
Ask students how they think she feels being the new student

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G.

Point out Leanne and use her as an example of being new to the
classroom, and how she felt being the new girl
Ask students to put their thumb up if anyone has ever said anything mean
to them before and discuss how these mean things made them feel
Explain to students/ Forewarn them about how you are going to say mean
things, but only for this lesson
Say mean things to Paper, and rip a part of her each time you say
something
Explain to students how all the mean words tore her apart, and how this is
the same thing that happens when they say mean things to people
(except their arms and legs dont literally fall off)
Ask students what they think will help Paper better
Choose students one at a time to come to the front of the room
Instruct students to say something nice to Paper and tape a piece of her
back to the board
When all students have taped a piece of Paper back up, and all the pieces
are there, ask students if she looks the same as in the beginning
Explain how mean words leave scars, and you arent the same after
people say mean things to you
Show the Humpty Dumpty illustration on the board and have students
recite the Humpty Dumpty rhyme
Explain how Humpty Dumpty couldnt be out back together again/how this
ties to hurtful words
Show students the new bulletin board about Kind Words day and ask them
to become kindness detectives, so they can post kind words their
classmates say to the board
Steps for students:
Answer teachers questions
Participate in discussions about how mean words make them feel
Participate in putting Paper back together
Become kindness day detectives
Materials:
A Paper person
Pieces of tape
Lesson plan
Approximate time:
20 minutes
Modifications
Make sure that students seated next to each other get along and will be
able to focus on the lesson
Resources
Barbara Bakker, Health Professor at UNI

Reflection

What happened during my lesson?

What did my students learn? How do I know?
What did I learn about my students and about teaching?
How would I revise my lesson, and how, based on today?