Big Idea: Active listeners make meaning from what they hear by questioning, reflecting, responding, and evaluating.

Library Information Concept: Identifying Main Ideas

Grade Band 3-5
Stage 1: Desired Results
Established Goals:
English Language Arts Common Core Standards:
CC.1.2.3.G: Use information gained from text features to demonstrate understanding of a text.
CC.1.3.3.B: Ask and answer questions about the text and make inferences from text, referring to text to support responses.
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Standards for the 21 -Century Learner:

2.1.5: Collaborate with others to exchange ideas, develop new understandings, make decisions, and solve problems.
2.2.3: Employ a critical stance in drawing conclusions by demonstrating that the pattern of evidence leads to a decision or conclusion.
2.3.1: Connecting understanding to the real world.
2.4.2: Recognize new knowledge and understanding.

Understandings (Students will understand that):

Active listeners make meaning from what they hear
by questioning, reflecting, responding, and
evaluating.

Competencies (Students will know/be able to):

Recall details from the story after listening to Duck for President by Doreen Cronin.
Dramatize Duck for President through the use of Google Forms.
Answer both questions on the Exit Form with 100% accuracy.
Demonstrate ability to join a Google Classroom.
Locate library books during Book Selection on the shelves independently.

What understandings/competencies will be assessed through this task?

Students will actively participate in the retelling of Duck for President through participating in their own campaign discussion, voter registration, election, and
results reveal. Throughout this lesson, students will also learn briefly about the current presidential election.

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October 8, 2016

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

Performance Task: Participating in an Imaginary Presidential Election

Suggested Grade: 3

After answering some questions about our current presidential election, you are going to read a somewhat different approach to a presidential election. This
approach is different because in our story today, a duck wants to run for president. The book is called Duck for President and it is written by Doreen Cronin.
As I read, you should listen for the many steps that the animals and people go through to participate in the elections in our story. After the story, you are
going to get to log-on to your Chromebook at your seat. I have already placed your Chromebook at your assigned seats and so, you do not need to worry
about locating your technology today. Your first job is to access Google Classroom while we talk about some good and not-so-good qualities that a president
could or should have. Once you are logged on and connected to our Google Classroom, we will go through the steps of participating in an election together
on the Google Form that can be located on the Google Classroom that you have just accessed. First, you will complete your Voters Registration Form. Our
form has two requirements to be allowed to vote. In order to vote, you must be a third grade student at your school and have read Duck for President by
Doreen Cronin in your school. If you do not meet one or either of the requirements, you will not be allowed to vote in todays election. After you have
completed your Voters Registration Form successfully, you will be given the chance to vote. The last page you will have to complete is your Exit Ticket. The
Exit Ticket asks you two questions about the real election in the United States of America. Answer these two questions by yourself and submit your form.
When you are done, you may log-off while the teachers recount the votes (just like what happens in a real election!). Once everyone is logged off, the winner
of the election will be revealed. Finally, you will get to do your book selection for this week. We will end class with a quick review of the answers to the Exit
Ticket while you stand in line and wait to leave the library.
This lesson is important to you because this is very likely the first presidential election that you will remember and it is very important for you to be informed
of how the election process works in the United States of America.

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October 8, 2016

Performance Task Rubric: Participating in an Imaginary Presidential Election

English Language Arts Standards
Suggested Grade: 3
Big Idea: Active listeners make meaning from what they hear by questioning, reflecting, responding, and
evaluating.
Library Information Concept: Identifying Main Ideas

Criteria for Success

Access Google Classroom, Voters Registration,
and Election Day Pages

Levels of
Achievement

3
Proficient

2
Developing

1
Needs
Improving

Answering Exit Ticket

Accesses Google Classroom, Voters Registration, and

Election Day pages with no assistance from the teacher
librarian with the exception of the model demonstration.
Successfully submits the Google Form before
participating in Book Selection.

Answers and submits both questions correctly.

Accesses Google Classroom, Voters Registration, and

Election Day pages with some assistance - asking for
assistance 2 to 3 times.
Successfully submits the Google Form before
participating in Book Selection.
Accesses Google Classroom, Voters Registration, and
Election Day pages with constant assistance asking
for help 4 or more times.
Successfully submits the Google Form with help before
participating in book selection.

Answers and submits one out of two questions

correctly.

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Answers and submits none out of two questions

correctly.

Stage 3 Learning Plan: Sequenced Instructional Strategies and Student Learning Experiences
Performance Task:

Participating in an Imaginary Presidential Election

Suggested Grades: 3

Sequenced teaching and student learning experiences that engage students to develop and demonstrate their
understandings and competencies

Content:

Identifying the steps of an election

Identifying the current candidates for the real 2016 presidential election for America
Retelling the story by dramatizing it on Google Forms
Recalling the two requirements to be permitted to vote in the United States of America
Explaining positive and negative reasoning for Duck or Farmer Brown being elected president of our school

Instructional Strategies:

Model accessing Google Classroom

Demonstrate how to participate in the step-by-step process of the election
Encourage students to work independently and quietly like in a real place that is taking ballots for an election
Ask students to identify what the two requirements are to vote in the United States of America
Question students during the story for comprehension

Student Learning Experiences:

Access Google Classroom via e-mail

Complete a Voters Registration form successfully
Participate in an election between Duck and Farmer Brown
Answer questions on Exit Ticket independently
Locate books for Book Selection independently by finding the books on the shelves and/or using the online catalog

Sequencing:

Prior Knowledge Assessment: Discussing the current candidates for our presidential election.
Timeframe: Short-range

Potential Collaboration:
Grade-level teacher in a Social Studies lesson
Community members who may have participated in/won an election for their town in years past

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Stage 3 Learning Plan: Resources to Support the Learning Plan

Performance Task: Participating in an Imaginary Presidential Election
Format
Books (fiction,

Suggested Grade: 3

Suggested Resources for Librarian and Teacher to Use in Instruction

Resource

Cronin, Doreen. Duck for President. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004.

Websites

Google Form Copy of DAY 4: Duck Vs. Farmer Brown Election (found on Day 4, 3 Grades Google Classroom
page)

Teaching
Equipment,
Technology, &
Supplies

SmartBoard
Chromebook for SmartBoard
30 Chromebooks for students

informational texts,
narrative nonfiction,
drama, poetry)

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The Model Curriculum for Pennsylvania School Library Programs, Grade Band 3-5
October 8, 2016