Better Community, Better Life: Teachers' Lesson Plan Competition Template
* compulsory fields – you may use as many pages as you need. Lesson plan title*: SHOW Our Love to Community!
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Better Community – Better Life theme*: People & Community Curriculum area*: Social Sience
Suggested cross-curriculum links: English, Environmental Education
Suggested level / age*: six graders (11 or 12-year-old students) with three-year English learning experiences.
Lesson length*: 120 minutes
Learning objectives*: 1. Be able to understand their roles in the community. 2. Be able to develop the love for the community. 3. Be able to cultivate the responsibility for the community. 4. Be able to understand some English words about the community. Links to previous learning / curriculum fit: 1. Have known some concepts about community in social science classes. 2. Have visited some places in the community, such as park, market, stores, swimming pool. 3. Have done some assignment about community to know the people in the family and around the community. Resources*: 1. The pictures of places in the community. 2. The posters or powerpoints that students have made.
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Starter / Introduction Timing 40 minutes
Groupings Whole calss Students are divided into five groups
Activity Warm-up 1. Show students the pictures of places in the community. 2. Ask them if they have ever been to these places, and how they feel about these places Presentation 1. Show students the poster of community. 2. Teach key places words of the community, scuh as park, school, department store, convenience store, hospital, police station. Practice Drills 1. Have students repeat the key words after teacher with flash cards. 2. Practice in groups and individually. 3. Call up individuals and check their pronunciation. Activity--Charde 1. Devide students into two teams. 2. Have one student from each team come to the front. 3. Have that student do actions or describe a place in the community and others guess what is that place word. 4. If the answer is guessed rigth, that team can win one point. 5. If the answer is wrong, the other team can have the chance to win one point. 6. Two teams take turns doing this activity. Wrap-up 1. Review all the place words of community. 2. Have students prepare the materials about the topic--‘People & Community’, like pictures, interview questions, posters. Main activities*
Timing 40 minutes
Groupings Students are divided into five groups
Activity Warm-up 1. Talk about how teacher feels about the community, such as the people, special events, the places that teacher ususally go or the activities that teacher ususally do. Activity-Group Discussion 1. Have students discuss some questions in group. 2. Questions—
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(1) Where do you ususally go in the community? (2) What do you ususally do when you are free? (3) Do you like the community? Why? Why not? (4) What can we do for our community? Group Presentation 1. Have one from each group come to the front and share group members’expereinces. Wrap-up 1. Give students assignment. (1) Have groups pick up a topic to do research, discuss how to do it and how to present what they have researched. (2) Have groups write the work sharing chart and working schedule. (3) Have groups prepare a mini play as a oral presentation and make a poster as a written presetnation. 2. If students have any questions, they can contact teacher at any time. Plenary / Summary Timing 40 minutes Presention time for each group is about 5-7 minutes.
Groupings Five groups
Activity Warm-up 1. Decide the order of group performance. 2. Have groups rehearse their mini play. Presentation- Mini play & Poster Dispaly 1. Have groups do a mini play one by one. 2. Right after the mini play, have students display their
group’s poster and do one-minute introduction. Wrap-up 3. Give general comments and specific comments for individual groups.
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