Lesson+Plan+Examples

=**Lesson Plans on FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, and The Great Depression For 3rd Graders: **=
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One week prior to the lesson, I will send a letter to parents informing them of the unit we will begin. I will ask for a parent volunteer to assist with a photography project. ======

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I will also assign the students to take 3-5 pictures which captures the essence of their home life, neighborhoods, or surrounding community. ======

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I will show a slideshow of black and white photographs from the Great Depression era. After viewing, I will ask students to tell me what they could tell about the economic climate and quality of life during the Great Depression. I will ensure that each student who wants to voice an opinion has the opportunity to discuss what they noticed from the slideshow. ======

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I will ask students to fill in KWL chart specifically for the Great Depression with what they already know and what they want to know. ======

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I will give a quick mini lesson on the Great Depression specifically going over Black Friday, the stock market crash, the term dust bowl and what it meant for farmers during this time. We will discuss how these events relate to current economic issues: unemployment, inflation, bank failure, and foreclosures. ======

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Students will then break into groups and take a chaperoned tour of the school taking pictures with a digital camera to convey the “climate” of the school. ======

Students will move to the computer lab to begin a small group scrapblog project which will express the “climate” of their life.
﻿Lesson Two:

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We will begin the lesson by students breaking into randomly assigned groups of 3-4 to read the books: //The Gardener, Potato: A tale from the Great Depression, Dust for Dinner, Rudy rides the rails,// and //Rose’s Journal: The story of a girl in the Great Depression//. ======

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After the students have read their books, they will each present 2-3 main points they learned from the text. Students will move to the big carpet to present these findings and will remain for a group discussion. ======

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Students will engage in a discussion of these topics: How did the Great Depression affect the families/children from the books? What were specific hardships they encountered? What did their families have to do to survive these times? ======

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Once we have covered these topics, I will introduce the WebQuest. Students will be called to line up quietly to retrieve a piece of paper and a pencil and line up at the door to go to the computer lab for this assignment. ======

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Once in the computer lab, students will be seated and I will write the URL ([]) to the WebQuest on the whiteboard for the students. They will be instructed to following this URL to complete their assignment. They will use their pencils and paper to write the answers for the WebQuest. Students will be allowed to work in groups of 2-3 in order to scaffold the thinking of all students. ======