Lesson Plan: The Seasons, foster understanding of environment

Essential Question

1. How do the many seasons influence our lives?
2. Why is it important to understand the seasons?
3. What if the seasons never changed? How do you think life would look like then?
4. Can you picture any fruits and or vegetables that we eat typically see and eat more of during specific seasons? For example pumpkins in the Fall.
5. Why are farmers essential workers of society?
6. If you have ever planted and grown fruits and or vegetables before, how was that experience like? Can you describe how the environment affected the growth of your plants?
7. How much do the seasons affect our diet?
8. In what ways do the seasons influence the way crops grow?
9. Please describe all of the seasons individually.
10. Finally, what is your favorite season ?

Texts

Visual

Iesha Evans

Protesting the death of Alton Sterling and the Baton Rough Police Department’s request for Black Lives Matter demonstrators to clear roadways, Iesha Evans stands in the middle of a street as two Louisiana state troopers, dressed in riot gear, approach to arrest her.

Jonathan Bachman

Grade Level

Subject

Civics

History

Topic

Rights & Activism

January 30, 2017

Teaching Strategies

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Developing Language to Talk About Texts

This strategy gives students tools to use when exploring, thinking about and discussing read-aloud texts.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.3

July 13, 2014

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Liberation Literature and Counter-narratives

This strategy exposes students to literature that places out-group identities at the center of the curriculum.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RI.K-1.1

July 13, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Collage of Concerns

Students create visual artwork combining various images to convey diversity or social justice issues, concerns or themes related to the central text.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

Do Something

Community Bulletin Board

Students showcase artwork and nonfiction writing that addresses issues they found in the text. The result is a visual, collaborative and creative representation of student learning and ideas. An alternative to the bulletin board is a community newsletter.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

Do Something

Community Puzzle Mural

Students create a community puzzle mural, a large-scale artistic depiction, usually displayed in a community space. Puzzle pieces covered in student’s artwork relating to diversity, anti-bias or social justice themes from the central text comprise the mural.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

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Lesson Plan: The Seasons, foster understanding of environment

Iesha Evans

Developing Language to Talk About Texts

Liberation Literature and Counter-narratives

Collage of Concerns

Community Bulletin Board

Community Puzzle Mural

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