Debrief Poverty

Lesson title
Understanding Social Issues: Poverty
Unit title

--Date
Social Studies/4th Grade/50 minutes
Subject/grade level/lesson duration

Objectives/learner outcomes What knowledge, skills, and dispositions are students

expected to demonstrate as a result of the lesson?
Students will be able to use their definition of poverty and apply it to extreme
poverty that they will experience
Students will take all previous knowledge they have learned about poverty to
review
Standards addressed What Core Standards (English/Language Arts, Math,
Disciplinary Literacy) or DPI model academic standards (Science, Social Studies,
Foreign Language) are specifically addressed in the lesson?
E.4.2 Explain the influence of factors such as family, neighborhood, personal
interests, language, likes and dislikes, and accomplishments on individual
identity and development
E.4.9 Explain how people learn about others who are different from
themselves
Materials/resources/technology What materials/resources/technology are needed to
support instructional procedures?
SmartBoard with presentation slides
Worksheet for students reflections from field trip
Introduction to lesson
Purpose How will you state the purpose of the lesson?
Today we will be continuing our learning about Poverty. We will be talking
about the field trip that we went on yesterday to the homeless shelter. We will
also be reviewing everything we have learned about poverty and our big
question of what causes poverty?
Prior learning How will you make connections to prior learning?
I want you all to pull out your answers to the reflections I had you consider
from the field trip yesterday. We will be using that as well as other
information we have learned in order to discuss our thoughts and reactions
to poverty.
This connection to prior learning will pull on the definition we created/discussed
in the previous class period, as well as other prior learning done on the topic of
poverty.

Connections to personal/cultural/community assets How will you make

connections to your students strengths as a way to motivate students to engage in
the learning activities you have planned?
There will be connection to the students background starting off with the prior
learning aspect of the lesson. Furthermore, I will make connections to the
students culture through the topic of research they will be doing in class.
Content/procedures/sequence (Be sure to include estimated time allotment for each
activity)
Content outline

Instructional procedures/sequence of activities

Connection to prior
learning/discussion of
reactions to the field trip (20
minutes)

(see above for language used to introduce this and

discussion around it)

Review of main points from

previous lessons/overall
connection of all lessons (25
minutes)

Now what I would like us to do is take all of the

information that we have learned in the past few
lessons, and take a look at this booklet I have
created for you about poverty. We are going to
discuss, evaluate, and justify reasons for our big
question What causes poverty?
I want everyone to be engaging in discussion. I
have provided you a blank page in the back of
your booklets for you to take notes on our
discussion today. This will help with the
assessment we will be completing tomorrow.
We will be completing this discussion in a
fishbowl fashion. I would like 5 volunteers to
come to the middle. You will be the ones talking
and everyone else will be an active listener.
After the first 4 minutes of the discussion, I will
allow other students to jump in and take the
spot of a student in the fishbowl.

Closure (5 minutes)

(see below)

Closure
Summary of lesson How will you bring the lesson to a close? (One-two
statements that you will say at the end of the lesson)

Today we took our big question of what causes poverty, and we discussed
how it impacts our past, present, and more importantly our community. We
also got the chance to justify varying causes to poverty, which hits on our big
question.
Assignment What independent work will be assigned?
There will be no assignment for this lesson. The students will only need to review
their booklet for class tomorrow.
Assessment
Student learning What DATA or EVIDENCE will you use to evaluate each of
your learning outcomes (listed in Section A)? (Give a brief description)
Student-led discussion will be how I evaluate my learning outcomes in todays
lesson. The students will be required to take the discussion into their own hands.
I will make note of those students who are participating, and actively listening. It
is key that the students participate in todays discussion because it will be
pertinent to their success tomorrow.