ECE TPA Lesson Plan

1. Teacher
Candidate
Cooperating
Teacher
2. Subject
3. Lesson
Title/Focus

Meagan Snively

4. Grade Level

3rd

Date taught
School/District

Sociocultural
I am a World
Traveler

Field Supervisor
5. Length of
Lesson

1 Hour
a day a
week

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.3
6. Academic &
Content Standards Ask and answer questions about information from a
(GLEs/EARLs/Nation speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
al)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.8

Recall information from experiences or gather

information from print and digital sources; take brief
notes on sources and sort evidence into provided
categories
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1.C

Ask questions to check understanding of information

presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to
the remarks of others.

7. Learning
Objective(s)
8. Academic
Language
Objective(s)

To learn about different cultures that is in our

classroom.
Culture, Passport

9. Assessment
Informative: We will cut out and make a passport book. The first
page will have their picture and simple information like: name, grade
and teacher. The pages following will be fill in the blank, where they
will be asked to draw the countrys flag and simple facts on the
country (food, animals, etc.) that are specific to that country. They
will get their information from guest speakers. Guest speakers will be

from the students parents or community members and will be asked

through invitation. Students will be broken into groups of two or
three to work on this and at the end of each day they will receive a
stamp of accomplishment for the specific culture. At the end of the
week we will have a party to celebrate all the cultures. They will be
graded on completion and participation in the lessons.
10. Lesson Rationale
Upon what assessment data or previous lessons are you building?
Answer: Before this lesson we spent some time looking into the
geography of continents and countries.

WHAT requisite skills do students need in order to access the lesson & participate
fully?
Answer: Students need to understand the basics of what the world
looks like. They also need the skills of answering and asking questions
and effectively listening to the speaker.
How does the content build on what the students already know and are able to do?
Answer: Since the students already know about the different countries
now we want to take that one step forward and research specific
cultures that are within that country.
HOW does this lesson fit in the curriculum?
Answer: It is teaching students to listen and answer questions.
Students will also be working on communication skills while they work
with each other. This lesson is also tied into geography where the
students will learn where these cultures are located.
By teaching this lesson, how will this add to student learning?
Answer: We are giving them an insight to different cultures.
How does the lesson build on previous lessons or previous learning?
Answer: Since they already know the countries, this lesson will go one
step deeper so they understand each culture.
How will the learning in this lesson be further developed in subsequent lessons?
Answer: After the lesson is finished, students will conduct a small
project on the culture of choice and write a short essay on it.

11. Instructional Strategies/Learning Tasks to Support Learning

Learning Tasks and Strategies
1. One day before the lesson is planned to
start:
a. The teacher will explain the project in
detail. This includes creating rules

with the students for when the guest

comes in, what are the questions they
will answer, the learning objective and
how to create the passport.
b. The teacher will then pass out the
materials for the passport. (Premade
cover, front page and information
pages, yarn, scissors, coloring utensils
and a picture of the student.)
c. Students will put together their book
and decorate it as they want.
2. The actual lessons
a. Remind the students of the
expectations
b. Make sure they have all their
materials prepared ahead of time.
c. Have the speaker come in and give
their presentation
d. After allow time for questions and
exploration of the culture
e. Then students will sit at their desk
and finish what they need to in their
passport books.
Teachers Role
1. Provide the
materials to
make the
passport
books.
2. Bring in
guest
speakers.
(start
inviting at
least a
month
before hand)
3. Collect the
passport
books every
day so the
students

Students Role
1. Help the teacher create
expectations for having
a guest speaker.
2. Fill in their passport
book and make it
unique to them.
3. Active listening to the
guest speaker
4. Ask questions to the
speaker
5. Complete the passport
book

Rationale
I want the students
to be able to learn
by experience.
This is why I am
bringing in
community
members and
parents to talk
about their own
cultures.

dont loose
them

Student Voice to gather

Students will be able to understand their culture a little more as well as
others in the classroom. From this they will make connections and
compare to their own culture with each other. And realize that just
because it is a different culture there may be similarities.

12. Differentiated Instruction

Plan

Rationale

I plan to have the students well

We want the students to learn and
aware of the pre-knowledge that
practice these skills for their future
they need. Such as practicing their as students. We want them to be
listening skills and being able to
comfortable asking questions as
formulate questions. This should
well as learning the basics on how
not be used as individual work but
to work well in a group.
more towards group work.

13. Resources and Materials

Plan
Need guest speakers
Premade passport books
Scissors
Cups with crayons
Colored Pencils
Yarn
Picture of the students
Glue

Rationale
The majority of the work will be by
the students filling in and
decorating their passport book.

14. Management and Safety Issues

Plan
Rationale
Every student will remain at their
We want our students to be as
seats during the activity. When
safe as possible. Whenever doing
using scissors they must stay in
crafts they need to stay in their
their seats no one should be
seats.
walking (or running) around with
scissors.
The teacher also much stay in the
room at all times while the guest
is there.

The teacher needs to stay in the

room for liability issues.

14. Parent & Community Connections

Plan
Rationale
I plan to invite in different parents We want to do this so it is
and community members to come someone with the highest
talk about their cultures.
experience. They also might have
different things from their culture.
For example: an instrument, a flag
some kind of art, etc.

15. Assessment Rubric

The student was

engaged in the
guest speaker as
well as fully
completed the
passport book

The student was

engaged in the
guest speaker
but was missing
parts of each
page.

The student was

not very
engaged in the
guest speaker or
missing 1-5
pages or
majority of the
pages are not
completed.

The student was

not engaged in
the guest
speaker and/or
there were 6-10
pages missing.

The student
not complet
passport bo

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