Lesson #1:

Pilgrims

Lesson #2: First

Thanksgiving

Lesson #3:
Pollination

Lesson #4:
Read Aloud

Goal

Students will
gain an overall
understanding
of how the
Pilgrim and
Native American
peoples worked
together to
promote
progress.

Students will gain

an overall
understanding of
how the Pilgrim
and Native
American peoples
worked together
to promote
progress.

Students will
understand that
living
organisms work
together to
survive.

Students will
understand that
working
together is more
powerful than
working alone.

Objective

After exploring
the daily life of
Pilgrims in the
1620s, students
will accurately
describe how
the Pilgrims
worked together
to build housing,
make clothing
and do chores in
their flip book.

After participating
in the centers,
students will write
an essay about
how the Pilgrims
and Native
Americans worked
together to create
the Thanksgiving
celebration.

After exploring
the process of
pollination
throughout the
lesson,
students will
accurately
describe how
bees and
flowers work
together to
survive.

Students will
identify the
social injustice
of poverty in
Four Feet, Two
Sandals and
come up with
ways
individually and
as a class to
remedy this
injustice in their
own community.

Standards

NCSS: PPE; IAS:

2.1.4, 2.1.1
ISTE: 2a

NCSS: PPE; IAS:

2.1.4, 2.1.1

IAS: 2.LS.3

IAS: 2.RL.2.2

Materials

Nametags,
markers,
whiteboards,
flipbooks, timer

If You Were at the

First Thanksgiving
by Anne Kamma,
squares of
construction paper
and markers,
game materials
(see LP)

Brown paper
bags, flower cut
outs, scissors,
crayons, bag of
Cheetos,
container of
powered sugar

Four Feet, Two

Sandals, sticky
notes, large
outline of a
shoe, giant
sticky note

Managemen
t

Students vs.
Teacher point
system

Girls vs. Boys

point system

Teacher vs.
Students point
system

Teacher vs.
Students point
system

Anticipatory
Set

Pilgrim
nametags: each
student chooses
a Pilgrim name

Web graphic on a
giant sticky note
of students
experiences with
Thanksgiving

Giant sticky
note: what the
students know
about bees and
flowers already

What would it
be like with one
shoe?

Purpose

So today you
guys are going
to pretend to be
Pilgrims coming
to America!
Because you
are still on your
way to America,
you need to find
out what daily
life will be like
when you get
there! We will
explore how
you will work
together to
build your
houses, make
your clothing
and do your
chores!

Today we are
going to learn
about the very
first Thanksgiving
and how the
Pilgrims and
Native Americans
worked together
to celebrate their
harvest and
express their
thankfulness.

Today we are
going to
explore the
relationship
between bees
and flowers
and how they
work together
to help one
another
survive.

Today, I am
going to read
you a story
about two girls
who only had
one shoe! Its
called Four
Feet, Two
Sandals. I want
you to pay
attention to
what life is like
for these two
girls. We are
going to be
looking for the
main message
of this story and
how we could
work
individually and
together in our
community to
solve the
problem these
girls face.

Lesson
Presentatio
n

INPUT:
Discussion/Vide
o/ PowerPoint/
Review
OUTPUT:
Flipbook

INPUT:
Explanation of 3
centers (see LP)
OUTPUT:
Stations (See LP)
1.Thankfulness
Quilt
2.Read Aloud
3.Games

INPUT:
Video/Instructio
n (drawings)
Pollination
activity (See
LP)
OUTPUT:
Journal entry

INPUT:
Four Feet, Two
Sandals
OUTPUT:
Grand convo,
individual idea
to help, class
discussion
about working
together, exit
slip

Closure

Good job today.

Next time we
will learn about
the Native
Americans.

Three students
share something
from one station
that they learned.

Good job today.

When you see
bees next, you
can think of
how they work
together with
flowers.

Great ideas.
Explain
summative
assessment
(exit slip)

Formative
Assessment

Observation and
questioning
throughout
lesson

Observation and
questioning
throughout lesson

Observation
and questioning
throughout
lesson

Observation and
questioning
during grand
convo and class
discussion, and
individual idea

Adaptations

Remediation:
peer support,
reteach, go
back through
pictures
Enrichment:
Explore website
Ex. Needs:
transition
warning, seating

Remediation:
prompt, go back
and look through
book
Enrichment:
compare and
contrast the first
Thanksgiving with
their familys
Thanksgiving
Ex. Needs:
transition warning

Remediation:
peer support,
reteach
Enrichment:
look up
additional facts
about bees on
IPad
Ex. Needs:
transition
warning

Summative
Assessment

Flipbook:
Students will
write two
sentences for
each section (1)
describing how
the Pilgrims
worked together
and (2)
describing of
the elements of
daily life.
(Draw picture)

Essay: Students
will write at least
four sentences
describing how
the Pilgrims and
Native Americans
worked together
to create the good
harvest and
celebrate the first
Thanksgiving.

Journal Entry:
In the students
science
notebooks,
they will write
at least three
sentences
about
pollination and
how bees and
flowers work
together to
survive.

Remediation:
peer support,
story read aloud
Enrichment:
Write a letter to
an organization
offering to
volunteer as a
class
Ex. Needs:
seating,
transition
warning
Exit Slip:
Students will
write at least
three sentences
about the
central message
of the story,
how the class
can work
together to help
poverty and
why its more
powerful to
work together.