GLEEFUL GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

SOCIAL STUIDES FAIR SEPTEMBER 29, 2010 AMBER DUNCAN

WHAT IS A GRAPHIC ORGANIZER? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF USING A GRAPHIC ORGANIZER? Helps organize information in a visual way
Helps make meaning of what someone is reading or hearing Helps student with understanding of classification and categories

PREPARING THE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

 Winn Holt Elementary in Lawrenceville, GA Ms. Collins 5th grade classroom Floor graphic organizer Standards:

THE WHO, WHAT, AND WHERE

~Social Studies: Explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War (GPS) (5SS_C2008-30) ~Language Arts: relate a literary work to information about its setting (historically or culturally) (GPS) (5LA_B2009-32) Topic of study :The Civil War

LESSON PLAN
OBJECTIVE: Explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War (GPS) (5SS_C2008-30) MATERIALS: circles, tape, graphic organizer WS, Dear America: When Will this Cruel War be Over?, My Name is America: The Journal of James Edmond Peace, paper, pencils, graphic floor organizer OPENING: Throughout your social studies units so far on the civil war, you all have had a lot of information. Can anybody tell me some of the information you have learned so far? How about any other ideas from the Civil War that you might have not learned yet? [ Get about 8 -10 responses all together] PROCEDURE: As the students are thinking about the information, write their responses on the board. Tell students that we are going to figure out a way to organize some of the information from the board. We will look at the ideas we already know.

T will tell S that one of the ways we can organize the information is by doing a graphic organizer, like a web.
Then pull out the circles for the graphic organizer. Tell them that this is the web we are working with today. T will then pass out the paper plates with ideas already written down on them and have them organize them as a table as to where they will put them on the web. [Give 5 minutes or so] Then tell them to pick two people at the table to come and put the ideas on the web. Then as a class, we will check and see if we placed the ideas in the right area. Then pass out the graphic organizer WS and tell the students to circle the bubbles in the color on the floor Have students write down the ideas on their WS. Then have them fold in half hamburger style and glue in their SS notebook. If completed activity in time, then move on to talking about journal entries and during these times, many people had journals. Show them the two books for them to see that boys and girls wrote in journals Then explain to them that they will be writing a journal entry and ask them to try and use Civil War ideas from the graphic organizer, or from the ideas we thought of together.

ASSESSMENT: As a class, we are going to see how we did on constructing the graphic organizer and putting the ideas in place.

MATERIALS
Butcher paper in about 5 different colors Terms from the unit of study

Graphic organizer that students can put in their own notebook

Paper plates with the terms written down on them Masking tape

IMPLEMENTING THE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THIS LESSON

The idea of a floor graphic organizer, came
about because I wanted to make it interesting and fun for the children. This activity

included:
hands on activity, the students working independently and dependently, and also the children using their prior knowledge to think about this information presented in the graphic

organizer.

Talking to the students about the activity ahead

Writing down the students ideas about the Civil War

Accessing their prior knowledge and allowed them to work at their tables

Showing the students, the different bubbles of the graphic organizers

Students helping hold up the bubbles for the graphic organizer

The floor graphic organizer

Example of what the bubbles looked like after the students placed them

Showing the children their graphic organizer they will fill in and put in the Social studies Notebook

The students writing in their own graphic organizers

EXAMPLES OF THE LITERACY CONNECTION FOR THE STUDENTSran out of time with this lesson Even though I
plan, I had a literacy connection planned. I would have used these two books and have the children write a journal entry like they were living during the Civil War

Dear America: When Will This Cruel War Be Over?

My Name is America: The Journal of James Edmond Pease

WHAT I LEARNED FROM DOING THIS

Before I started doing this lesson plan, I

thought this would be a boring activity for the

students and I did not know where to start. As I was riding home I thought of an idea and I thought it would be a good idea. The students were very engaged and it was a good lesson plan for me to do. I would use it again with a different topic in the future, and especially in my own classroom.