Learning: Home and School

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Students will recognize that learning occurs at all ages.

Primary Learning Outcomes

How many things have I learned in my life? last year?

Additional Learning Outcomes

Assessed QCC Standards:

Grade: 1

Guidance

B. Educational and Occupational Exploration

Topic: Awareness of the relationship between work and learning.
Standard: Identify different types of work, both paid and unpaid. Describe the importance of preparing for occupations. Demonstrate effective study and information-seeking habits. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of practice, effort, and learning. Describe how current learning relates to work. Describe how one’s role as a student is like that of an adult worker.

Procedures/Activities

Step: 1 Duration: 15 min.

Discuss learning at home and school. Have students complete these sentences by writing with teacher’s help: Last year in Kindergarten I ... But now that I’m in first grade ... This summer I want to learn to ...

Step: 2 Duration: 10 min.

Stress that learning new things is part of growing up. Point out to students that they should write down things they learn in school as well as things they learn other places. Have them discuss what they wrote down. They can elaborate on this by adding things they learned before they started school (how to walk, eat with a spoon, etc.).

Step: 3 Duration: 10 min.

Let students draw pictures of various things they have learned.

Materials and Equipment

Drawing paper, crayons

Standards (Local and/or National)

Total Duration

30 min.

Technology Connection

Assessment

Students answers to oral questions and participation in the activity will be assessed.

Extension

Ask students to go home and ask their parents to list some things that they have learned since they finished school. Allow students to share their findings when they return the next day.

Remediation

Have students make a list of goals that they hope to accomplish during the next school year.

Accommodation

For students with exceptional needs, what changes can be made in instruction and teaching delivery to enhance student participation and learning? Each area below is a direct link to general classroom accommodations.

Non-readers     Physical Impairments     Sensory Impairments     Attention/Behavior

Each disability below is a direct link to general classroom accommodations specific for that disability.

    Autism
    Deaf - Blind
    Deaf/Hard of Hearing
    Emotional and Behavioral Disorder
    Mild Intellectual Disability
    Orthopedic Impairment
    Other Health Impairment
        Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
        Tourette Syndrome
    Significant Development Delay
    Specific Learning Disability
    Speech - Language Impairment
    Traumatic Brain Injury
    Visual Impairment

Modification

For students with significant disabilities, what changes can be made in instruction and teaching delivery to allow students to participate in classroom instruction while working on IEP objectives and off grade level QCC standards. Below are suggested modifications correlated to the procedures of this lesson plan.