Developmental Lesson Plan

Teacher Candidate: Ms. Kirkpatrick Date: 2/7/18

Group Size: 26 Allotted Time 20 minutes Grade Level 1

Subject or Topic: Social Studies (Mock Election)

Common Core/PA Standard(s):

Standard - 5.4.1.E Explain how a classroom community reaches compromise.

Standard - 5.3.1.J Describe situations where voting eases conflict.

Learning Targets/Objectives: Students will be able to describe why Rosa Parks is brave and made a
difference in US history by listening to an article read aloud and answering comprehension questions

Assessment Approaches: Evidence:

1. Mock voting 1. Score on rubric
Assessment Scale: See rubric attached

Subject Matter/Content:
Prerequisites:
 Students must have a basic idea that we vote for the president of the US
Key Vocabulary:
 Elect- to choose by voting
 President- the leader of our country
 Vote- to make a choice in an election
 Candidates- people who want to be picked to be president
Content/Facts:
 First you learn about each candidate before you vote
 You can read about each candidate and learn about how they want to help the country
 On election day, you go to a school or another place where you can vote
 Then you go in a voting booth where no one can see who you vote for
 People vote all day then at the end of the day all the votes are counted
 You can watch TV to see who won the election to be president

Introduction/Activating/Launch Strategies:
Tell the students that yesterday we learned about the voting process
Call on students to remind you what the voting process is
Tell them that today we are going to be having our very own election in our class room

Development/Teaching Approaches
1. Tell them that everyone in the classroom is going to be a candidate and the voters need to learn
about the candidates before they vote just like we learned
 2. Give every student a candidate a chance to come up to the front of the room and tell the class
why they should be president in 2-3 sentences
3. After the students have heard from each candidate, pass out the privacy folders and the voting
cards (privacy folders represent the voting booths)
4. On the cards the students will write 3 candidates they thought were the best choices
5. They will then write 1 sentence next to each name why they thought those candidates were
good choices
6. They will then only circle ONE of the students names they think were the best choice out of
the 3 they chose
7. When they are done have them fold their paper in half and put it in the ballot box

Closure/Summarizing Strategies:
1. Bring the box to the front of the room and count the votes
2. As you count the votes keep tallies on the board so the students can see (like how they would
watch on TV)
3. Announce the winner of the election
4. Have the class president come up to the front and give a 1-3 sentence acceptance speech
5. Tell the students they did a great job doing exactly what we learned about the voting process
and that this concludes our unit about Presidents Day
6. Remind the students that we will be having a test on everything we learned this week so make
sure to look at the articles and crafts we made

Accommodations/Differentiation: none

Materials/Resources:
 Voting cards
 Privacy folders
 Ballot box

Reflective Response:
Report of Student Learning Target/Objectives Proficiency Levels

Remediation Plan (if applicable)

Personal Reflection Questions

Additional reflection/thoughts