ED 447 Teacher: Renee Mendieta Classroom Teacher: Riley Alderton Grade Level: Fourth Grade School: Riverview Elementary

Number of Students: 27 Lesson Duration: 45 minutes Planning and Teaching = 50 points Planning 1. Content Objective: At the end of an interactive lesson on civic responsibilities and duties, students will create a poster representing one of the discussed civic responsibilities and will respond to a writing prompt in no less than three sentences. Colorado State Content Standards: Content Area: Social Studies Standard: 4. Civics Concepts and skills students master: 1. Analyze and debate multiple perspectives on an issue c. Discuss how various individuals and groups influence the way an issue affecting the state is viewed and resolved. 2. Essential Questions: What is a civic responsibility? As a Coloradoan, why is it important to do your civic responsibilities? Key Vocabulary: Responsibilities Rights Government Civic Duty Community Society Mandatory Voluntary Materials: Good Citizenship Worksheet for each student Poster board/butcher paper for each student Anticipatory Set: Students will respond to the three questions from the Good Citizenship worksheet.

Teaching Input: During the discussion of this worksheet, teacher will introduce the term civic duty and tell students that as citizens of Colorado, we each have certain responsibilities and duties to our state and our fellow Coloradoans. Modeling: The teacher will hang multiple posters on the board, each one defining a unique civic responsibility of Coloradoans. The teacher will review each poster with the class, indicating which responsibilities are mandatory or voluntary. Checking for understanding: The teacher will give each table a civic duty posted to a sheet of paper The teacher will then ask each group to discuss whether this duty is voluntary or mandatory One representative from each group will present their civic duty and share with the class whether their group declared it voluntary or mandatory The teacher will hang the civic duty under the appropriate heading on a T-chart (white board) Guided Practice: The teacher will tell students that individuals have civic responsibilities in almost every group setting, including their school and classroom. Students will each be given a poster board. Students are to create a poster representing 1) the civic responsibility they believe is most important or 2) coming up with a new civic responsibility that applies to the school/classroom. The teacher will tell students that their posters will be hung around the room to serve as reminders of their civic responsibilities to one another and the classroom. Closure: Students will hang their posters around the classroom and take a few minutes to circle the room and admire their classmates work. Independent practice: Students will respond to the following writing prompt: Imagine a world without citizen responsibilities. What would the world look like? And how would people act? Would you want to live here? Why?

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What Would You Do? Consider the effects of your actions on other people. How do you act responsibly as a member of your community? Read the following situations; identify what being helpful means to you. 1. A classmate needs help getting and carrying her hot lunch. She has a broken arm. Check the boxes you would do or say. I would tell her, Sorry, Im busy getting my own lunch. I would help her for one lunch period only. I would help only if the teacher told me to. I would carry her lunch only for a reward of some sort. I would help her out because it is the responsible thing to do. I would carry her lunch if she were one of the cool kids.

2. An elderly neighbor asks you to help pick up his yard after a storm. Which of the following would you do to be helpful? I would tell him, I would help, but I have to clean up my yard. I would go help him. I would help him if there were not anything better to do. I would help so I could get a good reputation in my neighborhood. I would help him if he offered to pay me by the hour. I would help if no one else in the neighborhood would.

3. There is a summer water conservation warning. How would you respond to the water shortage? It is really hot out. I turn on my sprinkler to run through it as it waters the lawn. Im just one person; it doesnt matter what I do. I would conserve only if authorities were watching my water meter. I would cut back on watering, taking long showers, and anything else that would help.