Submitted by: Brittany Geren, Kristin Buholtz, Tonya Williams, Brandy Shipp, Laura Chase and Jessica Thompson
Grade Level: 2 nd Grade Subject/Topic: Language Arts
Objectives: The students will describe the order of events in George Washingtons Teeth and use text features to locate specific information. The student will create a timeline that describes the order of events using designated time periods; colonial times. The student will describe and demonstrate personal health habits such as brushing and flossing their teeth.
Lesson Plan: Introduction (Anticipatory Set/Motivation): How many of you remembered to brush your teeth this morning? Did you know that during the colonial period that people used crushed bricks to brush their teeth? Do you think this is a good method? Today we will be reading George Washingtons Teeth. This book is about what really happened to our first president and his teeth.
Process: 1. Introduce lesson by catching attention with teeth brushing discussion 2. Read George Washingtons Teeth 3. Discuss the timeline in the back of the book and elements of a timeline 4. Model the creation of a timeline, including elements and relevant vocabulary in regards to timelines. This would be a guided practice activity as the students engage in the modeling of creating the timeline 5. Students will create their own timeline of important life and tooth related events. 6. To recap the importance of dental hygiene we will learn and sing the Brush Your Teeth song as a class to close the lesson.
Information Giving: I will explain to the class that they will be making a timeline of tooth related events, particularly when they have lost their teeth, such as the one at the back of the book George Washingtons Teeth. I will provide the materials and explain how to make the timeline and how a timeline reflects certain events and times in life and in a sequential order.
Modeling: This is where we would be showing students how to do a timeline on the board utilizing the SmartBoard or a PowerPoint.
Check for Understanding: The teacher can ask questions while giving the lesson. Another way the teacher can check for understanding is having the students verbalize what they are supposed to be doing, prior to the activity.
Rationale: The purpose of this lesson is to have the students describe the order of events in George Washingtons Teeth by creating a timeline and to have the students describe and demonstrate personal health habits regarding their teeth.
TEKS Achieved: Second Grade Language Arts- 14C- describe the order of events in a text 14D- Use text features to locate specific information in text. Second Grade Social Studies- 2A- Describe the order of events by using designations of time periods such as historical and present times Second Grade Health- 1B- Describe and demonstrate personal health habits such as brushing and flossing teeth. Blooms Taxonomy: Knowledge/Remember Comprehension/Understand Application Create
Materials/Equipment: George Washingtons Teeth by Deborah Chandra, construction paper, markers
Curriculum Integration: Math Social Studies Reading Health
Integrated Lesson George Washingtons Teeth Guided Practice: The teacher will complete a sample timeline similar to the one in the back of, George Washingtons Teeth, on the whiteboard. Using magnetic pictures of events from the book, the teacher will guide students as to where to place the events and label the sample timeline.
Independent Practice: The students will complete individual timelines on important events in their own lives, including when they have lost their teeth.
Closure / Culminating Activity: Learn and sing the Brush Your Teeth song to reiterate the importance of dental hygiene. Brush Your Teeth Song (to the tune of Row, row, row your boat) Brush, brush, brush your teeth. Brush them up and down. Brush in front, brush in back, brush them all around. Accommodations: 1. (for a child with special needs) This accommodation will change depending on the specific special need of the child, however, saying that my student has autism I will let him work with a partner that he gets along well with in class on the timeline. I will also offer extra assistance to the student by helping him construct his timeline in the correct order. 2. (for a student that is an ELL) The accommodation that I would use for my ELL student would be to provide pictures relating to the book George Washingtons Teeth with the words describing the pictures in that students language, such as Spanish. For example, a couple of pictures with words that would be posted for the ELL student would be teeth and timeline.
Enrichment/Extension: This is where we would have students look in a mirror and could their teeth. They would then draw the teeth in their mouth. This would also show the diversity of what teeth have been lost in the classroom.
Assessment/Evaluation: The first form of evaluation is by observation. As the students are working on their timeline the teacher can walk around the room to make sure each student understands the material. A second form of assessment can be having the students create a second timeline on a different topic.