I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Cooperation

Essential Question:

How do your individual responsibilities impact others?

Bridge:

Responsibilities at Home

Content:

Citizenship and Conflict Resolution

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Objective: Students will be able to put together a puzzle with the guidance of a partner.

Activity: Pair students with a partner. Give each pair a puzzle to put togehter. One student needs to be blindfolded while the other student will give directions as to how to put the puzzle together. Have students swap places and try the experiment again.

Assessment: Student cooperation and belief in their partner. Success in putting puzzles together.

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: Students will discuss the characteristics of cooperation.

Activity: Have students discuss what was hard and what made it successful when only being guided thorugh the steps of putting the puzzle together. How did you rely on your partner? How could they have helped you more? Mindmap these on the board for students to see. How did you and partner cooperate?

Assessment: Student participation.

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Objective: Students will create a poem or a picture showing participation.

Activity: Have students draw a picture showing responsibilities that they have at home or at school. They may write a poem or a song about their responsibilities if they would prefer. Have them share their pictures and poems with either a small group or whole group. Remind them that the activity done in quadrant one was responsibility to their partner in order for them to be successful. Responsibilities are not just individually, they affect others and their performances.

Assessment: Quality of work and effort shown.

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: To help students to become better citizens by learning ways to resolve conflicts.

Activity: Teacher will use text to lecture on resolving conflict. A correclations between conflict and the way it was solved in civil rights should be included. Teacher should emphasize that learning to solve conflicts is part of being a good citizen.

Assessment: Teacher observation of attention and note taking.

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Objective: Students will be able to solve a scenario about conflict.

Activity: Give students a pretend situation that involves a conflict. Have them write a solution to the conflict using the steps outlined in the lecture. Write it from the other person’s point of view. Use worksheets and quiz. Role play a siuation and assess the student’s ability to resolve conflicts and come to an agreement.

Assessment: Quality of student work and participation.

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: Students will create and write their own campaign for a fellow classmate.

Activity: Put all names of classmates in a grab bag and have students take one. Students will choose how they would like to campaign for their candidates for the best class citizen. Students should first interview the classmate to find out why they feel they should win the award. Next. they should choose a way to express this information. They could draw a poster, write a campaign speech, conduct a reporter-type interview, record an interview, or choose one of their own ideas.

Assessment: Teacher observation/student participation.

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Objective: Students will refine projects and peer edit.

Activity: Students should work with their candidates to perfect their campaign.

Assessment: Checklist for students/teacher evaluation.

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: Students present their candidates for good class citizenship.

Activity: Students will present their candidate and have a mock Inaugural Ball. All will celebrate by receiving certificates for becoming good citizens.

Assessment: Quality of student work.

Assessment, Phase Five,Performance, Creative Use of Material Learned: