I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Teamwork

Essential Question:

How do good partners make a job easier?

Bridge:

Making a Speech is like…

Content:

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Objective: To have the learners consider the difference between preparing and giving a speech alone versus being able to do it with a friend.

Activity: Tell the learners they have to give a speech on an important topic alone. Discussion of their feelings.
Then tell them they have to give the same speech but now with a buddy. Discuss the difference.

Assessment:The honesty of the discussion and the clarity of understanding of the issues.

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: To have the learners consider some of the specific positives in having a friend’s help.

Activity: Have the students list reasons why planning and giving a speech with a buddy might be better than planning and giving it alone.

Assessment: Relevance of the criteria on the list

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Objective: To have the learners consider and render a nonverbal representation of making a speech.

Activity: Have the learners complete the following statement:
Making a speech is like…(draw the answer).

Assessment:The quality of the representation

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: To enjoy and understand the book

Activity: Read the story to the children Officer Buckle and Gloria.

Assessment: Attentiveness and interest on the part of the children

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Objective: To understand the main ideas of the story.

Activity: Ask the children the following:
Why was the safety presentation boring when Officer Buckle did it alone?
Why was it boring when Gloria did it alone?
Then have the children list four out of the seven Officer Buckle safety tips.

Assessment: A clear understanding of the main ideas of the story.

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: To experience working with a partner to make a speech.

Activity: In partners, have the children come up with a new safety tip and give a presentation to their small group or your class.

Assessment:Quality of the presentation

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Objective: To have the learners consider how to be a good buddy.

Activity: Have the students complete the following: To be a good buddy to someone means…

Assessment: Discussions that have taken place and originality

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: To celebrate the success of the presentation.

Activity: Have the students draw a picture of themselves and their buddy making their speech and then write their safety tip underneath the picture.

Assessment:Completion of the pictures.

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