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Lesson Plan Format 2

Why would someone leave their own country?

 

Grade Level: 2nd  Bilingual and non

Time Needed: ~30 min to a few days

Subject Area: Social Studies

Topic: Immigration

                                                                                               

Standards addressed in this lesson:

 

NCSS Standards-

 

·         Explore and describe similarities and differences in the ways groups, societies, and cultures address similar human needs and concerns.

MMSD Standards-

  • Demonstrate empathy for feelings of others
  • Identify feelings one has when there is a family change
 

Essential Questions:

Why would someone leave their own country?

What was is like to leave your own country?

What were some challenges?

 

Materials Needed:

  • Chart paper
  • Markers
  • Guest speaker
  • KWL chart
 

Objectives:

  • SWBAT  critically think of why people leave their country
  • SWBAT identify with and be empathetic to how people feel during their long journeys and create appropriate questions to ask them
 

Prep:

·         Find an adult that immigrated to the US from another country and would like to share their story with the children and answer their questions. (You could find a student’s parent to volunteer.  This could build relationships.  You could also find a student that emigrated with their parents and would like to share.)

 

Lesson Context:

This lesson will be a continuation of the first lesson. The students will be looking at the reasons of why people leave their country and how they feel because of it.  They will get the chance to interview a guest speaker who went through the experience. You could do this lesson in one or two days.   

 

Lesson Opening:

  • On a chart of paper list off with the students the reasons why people leave their country.
  • Tell them they are going to have a guest speaker and to come collaborately come up with questions they have. You can also write these down on a chart paper. 
 

Procedures:

·         Introduce the guest speaker and welcome them.

·         End with questions that the students created for the speaker

 

Closing:

·         Return to the KWL chart and continue filling it out.  You can know start filling out the What we Learned column. (The KWL chart should be growing with information as the lessons continue.)

 

Assessment:

Informal-

·         Do the students understand why people leave their native country?

·         Are the children showing respect and empathy to the guest speaker?

·         Have the students created well thought out questions?

Formal-

·         What is written on the KWL chart with an emphasis on the third column.