Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan:

Me Bag

Contributors:

Dana F Austin
Ruth M Engestrom
Sharon Joseph

Subject(s):

Guidance

Level(s):

Kindergarten

Duration:

2 Day(s)

Essential
Curriculum:

. . GU.K00.10.01 (STD - Kindergarten) Identify behaviors that lead to effective learning and lifelong success
. . GU.K00.20.01 (STD - Kindergarten) Name effective organization skills conducive to personal success
. . GU.K00.30.01 (STD - Kindergarten) Explain how effort influences school performance to ensure personal success
. . GU.K00.40.01 (STD - Kindergarten) Identify personal interests to facilitate an ongoing knowledge of self
. . GU.K00.50.01 (STD - Kindergarten) Name vocabulary associated with the world of work to make future informed career decisions
. . GU.K00.60.01 (STD - Kindergarten) Recognize the uniqueness of all individuals and their career choices to enhance knowledge of the world of work
. . GU.K00.70.01 (STD - Kindergarten) Apply interpersonal skills related to self awareness and personal space to help all students understand and respect self and others
. . GU.K00.80.01 (STD - Kindergarten) List effective decision making problem solving and goal setting processes to achieve personal success
GU.K00.10 (STD - Kindergarten) Academic Development Students will: demonstrate the attitudes knowledge and skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across the life span.
GU.K00.20 (STD - Kindergarten) Students will: employ strategies to achieve success in school.
GU.K00.30 (STD - Kindergarten) Students will: demonstrate an understanding of the relationship of academics to the world of work and to life at home and in the community.
GU.K00.40 (STD - Kindergarten) Career Development Students will: demonstrate skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions.
GU.K00.50 (STD - Kindergarten) Students will: employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and satisfaction.
GU.K00.60 (STD - Kindergarten) Students will: demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between personal qualities education training and the world of work.
GU.K00.70 (STD - Kindergarten) Personal/Social Development Students will: demonstrate the knowledge attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others.
GU.K00.80 (STD - Kindergarten) Students will: make decisions set goals and take necessary action to achieve goals.

Abstract or Goal:

This includes two 30 minute lessons which incorporate a self-awareness activity and links it to responsible behavior in the school and workplace.

Key/Focusing Questions:

Who are you?
What items represent you or your parents?
What are acceptable behaviors in the school and workplace?

Lesson Type:

Mastery Teaching

Action Plan:

Anticipatory Set:	Guidance counselor will share his/her own "Me Bag." The teacher may also share what items he/she may include in his/her "Me Bag."
Objectives:	The students will be able to talk about their personal interests and the world of work.
Instructional Input:	Guidance counselor will explain that the students will decorate brown paper bags using crayons.
Modeling:	Ask students appropriate pictures that they may draw on their "Me Bags."
Check for Understanding:	Guidance counselor will give examples of appropriate and inappropriate pictures. Students will be expected to give either thumbs up or thumbs down.
Guided Practice:	Students will write their names and draw things about themselves on their "Me Bags." The guidance counselor will circulate while students work.
Independent Practice:	Guidance counselor will distribute parent letters and explain that at home they are to fill up the bag with things that say something about who they are and to include an item that represents a parent's career.
Assessment:	On day two, students share the contents of their bags. During the presentations, students will identify responsibilities that their parents and/or school personnel have at their workplaces. After all students have presented, the students will brainstorm classroom responsibilities and acceptable behaviors. Students will identify how effort by parents and students in being responsible can result in personal success.

Source or Copyright Information:

Judy Kuhn, Guidance Counselor at Yellow Springs Elementary

Resources/ Materials:

Brown Paper Bags, Art Supplies, Parent Letters

Special Needs:

Modifications will be utilized for special needs children.

Multicultural Connections:

Guidance counselor will choose multicultural items for his/her own "Me Bag." Traditional and non-traditional careers will be discussed as students share their "Me Bags."

Editors:

Sharon Boettinger
Ruth M Engestrom
Sandra Johansen
Sharon Joseph
John M. Jurchak
Kathy Leber
Melicent Malchenson
Judith H. Mc Fadden
Gloria C Mitchell

Appendix:
Attached Files

Sample Parent Letter.doc