Title: People Who Make a Difference



People Who Make a Difference

Sample Lesson #1

Grade Level: 3rd grade

Objective: Students will learn about influential leaders in South Africa. They will also analyze what qualities a person must possess to make a difference.

Goal: The overall goal is for students to learn about influential people from another culture. They will expand their thinking to include a more global perspective. Students will realize their own potential and begin to see themselves as people who can make a difference.

Standards:

• .03.04- Make presentations or reports in standard American English if it is their first language.

• S.DS.03.01- Engage in interactive extended discourse to socially construct meaning.

• SS.V.I.E1- Locate information using people, books, audio/video recordings, photos, simple maps, graphs, or tables.

• R.AT.03.02- Students will do substantial reading and writing on their own.

• W.GN.03.04- Use the writing process to produce and present a research project

-beginning with a teacher selected topic

-initiating research questions from content area text

-using a variety of resources to gather and organize information

Materials:

• Magazines

• Newspapers

• Family photos

• South African literature: Madiba: The Rainbow Man by Lionel J. Maxim

Noor’s Story: My Life in District Six by Noor Ebrahim

• Pictures from South Africa

• Large sheets of white paper or poster board

• Internet access

Time: This lesson will take approximately 2 weeks to finish. Spending 30 minutes on this particular lesson each day.

Procedure:

• Teacher will give brief presentation on influential people in South Africa. Pictures will be shown and personal stories will be shared about the people she met that made a difference in her life and in the lives of others. Examples: Bernice, Jackson, Richard O’Brien, Bonie Nyawo, etc…

• The teacher will read aloud sections of Madiba: the Rainbow Man by Lionel J. Maxim.

• Students will brainstorm about what makes a person an influential leader.

• Teacher creates a web or organizer on the board/overhead.

• Students then brainstorm how people make a difference and in what ways they can make a difference.

• Students will then have time in the library and with computers choosing a person to do a report on. They must choose someone in the world or in their own communities that they think has made a difference in the world. Students will be encouraged to think and choose creatively their subjects.

• Time will be given in class to work on more research and completing a student sheet about their person. Students will also be given time to work on a visual aide and preparing a presentation for the class.

• Students will give presentations to the class. The visual aides will be displayed in the classroom.

• After the presentations have been given a final discussion will go on in which students will talk about how they can make a difference in the world, even on a daily basis. This will lead into a connected service learning project to be done at a later time.

Assessment: Students will be required to complete a research student page, where they will fill out parts of that person’s life. Then students must create a poster or other visual aide to present to the class on the person they choose who makes a difference in the world. Finally students will be required to prepare give a brief presentation to the class about their individual.

Lesson Extension: Any student who chooses to do so or is ahead of other students in terms of research can either choose to go deeper into their research on their particular person, or they may choose to research another influential person who has made a difference. Perhaps if they did not choose someone in their own community, they could do so with extra time.

Adaptations/Modifications: With this project students can choose to even interview people they live with, minimizing the amount of research they would have to do if they tools were not available. If students are not able to give the presentation, then they will still be required to create a visual and a report about their subject. Then those objects will be passed around the classroom so that others can still learn from their work.

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