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GLEEFUL GRAPHIC

ORGANIZERS

SOCIAL STUIDESFAIR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

AMBER DUNCAN

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ORGANIZER? WHAT IS THE

PURPOSE OF USING A GRAPHICORGANIZER? Helps organize information in a visual way

Helps make meaning of what someone isreading or hearing

Helps student with understanding ofclassification and categories

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PREPARING THE

GRAPHIC

ORGANIZER

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THE WHO, WHAT, AND

WHEREWinn Holt Elementary in Lawrenceville, GAMs. Collins 5th grade classroom

Floor graphic organizer

Standards:

~Social Studies: Explain the causes, major events, and consequencesof the Civil War (GPS) (5SS_C2008-30)

~Language Arts: relate a literary work to information about itssetting (historically or culturally) (GPS) (5LA_B2009-32)

Topic of study :The Civil War

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LESSON PLANOBJECTIVE: Explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War (GPS) (5SS_C2008-30)

MATERIALS: circles, tape, graphic organizer WS, Dear America: When Will this Cruel War be Over?, My Name is

America: The Journal of James Edmond Peace, paper, pencils, graphic floor organizer

OPENING: Throughout your social studies units so far on the civil war, you all have had a lot of information. Can anybody

tell me some of the information you have learned so far? How about any other ideas from the Civil War that you

might have not learned yet? [ Get about 8 -10 responses all together]

PROCEDURE:

As the students are thinking about the information, write their responses on the board.

Tell students that we are going to figure out a way to organize some of the information from the board. We will look at the

ideas we already know.

T will tell S that one of the ways we can organize the information is by doing a graphic organizer, like a web.

Then pull out the circles for the graphic organizer. Tell them that this is the web we are working with today.

T will then pass out the paper plates with ideas already written down on them and have them organize them as a table as

to where they will put them on the web. [Give 5 minutes or so]

Then tell them to pick two people at the table to come and put the ideas on the web.

Then as a class, we will check and see if we placed the ideas in the right area.

Then pass out the graphic organizer WS and tell the students to circle the bubbles in the color on the floor

Have students write down the ideas on their WS. Then have them fold in half hamburger style and glue in their SS

notebook.

If completed activity in time, then move on to talking about journal entries and during these times, many people had

journals.

Show them the two books for them to see that boys and girls wrote in journals

Then explain to them that they will be writing a journal entry and ask them to try and use Civil War ideas from the graphic

organizer, or from the ideas we thought of together.

ASSESSMENT: As a class, we are going to see how we did on constructing the graphic organizer and putting the ideasin place.

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MATERIALS

Butcher paper in about 5different colors

Terms from the unit of study

Graphic organizer that studentscan put in their own notebook

Paper plates with the termswritten down on them

Masking tape

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IMPLEMENTING

THE GRAPHIC

ORGANIZER

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OTHER INFORMATION

ABOUT THIS LESSON

The idea of a floor graphic organizer, came

about because I wanted to make it interesting

and fun for the children. This activity

included:

hands on activity, the students working

independently and dependently, and also the

children using their prior knowledge to think

about this information presented in the graphic

organizer.

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Talking to the students about the

activity ahead

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Writing down the students ideas about

the Civil War

Accessing their prior knowledge and allowed them to work at their

tables

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Showing the students, thedifferent bubbles of the

graphic organizers

Students helping

hold up thebubbles for thegraphic organizer

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The floor graphic organizer

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Example of what the bubbles looked like

after the students placed them

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Showing the children their graphic

organizer they will fill in and put in the

Social studies Notebook

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The students writing in their owngraphic organizers

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CONNECTION FOR THE

STUDENTSEven though I ran out of time with this lessonplan, I had a literacy connection planned. Iwould have used these two books and havethe children write a journal entry like they

were living during the Civil War

Dear America:When Will ThisCruel War BeOver?

My Name isAmerica: The

Journal of JamesEdmond Pease

WHAT I LEARNED FROM

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WHAT I LEARNED FROMDOING THISBefore I started doing this lesson plan, Ithought this would be a boring activity for the

students and I did not know where to start. As

I was riding home I thought of an idea and I

thought it would be a good idea. The students

were very engaged and it was a good lesson plan

for me to do. I would use it again with a

different topic in the future, and especially in

my own classroom.