Lesson Plan | William Appelquist | |||||
Objective | ||||||
Students will understand the necessity of clarity in instruction. | ||||||
Students will experience declarative writing styles in group and independent work. | ||||||
Standards achieved | ||||||
W.5.2 | ||||||
W.5.4 | ||||||
W.5.5 | ||||||
Time | ||||||
About 30 min | ||||||
Materials needed | ||||||
Paper | ||||||
Pencil | ||||||
Introduction | ||||||
teacher introduces topic by asking students if they have ever read instructions. | ||||||
Ask students if they have ever had trouble understanding the instructions. | ||||||
Teacher will demonstrate the activity | ||||||
How to prepare a ham and cheese sandwich | ||||||
Materials needed | ||||||
* | Bread | |||||
* | mustard | |||||
* | mayo | |||||
* | ham | |||||
* | cheese | |||||
* | spoon | |||||
* | butter knife | |||||
1 | unwrap bread bag | |||||
2 | remove two slices of bread from bag | |||||
3 | unstack bread and place on plate separately | |||||
4 | with butter knife, spread one spoonful of mayo on the left piece of bread | |||||
5 | with butter knife, spread one spoonful of mustard on the right piece of bread | |||||
6 | open cheese packet | |||||
7 | place cheese on left piece of bread | |||||
8 | open ham packet | |||||
9 | place ham on right piece of bread | |||||
10 | place left piece of bread with the mayo and cheese onto the right piece of bread with the mustard and ham | |||||
11 | with butter knife cut the sandwich from the top right down to the bottom left | |||||
12 | remove crust if desired. | |||||
13 | dispose of trash | |||||
14 | enjoy. | |||||
Break students up into groups of four | ||||||
have students write an instructional on how to properly play the game "Rock, Paper, Scissors". | ||||||
give students about 5 minutes to complete this task | ||||||
if all groups have completed task, distribute groups work randomly to other groups | ||||||
have students perform the tasks exactly as written. | ||||||
Have new group write corrections on instructions | ||||||
pass papers back to original groups | ||||||
have original groups perform the task with the corrections. | ||||||
have students reflect on the importance of clear instructional writings. | ||||||
End of lesson | ||||||