Brittany Tincher
Lesson Plans
Kindergarten Math Discussion
Kindergarten Science and Writing Unit
This lesson allows students to work with manipulatives as an introduction to the addition symbol, or plus sign (+). This lesson also features a discussion during which students share their solutions and could comment on whether or not they agree with the solutions and strategies of others, much like the Common Core Standards asks them to do. Click below to download the lesson plan.
This unit focuses on the essential questions, "How can we help pets?" and "How can pets help us?", and allows students to learn about pets through common experiences, such as class discussions, a visit from a therapy dog, and a field trip to the local Human Society (which was planned and enacted by Brittany). Students are asked to think about how they can assist the pets living at the Humane Society, as well as how pets can help humans who, for example, are blind. Students work as scientists and writers to learn more about pets and advocate for the adoption of pets living at the Humane Society by creating brochures about the animals. Click below to download the unit plan.
5th Grade Guided Reading Group
This lesson asks students to read a chapter from their group's novel, George Washington's Socks and focus on retelling what has happened in the chapter, predicting what will happen next, inferring what the text is saying when there is not direct explanation, and pulling all of this together to synthesize the text.
Before I enacted this particular lesson, I found that the students in my guided reading group were each only using one or two of these reading strategies, and not all four. My focus was to encourage each of them to use all four of these strategies correctly. Click below to download the lesson plan.
5th Grade Social Studies Lesson
This 5th grade Social Studies DBL (Document Based Lesson) focuses on students learning to read primary source documents, specifically documents that were created during the time of the Revolutionary War. Students are asked to contextualize the documents while reading to find out when the document was written, who it was written by, how that time period affected the author's opinions, who the document's intended audience was, and how the opinions of said audience affect the author's writing.
Prior to the lesson, I modeled how to read a primary source document and begin to contextualize what I was reading. From there, students are given another primary source document and asked to do some reading and contextualizing on their own. Click below to download the lesson plan.